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Dreaming Lens: What type of restaurant were you in? What meal were you eating or intending to eat? Were you well-served? Was the food palatable? Who were you dining with?

Personal Focus: Any establishment that concerns itself with food connects to nurturance. This especially applies to a restaurant, as the ritual of being waited on and served is also a form of self-care. The expense of eating out is always going to be higher than the expense of preparing something at home. The cost factor adds the color of celebrating abundance to the meaning of this symbol. If the Dreaming Lens focus was more negative, it could be indicating feelings of lack in this area of your life.

Waiters are responsible for the tempo and structure of your dining experience. Ideally they are informative, pleasant, and efficient. In this way, they are a Character Aspect of the organization and control that surrounds your issues of nurturance and self-care. The service you receive in your dream restaurant will inform you of how effectively you are managing the constant flow of meeting your needs in life. Ask yourself if you are happy with the service you provide yourself with each day.

The quality of your meal connects with both abundance and the ability to discern excellence. Responsible for this element is the chef, the unseen heart and soul of a restaurant. The chef also represents the creative power within your psyche. A fine meal could reveal that you are indeed being careful to ensure that your life provides for your needs in a way that reflects a consciousness of deserving abundance. However, a dream in which you are served unacceptable food indicates that there is something out of balance in this area. If the dream includes something as severe as food poisoning, you may want to examine your attitudes more closely.

The atmosphere and ambiance, or lack thereof, can be thought of as reflecting your sense of values and what you are attached to in life. There is nothing wrong with demanding and expecting luxury, especially if it is readily available to you. However, any visceral reactions to the setting of your dream restaurant may offer you insight into how your current value system is impacting you on an unconscious level. If the dream centered on issues connecting with the mood, setting, or attitude of the restaurant staff, you can use this information to inform you of any imbalance you may be expressing from your waking life.

The company you were keeping in such a dream can offer a wealth of additional items for consideration. Treat each person as a Character Aspect. Their qualities will inform your choices around receiving abundance, and also your commitment, or lack of commitment, to taking care of yourself.

If the person you were dining with is someone you know, this suggests your desire to get closer to them, sexually, emotionally or intellectually. Further clues are hidden in the dream scenario. What kind of food were you eating? If you were eating oysters and sucking fruit, this may denote a desire for a sexual relationship but if you felt your tongue tingle in your mouth, this may suggest a need for verbal or intellectual stimulation.

Your dream dining experience will reveal not only the quality of your physical diet, but also the kinds of beliefs, behavior and attitudes with which you fill your life. What kind of restaurant are you in? Is it humble, exotic, shabby or expensive? Have you chosen to eat in a down-to-earth cafeteria, canteen or café? Or have you decided to eat on the go and grab a takeaway because you are in a hurry? What is the service like in the restaurant and is the quality of the food good? All this will speak volumes about the way you live your life at the current time.

Being turned away from a restaurant suggests frustration and disappointment, as well as a sense of social isolation. To dream that someone clears away the food before you have finished eating indicates problems and issues concerning those who may be dependent upon you in some way.

If you see yourself in the role of a waiter or waitress, the quality of service you provide may express concern about the way you relate to people outside your family circle; you may have a tendency, for example, of being overfamiliar, efficient, clumsy or polite.

If you see yourself in the role of restaurant critic, this will usually symbolize yourself criticizing the quality of what you fill your life with. To dream of studying the menu could indicate various options in waking life. Were you confused or decisive in your dream menu choice, as this may refer to your waking attitude to a decision you need to make?

The expense of eating out is always going to be higher than that associated with preparing something at home.

The quality of your meal connects with both abundance and the ability to discern excellence.

A fine meal could reveal that you are indeed being careful to ensure that your life provides for your needs in a way that reflects a consciousness of deserving abundance. However, a dream in which you are served unacceptable food indicates that there is something out of balance in this area.

If the dream includes something as severe as food poisoning, you may want to examine your attitudes more closely.