Once Imam Ibn Sirin was sitting to eat his lunch when-woman came and said: “I saw-dream.” Ibn Sirin replied: “Would you let me eat first, or would you like me to stop and listen to your dream?” The woman said: “Eat first,” and she sat waiting for him. During the course of his meal, Ibn Sirin said to the woman: “Tell me your dream.” The woman said: “I saw the moon merging in Alcyone.” The brightest star of the constellation Taurus,- Thurayya. See Alcyone.- The woman continued: “A voice then said to me: ‘Go to Ibn Sirin, and tell him your dream.'”