For many of us, food symbolizes caring; nurturing; security. Consider the kind of food and the action you are taking with respect to it, are you eating it, feeding someone, being fed, preparing or serving a mean?. Is this typical waking behavior, or is it expressing a deficiency or need? Liquids, milk, soft or mushy foods, or being fed may symbolize a need to be a baby again; possibly a need to regress for renewal. If you have foods you especially eat during stressful times, comfort food, and they appear in your dream, it may signal that you need to take care of yourself or your inner child.Because we take in food through and speak with the mouth, food can symbolize nurturing your ability or right to self expression or the opposite, inhibiting or preventing your expression.

Food can represent an offering of unconscious energy; intellectual wisdom (food for thought); as well as have religious or traditional and familial symbolism in that a particular food is always served at certain sacred or family gathering. If you are dieting, food can symbolize temptation. Feeding an animal suggests you arenurturing or developing your unconscious instincts or a more primitive aspect of yourself. Storing food may relate to feelings of emptiness or neediness or to hoarding needs.