Mustard
To dream of mustard represents feelings of adding intensity, livlierness, or excitement to an experience that needs it just right so it isn't jealous. Feelings about a situation where you are "Upping the ante" without wanting to push it too much. Measuring yourself while raising the stakes of a situation so it's personal about being more interesting. Mustard in a dream may also symbolize the need to provoke or stimulate thought, conversation, or action in waking life. This could reflect the need for intellectual stimulation, challenging assumptions, or adding a different perspective to a situation.
Negatively, mustard in a dream may represent forcing excitement or intensity into situations that do not require it, which could lead to unnecessary complications or misunderstandings. The risk of other people getting jealous that you wanted to make a situation more intense than it needed to be.
Example: A teenage girl dreamed of working at a Subway restaurant and was making a sandwich for a customer when a boy who said he owned the place as her boss made her nervous. She then screwed up the ingredients for the customer by putting too much much honey mustard instead of mayo. In waking life, she wanted to get a job at a Subway restaurant, but was too afraid to because an attractive boy worked there. In this case, the putting too much honey mustard on the Subway sandwich instead of mayo may have reflected her feelings of potentially overcompensating or trying too hard to impress the boy she found attractive at her prospective job. She may have had anxiety about increasing romantic tension at the job by being close to the boy backfiring into a situation that might make her wish she left the job opportunity alone.
