Oranges
Healthy orange trees in ripe fruit often touch health and prosperous surroundings, but eating oranges is read as ill — worry over sickness and dissatisfaction. The dream may ask where bright, abundant promise hangs within reach, and whether partaking too eagerly might turn a fortunate prospect sour, asking discretion in what you consume.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for oranges, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
Seeing a number of orange trees in a healthy condition, bearing ripe fruit, is a sign of health and prosperous surroundings.
To eat oranges is signally bad. Sickness of friends or relatives will be a source of worry to you. Dissatisfaction will pervade the atmosphere in business circles. If they are fine and well-flavored, there will be a slight abatement of ill luck. A young woman is likely to lose her lover, if she dreams of eating oranges. If she dreams of seeing a fine one pitched up high, she will be discreet in choosing a husband from many lovers.
To slip on an orange peel, foretells the death of a relative.
To buy oranges at your wife's solicitation, and she eats them, denotes that unpleasant complications will resolve themselves into profit.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of having an abundance of oranges, shadows forth that you will get just so much yellow gold: if you dream of eating them, it promises you health: if you give them to friends, it foretells that you will be honored and esteemed: if a girl dreams that her lover presents her with fine-looking oranges, he will undoubtedly bring her a fortune when she marries.