Apricot
The apricot, rosy and soft, can carry a hidden sharpness in dreams — a future that looks sweet but holds masked bitterness. To eat them can mark a sorrow drawing near beneath a pleasing surface. The dream tends to ask whether the rosy prospect before us is all it appears, or conceals something harder.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for apricot, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Dreams of seeing apricots growing, denote that the future, though seemingly rosy hued, holds masked bitterness and sorrow for you.
To eat them signifies the near approach of calamitous influences. If others eat them, your surroundings will be unpleasant and disagreeable to your fancies. A friend says: ``Apricots denote that you have been wasting time over trifles or small things of no value.''
Fontaine, 1862
Content, health, and pleasure, if in season; if otherwise, vain hopes, bad fortune.