When you are eating some kind of the meal in your dream, then such dream signifies the hunger for love, affection or sympathy. The dream could also foretell about your actual hunger, because you went to bed with an empty stomach. For some people the very low blood sugar is being felt during the sleep. The lunch in dreams could also represent the fact that you are trying to eat your problems, because some people when they feel stressful, they eat lots of food. The dream in which you are preparing the lunch for other people shows the welcoming personality you have and tend to look after the others.

…Having lunch in a dream means taking a brake out of exhaustion from one’s work. (Also see Invitation)…

It reveals dissatisfaction due to mental, emotional or professional reasons. If we dream we eat something we do not like, it portends we will face something unpleasant. The meaning also depends on if we are chewing or swallowing. Eating with some company reveals friendship and affinity with others. Eating alone means sadness and depression. If we eat natural and simple foods means that we are taking advantage of life experiences. If we eat sweets, it means we have positive emotional experiences. If the dream informs us about the price, or we steal candy, it reveals an excess of sentimentality.

…An invitation to lunch or dinner in a dream means taking a long journey. If in the mid-afternoon, it signifies a rest or taking a break from a troubling job. If it is an invitation to dinner in the dream, it means betraying someone under the cover of darkness. If one sees himself planning to invite people to a lunch or to dinner in a dream, it means that he wants to do business with them, or perhaps enter their circles. Consequently, he will be blamed for interfering or entering such a venture. If one sees himself hosting a dinner at his house, and the guests have finished eating in the dream, it means that he will preside over them. If a sick person sees such an invitation at his house in a dream, it means that he will recover from his illness. Serving food to guests in a…

…(Dining table) A dining table with its food ready to serve in a dream means blessings, accepting an invitation to dinner or lunch, financial comfort, status and winning victory over one’s enemy. In this case, one’s enemy is hunger. The food placed on the table represents a booty. Clearing the dinner table in a dream means cessation of comfort and blessings. The dinning table of one’s house in a dream represents his livelihood and sustenance, an important project that requires the help of many people, or a great person who is gracious, true and generous. Sitting on such a table in a dream means joining the company of such great man. If the dining table is topped with clean food and fresh bread in the dream, it means love between friends and brethren. To have little food and some bread on the table in a dream means lack of…

…(Man’s food | Dinner | Digesting food | Invitation | Lunch) Food which is placed on a ceramic plate or on a clay plate in a dream represents lawful earnings. If food is served on a forbidden golden or silver platter in the dream, it represents unlawful money, extensive debts, eating and chewing one’s food with desire and gluttony. Swallowing what one is chewing means debts or collectors demanding their money. Eating with the right hand in a dream means success. Eating with the left hand in a dream means falling in the trap of one’s enemy and displeasing one’s friends. Eating from someone else’s hand in a dream means good absti- nence and trusting in God Almighty as one’s sole sustainer. Eating from someone else’s hand in a dream also can be interpreted as a sickness or inability to eat with one’s own hand. Eating sweets in a…