Getting dressed for a gala means you will soon have to use your wiles to get out of some problem. Beware of false vanity.

…in battle, it may mean that the illness won’t stay for long. Dreaming of soldiers in a gala parade implies that the dreamer is being defeated by excesses and must overcome them to accomplish real success in his life and defeat the enemies that attack him. If they’re just walking and talking in group, it’s a sign of coming hardships due to fake friends that betray you. Dreaming of soldiers that walk in a parade or in small groups, but they’re wounded and they’re returning from a battle, implies that loved ones will suffer problems and losses, which means they need your understanding and help. Dreaming of one or more soldiers implies that there’ll be separations from your loved ones against your will. Soldiers, no matter their attitude when they appear in dreams, are always a symbol of death, destruction, disgrace and a loss of value, emotions and love….

…It is by no means uncommon to dream of the dead, and as a rule such dreams are of little or no significance. There are, however, exceptions, as, for example, dreams which are extraordinarily vivid and in which the dead appear with some specific purpose; and in these cases I fancy projections take place, and the immaterial body of the sleeper meets the phantasm of the dead on the super physical plane.For the following illustration of this kind of dream I am again indebted to News from theInvisible World. The events in the story, I am about to quote, happened about seventy years ago in the south of Scotland.”Mr. Reid, of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the Vale of Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of tithes, for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the lay proprietors.”Mr….