Dream of Cooking

Dreaming of cooking is considered a very positive omen symbolizing nourishing some aspect of your mind, body, and soul.

What the dreamer might not know is that cooking in a dream suggests there is something you have been preparing for in the past, but now it’s time to obtain the rewards.

An interesting aspect when we dream about cooking is the method being used to cook. In dreams, the oven is a powerful symbol that connects to the womb or motherhood. This metaphor suggests that once nourished, the dreamer will be reborn again.

There is also hidden element to whatever you cook in your dream that points to the specific area of transformation and growth.

Common Symbols in Cooking Dreams

Dreaming about cooking usually introduces other important dream components.

Cooking necessarily implies there is food in your dream also. Pay attention to the kinds of food you’re preparing, as they may have deeper meaning to you in waking life. A dream about making fruit salad may mean nothing to one person, but everything to another who connects that to specific memories and feelings.

You may even dream about groceries or grocery shopping before you begin to cook. Something more primal like hunting or fishing and cooking outside also adds a dimension of wildness and basic survival to the act of cooking.

Another symbol evoked by cooking is that of fire in your dream. There are a number of ways to cook food, but fire carries its own meanings when it appears in dreams.

Did you dream of cooking rice, vegetables, pasta or beans?

Dreaming of cooking pasta suggests you will have an increase of energy by doing something you enjoy in life. Tomato in dreams is usually connected towards good luck. The dream about tomatoes symbolizes you will step into new phase at work or in life.

To dream of eating rice is a powerful omen that is spiritually connected with new prosperity, luck, fertility, new beginnings, sharing, companionship, and success is located in your life.

If you are cooking vegetables represents good health but also you are now benefiting from your past progress. To dream of eating beans suggest new inner growth and transformation.

Cooking meat, seafood and fish dream

If you dream of cooking meat it points towards raw energy, vitality and strength in your life. Once cooked, meat in our dreams is a very positive symbol. On one hand it might suggest you are fueling the instinctive, primitive, and animal drives within yourself, or relating to internal benefits once absorbed.

Cooking seafood in a dream represents nurturing an emotional side that is still unconscious to you. When the dreamer cooks fish, this represents nourishing the spiritual side of themselves. However, eating raw fish in a dream is a negative symbol implying issues with fertility, growth, and minor annoyances.

To dream of cooking shellfish or crustaceans represents excitement, happiness, and success in your life. Oysters further symbolize prosperity and love that you’re desiring to find.

Spiritual meaning of cooking dreams

The average dreamer doesn’t understand the importance of food in dreams, but this highly symbolic image connects us with the physical, emotional strengths and hidden energies. Essentially you are fulfilling parts of yourself that are unconscious to you. But what exactly could these be?

Spiritually, cooking food in dreams reflects a healthier lifestyle, boosting your energy, stabilize the mind-body connection, and improve your stress and creative power.

Bringing a meal together with many components is a complex and intense process. Restaurant kitchens have many people preparing different items, but your dream may be only you doing the work of many people – chopping, simmering, stirring, boiling, and frying.

You might be trying to bring different aspects of your own mind into greater harmony by preparing a meal in your dream. Do you need to synthesize your own talents in real life?

Cooking also connects with family and bringing people together. In essence you are expanding your world and bringing people close to you.

To dream of someone else cooking suggests you will receive the right help from someone that will make you feel nurtured and successful. If you are just seeing cooking pots, they represent feelings about preparing food and what you put into it or fail to give of yourself. Are you withholding nourishment from yourself on any level?