What are food dreams about?
This symbol is identified by words like pizza, carrot, cake, etc.
Food in dreams is a common dream symbol, occuring in about 5.2% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams.
What are the major highlights of food dreams?
Food is a very interconnected dream symbol. Having food in a dream substantially changes the nature of the dream.
What symbols more present in dreams of food?
Food dreams are notable because they have substantially more eating, emaciation, talismans, consuming, restaurants and bars, ice, menus, Laos, shopping, meals, chicken, waiters, tyrants, verbs, chefs, taste, dinner, Guatemala, stores, service workers, desserts, kitchens, dismissals, snack, places, bags, lunch, hunger, rental cars, courts, characters, malls, ovens, money, breakfast, human places, devouring, coffee, drinking, Kuwait, Morocco, grocery stores, movement, birthdays, drunkenness, turkeys, employees, general movement, Cuba, boxes, smelling, and seeds than 95% of other dream symbols.
What symbols less present in dreams of food?
Food dreams are notable because they have substantially less recurring nightmares, seeing a dead partner, sleep paralysis, paralysis, things, food, seeing a dead mother, infidelity, recurring dreams, pregnancy tests, hit the ground, nightmares, lucid dreams, teeth falling out, devils, the night, giving birth, former partners, Egypt, grief and sorrow, trying to scream, boyfriends, menstruation, opened my eyes, seeing a dead relative, sleeping, cold sweats, raping, submarines, girlfriends, social media, bedrooms, insights, false awakening, mirror, slow motion, feelings, sex, crushes, molesting, car crashes, dream events, break ups, suicide, and grim reapers than 95% of other dream symbols.
How does the dream symbol of food affect the different aspects of a dream?
Explore different elements related to dreams of food
Who is in food dreams?
Overall, dreams with food are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of food are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to fantastic beings.
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Who is in food dreams?
Overall, dreams with food are aren't really related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of food are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.
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What happens in food dreams?
Overall, dreams with food are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of food are less related to aggressive interactions.
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How do food in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?
Overall, dreams with food are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of food are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.
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How can you make sense of food in dreams?
Food dreams are common. Among other things food dreams are very postively interconnected.
Do you think this is true for your dream of food? How might your dream of food 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 food 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 food in dreams. See how you feel about food now, in your waking life.
What are possible meanings for dreams of food?
Dreams about the condition and needs of the body are among the most common, and the symbolism can be expressed through food. But sometimes they’re straightforward representations of foods desired by the body. For example, a banana can be a phallic symbol, or a suggested food for getting more potassium in your diet.
Food in a dream can symbolize something that you consume. It can relate to diet or nutrition, but also to other things that are consumed or absorbed, like opinions, information, media, entertainment, knowledge, and facts. Food is consumed and absorbed into the body, in an association that branches out to connect with many ideas.
You consume and process emotions and feelings.
You consume information and knowledge.
You absorb experiences and learn from them, doing which in turn shapes your self-image, direction in life, values, and decisions.
The saying goes that “you are what you eat.” It means that whatever you take into yourself shapes what you are as a person. The saying is often meant as the connection between physical health and diet, but as an idea it can be used as symbolism in dreams for whatever you feed your mind and spirit. See: Eating
For example, exposure to someone who is negative or a bad influence can give you a negative outlook and influence you in bad ways, which can be symbolized as eating food that’s bad for you. Reading or watching news reports that focus on murder and death can negatively influence your outlook on society and color your perceptions. You “feed” on the negativity.
On the other hand, exposure to people who are positive and a good influence can give you a positive outlook and shape your thinking and feelings in positive ways, which can be symbolized as eating good food.
To digest something in a dream can symbolize absorbing something you take into yourself. It could relate to digesting what you eat, but dreams are known for creating physical representations of personal situations, such as when you “digest” a thought, idea, or feeling. In this sense it means “to process.” It means taking time to break down and fully absorb something.
Foods shaped in a circle, like pizza and cookies, can relate to the idea of wholeness as a person. See: Circles
Food in dreams can speak directly to nutrition and the needs of your body. You can dream about specific foods because your body is saying, “Hey, I need that.” It can speak to other needs, such as a lemon symbolizing the need for sunshine or optimism, or a steak representing the need for satisfaction or fulfillment.
For example, a man dreams that he goes with friends to dinner at a nice restaurant and orders a steak. He’s told to pay for it first. So he does and it arrives, but then he’s told to fill out a questionnaire before eating it. He does, grudgingly, and by the time he gets around to eating his steak, it’s cold. In the image of the cold steak the dream sums up a situation where the dreamer moved to “the big city” after long planning and much expense, symbolized as the questionnaire and paying ahead of time for the steak. It’s his “dream come true,” but when he gets there he finds the reality to be much different from what he imagined and he’s disappointed and left feeling cold and unfulfilled.
Eating raw meat can symbolize plunging ahead unprepared. Something isn’t ready. Or you want to get past the surface and down to the “meat.” You want it raw, unadorned. Just the facts or truth. It can mean you feel raw or used, just a piece of meat.
For people who are particular about how thoroughly their meat is cooked, raw can symbolize fear of contamination, probably in the figurative sense, such as protecting yourself from being contaminated by being associated with someone with a bad reptutation.
Spicy food can symbolize something too hot to handle, or the “spice of life,” connected with feeling passion and intensity. Consider possible physical stimuli, too, such as spicy food used to symbolize the sensation of acid reflux.
Buying food can indicate a desire to buy the attention or sympathy of other people.
Individual foods get into all sorts of associations based on color and appearance, texture, temperature, taste, and personal experience. The possibilities for symbolism it opens up are way too many to delve into here, but you can explore further by using the entries listed below.
See also: Body parts, Candy, Chefs, Chicken, Circles, Colors, Clothing, Cows, Devouring, Dinner, Eating, Eating, Eggs, Emaciation, Excrement, Fish, Fitness centers, Grocery stores, Hunger, Kitchens, Menus, Orange, Stomachs, Teeth
This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet.
Examples of dreams of food
Read some real dream reports of food 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.
You ever dream about a place that doesn’t exist but every time you remember, it’s comforting and you miss it?
For example, it’s this weird shopping mall. There’s like food court under the first floor. You go down these steps and it’s basically like a long hall with restaurants on either side. I remember going into one and honestly, I can only really draw it to describe it.
But ya, this is one place where for some reason, felt comfortable.
Or sometimes I dream of an alternate version of my parent’s house. It has more crazier things about it. For example, a river flowing by. Though the river is in a small canyon and there’s trees. Almost forested.
For example, it’s this weird shopping mall. There’s like food court under the first floor. You go down these steps and it’s basically like a long hall with...
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I ate something in my dream
Did anyone experienced eating something they never seen in irl?
and the weird part is I felt the bite and taste of it. It's really and oddly nice tasty thing
What's more weirder is I spent only an hour sleeping just afternoon nap
But in the dream im there for 2 fucking days and I only remember the food part
Did anyone experienced eating something they never seen in irl?
and the weird part is I felt the bite and taste of it. It's really and oddly nice tasty...
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I dreamed I was in love, and woke up with a part of me missing.
I have a co-worker who I get along with extremely well. He is handsome, funny, kind and smart. During our shifts together, we text non-stop when we’re not able to talk, we text outside of work and have great conversations. I’ve never told him how I felt, but I like him.. a lot. Anyways, I had this dream a couple weeks ago. It was him and I, feeding each other food and drinking wine. We were cuddled up on the couch and he gave me a kiss on the forehead, we looked at each other and our eyes met. It felt like the kind of love you see in movies. Nothing else mattered but us at that point in time. The dream jumped to us laying in bed, looking out the window at the sunset with him rubbing my arm and my head burrowed in his chest. But this time when I went to look up at him, I woke up. I immediately realized it was a dream and my heart broke. I haven’t been able to look at him the same because I don’t think he likes me back. My heart aches because I realized if he told me he liked me and wanted to be in a relationship with me, I don’t think I could ever be unhappy again. He makes my stomach flutter and my hands shake. I wish I had the courage to tell him how I feel.
I have a co-worker who I get along with extremely well. He is handsome, funny, kind and smart. During our shifts together, we text non-stop when we’re not able...
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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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I dreamt about the real world
It was as if I had seen the real world, not the one that we are in but, a dystopian place where people who consciously dream are locked away for fear of finding the real world. I escaped from the prison to eat my favourite food, chicken schnitzel, due to the fact that in the prison you barely got to eat and a lady (That I knew was guarding the real world trying to catch dreamers) spoke to me and asked me if I was ok, I stared blankly at her, she replied with "Oh good I almost thought you were conscious" with a sinister smile. I heard speak of someone once I had left the restaurant talk about words that would unlock the gates to the prison and let the conscious dreamers be free, I found other dreamers, fell in love and walked amongst the rooftops of cities and through streets for what felt like days. I found myself reaching a pinnacle of a grand tower, that stood above the city and the code words that would set the dreamers free, I returned to the prison, near the restaurant that I had broken into, the same lady spoke to me she was angry with what I had done, that I would let people know of the real world and with the words of power, I let out all the people into the real world and woke up.
It was as if I had seen the real world, not the one that we are in but, a dystopian place where people who consciously dream are locked away for fear of finding...
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