Ice Cream
To dream of ice cream represents the act of comforting yourself or adopting habits to lift your spirits amid a negative situation. Cheering up from bad situation. It signifies the need to tend to your emotional well-being during trying times. The dream highlights how you choose to console yourself during disappointments, losses, or moments of feeling down, as well as your efforts to cheer up and heal from these difficult situations.
To dream of vanilla ice cream represents comforting yourself with an option that is plain, simple, and safe as can be.
Favorite flavors may symbolize your preferred emotions during a difficult or unpleasant moment. How you like to feel when you need to cheer up. Consider the flavor for additional meaning.
To dream of red ice cream represents a coping mechanism or comforting oneself that is passionate or dangerous. Comforting oneself by never stopping doing something or doing something a lot more than usual. Negatively, red ice cream may be a sign that you may be choosing risky dangerous behavior to cheer yourself up. Red ice dream may also reflect gambling, sex, drug use, or alcoholism used to cheer up.
See the themes section for other colors.
Example: A woman dreamed of going for ice cream while she was at the beach. In waking life, she had just broken up with her boyfriend and was deciding to spend time with family and friends to help herself get over it. In this case, the ice cream may have reflected the woman's choice to seek comfort and emotional support from her family and friends as a way to cope with the breakup and move forward in her life. The dream highlights her efforts to cheer herself up and heal from the difficult situation.
Example 2: A young girl dreamed of her ice cream falling off the cone onto the ground. In waking life, she had initially tried to be happy about her mother's new baby but couldn't maintain her enthusiasm because her mother started to ignore her. She was jealous of no longer being the only child in the family. In this case, the ice cream falling off may have reflected the loss of her coping mechanism and her struggle to adapt to the changing family dynamics.
Example 3: A young man dreamed of eating ice cream. In waking life, his brother had recently passed away and he was still grieving. In this case, the ice cream may have reflected his need to feel comforted or cheer up about his dead brother.
Example 4: A woman dreamed of a close male friend understanding her craving for vanilla ice cream and getting her some. In waking life, she was experiencing a difficult time with unemployment while enjoying talking to this close male friend. In this case, the vanilla ice cream may have reflected her feelings of comfort, simplicity, and safety found through her interactions with her close male friend during a challenging time.
