I had a strange dream last night. I received a call from R_
at my old company to come check out a new position they were offering. For some
reason, I went to the Riverside Plaza parking lot, and there was a huge glass greenhouse looking building
behind the 99. I went inside and both R_ and my old friend and co-worker G_
were there... and it appeared they were making bread.
R_ told me the position was to be a baker for the
company...strange, since it was an engineering/surveying company. They needed
500 little dinner roll sized loaves of bread every day. He showed me how they kneaded
the dough, and put it on boards or in little bread pans, but I never saw an
oven.
After R_ left, G came over and patted me on the back and
said it was nice to see me after all these years.
R_ came back told me the job paid $80k and all I needed to
do was bake the bread. I thought I might be bored, so I asked if I could cook
meals, too. "Do whatever you'd like," He said. "It's your
kitchen"
I felt excited to have my own kitchen and the opportunity to
cook for so many, but also insulted that this big company didn't even want to
utilize the professional skills that I possessed. I also realized I was taking
a pay cut. Then I woke up.
"Bread is a very basic symbol, and is common amongst many different cultures and religions. As in life, bread in dreams can represent nourishment and sustenance. If we dream of bread, this is often a symbol that something we really need is readily available to us. In waking life, the nourishment we seek may not be simply food, but may be more abstract things such as emotional support, understanding, creative outlets or even more spiritual concerns. To dream of bread may symbolize that our basic needs of love and and support are being, or about to be met.Bread in dreams can also symbolize the basic requirements we have on the material level, to be fed, clothed and sheltered. We can look for how the bread appears in the dream to understand if we are looking at life with an approach or abundance or scarcity. To dream of losing bread, of it spoiling or being stolen is a sign that we are not having our basic needs met in waking life, and we may wish to consider getting “back to basics” in taking care of ourselves.On the other hand, a dream of breaking bread with someone, of sharing bread or receiving it are all profoundly wonderful symbols that our most essential needs are being catered to. To share bread can symbolize that we have more than enough of what we need in life, and are able to give freely, for we are living with abundance. A sense of abundance does not mean that we have lots of “stuff” – possessions, money etc, but just that all of our needs are met with some to spare. Abundance is a joyous state, where we are able to give, confident that it does not meaning losing anything essential, that what we give is never truly lost, for it returns, even if in other forms. In this way, bread can symbolize the cycle of life: birth, growth, death and rebirth. Bread comes from the harvesting of wheat, so when bread appears in dreams it may indicate the completion of a certain cycle of life-stage, and the beginning of another. Receiving bread in a dream can be a symbol of your higher Self, even Spirit Guide or Divine messenger offering you a gift that will not only keep you alive, but also nourish your very soul. Whenever you are offered a gift in a dream, you should always accept it graciously, even if you do not fully understand the significance or purpose oft he gift.Bread is used in many cultures to highlight the relationship between the nourishment of the body and the nourishment of the soul. This relationship means that dreams of bread can often have a profoundly spiritual nature. But bread can symbolize procreation, and therefore creativity and growth. We use the phrase “bun in the oven” for being pregnant. If you dream of baking bread, it may symbolize a new child, new creative project or something you wish to nurture and help “rise.”Bread dreams encourage us to look at our basic needs, and where they are being met of not. Bread in dreams ask us to consider what sustains and nurtures, what helps us grow, and to return our focus to that which is essential to our physical and spiritual well being.You may also be interested in the meaning of food and eating in dreams, feasts and banquets in dreams, new clothes in dreams, being pregnant in a dream, death and dying in dreams"~https://thedreamwell.com/2013/12/09/meaning-of-bread-in-a-dream/
