Eating
Eating often touches nourishment and the company in which we take it — alone, it can shade toward melancholy; shared, toward gain and warmth. The dream may ask whom you're breaking bread with, whether the table around you feels cheerful or solitary, and what hunger, of body or of belonging, is asking to be fed.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for eating, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of eating alone, signifies loss and melancholy spirits. To eat with others, denotes personal gain, cheerful environments and prosperous undertakings.
If your daughter carries away the platter of meat before you are done eating, it foretells that you will have trouble and vexation from those beneath you or dependent upon you. The same would apply to a waiter or waitress.
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Fontaine, 1862
If you dream of eating a good meal with a relish, it foretells good crops to a farmer, and successful business to any one.
Anonymous, 1894
Eating.—To dream you are eating is a very unfavorable omen; it portends disunion amongst your family, losses in trade, and disappointment in love. To see others eating is of a contrary tendency, and foretells success in all your present enterprises; that your sweetheart is kind and faithful, and if you marry the present object of your affections that you will grow rich, be happy and have dutiful children.