What does it mean to dream about food? |

Dreaming about food can indicate, among other things, that we are eating the content that the unconscious wants to make us aware of and wants us to express in our daily lives.

In the book “O Caminho dos Sonhos”, by the German psychotherapist Marie-Louise von Franz, there is the following sentence: “Whenever we understand a dream properly, we feel nourished.”

Check out more details below to better understand what you dreamed of.

Reflect on the context of dreaming about food

Are you stuffing yourself with certain foods?
Or do you fast and avoid eating?
Is the food spoiled or very beautiful, attractive, but artificial?
How are you digesting the food?
Do you feel bad or feel good right after ingesting it or after a while?
Does anyone offer you food?
Are you preparing food or cooking?

Reflect on what the unconscious may be signaling when dreaming about food

Pay close attention to the thoughts, activities, and feelings that are nurturing you or not.
Are you very dissatisfied and feel forced to be a certain way?
Have you developed new behavioral habits?
Is it throwing away, that is, avoiding certain attitudes, relationships, and environments? Are you really missing all of this or do you feel free, clean and with more quality of life?
What have you been accepting of praise, criticism? How have you reacted to what they offer you? Passively accept, swallow frog or question, disagree and negotiate?
Have you dedicated yourself more to understanding the messages of your dreams and has this done you good in your day-to-day life?

Understand possible applications of dreaming about food:

dream that you are cooking

If you cook in your dream, you may be preparing to experiment in real life, such as expressing yourself in a new and more conscious way, in order to feel more energetic and satisfied. The kitchen is a place associated with the alchemy of going through a process of change and the development of new habits that will constitute its identity.

Dreaming of eating uncontrollably

If you eat in an uncontrolled way, be careful of what is in excess in your thoughts, feelings and behavior. It could be some addiction, such as thinking stubbornly about some person or ambition, being overcome by jealousy, or acting in a way that is often critical, pessimistic, and delusional.

Dreaming that you are not eating

And if you’re fasting or avoiding food, it’s worth identifying if what a certain food represents is something you really need to avoid. If it proves to be a bad, negative, self-destructive attitude, it will be worth making the sacrifice (symbolized by fasting) of not acting like that anymore (no longer eating that food shown in the dream).

Dreaming that the food is spoiled or artificial

If the food is spoiled or it is very beautiful and attractive, but it is artificial, try to find out what it is representing in terms of behavior and do not let yourself be led to feed on that emotional or behavioral state that only makes you feel bad.

Dreaming about your own reaction to what you eat

Your reaction to what you eat (you vomit, think it’s bad or feel good) can show what deserves to be part of your personality and what no longer has to do with you.

To dream that someone offers you food

If someone offers you food, it will be essential to know what that person’s attitudes or lifestyle mean to you. That way, you’ll know if you should really accept bringing them to you.

Different foods have specific meanings

In fact, essentially, dreaming of food – whatever it may be – is indicating that we are “ingesting” something external. In other words, this dream indicates that we are uniting with the symbolism of the specific food we eat, that it is being “absorbed” by us, that is, we are somehow incorporating it into our personality.

need for satiation

Not by chance, human history has always recorded animal sacrifices and offerings, or even great commemorative banquets. All this food represents the need to “bring us” something that we feel is necessary to accomplish a certain task, enter a new phase or act in a certain way.

This food to be ingested will serve to quench, feed, nourish, even fortify us. Finally, it will aim to generate an effect on us and on our lives, an effect that will depend a lot on what each food means and how we are going to process it.

Our experts

– Yubertson Miranda, graduated in Philosophy from PUC-MG, is a symbologist, numerologist, astrologer and tarot reader.

– Thaís Khoury holds a degree in Psychology from Universidade Paulista, with a postgraduate degree in Analytical Psychology. She uses dream interpretation, calatonia and creative expression in her sessions.