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What are eating dreams about?

Eating in life is a common experience. In general, most people eat three meals per day. Between meals, we snacks. Because dreams reflect daily life, it makes sense that eating can occur in dreams. But, eating in dreams can also be more than simply eating a meal. This symbol is identified by words like consume, having a meal, eating, etc.

Eating in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 6.1% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams.

What are the major highlights of eating dreams?

Eating is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having eating in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.

What are the symbols that help define eating?

The symbol of eating in dreams is highly related to consuming.

How does the dream symbol of eating affect the different aspects of a dream?

Explore different elements related to dreams of eating

Who is in eating dreams?

Overall, dreams with eating are less related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of eating are more related to animals and more related to insects than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles and less related to distant people.

Animals

more than usual

Insects

more than usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

less than usual

Close people

the same as usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in eating dreams?

Overall, dreams with eating are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of eating are less related to happiness, less related to confusion, and less related to fear.

Happiness

less than usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

less than usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

the same as usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

the same as usual
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Who is in eating dreams?

Overall, dreams with eating are less related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of eating are less related to transportation, less related to natural places, and less related to magical places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

the same as usual

Human places

the same as usual

Transportation

less than usual

Natural places

less than usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in eating dreams?

Overall, dreams with eating are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of eating are less related to aggressive interactions and less related to friendly interactions.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

less than usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do eating in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with eating are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of eating are less related to lucid dreams, less related to recurring dreams, and less related to waking life.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

less than usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

the same as usual

Waking life

less than usual
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How do eating in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with eating are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of eating are more related to smelling and much more related to taste than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

more than usual

Taste

much more than usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of eating in dreams?

Eating dreams are common. Among other things eating dreams are very postively interconnected.

Do you think this is true for your dream of eating? How might your dream of eating be different?

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience eating in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about eating in dreams. See how you feel about eating now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of eating

Read some real dream reports of eating dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I dreamt I ate my clitoris as if it was a meaty snack last night. Should I be worried?

I don't remember much but at first I was alarmed. Like why did my clitoris come off and did it look like a round-ish thin slice of chicken? I don't know why the fuck I ate it. The dream moved on quite fast after that. I think I ate some random candy as well.

Was that just a weird thing I dreamt? Does it have a meaning? Google ain't telling me shit. Perhaps I am simply going crazy.

I don't remember much but at first I was alarmed. Like why did my clitoris come off and did it look like a round-ish thin slice of chicken? I don't know why the...

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The most disturbing and disgusting sexual dream I’ve had

I dreamt about a girl’s instagram getting hacked (in the dream she was my friend, but in reality she’s an influencer that I don’t even care about or interact with) and the hacker posted pictures of him having intercourse with a... kid? But it wasn’t a normal kid, he was weirdly disfigured like he had some sort of condition or illness, I don’t even think he had a body, just a really big head.
“If he doesn’t have a body, then how did the Intercourse happen?”
Well, there were pictures where he (the hacker) inserted himself into the kid’s eye, nose, or ear. I remember him also inserting himself somewhere else, I think it was his throat, there was an open space since the kid had no body.
There were also pictures of the kid sleeping or close ups of his face.
In the dream I was disgusted, I never felt arousement whatsoever.
I don’t know what this dream means and it’s eating me alive ?????????

I dreamt about a girl’s instagram getting hacked (in the dream she was my friend, but in reality she’s an influencer that I don’t even care about or interact...

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Vision about being eaten alive

Idk why but I had a vision where I was in class and all of a sudden some teacher came in and said that the school was out of food and someone in the class had to be slaughtered to make some more. Then I was chosen. After being slaughtered I saw people eating lumps of meat - even my friends were eating me. This wasn't exactly a dream neither - I was just watching youtube when I suddenly had this vision. I can't stop thinking about it - what could it mean?

Idk why but I had a vision where I was in class and all of a sudden some teacher came in and said that the school was out of food and someone in the class had...

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Eagle eating blue jay?

Dreamed that everything around me looked like stained glass, and there was bright light shining through everywhere and I saw an eagle eating a blue jay. The picture froze with the blue Jay’s tail sticking out of the eagle’s mouth and then a Native American man appeared with the same image on his chest and said that this symbol was important. I was only asleep for 15 minutes as I fell asleep during a zoom lecture. I feel like this is super heavy with symbolism but I’m not familiar with any of it. Can anyone help me?

Dreamed that everything around me looked like stained glass, and there was bright light shining through everywhere and I saw an eagle eating a blue jay. The...

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Strange dream last night - chased by a giant hostile Dark Souls boss kind of worm thing. What does it mean?

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream. Sometimes it can feel like this even in first person perspective, where I am somehow disconnected from being the person, even if I am the person, not watching a screen or using a controller.

So in the dream there was this giant worm creature. It wasn’t really a worm, more wormlike, as in it was oblong and had no limbs and wasn’t reptilian enough to be a snake. First it chased me through a corridor (this was in the perspective of a 2d sidescroller video game) trying to I think eat me or at least somehow kill me and I ran from it and it would smash stuff behind me. Sometimes I was really close to being caught by it but I managed to get ahead. Then I got into a chamber place (it was more in first person now) and it was at the bottom of some stairs. When I would go down the stairs there were smaller worm things that would attack me. I felt like I was struggling with fighting the worms and I thought I was not strong or skilled enough to fight the big worm.

When I am awake and I think about the worm it reminds me most of a Dark Souls boss since it was very strong and big and it was sort of eldritch horror-like. Through the whole dream I was scared of the worm and I felt like I was not strong enough to fight it but I was progressing forward anyways. I also was fighting it in some sort of ruin, like ruined stonework everywhere and stuff. The closest I can describe the ruin as is maybe the Arbiter’s Grounds dungeon from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, but not as dark.

This dream was in what I like to call “video game perspective” - where I am watching something happen but also controlling a specific “character” in the dream....

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