Dreaming of Butter

butter, margarine · mostly positive

Butter is about health and comfort: fresh butter promises prosperity and plans that work out, rancid butter a living earned by hard work.

What happens in the dream

  • Eating fresh golden butter: good health, plans carried through, possessions and knowledge
  • Eating rancid butter: a comfortable living earned through hard physical work
  • Selling butter: a small gain
  • Eating butter in general: a pleasant surprise, tinged with sadness

How you felt

  • Comfort: the dream often mirrors a need for softness and security
  • Mild worry: it may reflect a fear that the good times won't last

Ask yourself

  • What is truly nourishing me right now?
  • How much effort is my current comfort costing me?

See also Milk · Cheese · Cream · Bread · Churning

Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901); F. Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-Book and Fortune-Teller (1862). Also searched as: margarine.

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