Background

What are meal dreams about?

Meals are prepared food. There are generally three meals of the day which are breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Meals can be very social. Sharing a meal is a chance to spend time with people. Meals can also feel lonely if you are eating alone. 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 meal dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how meals in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that meal is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that meal is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, meal dreams have more eating and drinking than 98.6% of dream symbols, more schools than 94.9% of dream symbols, and more taste than 94.4% of dream symbols. On the other hand, meal dreams have less fantastic beings than 80.4% of dream symbols, less death than 76.4% of dream symbols, and less fear than 73.1% of dream symbols. Notably, dreams of meals are family oriented. They are more related to family than 90% of all other symbols. In other words, dreaming of meals will increase your chances of dreaming of a family member. Dreams help us to process our emotions and social relationships. In a certain lens, you can think of dreams as simulations of the world. This can be especially helpful for our relationships with family. Also, dreams of meals have more words related to taste than 90% of all other dream symbols. In other words, meal dreams involve the perceptions of taste. Taste is a chemical sense. We taste things through interacting and touching the object we are tasting. Finally, meal dreams are about work! Working is a part of life, so it makes sense that we dream about it. Work dreams can be stressful. They can be good. 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 meals is different than dreams of meals in general.

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of dreams have meals

How common are meal dreams?

2.8% of dreams have the meals symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 35 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively common.

Identification

How are meal dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by the presence of other dream symbols such as breakfast, desserts, dinner, lunch, and snack.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of meals?

Meals dreams are notable because they have substantially more Kuwait, verbs, mudslides, waiters, Han Solo, eating, Bilbo Baggins, Aquaman, butlers, baboons, Laos than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of meals?

Meals dreams are notable because they have substantially less Lebanon, Cyprus, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guatemala, Haiti, Yoda, Legolas, ovations than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into meal dreams

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

Who is in dreams of meals?

Who is in dreams of meals?

Meal dreams are more related to unnamed people, much more related to peers, and much more related to family than dreams in general. They are less related to animals and less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of meals?

What are the emotions in dreams of meals?

Meal dreams are more related to happiness, more related to sadness, and more related to embarrassment than dreams in general. They are less related to fear and less related to pain.

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Where do dreams of meals take place?

Where do dreams of meals take place?

Meal dreams are much more related to home, much more related to work, and more related to human-made places than dreams in general. They are less related to natural places.

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What happens in dreams of meals?

What happens in dreams of meals?

Meal dreams are more related to sex and much more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to disasters, and less related to death.

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

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

Dreams of meals are less related to nightmares and less related to recurring dreams.

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How do dreams of meals related the senses?

How do dreams of meals related the senses?

Dreams of meals are more related to smelling and much more related to taste than dreams in general.

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How can you make sense of meals in dreams?

Meal dreams are relatively common. Among other things meal dreams are family oriented, focused on taste, and work dreams. Do you think this is true for your dream of meals? How might your dream of meals 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 meals 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 meals in dreams. See how you feel about meals now, in your waking life.

Examples of dreams of meals

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 meal 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 meal dreams. Read at your own risk.

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