Lemons
To dream of lemons represents feelings about an experience that challenges you with being noticeably "sour", unpleasant, difficult, or unfair that ultimately benefits you. Thoughts and emotions that are "sour" about an issue. Awareness of yourself not minding or not caring about a situation being difficult, unpleasant, or unfair.
Negatively, dreaming about a lemon may reflect feelings about getting a bad deal or the short side of an agreement. Feeling ripped off in a purchase or agreement. Thoughts or feelings of disappointment, being unlucky, or feeling screwed over. Benefitting from learning from an experience that is "sour", unpleasant, difficult, or unfair.
To dream of liking a lemon may reflect feelings about enjoying a challenge or difficult problem. Enjoying an unpleasant situation because fixing it may profit you in some way. Enjoying enduring an unpleasant initiation.
Example: A young man dreamed of someone telling him he had to sleep with lemons before he could enter a door. In waking life, he was a gang member who had to get beat up to be initiated into his gang. In this case, being told he needed to sleep with the lemons may have reflected his anticipation of the painful and difficult initiation process he had to endure to gain acceptance and prove his toughness within the gang.
Example 2: A woman dreamed of seeing a lemon tree and holding a nice-looking lemon. In waking life, she was happy to get a promotion at work which let her deal with serious problems at the company. In this case, the lemon tree may have reflected her feelings about being established or deeply rooted in her new job that allowed her to learn from the challenges and difficulties that came with the promotion.
