1- When we dream of something being bad we are being made aware that the dream object is now worthless or defective. Feeling bad can have two meanings; one in the sense of being naughty and the other not feeling right. We are off balance in some way.
2- Our thought processes are corrupt.
If we dream of food being bad, we are not taking sufficient care of our inner needs.
A bad smell in dreams could mean that our environment is not supporting us.
3- Acknowledgement of Evil through a ‘bad thing’.
[1]Psychological / emotional perspective: If we dream of food being bad, we are not taking sufficient care of our inner needs.
A bad smell in dreams could mean that our environment is not supporting us. Bad as in bad behaviour suggests we are rebelling in some way.
[2]Spiritually, anything that is bad or decaying has finished a positive cycle and is entering a negative one. Whilst a perfectly natural process, we do well to acknowledge this and dreaming of a ‘bad thing’ enables us to move on.
[3]Revealed in order to lessen or avert
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