Dreaming Lens: What kitchen were you in? Did you know it, or was it foreign to you? Was it from earlier in your life? Was it your childhood kitchen? What were you doing in the kitchen? Who else was there?
Personal Focus: As the nurturing center of a house, the kitchen represents the heart and hearth of the Self. It is where the family is fed and comes together in community. It is the room where people tend to congregate during parties. It is the symbolic realm of Mother and the feminine principle as it is expressed by the family structure. Food is stored and prepared in the kitchen, so the symbolic “food for your soul” is located in the kitchen of your dreams.
Consider how your dream may be informing you of how you are responding to your own spiritual cooking. If your life experience of family, mother, and kitchen were different from the ideal, your Personal Focus must include your individual paradigm. For example, much of a family’s abusive interactions can occur in the kitchen, so such associations should be considered when interpreting a kitchen dream.
The activity in the dream will outline your current internal view around issues of nurturing, self-care, and healing. Any people who appear are key components in the process of exploration. If they are known to you, use the Character Aspect technique to integrate their qualities into your interpretation. If there were people in the dream not known to you, consider whatever you can remember about them in the Dreaming Lens. Any dream that takes place primarily in a kitchen has the capacity to offer you an overview of the status of your heart center. Use it to examine whether you are experiencing healthy levels of self-nurturance, or if you are in need of adjustments in this area. [1]
If it is cramped and cluttered, you may have taken on too many emotional problems that belong to others.
If the kitchen is bare, your life may be lacking in emotional intimacy.
Kitchen imagery often reflects the need to work through your current problems by listening to your heart and recognizing what really matters to you in your waking life. Assume that all the people and elements present in your kitchen dreams are clues to help you develop your full potential.
If you dream of the scullery, this room—used for the storage of kitchen utensils and doing messy kitchen work—could be another symbol of your mind, the storehouse of your unconscious. [2]
It is the place from which we go out into the world and to which we return. In dreams, the kitchen can often represent the mother, or rather, the mothering function.
It is the place which is usually busiest and therefore the place where many relationships are cemented, and where many exchanges take place.
2- The kitchen is a place of creation, and usually of warmth and comfort. It has therefore come to represent the nurturing aspect of woman.
3- There are folk tales in most cultures to do with the kitchen, and spiritually it represents transformation and transmutation. This is much more to do with desired transformation, rather than one which is enforced.
The rituals associated with the hearth and with fire were, and still arc, a significant part of spiritual development. Even in today’s climate of convenience foods there is the sense of work in the kitchen being an offering. [3]
See also: Baker.
Depth Psychology: The kitchen is the internal place where the Cook works the experiences of your life into a palatable whole, making them easier to digest and enjoy. [5]
The kitchen is the heart of the house.
For most families, the kitchen is a place of warmth and nourishment (emotional as well as physical). Examine the conditions of your dream kitchen and you may become aware of some emotional needs and feelings toward yourself and others.
It is the space from which we go out into the world and to which we return.
It is the place that is usually busiest and, therefore, where many relationships are cemented, and where many exchanges take place. [7]
If the kitchen was modem and/or attractive and well-kept, it predicts good news or happy social events; if it was messy, run down, or bare, it indicates that your health may be a bit under par and a medical checkup might be in order. [8]
Being in the kitchen when the light dims or goes out may comment that you have let a light in your heart go out. [9]
A man having this dream is assured of a wife who will be an excellent housekeeper and a perfect mother. [11]
For a woman to dream that her kitchen is clear. and orderly, foretells she will become the mistress of interesting fortunes. [13]
2. Serve others;
3. The place of storage;
4. Under pressure (turning up the heat);
Gen. 18:6; 27:17; Exod. 12:39; Judg. 6:19; 2 Kings 6:23. [15]
If the kitchen is clean and tidy, this dream portends harmony and understanding within the family. [16]
The food being cooked or eaten in the dream may indicate what food the dreamer’s body needs. [17]
2. Place of fulfillment and pleasure.
3. Need for more serious approach in meeting situations or problems. [18]
bare: your conduct wil estrange you with minor problems of a temporary nature.
being in your: nurture yourself first, then others.
coal stove in the: pamper your loved one; friends wil unite to back you up.
Cuisinart, using the: wish to dissect feelings and rearrange them in a new recipe
blender: family needs require greater diplomacy.
grille: time to take charge of your affairs.
cupboard, an empty: business cannot prosper without investment.
full: are emotional y starved but can’t eat enough to be sated.
fire lighted in the: wil have changes in your help to enjoy robust health.
breaks out in the: check smal appliances in the only place you have peace.
funnel, pouring liquid through a: gossip by friends is difficult to prove or justify.
other: are incorrigible in working toward your goal.
gas range being in the: a gourmet meal is an option.
get out of the: stop interfering in others’ concerns.
jars in the, a row of: wil find a pleasure in catering your friends’ social activities.
empty: precarious success may lead to impoverishment.
ladle, using a: danger through a secret revealed in news from an absent friend.
others: unhappiness through a secret exposed.
male chef preparing meals: wil receive an invitation to a dinner of congenial guests.
of a: wil be subject to unkind gossip from your own kin.
preparing a meal in the: mold your affairs into a palatable meal.
menu: confused about multiple choices and fail to meet ensuing emergencies.
others: notify others of your life before the gossip destroys it.
recipe, being given a: a successful future leaves out no ingredients.
refrigerator full of food: are being too stuck up with your neighbors.
spatula, of a wooden: wil profit through hard work; wil survive if you avoid neighbors.
untidy, dirty, an: wil receive threats from the health department.
very neat: arrival of a friend who wil appreciate your spirit of accomplishment. [31]