CUTLERY

As food is associated with emotion, a dream of eating with cutlery that is old, rusty or inadequate or wrongly used (for example, trying to eat soup with a fork) may suggest you are attempting to satisfy your emotions in an inappropriate way. If, in your dream, the spoons, knives and forks are shiny and glittering, this could indicate a contented home life. Forks are often associated with social interaction and they may indicate a future event you are looking forward to. They may also suggest trying to get to the root of problems. A rusty or twisted knife in a dream can indicate relationship or family problems.

If both a knife and a fork appear in your dream, they may represent the masculine and feminine elements of your personality, and how you express and balance the two in waking life.

If a spoon appeared in your dream and you saw a distorted picture of yourself reflected in it, this suggests a distorted view of yourself.

If you were eating or drinking anything from the spoon in your dreams, this may relate to someone, or something, in waking life that you want to protect.

If the spoon contains medicine, there may be an unpleasant lesson for you to learn, or swallow, in waking life.

Using cutlery that is inappropriate (such as eating soup with a fork), may indicate one is behaving wrongly when it comes to emotion.