Color · Purple

Purple Saliva in dreams

The fluid of the mouth — the body's first preparation of what is about to be taken in.

How purple changes the reading

Purple colour places the symbol between hot and cool — a reading that has both calm and intensity at once. The dream often uses purple for symbols that do not fit the usual categories cleanly. Take the reading more seriously than you would otherwise; the colour is asking you to.

The base reading of Saliva

Saliva in a dream is the dream's image of the body's first preparation of what is about to enter it. The mouth begins to water before the food arrives; the appetite is doing visible work. The dream brings saliva when an anticipation in your life — for a meal, for a conversation, for a relationship — is currently shaping your inner state before the actual thing has arrived. Saliva produced in healthy anticipation is the dream telling you the appetite is alive. A mouth gone dry, or saliva running uncontrolled, is the dream noting that the body's signalling system around appetite has gone out of balance — either you have stopped wanting what you used to want, or the wanting has begun to run on its own.

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Other variations of Saliva