What Does It Mean to Dream About Garlic?

To dream of garlic represents feelings of confidence that is protective. Confidently believing that you aren't losing if you don't want to. Confidence that you are never desperate. Confidence that you can have an immediate effective impact if you want to. Confidence that isn't listening if it doesn't want to. Confidence that you can control a situation if you need to. Confidence that feels good being powerful enough, but dangerous if it's too powerful. Confidence that surprises you with being protective or too powerful if you get too close to it. Confidence that you can tell people what to do or keep them under control.

Confidence about protection, security, or calling the police. Feeling that money protects you. Feelings of certainty about controlling something powerful, sensitive, or dangerous.

Negatively, garlic may represents feelings of needing to confidently assert yourself with people who are cheating you or being careless with you. Feeling that you never need to call the police or never need to ask for protection. Protective overconfidence that scares you or other people away. Experiencing situations where you don't like needing to repeat asserting or protecting yourself. Insecurity that makes you want or seek an immediate effective impact.

Example: A woman dreamed of seeing dead doves and cloves of garlic fall out of a tree that wasn't supposed to. In waking life her husband paid for a servant who had recently robbed her house and left the country. The police were called. The garlic falling from the tree in the dream may have reflected her feelings about her confidence about of never needing to call the police on her servant becoming a problem.

Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing digging happening in a river where she thought garlic was pulled up, but found out it was actually sweet potatoes. In waking life the woman was experiencing some temporary financial problem. The sweet potatoes that she originally believed was garlic may have reflected her feelings about an option to fix her financial problem not being as confident with an immediate impact as she would have liked.

Garlic in dreams may emerge as a symbol of protection that wards off negative energy. However due to its shape and its benefits it relates to good health and fertility. If you are buying garlic it suggests you are obtaining something within that will either be good or protect you. If you notice rotting garlic suggests something that was once strong has been neglected. If you are peeling garlic it becomes a positive symbol that implies removing or uncovering something that will serve you a purpose in your life.