Food & Drink
Turnips dream meaning
Growing turnips point to brighter prospects and excitement about success. Eating them suggests ill health; pulling them up suggests improving your opportunities and fortune. Turnip greens point to bitter disappointment, while seed suggests advancement; for a young woman, sowing seed predicts inherited property and a handsome husband.
Dream scenarios
- 1
Seeing turnips growing
Your prospects may brighten, and you may feel elated about success.
- 2
Eating turnips
Ill health is indicated.
- 3
Pulling up turnips
Your opportunities and fortune may improve.
- 4
Eating turnip greens
Bitter disappointment is indicated.
- 5
Seeing turnip seed
Future advancement is indicated.
Personal symbolism
Turnips move between growth, harvest, and food, so what you do with them matters. Seeing them grow brightens the outlook and brings elation over success. Eating them is associated with ill health, while pulling them up suggests that your efforts will improve your opportunities and fortune. Greens bring a different note of bitter disappointment; seed points toward future advancement. The final scene gives a young woman who sows turnip seed an inheritance and a handsome husband. Consider whether the dream emphasized cultivation, eating, or gathering, and what you hoped would grow from your efforts.
Questions to reflect on
- Were you growing, eating, pulling up, or sowing turnips?
- What opportunity are you trying to cultivate or improve?
- Did the dream’s mood feel hopeful or disappointing?