Cultivate

v. t.	1.	To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. [imp. & p. p. Cultivated (-v?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cultivating (-v?`-t?ng).]
	2.	To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. - Wordsworth.
	3.	To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. - Burke.
	4.	To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. - Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. - Tillotson.
	5.	To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

Verb	1.	cultivate - foster the growth of
	2.	cultivate - prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" Synonyms: crop, work
	3.	cultivate - train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" Synonyms: civilise, civilize, school, educate, train
	4.	cultivate - adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" Synonyms: domesticate, tame, naturalise, naturalize

To dream that you are cultivating, indicates that you need to clear your mind of negative thoughts. Keeping an open mind will further allow you to grow as a person.advance, ameliorate, apprentice, approach, backset, beautify, better, break, break in, break the ice, breed, bring up, brown-nose, butter up, care for, carve, cherish, chisel, coddle, condition, convert, cosset, court, courteous, cradle, crop, cultivated, culture, cultured, cut, delve, develop, dig, discipline, distingue, dress, drill, dry-nurse, elaborate, embellish, encourage, evolve, excite, exercise, extract, fallow, feed, fertilize, fetch up, finish, fit, fondle, force, form, foster, further, groom, grow, harrow, harvest, hoe, house-train, housebreak, improve, instruct, labor, lavish care on, lick into shape, list, machine, make advances, make sensitive, make up to, manage, mature, mill, mine, mother, mulch, nourish, nurse, nurture, pamper, pay addresses to, pay court to, perfect, play up to, plow, polish, polished, polite, practice, prepare, process, produce, promote, propagate, prune, pump, put in tune, put to school, quicken, raise, rake, ready, rear, refined, rehearse, ripen, run after, season, send to school, sensibilize, sensitize, sharpen, shine up to, smelt, spade, spoon-feed, stimulate, stir, suck up to, suckle, sustain, take in hand, teach, tend, thin, thin out, till the soil, train, urbane, weed, weed out, well-bred, wet-nurse, whet, woo, work, work on

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