Candied fruit
Fruit preserved in sugar — sweetness saved by encasing it in more sweetness.
Candied fruit in a dream is the dream's image of sweetness preserved by being encased in more sweetness. The fruit is still in there; it has been replaced piece by piece with sugar until it no longer spoils. The dream brings candied fruit when something in your life — a fond memory, an old story about a person, a piece of nostalgia — is being kept past its natural shelf life by being coated in narrative sweetness. Candied fruit eaten at the right occasion is the dream affirming the kept treat. Candied fruit eaten daily as if it were ordinary food is the dream noting that the preserved version has replaced the fresh, and you have lost the taste for what is actually in season.