Dreaming of Chestnuts
chestnuts, conkers, horse chestnut · mostly positive
Chestnuts signal some losses or passing sorrow, but a pleasant companion, luck in love and happiness in the end.
What happens in the dream
- Raw chestnuts: luck in love; boiled ones: luck in business
- If you are single and eat them: a well-off sweetheart and a comfortable life
- Handling chestnuts: business losses, but a pleasant lifelong companion
- Eating them: sorrow for a while, then happiness
- Pricking your hand on a chestnut burr: a so-called friend will abuse your trust
How you felt
- Comfort: the dream often mirrors a need for warmth and coziness
- Caution: it may reflect awareness that good things sometimes come with prickles
Ask yourself
- What sweetness lies behind a current difficulty?
- Whom have I trusted a little too quickly?
See also Nuts · Nut Tree · Thorn · Hazelnut · Walnut
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: conkers, horse chestnut.