Crab in the kitchen dream
I’m trying to catch a cockroach at night in our kitchen (our real life kitchen). It’s actually a crab. Its sort of on top of a grocery plastic bag on the counter. I have a bunch of paper towels in my hand and I quickly put them over the top of it and try to pull up the plastic bag around it. I don’t see it and wonder if I caught it.
Here are some symbol interpretations off the web:
KITCHEN: A place of transformation where you can change parts of your nature. It also links with how well you provide for yourself or neglect your body needs. The kitchen is a place of warmth and nourishment (emotional as well as physical).
CRAB: There may be too much dependence, clinging and forcefulness in your life. The crab may also symbolize your inability to effectively move forward and address your own difficulties. (Remember the crab often moves sideways or backwards.)
To see a crab in your dream, signifies you perseverance and tenacity. On an extreme note, you maybe be too clingy and dependent and hanging on to a hopeless endeavor.
This is what I think God is trying to tell me through this dream:
Cockroaches are something I definitely fight against having in the kitchen and it’s been a endless battle. There is something that is bugging me and is an endless battle like trying to catch the cockroaches in the kitchen. Something I’m depending on and clinging onto for emotional nourishment? Usually when I have kitchen dreams it’s not in my real kitchen so I think this one has a literal meaning in addition to a symbolic one. It’s about what I eat.
I keep moving backwards and sideways when it comes to overeating and not eating sugar. I’m not overweight but overeating is obviously the sin of gluttony and the doc says I’m pre-diabetic so too much glucose is also a no-no. I’m hanging onto a hopeless behavior and neglecting my bodies needs. I can control it (or maybe think I can) by what I put in the grocery bag (at the grocery store). Basically, I need God’s transformation in this part of my life.
April 5th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Aloha!
I wanted to tell you why this dream is especially interesting to me to read:
1. I received nice surprise this monring; a 1st reply from you at work in my e-mail based on an consumer’s postiive review I wrote you about a book you authored, and this blog entry is the 1st of yours I read
2. Last night I, myself, had many disturbing dreams and disrupted sleep due to it; some about Hawaii and some about other elements
3. In the past I studied a method by Gayle Delaney (http://www.gdelaney.com/) having read her books and have her cassette/flash card set to work with so I find your task of self-interpreting something I can identify with
It is my personal belief that gut-instict interpretation about dreams is more accurate than any dream dictionary interpretation… and personally I find your interpretations of the subconsiouc and unconsiouc very interesting–these things always interest me. As you are well aware, being able to identify trials in waking life is 1/2 the battle of being successful at battling those challenges. And, it’s my own belief that if you successfully interpreted yuor nightmare, you won’t have it recur.
Mahalo for sharing,
Keala
April 5th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Hi Keala,
Thanks for your comments.
I also started out doing dream interpretation using Jungian theories but I later found out that psychology is big a deception. I believe it’s as big a deception as all the occultist forms of dream interpretation. IN MY EXPERIENCE< PSYCHOANALYSIS OF A DREAM ONLY CREATES MORE CONFUSION. AND INSTEAD OF GIVING CLARITY IT ACTUALLY CLOUDS OVER THE MEANING. I’ve written a couple blogs about that.
We need to listen to God’s leading and what meanings resonate with our personal lives more than depending on a dream dictionary interpretation, but don’t discount that as a resource. He frequently shows me meanings through dream dictionaries.
Blessings,
Brent