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What are food dreams about?

The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about food dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with food dreams. These are the words that make food dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of food dreams can be illuminating about show food affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example food dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how food in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that food is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that food is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, food dreams have more eating and drinking than 99.1% of dream symbols, more taste than 98.7% of dream symbols, and more smelling than 89.4% of dream symbols. On the other hand, food dreams have less sleep paralysis than 76.7% of dream symbols, less fear than 76.0% of dream symbols, and less nightmares than 67.9% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of food have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, food dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of food is different than dreams of food in general.

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of dreams have food

How common are food dreams?

5.4% of dreams have the food symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 20 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is common.

Identification

How are food dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by the presence of other dream symbols such as cakes, candy, carrots, cheese, eggs, food in general, ice cream, and pizzas.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of food?

Food dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, ice, chefs, pheasants, eating, desserts, waiters, courts, snack, eating and drinking, bankruptcy than 95% of other dream symbols.

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What symbols least related to dreams of food?

Food dreams are notable because they have substantially less Somalia, Cameroon, Frodo, abscesses, Legolas, C-3PO, Princess Leia, Bangladesh, calluses, mudslides, nightmare loops than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into food dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in food dreams.

Who is in dreams of food?

Who is in dreams of food?

Food dreams are more related to animals, more related to insects, and more related to peers than dreams in general. They are less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of food?

What are the emotions in dreams of food?

Dreams of food are more related to fun than dreams in general. They are less related to grief and sorrow and less related to fear.

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Where do dreams of food take place?

Where do dreams of food take place?

Food dreams are more related to home, more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general.

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What happens in dreams of food?

What happens in dreams of food?

Dreams of food are much more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to death.

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How do dreams of food related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of food related to the type of dream it is?

Food dreams are more related to weird dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to nightmares, and less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of food related the senses?

How do dreams of food related the senses?

Food dreams 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.

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How can you make sense of food in dreams?

Food dreams are common. Among other things food dreams are focused on taste. Do you think this is true for your dream of food? How might your dream of food be different?

All dreams have meaning

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

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

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.

An interpretation of food dreams

An interpretation of food dreams

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. 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

Examples of dreams of food

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of food dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for food dreams. Read at your own risk.

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