Cherry preserve
A jar of cherries cooked in syrup — a brief summer fruit kept in a form that survives the year.
Cherry preserve in a dream is the dream's image of a brief summer fruit kept in a form that lasts the year. The fresh cherry is gone in days; the preserve is the same fruit's deal with time. The dream brings the preserve when something in your life — an old letter, a saved photograph, a memorialised friendship — is the form a brief good took in order to keep being available. A spoonful of cherry preserve added to winter tea is the dream affirming that the saving was used at the right season. A jar of preserve opened only to be thrown out, with the fruit gone dark, is the dream noting that the careful saving was done and the saved good was never, in fact, returned to.