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.