Rotten fruit
Fruit gone past its time — sweetness that has turned, supply that was not used.
Rotten fruit in a dream is the dream's image of sweetness left past its time. The fruit was good; the window for using it has closed. The dream brings rotten fruit when something in your life — a chance, a piece of warmth offered, a gift received but not opened — has now passed the point where it can be received as it was meant to be. Rotten fruit composted back into ground is the dream telling you the loss is being absorbed into future supply. Rotten fruit still sitting in the bowl on display is the dream noting that the loss is being kept visible as a reproach, and the room is being asked to carry the smell.