What Does It Mean to Dream About Eating?

To dream of eating represents feelings about how you are "taking in" of an experience that sustains you, strengthens you, or helps you cope. Consider what you are eating for additional symbolism.

Eating something that was once alive usually represents the opposite of the symbol. For example, eating chicken may represent confidence because a living chicken represents cowardice.

Positively, eating may reflect feelings of satisfaction or contentment with the type of life experience you are having that is sustaining you. Replenishing yourself with strength during a demanding or uncertain time.

Negatively, eating may represent overconsumption of an experience. Desperation impulsiveness to sustain yourself to get through a situation. Greedily sustaining yourself that doesn't think of other people's feelings. Sustaining yourself in a manner with something that you wish you hadn�t. Feeling of being forced to sustain yourself in a manner that you don't really like or feel is dishonest.

To dream of eating too much food may represent feelings of having overindulged in a situation or experience beyond what is healthy or manageable. Too much of a good thing. Being excessive or lacking in self-control.

To dream of being eaten may reflect feelings about a slow humiliating defeat that sustains your competition or enemies. Feeling powerless to avoid defeat. Feelings of never mattering again while in the presence of someone more powerful than you are. Feeling that being defeated was too easy. Disillusionment with something that gave you hope or a sense of security. Feeling that you are being overtaken by something more aggressive or more powerful than you are.

To dream of eating food that tastes bad may reflect feelings about sustaining yourself that is unpleasant or disappointing. Enduring a situation to please someone else or a dislike of having to behave out of your normal character.

To dream of eating rotting food may reflect feelings about experiencing sustaining yourself or enduring a situation that feels spoiled or wasted.

To dream of something bigger eating something smaller may represent feelings about a more powerful force consuming, overwhelming, or dominating a weaker aspect of your life. Feelings about yourself or some area of your life being overcome by power. Something minor, vulnerable, or undeveloped is being overshadowed or absorbed by something much stronger. Fears of being overpowered, losing control, or watching a small opportunity, idea, or part of yourself be "swallowed up." Taking advantage of people or situations with less power than you.

Example: A man dreamed of eating chicken. In waking life, he was feeling very confident after having overcome a fear that had originally made him feel like a coward for fearing. In this case, the eating may have reflected how he was enjoying or "taking in" the experience of no longer behaving like a coward in order to cope with his cowardice.

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If you are eating food you are nourishing the soul, it becomes a symbol of energy and grounding. The type of food will be metaphoric to what you are fulfilling inside you. Receiving or giving food becomes spiritual and emotional nourishment that you give or take in your life. However, if you suffer from a weigh problem it might reflect a health issue.