Sunday, September 1, 2002		Dream Theme

ALTHOUGH edible items, nuts neither come under the title of fruits nor vegetables. Depending on the availability of the nut in a particular region, one tends to interpret their symbolism in a dream. Within India, mostly all nuts are easily available everywhere, thus mostly all people are familiar with them. Walnuts as such are more masculine of all the nuts.

In Indian thought, a walnut is taken as a good symbol in dreams. It foretells difficulties and worries. This could be probably due to its hard exterior shell. Should the walnut be rotten from inside, it portrays failure in all fields, be it business, marital or personal life. To see yourself breaking a walnut and finding it tasty is a good omen. It means that all the difficulties and worries shall turn out for the better in the end though they will continue to exist.

On the contrary, in western thought, to see walnuts in your dream is a good omen, significant of prolific joys and favours. To dream of cracking a decayed nut denotes expectations ending in business and regret. You stand to fail in that in which you wished to succeed. Should a woman see that she has walnut stain on her hands, then beware, for it means her spouse or lover seems to be losing his attraction in her. He shall probably get attracted to another woman. You yourself should be warned of indiscreet conduct. Psychoanalytically, as mentioned earlier, walnut is a masculine nut. Although most nuts carry the symbolism of masculine sexuality, walnut does so more than others.

Walnut also carries a symbolism of fertility. Dreaming of nuts could signify that in real life, we are trying to depersonalise issues regarding sexuality. We need to review our outlook towards it. Nuts, being edible and having a high nourishment value, are also interpreted as the carriers of wisdom.

A woman, aged 24, often dreamt of breaking and collecting the inner edible matter of walnuts. She would only collect those that were broken in two exact halves. She would visualise herself as a beautiful lady with open hair, wearing white clothes and sitting under a tree and collecting them. Suddenly, a man on a horse would pass by in great speed. In the flurry that he created, all the walnuts would drop from her hands and she would again start collecting them.

This is a typical sex dream. Although the walnut as a whole depicts masculine sexuality, but the shape of the inner edible matter is symbolic of feminine sexuality. The horseman coming at a great speed and her dropping the walnuts is a depiction of the sexual act.