Foods

Ice cube

Frozen water in a small block — coldness available on demand, melting on use.

An ice cube in a dream is the dream's image of coldness available on demand, frozen water shaped for the glass. Ice is useful and provisional; it begins to disappear the moment it is taken out. The dream brings the ice cube when something in your life — a brief withdrawal, a measured coolness, a deliberate pause — has been added in exactly the right small dose. An ice cube placed in a hot drink to cool it is the dream affirming the use. An ice cube held against skin until it burns is the dream noting that the small coldness, applied past its purpose, has become its own injury.

Related symbols

Aged cheese

Cheese matured over time — a flavour that exists only because the work was left alone long enough.

Almond

A hard-shelled nut with a sweet kernel — concentrated food whose value must be worked for.

Apple

Knowledge, choice, and the older symbol of bite-and-consequence.

Beetroot soup

A deep red soup of beetroot — a winter dish whose colour is half the comfort.

Birthday cake

A cake with candles for a birthday — a personal year marked in flame and sugar.

Bitter herb

A sharp green eaten for what its bitterness remembers — food whose value is in not being sweet.

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