Apples
Apples are among the kindest of dream images for most people — red fruit on green-leaved trees, exceedingly fortunate. Sweet, they carry joy and pleasure; sour, they can mark contention. To eat them is more mixed. The dream tends to ask what is ripening for us, and whether the fruit will taste sweet or sharp.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for apples, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
This is a very good dream to the majority of people.
To see red apples on trees with green foliage is exceedingly propitious to the dreamer.
To eat them is not as good, unless they be faultless. A friend who interprets dreams says: ``Ripe apples on a tree, denotes that the time has arrived for you to realize your hopes; think over what you intend to do, and go fearlessly ahead. Ripe on the top of the tree, warns you not to aim too high. Apples on the ground imply that false friends, and flatterers are working you harm. Decayed apples typify hopeless efforts.''
Fontaine, 1862
(See Orchard.) If sweet, denote joy and pleasure, especially to women and maids. Sour apples signify contention and sedition.