Eggs
Eggs hold potential—fertility, birth, new beginnings, or fragile hopes not yet hatched. What you do with them in the dream (hold them, break them, find them spoiled) often mirrors how you handle possibility itself: carefully, carelessly, or with mounting disappointment at what refuses to bloom.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for eggs, 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 finding a nest of eggs, denotes wealth of a substantial character, happiness among the married and many children. This dream signifies many and varied love affairs to women.
To eat eggs, denotes that unusual disturbances threaten you in your home.
To see broken eggs and they are fresh, fortune is ready to shower upon you her richest gifts. A lofty spirit and high regard for justice will make you beloved by the world.
To dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation.
To see a crate of eggs, denotes that you will engage in profitable speculations.
To dream of being spattered with eggs, denotes that you will sport riches of doubtful origin.
To see bird eggs, signifies legacies from distant relations, or gain from an unexpected rise in staple products.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Rotten.) If married people dream of eggs it is a sign they will be prolific of children. If a newly married lady dreams of finding a nest full of eggs, it foretells that her first born will be twins or triplets. If a young girl dreams such a dream, it is a sign that she will soon be married, or get in a condition that she ought to be a wife.