Oysters
Oysters eaten often touch a loss of propriety in the pursuit of low pleasure and an insatiable thirst for gain, though seeing them promises easy circumstances. The dream may ask where appetite, for indulgence or getting, has slipped past restraint, and whether the hunger driving you is one you govern or one that's begun to govern you.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for oysters, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you dream that you eat oysters, it denotes that you will lose all sense of propriety and morality in your pursuit of low pleasures, and the indulgence of an insatiate thirst for gaining.
To deal in oysters, denotes that you will not be over-modest in your mode of winning a sweetheart, or a fortune.
To see them, denotes easy circumstances, and many children are promised you.
Fontaine, 1862
If, in your dream, you imagine you are eating oysters, it denotes that you will have difficulties relative to money matters: but to rake them out of the water is a sign of money-getting: to dream of opening nice fat oysters for other people to eat is also a favorable omen, as it shows that you will have plenty of cash.