Considered yourself lucky if you had a dream about beans. The average dreamer probably wouldn’t know the true significance of the meaning of the bean, but these powerful symbols point to immortality, growth and psychic power.
The spiritual meaning of the beans in dreams all come from the fact that beans are an edible seed and a part of plant life.
Whenever you combine the energy of the seed along with a plant you have now stumbled upon a positive omen relating to resurrection and reincarnation is undergoing since they grow spiritually upwards. Because dreams speak to us in a coded language you will take the context of your dream and combine it with the bean to extract the meaning.
What Beans Symbolize in Dreams
Beans in our dreams sometimes just represent luck is just around the corner, a symbol that is giving your foresight into possible wealth and success. Beans are commonly known to attract good things in life, money, luck or promotion at work.
Furthermore, dreaming of beans is actually one of the oldest symbols in the world. The mere fact it has been carbon dated back to 9,750 BC, found by archaeologists Thailand. Evidence also exists that implies the culture in Mexico and Peru were cultivating bean crops around 7,000 BC.
Basically the bean is not just a bean in your dream, but rather hinting at some sort of major growth and transformation that is undergoing. This might take some time by nourishing (watering) this new energy to flourish.
How Beans Appear to Dreamers
- cooked or cooking beans
- beans in pods
- ranging in colors such as green, red, white and black beans
- coffee beans
- noticing a bag of beans
- Beans growing at various stages
So if a bean connects with a plant what does this represent in your dream? Well it turns out the plants in our dreams are highly regarded as a symbol of new growth and development in your life.
Its growth can apply to both your outer world such as career, relationships or love; and also your inner world such as higher consciousness and spirituality.
The seed however is the beginning stages of growth that is often represented as the bean in your dream. One may look at the symbol of the bean representing potentiality, latent power, and the male principal. As a feminine symbol, the seed is fertility, life to be, and growth.
Beans and Spiritual Symbolism
All beans are seeds, but not all seeds are beans. In the Bible, both seeds and beans carry similar meaning, related to sustenance. This may indicate the need to “plant” a message in your mind that grows over time.
Two Bible verses specifically mention beans, but in slightly different contexts. 2 Samuel 17:28 features King David and his men gathering lentils and beans for food while in the wilderness. Similarly, Ezekiel 4:9 describes baking break made of many different beans and grains.
In these contexts, the bean represents potential, trust, hope, and nourishment. When seen in a dream, it may mean you seek nourishment of some kind.
Dream of Beans & Other Meanings
The theme that surrounds the bean in your dream will all become metaphoric clues that will point towards where this change will develop. If the dream is hinting at your inner world the colors might be reflected as your inner energy or CHAKRAS; while black beans represent the hidden or unconscious development, the white bean points at purity.
Alternatively, the dream of the bean could connect to male sexuality and the ability to make the best of a bad situation, and when opportunity knocks, take advantage of it.
Based off of the popular fairytale Jack & The Beanstalk might imply maturing sexuality, male individuation and growing up. However, this would all depend on your relation with this story and if it had an impact on your psyche growing up.