My last blog reflected on a kitchen as an important place in our hearts and homes. Now it is your turn to share your thoughts…have you ever had a dream about a kitchen or food? Do you wonder what your dream was about? What do you think your dream meant?Please comment! Tell what you have dreamed regarding a kitchen, activity in a kitchen, eating, or any particular type of food. Go wild, have fun, share your dreams, nothing is too weird to post. Read my kitchen blog to get your creative juices flowing if that would help.
Let’s brainstorm together. Share with us if you dreamed it and are curious, you don’t know the answer. We can ‘process’ your dream elements, ‘chew’ on them together, ‘serve up’ inspiration, ‘dish out’ some possible answers…
Relish and mustard the strength to ketchup with each other on this egg-citing subject. Lettuce milk it for all that it is worth. Each responder gets a 'brownie point'. Easy as pie!
Kitchen Dreams
A kitchen is a place of transformation. One takes something raw and unfinished, selects just the right ingredients and nothing else, and creatively labors to transform these individual and raw materials into something that can be taken in by the body and used as nourishment. A good metaphor for what we do in our lifetime - taking the raw material our life hands us and creating something marvelous and nourishing.
Delicious!
What a great thought--that wherever we live, wherever we go, we have the ability to do just that--transform what we have been given--into something nourishing for ourselves and others! Whether it is physically, emotionally, spiritually...a kitchen is indeed a place where we can SERVE from the abundance of our hearts.
The process of eating represents all that we 'take in' and 'digest'--beliefs, teachings, opinions, etc. Some of it is good for us and some things, not so much.
Elements in the kitchen, like ovens, sinks, fridges, represent different 'tools' that we have at our 'disposal'--to help us in our serving tasks. We can clean our 'stuff' up, let it marinate or 'stew' or 'cool down' for awhile, so that nothing we 'dish out' is only 'half-baked'.
Kitchen Dreams
The dream: I look at a house I want to buy - the widow who owns it is having trouble selling because her husband committed suicide in the house. The house is beautiful, two stories, green wooden floors, open design. I don’t think I can afford it but I ask the young, beautiful widow the price and she says $103,000. Then I ask how many square feet and she says 1300. I am surprised; it seems much bigger and more expensive-looking. I walk into the kitchen to look at the oven. It is very unusual with an old-fashioned stove well and a warming oven with big glass doors. A little girl comes into the kitchen – there is something magical about her. She tells me she likes to cook. I ask her what she cooks and am impressed because it is something complex that I don't understand. Then I walk outside and notice a dirt path behind the house that leads into a grove of trees. The widow tells me the trees are from Paradise. The trees she means are five fig trees in a row at the beginning of the path. The trees are very big with large leaves and large figs and large white flowers. The little girl leads me down the path to a wedding reception in a garden below. All the guests are feasting. “N” [an old flame I reluctantly left under difficult circumstances 30 years ago and have not seen since] is there with his girlfriend. I want very much to speak to him but feel it would be inappropriate since I did not marry him but chose someone else. I’m a bit puzzled - whose wedding reception am I attending? I speak to many people and it slowly dawns on me that it is my wedding reception but I don’t know who the bridegroom is. I walk to the table where the wedding cake is and receive a helping of concrete with fruit sauce on it. I feel that I am eating too much. As I eat “N” and his girlfriend get up to leave. I notice for the first time another guest - a man who had been one of the people who shaped the early Bible. I am amazed.
What I think it means: Something about a longing for the bridegroom Christ. Since having this dream, I've dreamt many times about "N" and I being at a wedding reception but I don't know who the bridegroom is. Perhaps my psyche chooses this particular man as an image/symbol because he wanted to marry me but I chose someone else. He is very wealthy and generous but I have nothing more to do with him. There are obvious parallels to Christ here but ... I still don't really get it, especially because the dream keeps repeating itself and meanwhile I wonder a lot about the real "N", what he's like and how he is doing.
Re: Kitchen Dreams
the little girl is very intriguing to me. I can't help but think that she represents something "Real" and "creative" that is a contrast to what is happening outside (a longlost flame and a slab of concrete). I don't think she has any involvement with the feast (or does she?). she seems in a world of her own (the kitchen) with a mission of her own (her complex dish). she is lost in transcendence. I like this. so one possible meaning of this dream is that God would like to bring us back to a childhood aspect of imagination and seeking the mysteries/unknown of His heart. my dad pointed out to me recently that children will often begin asking "why?" questions before they can fully understand the explanation from an adult. they perceive the problem before they can understand the answer. it is the same way with us and God...we perceive a problem before we can arrive at a solution. yet somehow this child can both perceive a problem and a solution (what to cook and how to cook it). she isn't seeking your help. she already knows. perhaps this is your spirit. the Scriptures say that no eye has seen, no hear has heard, no mind has conceived, what God has "prepared" for those who love Him, BUT HE has revealed these things to us by His Spirit.
so somehow we can tap into our Spirit man's (or child's) knowledge and receive solutions for our current dilemmas. I wish I knew more about how to do this, I am learning myself. I know practicing His Presence is a must.
love,
Matthew
Kitchen Dreams
Matthew, what a beautiful commentary on my dream. This dream and its sequels have been haunting my thoughts since I had it nearly two years ago. You offered me wonderful insights that I hadn't had before. I love your description of children's curiosity and imagination and their relation to the mystery that is at the heart of my relationship to God. Your comment about what is inside as opposed to what is outside is also thought-provoking. And your comments about Spirit and Presence - wow.
With gratitude,
Nancy
Ok, I'll 'bite'...a little.
Ok, I'll 'bite'...a little. Aside from the possible larger meaning of the dream, what might the kitchen in this dream represent? What about the unique oven? What are ovens designed to do? Who is the girl who cooks so well in this kitchen?
There is feasting going on in this dream also--I like feasts! But, 'a helping of concrete with fruit sauce on it' doesn't sound like a positive thing...does it?
Put on your metaphorical thinking caps and let's do some brainstorming together...thanks, y'all!
I want to comment, but I
I want to comment, but I can't think of a dream that had to do with a kitchen, or even about food for that matter, unless its a dream while I am fasting that I forget and eat :)
Probably not worth a brownie point, but what can a kitchen mean?
Thanks for commenting!
Thanks for commenting! I'm hoping others will eventually join in and give input, but if they don't in a day or two, I will write more ...brownie point for you!