the dreamer's condition
Dreaming of Hunger
Two traditional perspectives
These are symbolic interpretations from different traditions, not facts about your life or forecasts. Your associations may be different.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
For the striving, hunger in a dream foretold appetite rewarded, a keenness that would find its table. A hunger followed by eating was fortune arriving after effort.
To hunger amid plenty, food you cannot reach or cannot taste, warned of gains withheld, an inheritance disputed, a favor promised and unpaid.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Hunger in a dream is honest appetite, the psyche naming a lack before the mind will admit it. Notice what food appears, the dream is precise about what is missing.
A hunger nothing fills is a need being fed the wrong thing, attention where love was wanted, work where rest was. The stomach in the dream is standing in for the soul.
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