Rice
To dream of rice represents feelings about a choice or experience being simple and straightforward the way it is without needing to explain itself. An experience that is simple and straightforward without risking anything more than you want it to.
Negatively, dreaming about rice may represent feelings about a choice or experience that overdoes simplicity or straightforwardness to the point of encouraging boredom, monotony, or the mundane. Feelings about a situation that doesn't get to be more interesting than it already is without choosing it to be. Accepting a situation as simple and straightforward when it may require more complicated involvement in order to prevent losing.
To dream of a large bag of uncooked rice may reflect feelings about lots of potential for simple and straightforward experiences that haven't happened yet because you didn't want them to. Feeling stupid about preparing or waiting for something simple and straightforward to happen. Feelings about lots of simple and straightforward work or waiting being required to reach a goal.
To dream of spoiled rice may represent feelings of disappointment or dissatisfaction with the outcome of a situation that was initially perceived as simple and straightforward. Regret or frustration over a situation that once seemed simple and straightforward but has become complicated or no longer viable. Feelings about letting a simple and straightforward situation become complicated due to neglect or inaction. What seemed uncomplicated and easy may have turned out to be flawed or ruined in some way. The decay or deterioration of the straightforward experience, indicating that things did not go as planned or expected.
Example: A woman dreamed of trying to find some cooked rice, but could only find spoiled rice. In waking life, she told a married man that she was having an affair with that they should put the relationship on hold until his wife calmed down after having found the woman's phone number. The dreamer felt unable to stop the relationship. In this case, the spoiled rice may have reflected her initial feelings about the extra-marital affair being simple and straightforward the way it was without needing an explanation before the wife became suspicious about it and ruined it.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of a large bag of uncooked rice being desperately dragged out of a church door. In waking life, she felt stupid for believing it was an intelligent idea to tell her employers that she wanted to wait to take a job opportunity. In this case, the large bag of uncooked rice being desperately dragged may have reflected how she felt stupid making an effort to protect her initial decision to delay the job opportunity being a simple and straightforward choice without needing further justification.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of rice falling on her making her cry. In waking life, she had issues with weight loss and dieting. In this case, the rice falling on her may have reflected her feelings about the simplicity and straightforwardness of following a diet plan or weight loss strategy being overwhelming or burdensome while not working.
Example 4: A woman dreamed of seeing a large bag of uncooked rice. In waking life, she was unemployed and thought it was an intelligent idea to wait patiently by the phone for all her potential employers to call her back when none were. In this case, the large bag of uncooked rice may have reflected her feelings about the simple and straightforward need to be more involved with her job search by calling employers back that she hadn't even thought about starting yet.
Example 5: A woman dreamed of eating rice. In waking life, she wanted to leave her boyfriend because he was already married, but felt it would be a stupid idea because her boyfriend didn't like his wife and she believed he might leave her one day. In this case, eating rice may have reflected her feelings about the decision to stay with her boyfriend being a simple and straightforward choice because his dissatisfaction with his wife was so obvious it didn't need an explanation about why it was only a matter of time before he got divorced.
