Food and drink
Shaped by one constraint: taste and smell are barely reported in dreams, so a food dream is a dream about a situation with food in it.
8 records
- SymbolMeatMeat is reported by its state, and the state decides everything: cooked meat is a meal and belongs with the social material, raw meat produces disgust, and a carcass produces something closer to the bones material.
- ActionDrinkingThe dream most likely in this whole file to be reporting a real bodily state. Thirst during sleep is genuine, common and readily incorporated, and the report is frequently the body rather than the mind.
- SymbolAlcoholTwo very different entries share this subject. Ordinary alcohol dreams are unremarkable. Drinking dreams in people who have stopped drinking are a recognised and well-documented phenomenon, and those deserve to be treated seriously.
- SymbolCakeSweet food is reported for the occasion around it rather than for the food, and the birthday cake is the clearest case: dreamers report the candles, the people and the singing, and rarely mention eating anything.
- SymbolMilkMilk is reported almost entirely through spoiling, and dreamers describe the discovery rather than the substance: pouring it, and finding it has turned.
- SymbolSaltOne of the few substances where taste is actually reported in dreams, which puts it in a very small group. Where it appears, dreamers usually mention tasting it, and that is unusual enough to be the finding.
- ActionCookingCooking dreams are unfinished-task dreams with an audience. The meal is not ready, there is not enough, or something burns, and people are waiting, which is what gives them their particular pressure.
- EmotionHungerLike thirst, hunger in a dream may be a real signal, and that should be ruled out first. Unlike thirst, it is reported less often, which is itself interesting given how much dream content involves food situations.