Food

There is food for the mind, food for thought, food for the body and spiritual nourishment. We can digest information or experience, the latter being food for our growth as an individual. Food can represent any of these. Something you might take or are taking into yourself – such as experience of a relationship – qualities of another person – sexual pleasure – social pleasure. The dream might also be a warning about health in regard to what is eaten.

Food can also indicate your hunger for warmth, love, attention – anything you are hungry for. Sometimes pain from childhood underlies the hunger. The hunger may be for understanding or experience that brings peace.

If the food is connected with another person, it may say you are carrying from the relationship with them something that nourishes you or feeds your hunger. See: Eating; Restaurant; Salad.

Idioms: Food for thought; junk food; food of the gods.

Useful questions:

What is being eaten and what do I feel about that or associate with it?

What feelings were in the dream connected with food?

What am I hungry for at the moment?

What has satisfied my needs lately?

A meal

Taking in life; absorbing something of life and the world; being enriched. If you are with others, then it might reflect something about the way you relate socially to others. It could also be a sharing of life and experience with others.

Sharing or giving a meal

Sharing or giving yourself to or with others. In the ritual of the mass, it shows the recognition of sharing life with all others – being sustained by the flow of life as substance and energy.

Something or someone eating your food

An attitude, a past trauma or worry that is eating away at your energy or well being.

Being sick from eating something

See: Vomit.

Food in connection with a particular person

Being nourished by or hungry for relationship with them; enjoyment of or desire for sexual connection with them.

Food being rejected

This can mean that the food is not good for you, that you are rejecting life in some way, or that you need particular nourishment for your personal growth.
Food for animal: Either a comment on wrong food you are eating or that you need to nourish and care for your natural urges. See: Animal.

Frequent dreams about eating

Suggesting a great hunger for something; perhaps a compensation for dieting or problems with eating.

Giving food

Giving of oneself, time, love, work, sex. Giving something that nourishes or strengthens

Stealing food

Dishonest about needs in a relationship; feelings of being parasite.