Hunger: When you feel hungry are, a plate in the dream represent your physical needs and express your desire for food, expresses carelessness in dress and manner. Saturation: When you are full, a plate in the dream show your satisfaction of having completed a task or achieved a goal, represents an outdated way of doing something. Sharing: A plate also have a social component and indicate that you have a need to share time with other people, stands for a situation or a person who may not be worth your time. Creativity: A plate is a useful item , to serve food, but it also serve as a canvas for artwork, also this dream about your solid stance on an argument. Maybe this dream expresses your creativity and your ability to express things in a visual way, your worries over a certain matter will soon be swept away. Guilt or incompleteness: If you see an empty plate in your dream, it indicate that you are missing something or that you are missing something, symbolises honesty, loyalty and chivalry. This relate to emotional, spiritual or material needs, denotes something in your own inner nature that is pure, vulnerable, helpless and uncorrupted.
It is important to note that dream interpretation does not always provide a clear and unambiguous answer, a portent for disruption and chaos. However, if you identify and interpret your own thoughts and emotions in the dream, you better understand what your subconscious is trying to express, refers to your flightiness.
Generally, dreaming of plates associated with your social life, emotions, desires, and spirituality, indicates a strong, physical energy.
Clean Plate: A clean plate in a dream represents purity, satisfaction, good vibes, and new beginnings, means your feelings of your struggles with some situation. This indicate that you are starting over in your life, and you are ready to embrace a fresh start, an indication for your need to be more affectionate. Dirty Plate: A dirty plate in a dream represents messiness, conflicts, and negativity in your life, a premonition for qualities that you need to accept or incorporate into your own self. This suggest that you are dealing with a lot of chaos and confusion, and you need to clean up your act to move forward in your life, an indication for a dominant female in your life. Broken Plate: A broken plate in a dream represents disharmony, disappointment, and shattered dreams, points to something or someone that your value or treasure. This indicate that something in your life is not working out as planned, and you need to reassess your goals and values to find a resolution, hints feelings of guilt, eternal punishment and damnation.
Christianity: In Christianity, plates have symbolic meanings linked to the Last Supper and the body of Christ, a hint for discovery of something that you have repressed or stored in the subconscious. Islam: In Islam, plates have a symbolic value in relation to offering hospitality, generosity, and kindness, a hint for unfinished/unresolved issues related to a specific relationship. Hinduism: In Hinduism, plates are associated with offering food to deities and ancestors, states your readiness for change.
Western Culture: In western culture, plates are linked to social customs, etiquette, and culinary traditions, hints something may have started as minor has now become a huge problem. Dreaming of a plate in western society signify social gatherings, dining experiences, and social rules and norms, expresses a lack of happiness in your life. Eastern Culture: In eastern culture, plates represent cultural traditions, spiritual rituals, and hospitality, indicates the various stages in your life. Dreaming of a plate in eastern society signify ancient customs, tea ceremonies, and cultural values, symbolises your talents, inner ability.
It a sign that you need to take a break and relax to reduce your stress, a sign for your daily life where you feel that you are always in a rush. Satisfaction: On the other hand, if you dream of a plate when you feel content and happy, this indicate that you are satisfied with your life and current circumstances, sadly a warning signal for a situation where you feel powerless and frustrated. You experiencing a sense of fulfillment, and you feel grateful for what you have, a metaphor for your devotion to your spouse or partner. Hunger: Dreaming of a plate when you feel hungry represent your physical needs and desires, signals a past secret that is still haunting you. It suggest that you need to take care of yourself and nourish your body to sustain your energy levels, denotes the human soul, inner beauty, perfection, purity and chastity.
Here are some suggestions that help you understand your dream better: , points at imitation.
Reflect on your emotions and feelings in the dream, an omen for a difficult decision between two choices. Examine your daily life and see if there are any relevant connections, a metaphor for your ability to control you animalistic rages and anger. Take actions and make decisions based on the interpretation that resonates with you, energy, power and vigor.
Trust your instincts and intuition, and use your dream insights as a source of guidance and inspiration to enhance your well-being and growth, a sign for meditation and prayer.
In general, plates are associated with food, nourishment, and sustenance, represents past in your life. Dreaming of plates represent a sense of abundance or lack in one's life, refers to the consequences of the decisions you have made. It also represent one's desire to be taken care of or to take care of others, a premonition for a release of emotions.
If you dream of a plate full of food, it represent your satisfaction with your current situation or your desire to have more in your life, stands for your ability to manipulate some situation or relationship. It also represent your physical hunger and your need to nourish your body, represents your openness toward a particular situation.
If you dream of an empty plate, it signify your feelings of emptiness or dissatisfaction with your current situation, indicates a release or exposure of some tension and pressure. It also represent a lack of fulfillment in your life, such as in your career or personal relationships, points at respect and humility.
If you dream of breaking a plate, it represent your fear of losing something or making a mistake, points to a sinister or painful secret you are keeping. It also represent a release of anger or frustration, denotes the cycle of life.
If you dream of a plate being offered to you, it signify someone offering you an opportunity or help, suggests summertime ease, leisure and relaxation. Alternatively, it represent your desire for attention or recognition from others, points at the end of a pause before the beginning of a new endeavor.
If food on plate: what one has a sense of ownership about; what one has received or hopes to receive from others, or from one’s own efforts, what you have created and now face. Communal plate: what is available to you but you may have to compete for or share—in work, relationship, life. Empty plate: one’s needs, appetites; receptivity; perhaps status, as in the past only the rich had plates. Idioms: handed to one on a plate; on one’s plate.
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A simple plate will indicate a need for simplicity within our lives, whereas a more ornate one may suggest the need for celebration.
If we are holding the plate, we are aware of what we have received from other people.
If someone else is giving us the plate they are offering us something which belongs to them, but which we can now share.
2- The plate as a container is an important image.
If it is more bowl-shaped, it will represent what belongs to the feminine; if flat it will suggest some kind of group ownership.
An empty plate signifies one’s self-involved needs and appetites, whereas a communal plate highlights what there is to share.
The pattern and colour of the plate may be important (see Pattern in Shapes and Colour).
3- Formerly, plates were often only owned by the rich. Spiritually, to own a plate suggests that we have achieved a certain level of awareness.
If the dish is full of foods, it represents the food that is within you (tenderness, solidarity, etc.); however, if the plate is empty, you must find a way to fill it.
If you are washing a stack of dishes, the dream may suggest certain boredom and monotony. Dreaming that you break plates is, however, a mechanism of the unconscious to discharge accumulated tension and provide some peace and quiet.
Dreaming of plates is an excellent omen of health and wealth. You will never fail to have a plate on the table.
A plate full of food: you can count on the successful completion of your plans and project.
An empty plate: misfortune. Breaking a plate: difficult days and worries are ahead.
A silver plate means that you will take part in a formal, sophisticated event or receive an invitation to one.
Depth Psychology: A plate represents your responsibilities and your desires and needs. What do you have on your plate? Is the plate full or empty? Are you eating from the plate? See Cup.
3. Domestic disharmony, arguments (to break a plate or see broken plates).
4. A period of “famine”—likely social, sometimes emotional (an empty plate).
If the plate is overly full, it could be alluding to the expression about being overly busy, having a “full plate.”
If the plates are empty but very beautiful, they predict luck in love affairs.
If they are empty and dull, they symbolize a boring period of your life. Broken, damaged, or dirty plates foretell family quarrels or domestic problems.
If already married, she will retain her husband’s love and respect by the wise ordering of his household.
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2. Word play I have enough on my plate; Ps. 73:25-26
A plate in a woman’s dream represents the best man in her circles.
If a man sees a plate in his dream, it represents the most respected woman in his circles.
If one sees a covered plate being taken out of the room of a sick person, the contents represent the cause of his illness.