Mushrooms can have many different meanings, depending on context and what mushrooms bring to mind specifically for you:
- Food or eating, especially foods typically eaten with mushrooms
- A forest, damp grotto, or other kind of place mushrooms tend to grow
- Magic or an imaginary magical world
- Something good or useful that results from something undesireable
- Imagination or hallucination
- Shelter or protection
- Something or someone with many aspects, ideas, problems, etc., as a mushroom has many spores within it