(See Also: Eating, Vegetables)
If seen in pairs, this represents male virility.
Lima beans specifically portend the end to a quarrel.
Among the ancient Romans and Greeks, beans were used for ballots.
A white bean was a positive response; a black bean was negative. What color are the beans in your dream?
Eating beans may act as a humorous counsel from your subconscious not to get “puffed up” so that your words don’t come out as hot air!
In the East, soybeans represent luck.
During the Middle Ages, lentils were eaten to control the temperament. How balanced have your emotions been lately?
Beans are unique in that they twine and grow counterclockwise. You may find similarly that your way of growing and changing is vastly different than those around you.
[1]1- To be storing beans in a dream may show a fear of failure, or a lack of confidence in our ability to carry through an objective, and the need to create something in the future.
To be planting beans would suggest faith in the future, and a wish to crcate something useful. Traditionally the bean was supposed to be capable of feeding, clothing and providing an object of exchange for barter.
2- Psychologically the bean can represent stored potential. We have the ability to use the stored power to achieve whatever we want.
3- The bean can signify immortality and magic power.
[2]Material aspects: To be storing beans in a dream may show a fear of failure or a lack of confidence in our ability to carry through an objective at this point. We may, however, need to create something in the future.
To be planting beans would suggest faith in the future and a wish to create something useful.
[3]Psychological / emotional perspective: Psychologically the bean can represent stored potential. We have the ability to tap into it to achieve whatever we want. Traditionally the bean was supposed to be capable of feeding, clothing and providing an object of exchange for barter.
[4]Symbolizes, as do all things that germinate, female sexual organs; but also masculine sexuality and, in general, everything to do with nutrition. Today, it is a frequently occurring dream symbol about doubt, or searching deeply in order to overcome unconscious obstacles.
[5]1. Little or no value (as in “doesn’t know beans”).
2. A phallus (green beans).
3. Magic power (as in “jack and the beanstalk”).
4. Feelings of financial uncertainty.
5. Fertility.
[6]Gives gender-specific: In a man’s dream the bean suggests the life force, whereas in a woman’s dream it will signify her own fertility.
[7]The bean can signify immortality and magical power, containing as it does the potential for life and manifestation.
[8]See Also: Seed.
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