Fruit, Grocery Store, Holidays
Fruit
Fruit can be a symbol for femininity, harvest, or decay. However, it could just as easily fall into interpretations of food. Therefore, how the fruit was present in your dream should be carefully considered.
Did you offer fruit to someone, or vice versa?
Did the presence of a particular kind of fruit in the dream correlate to an appearance of that fruit in your recent waking life?
Grocery Store
The grocery store is a place of necessity, compared to the department store of diversity and choices. To dream of being in a grocery store may be to dream of acquiring sufficiency for one's needs. What is important is to look at whether or not the grocery is a good option for acquiring what is needed.
Does the grocery store fit your needs, or do you really need auto parts or some non-food item? This may indicate that you are looking in the wrong place for answers in your waking life.
Do your fellow shoppers seem at ease or harried, and is there a sense that there isn't enough to go around? This may indicate anxiety over finding a mate, locating the right job, or some other limited commodity in the waking life.
Holidays
Holidays are interesting dream settings because they have so much meaning in our waking lives. They can be positive, as in instances of favored memories of family and traditions. They can also be traumatic, in terms of unmet expectations, loss, or absence of loved ones.
How the holiday comes into the dream story is important. If the dreamer knows of the holiday all along, then others' perceptions and participation in the holiday are important to consider.
However, sometimes everyone knows about the holiday except the dreamer. The dreamer may not be able to adequately prepare for or be able to participate in the holiday. This may reflect anxiety about the expectations of others and the willingness to fulfill those expectations. Sometimes we fall short because the expectations are inappropriate; not because we are incompetent. Either feeling or interpretation is an option.
Do others seem prepared for, appropriately excited about, and connected to your understanding of the holiday?
Are the gestures of celebration appropriate?
Do you feel fulfilled, bemused, or empty after the dream?
Labels: Fruit, Grocery Store, Holidays
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