TASTE

If something is not to your taste in your dreams, this suggests that it does not conform to your ideals. To have a bad taste in your mouth suggests that something in your life is not nourishing or satisfying you.

If you recognize that your surroundings are in good taste, this suggests that you appreciate beauty in life. In waking life, we often know what we do and do not like but in dreams this can sometimes be distorted for the purpose of highlighting the need for change. For example, if you find yourself liking someone or something you normally dislike, this suggests that you need to study the qualities of this person, object or place to see what it can teach you. Bear in mind that the words used to describe taste are also often used to describe feelings, for example bitter, sweet, sour.

Did you sit down to a lavish meal in your dreams and find that you had lost your appetite or could not taste anything? If so, then perhaps you have lost your appetite for something you once loved or relished. On the other hand, if you found yourself endlessly chewing, then perhaps you need to chew over some facts before you make an important decision in real life? In dreams being aware that you are swallowing something suggests either that you are holding back your emotions or that you need to take in something important in real life.

See also Mouth and Teeth entries in BODY.

To have a bad taste suggests that whatever is signified by what we are eating docs not nourish us.

To recognise that our surroundings are in good taste suggests an appreciation of beautiful things.

2- In waking life we usually know what we like and what our personal standards are. In dreams those standards may be distorted in order to highlight a change.

For instance, to discover that one likes a colour in a dream which would not normally be appreciated in real life could suggest that we need to study the new colour more fully in order to discover what it has to offer (see Colour).

3- As we become more sensitive and aware, our taste becomes more refined. This is so in the spiritual realm, in that we appreciate finer, more beautiful things.

For instance, to discover that we like a colour in a dream that would not normally be appreciated in real life could suggest that we need to study the new colour more fully in order to discover what it has to offer.