kitchen

Universal Landscape: The heart-center of the Self.

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.

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 was different from the ideal in your dream, 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 from the dream. 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 are in need of adjustments in this area.

To see a kitchen in your dream signifies your need for emotional nourishment. The kitchen is the emotional heart of the home and when you are trying to sort through your feelings you may dream of it. Kitchens are also places of experimentation and magic where you can create new dishes out of existing ingredients. Did the kitchen encourage you to linger by offering rich food for thought or was it a barren room that had no temptations or stimuli on offer? Pay attention to the condition and layout of your dream kitchen.

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.