(See Also: by type, Eating, Garden)
If this is a play on words, your subconscious is saying that for some reason you have begun to feel as productive as an inanimate, uprooted vegetable. Get up and become an active participant in life again!
Each vegetable in a dream has a different interpretive value.
For example, a carrot is a masculine emblem that also represents vision and luck. Additionally, as an omen, carrots symbolize forthcoming wealth, health, and happy marriages.
Dreaming of eating celery is an omen of love and affection. Cauliflower growing in a garden foretells increased business prospects, corn might depict a “corny” personality or the promise of improved finances, and beans carry a magical overtone thanks to the story of “Jack and the Beanstalk.”
Root vegetables denote grounding, a connection to your family, and the staples of both spiritual and mundane life.
Jungian: Because vegetables get nourished by all the elements, they represent the depths of the subconscious, the deepest roots, and the fundamental self.
Societal, cultural, or religious limitations. Many vegetables have been shunned because of one of these contexts, such as tomatoes being thought poisonous, or potatoes not being eaten by Puritans because they are not in the Bible.
Eating vegetables in a dream is a portent of odd luck and coincidence on the horizon.
[1]Dreaming about a large variety of foods seems to be typical. Food represents nourishment and pleasure. Interpreting the symbolism of vegetables in your dream depends on how you feel about them in daily life: whether you like them for their taste and nutritional value, or find them dull and boring. You may be projecting a need to feed your body or soul or reflecting on a dull and not very satisfying part of life.
The shape and type of vegetable and the overall content of the dream need be considered when making interpretation.
See Also: Food
[2]To dream of eating vegetables, is an omen of strange luck. You will think for a time that you are tremendously successful, but will find to your sorrow that you have been grossly imposed upon. Withered, or decayed vegetables, bring unmitigated woe and sadness.
For a young woman to dream that she is preparing vegetables for dinner, foretells that she will lose the man she desired through pique, but she will win a well-meaning and faithful husband. Her engagements will be somewhat disappointing.
[3]Vision: Looking at vegetables suggests that you need to take better care of your health. Eating vegetables: reexamine your conduct toward children and friends; you are either asking too much of them or taking advantage of them. Planting vegetables: pleasant hours with friends or a pleasant event.
Depth Psychology: Particularly in women’s dreams, vegetables are a symbol of erotic needs and desires. As a man, do you prefer a young and fresh “thing”?
[4]To see vegetables in your dream signifies your need for spiritual nourishment. It may also suggest that you are lacking in some essential nutrients, whether these be physical, emotional, social or intellectual. To see withered vegetables in your dream denotes sadness.
If you are a vegetarian in your dream, this represents a separate opinion or attitude. A vegetable steamer denotes the preserving of important elements.
See Also: VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.
[5]“Eat your vegetables; they’re good for you” is one of the most prolific adages of parenting in the Western world. In this way, as a symbol, vegetables represent taking responsibility for doing what is good for you. In the same vein, the presence of vegetables in a dream may point to the potential for healthier choices in your life, and the way vegetables appear in the context of the dream may point to your relationship with such choices.
[6]If you see a table loaded down with fresh and cooked vegetables and this makes you hungry it denotes you are lacking in some nutrient or vitamin that your body needs to maintain itself, the one vegetable that is featured in your dream will give you a clue as to which one it is.
Dreaming of fruit is a complimentary dream to dreaming of vegetables.
[7]Basic needs; material satisfaction.
If long as carrot, male sexuality: if a woman’s dream, feelings about sex with male; if male dream, his own sexuality. Onion: something to cry about; also the different layers of oneself—inner self, outer self.
[8]To dream of vegetables is an indication that you need to consider your spiritual or religious self. It may be more blunt: you need more nourishing foods in your diets.
To see vegetables that have withered or aged is an indication that you are sad.
[9]Our basic needs and material satisfaction are represented in dreams by vegetables. They also suggest the goodness we can take from the earth and situations around us.
The colour may also be important.
[10]A maiden who dreams that she is preparing vegetables in the kitchen will be likely to lose a lover through a stand-offish attitude that will prove too much for him to combat.
[11]Dreams of vegetables represent -love, strength, good health, and that you are taking care of your body’s basic needs and well-being.
See Also: Food.
[12]To be eating vegetables portends small ventures that meet with moderate success. Withered vegetables, sadness over some trifling speculation.
[13]Hard work for little result will surely follow a dream of these Green offerings of Nature. Persevere and do not lose heart.
[14]A dream that strongly features vegetables signifies the dreamer’s needs to pay closer attention to her emotional needs.
[15]Vegetables may stand for one’s dietary needs or, more symbolically, of the need to feed one’s spiritual self.
[16]1. Happy family life.
2. Nourishment—usually physical, often spiritual.
3. Modest financial rewards.
[17]whoever sees himself eating from them, then that is interpreted by sickness, bankruptcy & sorrow.
[18]To dream of eating them denotes sickness (Raphael).
[19]1. Fruit of your labour
2. The Word of God; Dan. 1:12
[20]Words that edify and nourish; see “food”
[21](See Also: Boiled vegetables)
[22][23]To dream you are cooking vegetables, is an indication that you will be much troubled and perplexed by the strange conduct of one in whom you take a deep interest. To dream you are eating vegetables, signifies that you will be astonished by hearing that a friend of yours has got into difficulties, and that the home has been broken up and the furniture sold by auction.
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artichokes, eating: family dissension over your ridiculous acts.
growing: wil be able to surmount present troubles.
asparagus, cooking: success in own enterprises if you admit when you are wrong.
eating: be careful what you wish for, because you wil get it.
buying: family quarrels.
eating: are reaping the benefits of what you have sown.
broccoli: your ambitions wil be misinterpreted, leaving your real motives undigested.
endives: a foreigner wil communicate love, which wil be sufficient conversation.
leek: improvement of health.
string beans: long-awaited plans come to fruition.
summer squash: opportunities wil be wide open for increasing your wealth.
turnips: wil quarrel in the company of friends.
eggplant, preparing: success in gradual increments by entertaining business associates.
fennel, a: spiritual clear-sightedness of life’s cycles.
green: continue to persevere and retain high hopes on the romantic front.
growing: your labor wil bear fruit if you nurture it, and financial gain if you water it.
horseradish: doubts as to your friend’s fidelity and stability.
lentils, of: in training for the fight of your life.
lettuce, eating: make excuses for the behavior of relative; jealousy has come to ful flower.
picking from own garden: faithful finances wil be destroyed by your super-sensitivity.
of: hard work with smal rewards and a continual threat of a reversal of fortune.
parsley, buying: security in the pleasantries of society.
growing: success wil be achieved through hard work.
parsnips, buying: sickness wil not last long.
cooking: are indebted to someone; pay him back before he turns on you.
eating: success wil not come in business if you are too easily satisfied.
picking: money worries wil be greatly lessened by economical measures.
others: your quarrels are attracting strong criticism.
planting: reexamine your health and feed the spiritual side.
smelling odors of, cooking: wil discover unpleasant secrets, then pleasant ones.
spinach, cooking: wil receive gratitude from family with a serving of grit.
eating: wil be bothered by thoroughly detestable neighbor.
still in the ground, that are: wil suffer afflictions to your supposedly solid foundations.
vegetarian, being a: self-discipline through diet should fol ow your true nature.
zucchini, eating: have the good habit of attending church regularly.
growing: wil receive unexpected news that makes you happy.
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