Banana
The banana reads oddly across the old books — sometimes a good omen of sweetness, sometimes a mating with the uninteresting, a venture that wearies. The dream tends to hold this ambivalence, and to ask whether what looks pleasant and easy will satisfy us, or prove a tiresome thing once tasted.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for banana, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of bananas, foretells that you will be mated to an uninteresting and an unloved companion.
To eat them, foretells a tiresome venture in business, and self-inflicted duty.
To see them decaying, you are soon to fall into some disagreeable enterprise.
To trade in them, non-productive interests will accumulate around you.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of this delicious fruit is a good omen; if you dream you are eating a banana, it is a sign you will be rich and happy. To dream you see bananas growing denotes success in love matters. If a girl dreams that her lover presents her with a ripe banana it foretells she will soon be married, or ought to be.