Dream Dictionary
A dictionary from the Spellbook — symbols A–Z, and themes from Alphabet through Wedding.
The symbol list and themes follow the Dream Moods A–Z dictionary and theme pages. The readings here are written for the Spellbook. A symbol is a reading, not a prediction.
Food is what you take in. A meal, a taste, or a hunger is an idea or a need you are being asked to swallow or refuse.
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Almonds
Almonds are success and richness, and the tree is happiness, including in marriage. They also show you can recover after hardship.
Apple
Apples on the tree are knowledge and coming reward, or a nudge to look after your health. Eating one is pleasure that can turn to sexual appetite; spoiled fruit means the aim may harm you.
Apples
Apples growing are wisdom and prosperity ahead. Eating them is pleasure that can become lust; spoiled fruit means the goal may not be worth the cost.
Apricot
This fruit means appearances are misleading, or that you are refusing the facts. Eating one warns of misfortune close by.
Asparagus
Asparagus is prosperity. Eating it means your actions will end unpleasantly.
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Bacon
This meat is the basic supply of living, or the work that earns a wage. Spoiled, it marks a situation that should stay forbidden.
Bananas
This curved fruit is masculine sexuality held in check. Eating it means hard work brings little gain; the skin underfoot warns of a slip that may not be reversible.
Birthday Cake
The cake means a dear wish can come true, and that you are willing to share your life. Candles are a hopeful outlook.
Blueberries
The small blue fruit is youth you want back, and optimism. It can also be a depressed mood.
Bologna
The sliced meat is worry about money. It can also mean something phony or nonsensical.
Bread
The loaf is a basic need of life, and good things already learned. It can also say rise to the occasion.
Breakfast
The first meal is a new project or a new stage. It can also be tomorrow's menu already on your mind.
Butter
The spread is a wish to be gratified, or a need to soften someone so a situation eases. Churning it is hard work; melted, your manner toward others should soften.
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Cabbage
Cabbage says stop spending effort on petty matters; you do better with a real challenge. It can also mean a choice you should think through again.
Cake
Cake asks you to share the load instead of doing every piece yourself. It can also be a finished achievement, or a task that is easier than you fear.
Candy
Candy is a small joy and a treat, and also indulgence you may be overdoing. The plain reading is simply that sweets have become a habit.
Carrot
A carrot is plenty and fertility, or a lure dangled to move you. Eating one is a moment of clearer sight.
Cheese
Cheese is gain and profit. It can also mean something tacky, or a hint to smile more.
Cherry
Cherries are honesty, sweetness, and good fortune, or a reminder not to take life so hard. A cherry tree is luck, spring, and youth.
Chocolate
Chocolate is love, celebration, and a reward you give yourself, sometimes past the point of restraint. Melting chocolate is disappointment, or a change you need to accept.
Coconut
A coconut asks you to be more flexible, and it stands for persistence and leisure. Eating one means you are being stubborn.
Coconuts
Coconuts point to an unexpected gift of money.
Corn
Corn is abundance, growth, and fertility, or something a bit silly. A field of it is peace at home.
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Dessert
A good dessert means indulgence, a small celebration, or a temptation you are enjoying.
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Egg
An egg means fertility and a new possibility about to arrive. Cracked eggs mean a fragile moment, or a shell you are finally leaving.
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Figs
Figs mean a positive turn. They often carry a sexual meaning as well.
Filbert Nut
Filberts mean peace and a profitable venture. Eating them means friends you can depend on.
Fish
Fish mean insight swimming below awareness, and catching one brings it up. Eating fish feeds spirit and luck, and a fish out of its element means you feel out of place.
Flour
Flour means a frugal, happy life and hard work. The word can also point to a flower.
Food
Food means physical and emotional nourishment. Stale food means you are drained, burnt food means intense feeling or exhaustion, and plastic food means the comfort you want is not real.
See also Eating.
Fruit
Fruit means growth, abundance, and desire. Green fruit means you are rushing and will be disappointed, ripe fruit means fertility, and rotting fruit means a chance you missed.
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Garlic
Eating garlic means you choose security over romance and stay practical about the heart. A clove is protection, and a sign you will get past the barrier in front of you.
Gooseberries
Gathering gooseberries means the outlook is bright and a problem has been gotten past. Eating them is simple leisure.
Grapefruit
Grapefruit is a refreshed mind and a lift in spirits. The tree is your talents and the results of what you have done.
Grapes
Grapes and their vines are wealth, stamina, and pleasure your work can still produce. Picking them is profit and a wish made real.
Gravy
Eating gravy is pleasure in simple things. It can also mean you are taking advantage of a situation.
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Ham
Eating ham says conserve your energy. Seeing it can mean emotional trouble, or a wish to be noticed.
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Ice Cream
Ice cream is pleasure, luck, and satisfaction, including in love, so enjoy the moment. It can also say cool a temper, or pun on "I scream," something that needs to be let out. Melted or sour, a hope has failed or a trust has broken.
Icing
Icing on a cake is a pretty surface over an empty inside. It can also be the last touch that makes a work feel complete, and eating it can mean an early sweetness that does not satisfy.
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Jam
Jam is a small sweetness or an unexpected pleasure. It can also mean you are caught in a sticky bind you cannot easily step out of.
Jelly
Jelly is understanding that has finally set around a question you kept turning over. It can also mean you are trying to keep a sweet bond from spoiling.
Jellybean
Jellybeans are easy joy and a light mood. You feel at ease for once.
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Kimchi
Kimchi is a wall you put up so a relationship cannot hurt you. You would rather stay guarded than be wounded.
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Legumes
Legumes are small annoyances and minor problems.
Lemonade
Drinking lemonade is the need to cool off, often after a quarrel has grown too hot. It can also be an inner cleaning.
Lemons
A lemon is poor quality, or a bond that has turned sour. Sucking one is a need to cleanse or heal; squeezing one is a need to spend more carefully.
Lentil
Lentils are your roots and your tie to other people. They can also stand for fertility, or for life that does not end.
Lettuce
Lettuce growing is abundance and a simpler time. Eating it is hunger for spiritual food, or for a more balanced diet; it can also pun on asking permission.
Lime
A lime is a short delay. The better stretch arrives only after you have lived through the hard one.
Lollipop
A lollipop is surprise, indulgence, and the pleasant side of life. It can also mean someone is playing you for a fool.
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Macaroni
Macaroni is comfort and ease. It can pull you back toward a simpler time.
Mango
A mango is fertility and sexual appetite. It can also pun on a man who should go, a bond you need to release.
Marmalade
Marmalade says life needs more zest.
Meals
Meals mean small matters are stealing attention from what matters. They can also be a lack of spiritual and sensual nourishment.
See also Eating.
Meat
Raw meat is obstacles on the way to a goal, or feeling that is still untamed. Cooking or eating it means you are reaching the center of a matter; spoiled meat is body or mind wearing down.
Melon
A melon says relax. It can also be fertility, appetite, or vitality, and sometimes a figure for breasts.
Milk
Milk is motherly care, kindness, and nourishment; sour milk says withhold support and question motives, spilled milk is lost faith, and choking on it means you are being smothered. Someone may also be draining you for money or feeling.
Molasses
Molasses is a happy home and good hospitality. It can also be something moving far too slowly.
Muffin
Baking a muffin is devoted work that will pay you. Eating one is a taste for expensive things, or a pet name for someone you love.
Muffins
Baking muffins means hard work will pay. Eating them is a taste for costly, fine things.
Mulberries
Mulberries mean an unexpected obstacle will set a goal back hard.
Mulberry
The fruit is an unexpected obstacle setting a goal back. The tree is protection from a negative force, and also sensuality.
Mushroom
Mushrooms are unwise pleasures that vanish as fast as they arrive, and also growth through hardship. Eating them is leadership; gathering wild ones is a risky situation, and ones filling the mouth are bitter feeling you will not let out.
Mustard
Mustard growing is success and wealth. Eating the seed is regret over a hasty decision.
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Noodles
Noodles suggest long life and plenty, or a search for real nourishment. The pun asks you to think hard about something that will not yield to a quick answer.
Nuts
Nuts can mean confusion, or a person who is unsettling you, and a hint that your approach is off. Eating them is prosperity and a wish to reach the center of a matter.
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Oatmeal
Eating oatmeal means you are steady and grounded. Cooking it is influence over someone close; an oatmeal cookie says a small indulgence is allowed.
Olives
Olives stand for healing and a life that lasts. A branch or a crown of leaves is peace after conflict, and a burden lifted.
Omelet
An omelet is a bright start and a sense that you are headed the right way. The familiar saying adds that some goals ask you to break a few things first.
Onion
An onion is the layers you still have to peel before the real situation shows. Tears from it mark a display of feeling that is not genuine.
Onions
Onions are layers between you and what is actually underneath, so keep digging. If they make you cry, the feeling on display is false.
Orange
Orange is friendliness, generosity, and a lively wish to meet people. It wakes the senses and invites a wider set of interests.
Oranges
An orange tree is health and prosperity. Eating the fruit is satisfaction with where you are, or a need to feel lively again.
Oysters
Eating oysters points to sexual appetite and pleasure. The shellfish can also mean beauty and wisdom, or a life closed against other people; shells alone suggest money worries.
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Pasta
Pasta is a need for energy; the shape matters. Narrow tubes are a narrow view, long strands a tangle, elbows a turn back toward yourself, and corkscrews a part of life out of control.
Peach
A peach is pleasure in simple things, and a life that is going well. It can also stand for sensuality or for someone you love.
Pepper
Pepper asks for more spice in a dull stretch, or it names an irritation. The dream may show where the bother comes from.
Pickle
A pickle is anxiety and fear of trouble ahead. Its shape can also be a sexual image.
Pie
A pie is the reward of hard work, or the share you expect to receive.
Pineapple
A pineapple is confidence, ambition, and success, or hospitality and a need to rest. Eating one points to sexual trouble and fear of losing control.
Pizza
Pizza is abundance, choice, and variety, or the sense that you are missing something. As a round, it can share the meaning of a circle.
Pomegranate
A pomegranate is fertility, health, and long life, with sex in the invitation. It can also stand for blood.
Popcorn
Popcorn is positive growth and ideas, or a truth being shown to you. Unpopped kernels are potential still waiting.
Pork
Pork is a wish for routine and normalcy. It can also pun on spending too much.
Potato
A potato is earthiness and simplicity, or laziness on the couch.
Potato Chip
A potato chip is overindulgence.
Potato Chips
Potato chips are overindulgence, and a need for more self-control.
Pretzel
A pretzel is devotion, belief, and life's sweeter rewards, or a tangled problem you do not yet know how to hold.
Prune
Pruning is growth that comes from cutting away old habits you no longer need.
Prunes
Prunes mark an emotional or creative blockage. They can also suggest age, as in a face gone wrinkled.
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Radish
Radishes in the ground point to plenty. Eating one can mark a careless slip, or a pun on something that feels cool.
Raisins
Eating raisins points to a force working against you, or to someone who has grown dried-up and small.
Raspberry
A raspberry marks something delicate and worth careful handling.
Rice
Rice is luck, fertility, and warm friendship. Eating it is peace at home; cooking it is a new duty that will please you.
Rum
Drinking rum points to excess and a lapse in the standards you claim to hold.
Rye
Rye standing in a field is prosperity still ahead. Rye bread is a cheerful, peaceful home.
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Saffron
Saffron is humility, and, by its color, love and heat.
Sage
Sage is wisdom joined to thrift and plain good sense.
Salad
A salad asks you to say what you feel and to take in what helps you grow. It can also be a longing for health and the outdoors.
Salad Dressing
Salad dressing means life needs more flavor.
Salami
Salami points to trouble with how you see yourself, and sometimes to strain in sex or in a bond.
Salt
Salt is a new spark in ordinary days, or dependability, truth, and steady devotion.
Sandwich
A sandwich is heavy pressure stacked on you, and also the knack of doing two things at once.
Shrimp
Shrimp is the feeling of being overpowered and small, and the wish to hide for a while.
Spaghetti
Spaghetti is long life, nourishment, and plenty. Eating it can mean you are tangled in a messy bond or an awkward spot.
Spice
Spice is a need for variety, and for another angle on a situation or a bond.
Steak
Eating steak is animal instinct, and a nudge to trust it more.
Strawberry
Strawberries are sensual temptation, or ideas and goals that are about to arrive.
Sugar Cane
Sugar cane is vitality, health, and standing.
Syrup
Syrup is sentiment and nostalgia. It can also mean you are stuck in a sticky situation.
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Tamale
Making or eating tamales stands for closeness and a bond that feels spiritual. They also honor what older generations taught you.
Tea
Making or drinking tea is contentment and a slower pace with a person or a problem. Reading the leaves asks you to look past the surface.
Tofu
Tofu is versatility: you can fit almost any situation. It also nudges you toward a healthier way of eating.
Tomatoes
A tomato is harmony at home. Eating them points to good health.
Trifle
This layered dessert is the many layers of your life and personality. It can also ask for more color in the days.
Turnips
A turnip means you will get past current problems, with compassion and a brighter view. It can also pun on what you seek turning up.
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W
Watermelon
This fruit is love, desire, and heat. People who are pregnant, or near a cycle, often picture it as a changing body.
Wheat
Grain is prosperity and doors opening, and also fertility and renewal. A field of it is success on the way.
Whisky
Bottles on a shelf match alertness and a protective nature. Drinking means selfishness may cost you friends, or you are escaping responsibility.
Wine
Drinking wine is celebration, company, and success. It can pun on whining.
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Yam
Yams stand for sensuality and virility.