During the first night after beginning to read the Tanya, I had a dream as follows:
I was in a walled garden with fruit trees, at a spot with stone paving and a grill. It was the long narrow kind of grill for garden parties, and I was at the nearest end of it, the farther end had a corner to a serving desk where some women were doing something.
An old man with white hair and beard showed me some berries on a plate. They were grey, around 1 inch in size, and looked a bit like rosehip with the seeds removed. But there was a feeling that maybe they were some kind of intestines, maybe from a rodent or other small animal. The texture felt somewhere in between rosehip berries and intestines or organs. He implied we were going to cook them which would make them edible, by adding the right kinds of herbs and spice to the dish.
When waking up the next day, I didn't at first think of this, but when making black tea, I spilled some on the desk and noticed that the energy form around the tea was the same as those strange berries, it encased them, a grey form which had the texture of an organ.
-- This seemed to confirm what was at the back of my head - what he had shown me was the qliphoth, shells or "husks" which represent our negative side of the soul. So although drinking tea may seem like a harmless activity, there was a qliphoth/bad desire encasing it.
By adding some kind of correct context (the herbs or spices in the dream) it would render the qliphoth in question "edible" and harmless.