Apple is an ambiguous symbol which is found in myths and religions (for example, eviction from the paradise in the Bible).

Symbol of temptation Generally, it is interpreted as a corruptibility of the dreamer by worldly material things and then can warn how easily he allows to lead into temptation. In the old testament the apple stands as a ” forbidden fruit ” which can reveal what is good and what is bad. In the original text of the Bible it is spoken only about “fruit”.

Fertility For the Mediterranean people the pomegranate, the fig and the quince are the forbidden fruits. The apple is an ancient fertility symbol. The vision of the apple can represent fertility, love and temptation.

Psychological Meanings:

Eating an apple, points to the wish to acquire knowledge.

Erotic and sexual meaning In the psychoanalysis the apple is considered as a typical sexual symbol, because its form is very similar to the feminine breast. In the dreams of younger people the apple often has an erotic meaning;

Intelligence The interpretation of an apple is important whether the apple is ripe or is unripe. The dreams of apples for older people can also stand as a sign of intellectual fruitfulness.

Spiritual Meanings:

Beauty and Fertility The apple blossom is a Chinese symbol of peace and beauty. On a spiritual level an apple indicates a new beginning. Since ancient times it is a symbol of fertility and therefore attribute for many gods.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Satisfaction if see a beautiful leafy – In the dream you see a beautiful leafy apple tree, this brings you fulfillment of your wishes, expectations;
• News if apple tree blooming in a dream – The dream denotes about impending good news that is relevant for all your life;
• Earnings if apple tree before the harvest – In the dream you see a lot of apple trees before harvest, brilliant progress in business or at work which announces good income;
• Friends if plenty apples – You see lots of apples on the tree in your dream means that you will have a lot of good friends;
• Realize plans if see ripe apples on the tree – This dream of ripe apples says that it is time for you to turn the plans into action;
• Warning if ripe apple – When you see ripe apples high in the treetops in the dream, this is a warning that your have too high aims, which you will not achieve;
• Prosperity if pick apples in a dream – You will start picking your work fruits, means that you will be prosperous person;
• Good sign if red apples with green leaves on a tree – This dream of red apples is a good omen, that you did everything perfectly and now you have a harvest of your hard work;
• Happy love if eat a nice red apple – When you are eating a red apple in a dream, announces a gratifying and happy love affair. For single ones, it means a new partner and marriage, new feelings of happiness in the love;
• Happiness if eat from the bowl – In the dream you take an apple from the bowl and eat is, this promises long life, luck and success, happy marriage in your life;
• Worries if bite a sour one – The apple was sour in your dream, signifies that you must deal nearer with an unpleasant things;
• Love pain if see or eat wormy apple – The wormy apple in a dream announces love problems, separation, grief and sorrow in your life;
• Gratitude if give to someone an apple – When you give an apple in a dream, notices that you will be gladdened by gratitude;
• New love if give to a woman – In the dream you give apples to the woman, means that you will meet your love;
• False friend if lying an apple on the floor in a dream – This vision points to false and bad friends in the neighborhood or in your surrounding;
• Worries if immature or rotten – The apple is rotten in your dream, this is a warning that bad news, anger, annoyance and danger is approaching against you;
• Self-knowledge if golden apple – In the dream you see a golden apple, signifies that will gain self-knowledge.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Success if pick from the tree – You are dreaming that you are picking announces success and joy of life, and you will succeed in everything what you do;
• Love if eat an apple - This dream says that you will receive love and it is sign for luck in love;
• Disappointment if peel an apple – When you peel an apple in a dream, this denotes that you are disappointed of your hope and expectation, but your courage will help you to handle with all the problems. You will reach what you desire;
• Reconciliation if get – In the dream you get an apple from somebody marks that you will try to make peace with your enemies;
• Wants to use you if give away – When you give away all your apples in a dream, this says that you are too compliant and someone wants to take advantage of you;
• Divorce if divide – In the dream you divide the apple into two parts announces that you will have to leave a loved person;
• More respect if rotten apple in a dream – Do not get angry about people who are not open to you.
• Vexations if rotten, wormy apples – This dream warns of false friends, separation from a loved one, or similar pain;
• Love if shining red – The apple is a shining red color, it is a sign of love;
• Good life if color between red and green in a dream – Brings you a strong and powerful life;
• Relation if eaten – The apple is eaten, points to intimate love relationships between man and woman.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Luck if pick from the tree – Picking apples in a dream, means joy and rich reward of your works;
• Prosperity if keep – In a dream you keep/have in your hand an apple, announces you prosperity;
• Business if collect – In the dream you collect apples, denotes that you will you make good business;
• Happiness if eat sweet apple – Eating sweet apple in a dream, this brings you glad experiences and enjoyment of love;
• Worries if sour apple – This dream announces about sadness, false friends, adversity and controversy;
• Bad news if rotten apple  – You will get bad news, which are only due to malice;
• Destruction if peel – When you are dreaming that you peel the apple means destruction of hopes and desires;
• Separation if cut an apple – You will have to separate from a dear friend or a girlfriend.

Artemidorus Meanings:

Sweet – pleasure of love The sight and eating of sweet, ripe summer apples is good. It meant rich love pleasure, particularly to those who try to attract a woman or lover, because the apple is consecrated and dedicated to Aphrodite (goddess of love).

Sour – anxiety, grief Sour apples on the contrary describe disorder and disputes, because they are associated with Eris (goddess of the discord). The winter apples, which you also name quinces, bring grief because of their astringent effect.

Contexts’ Meanings:

Eating a sweet apple in a dream –  Eating sweet, tasty or ripe apple in a dream, announces you pleasure, harmony in your life. Also this dream shows that you will get good earnings because of your hard work. You will experience happy love and happy family.

Eating a sour apple in a dream – Eating sour or unripe apple in a dream, this is a signal, that you have started to enjoy your luck and success too early, this can bring you worries. You will feel sadness and loneliness.

Eating wormy/rotten apple or seeing rotten/wormy apple in a dream – This dream signifies bad and unpleasant news. You will get anxiety and disappointment during reaching your aims. How hard you strive to reach them, you will only have frustration, they will not fulfillment.

Dreaming big red apples – This symbol goes for love and passion. For single -You will meet wonderful soul mate and your life and family life will be glad and joyful. You will be loved and honored by your lover. For married couples, this shows passion in their sexual life and respect to each other.

Picking apples from the tree or ground in the dream – You are picking or somebody else is picking apples in a dream, this announces that you can enjoy your harvest. You have work so hard with lots of efforts to make you life better. Now you will have rich and wealth life. 

* Please, see meaning of apple trees, fruit.

Longing for calmness and stability In a dream an apple tree shows a good person who serves his community and cares about it. The apple tree expresses dreamer’s romantic longings for the situation in which the world is calm and peaceful. This dream symbol often appears when the dreamer feels stress because of the large and fast city life.

Psychological Meanings:

Experience or education The symbol of an apple tree stands for knowledge and realization. This dream wants to awaken our concision to understand others problems and to encourage us to self-knowledge.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Happiness if blossoming or flowering apple tree – In the dream you see flowering apple tree, this announces happiness in marriage. Also will bring you good news that is relevant for all life. This will bring you success in business;
• Satisfaction if see a beautiful leafy apple tree – When the apple tree appears with lots of leaves, this signifies fulfillment of your wishes, desires and expectations;
• Good sign and success if seeing an apple tree before harvest – When you dream the apple tree full of apples before harvest – Very good sign which will bring you brilliant progress of your business and good income, you have worked for this. Now it is time to enjoy the harvest;
• Friends if apple tree full of fruit – In the dream the apple tree is full of fruits, announces you many friends and acquaintances.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Richness if see flowering and fruit-bearing apple trees – In the dream the apple tree is flowering and bearing fruits, announces success and material gains;
• Good health if seeing beautiful red apples on a tree – In the dream apples are beautifully red, this symbol marks about your health. You are very healthy and this announces you long life;
• Warning if seeing wormy and rotten apples on the tree – This dream shows that you have health problems, you have to take care of yourself.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Changes if flowering apple tree – This dream will bring you pleasant and happy, joyful news, which will change your life;
• Success if see an apple tree – In the dream you see an apple tree, this announces success in your business and work.

Artemidorus Meanings:

The apple tree has the same meaning as its fruits (apples).

Contexts’ Meanings:

Dreaming green leafy apple tree with fruits (apples) – In the dream the apple tree looks green with apples on it, this is very good sign. Your life is going to change, you will improve your life, because you have success at work or business. Your wishes will fulfill. You will have lots of good friends.

To dream blooming and flowering apple tree – This dream will bring you joy, good and happy news. This shows that you have already started to make your life better, you started to create new life. After some time you will get harvest, because you have worked for this with all your efforts.

To dream apple tree with rotten or bad apples – This is a signal about your health. Something is wrong with your health, you have to pay more attention to your health. Also this dream announces you bad and unpleasant news, worries and troubles. You have done some mistakes in the very beginning and only now they appear.

* Please, see meaning of apple.

Joy and worries When in a a dream plums appear, this announces wealth, welfare and happiness, but only then, when it is the season of them. Otherwise, when plums appear out of season, this symbol signifies anxiety, sorrow, pain or worries.

Psychological Meanings:

In Japan, China and in the Far East the plum-tree is considered as a tree of the knowledge or realization and as a tree of life. The plum symbol in the dream symbolizes youth, vitality, innocence. Also the attitude to yourself, your attitude to your body. Maybe you are feeling being “plump”.

Joy and envy Often the plum  is compared because of its form of feminine genital organ and is considered as an unambiguous sexual symbol. When consuming plums promise joy of love for men – sexual jealousy for women.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

• Pleasure if eating a plum – In the dream you are eating a ripe and sweet plum, this announces pleasure, satisfaction and passion;
• Fear if eating sour plum – This dream when you taste sour plum, shows you fear to something. You are afraid to make mistakes. Also this promises grief;
• Recovery if plums are sweet – In the dream you see well ripe and sweet plums, this shows that you will recover after hard time;
• Disease if eating plums in winter – In the dream you are eating plums out of season, this signifies about illness or worries about your own health:
• Health problems if seeing green plums – This dream is a signal about physical discomfort, you will have some troubles with your health;
• Opportunity if seeing ripe plums – This dream shows positive opportunities to reach your goals, but this will be only for a short period of time;
• Reward and success if eating fresh and sweet plums – The dream will bring you success because courage and perseverance are rewarded;
• Changes if pick up plums from the ground – In the dream you pick up plums from the ground, this is a sign of change according to the condition of the plums. Rotten plums – bad changes, fresh plums – good changes;
• Happiness if gathering plums – In the dream you are picking plums, this promises fulfillment of your wishes.

Hindu (Hinduism)

• Rich if seeing plum tree – This dream presents and stands for richness. But wealth comes through difficulties  and dangerous or risky decisions;
• Boredom if seeing dried plum – This dream indicates that you are tired and bored about your life;
• Frustration if gathering or picking rotten plums – This dream about rotten plums indicates that some of your plans or desires are not achievable.

Arabian (Islamic)

• Disease if see or eat plum in dream – This dream symbolize illness or even death if you do not take of your health ;
• Be with family if picking unripe plums – This dream shows that you are not worry about your family members, you think that there are lots of other important things that your family;
• Worries if see immature plums – In the dream the plums immature,  this marks that you will have and experience troubles and worries;
• Success if mature plums – This dream marks for an advantageous development. Do not worry if you do not success from the first time, because later you will surprisingly succeed;
• Disappointment if woman eating rotten plum – This shows that she will have to expect a disappointment in an intimate connection;
• Disease if eating wormy plums – This dream signifies about death and illness.

Contexts’ Meanings:

To eat ripe, sweet plums in the dream – This dream is a very good omen (when you eat in during the season). The tree is full of beautiful plums in the dream, signifies richness in your life. You will have all the best feelings in your life – The satisfaction of your life, pleasure of life, happiness in your family.

Seeing, picking or gathering rotten or unripe plums in the dream –  This dream is a warning that you have to take care of your health. This dream warns that you will have serious illness or even death. Also you have to take care of your family, because you have left them behind. You may loose your family and the person you love.

To eat rotten, sour plums in the dream – This dream signifies that you will have worries and troubles in your life. You have made some mistakes in your life, and now you are afraid that they will come to light. You will feel anxiety and sorrow.

* Please, see meaning of prunes and berries.