Sunday, August 25, 2002		Dream Theme

SINCE ancient times vegetables all over the world have been symbolic of the life force, nourishment, abundance, fertility and resurrection. Besides these, they also symbolise a dull, vegetative or stagnant waking life. In fact, in our dreams, vegetables can be representative of the most basic of human emotions.

Should you see in your dreams that you are cooking vegetables, then according to the Indian interpretation, the person in whom you are deeply interested shall cause pain and surprise to you due to his behaviour. Should you dream that you are eating a vegetable, then it is indicative of severe illness.

As per the western interpretation of dreams, dreaming of eating vegetables can be seen as an omen of strange luck. You may feel that you are successful and stand to gain, but on the contrary you shall be actually on the losing side. Withered and rotten vegetables are representative of a host of woes and sorrows that they bring along with them. For a woman to dream that she is cooking such vegetables, is to allude that she shall loose her man through pique but shall gain a good and steady husband.

Psychoanalytically, vegetables represent our basic need for sustenance and material satisfaction. They also suggest the goodness we can imbibe from the earth as well as the situations around us. Of course, one cannot ignore the possibility of a sexual innuendo depending upon the shape of the vegetable seen in the dreams.

Dreams of vegetables could also be an allusion to your diet and indicative of the fact that you may not be eating enough fibre, cereals and green vegetables. A dream of overcooking a vegetable could suggest you are concentrating too long or too hard on a problem or as it were "overcooking" a relationship.

The way in which a bean or pea climbs up towards the sky is significant while trying to interpret it as a symbol. It could relate to aspirations or ambitions. Root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, etc. have their own significance due to this particular characteristic. It could signify a plodding approach or thoroughness.

A man of 43 would often dream of seeing a garden in his backyard full of healthy green plants on which vegetables would be hanging, but when he stretched out his hand to pluck these vegetables they were either rotten or had worms coming out of them.

The dream is a true interpretation of the age-old proverb—all that glitters is not gold. What actually seems to be going on fine and appears to be secure in his life is not actually so. The dream is a prodding from his subconscious to wake up to the realities of life, and to accept the truth as it is. The man has to get out of the habit of seeing the world with gold-coloured spectacles.