Pickles
Pickles — sharp, sour, preserved — often touch worthless pursuits unless you bring energy and judgment, with vexation in love but final triumph. The dream may ask where a tart, unsatisfying course is tempting you to drift, and whether you can summon the focus to turn a sour stretch toward the eventual triumph it can still yield.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for pickles, 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 pickles, denotes that you will follow worthless pursuits if you fail to call energy and judgment to your aid.
For a young woman to dream of eating pickles, foretells an unambitious career.
To dream of pickles, denotes vexation in love, but final triumph.
For a young woman to dream that she is eating them, or is hungry for them, foretells she will find many rivals, and will be overcome unless she is careful of her private affairs. Impure pickles, indicate disappointing engagements and love quarrels.
Fontaine, 1862
If a girl dreams of eating pickles, it is a sign some old bachelor will kiss her: if a young man dreams of pickles, he will be beloved by a maid older than himself, and probably of a sour and crabbed temper.