(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 such love between brethren. Accepting the invitation to share a loafofbread with someone in a dream means love, unity and prescribing to the prophetic traditions.
If one sees one or two dishes on his table in a dream, it means profits for oneself and sustenance for his dependents. Having good appetite in a dream means longevity. Ifthe dining table is cleared after one’s meal in the dream, it denotes the conclusion of one’s life.
If a crowd of people sits on a table to partake their meal in a dream, they represent one’s dependent.
If two opponents sit on the same table in a dream, it means war, and particularly if their is broiled meat and herbs on the table.
The dining table in the dream then represents the battlefield, and eating their meal means fighting.
A dining table in a dream also represents piety.
If one shares his meal in a dream, it means that he will meet new friends and enjoy their company, then a conflict will rise concerning his livelihood and earnings.
(See Also: Food, Guest, Invitation, Hospitality, Table)
[1]To dream of setting a table preparatory to a meal, foretells happy unions and prosperous circumstances.
To see empty tables, signifies poverty or disagreements.
To clear away the table, denotes that pleasure will soon assume the form of trouble and indifference.
To eat from a table without a cloth, foretells that you will be possessed of an independent disposition, and the prosperity or conduct of others will give you no concern.
To see a table walking or moving in some mysterious way, foretells that dissatisfaction will soon enter your life, and you will seek relief in change.
To dream of a soiled cloth on a table, denotes disobedience from servants or children, and quarreling will invariably follow pleasure.
To see a broken table, is ominous of decaying fortune.
To see one standing or sitting on a table, foretells that to obtain their desires they will be guilty of indiscretions.
To see or hear table-rapping or writing, denotes that you will undergo change of feelings towards your friends, and your fortune will be threatened.
A loss from the depreciation of relatives or friends is indicated.
[2]The table symbolizes friendly fraternization. In dreams, it represents your relationship with your environment.
If it is rectangular, it shows a hierarchical structure based on a leader, who is usually on one side or in the middle. Your position indicates where you are on the ladder. However, if the table is round, it means that all those who sit around it have the same rank. But apart from indicating your “status,” the table can also mean other things. What is on it refers to what will soon enter your life. Thus, if it is filled with delicacies, the dream predicts prosperity; if it is empty, problems at home; and finally, if no one has sat around, it suggests that you need to feel more closer to your family.
The table predicts domestic comfort and happiness in the marital relationship.
[3]A table suggests assimilation, or “coming together” of varying parts of the dreamer’s personality. It could be that you are working on becoming aware of your own multi-dimensional nature and are attempting to become a more harmonious individual.
The table usually represents nourishment, friendship, and unity. When interpreting this dream consider the primary function of the table in the dream as well as its shape and those that have gathered around it. Most people can make many associations with this piece of furniture. It could represent emotionally charged events, such as a family dinner, contractual negotiations, or pleasant/unpleasant meetings.
The emotional reactions to the situation in this dream will lead you to its interpretation.
[4]Since the primary cultural association with a table is eating meals, the symbolic nature of this object is about groups and connections, with a potential emphasis on the family. As such, a table in your dreams may be pointing to the quality of this construct within your own life.
If there is a gathering around a table in a dream, look to those gathered for clues as to the qualities and skills you need to feed and therefore nurture at this time.
The shape of the table has some significance as well.
A round table harkens back to the mythology of King Arthur, where this shape was the first representation of democracy within leadership.
A table that is broken or otherwise impaired signals an inability to gather inner strength.
[5]Material aspects: A table being a focus for meeting, whether socially or professionally, is usually recognized in dreams as a symbol of decision making. There can be an element of ritual associated with the image of a table. As a place for a family rendezvous, we may consider meals eaten around a table to be an important aspect of family life. In business and professional terms, the boardroom table can also introduce an element of ritual around it such as hierarchy of position. You might also like to consult the entries for altar, furniture / furnishings, rite / ritual and round table.
[6]1- A table being a focus for meeting, whether socially or professionally, is usually recognised in dreams as a symbol of decision making. As a place for a family rendezvous, the dreamer may consider meals to be an important ritual. In business and professional terms, the boardroom table also has an element of ritual about it.
2- To dream of dealing with a table or list of objects, or perhaps actions, instils a sense of order. It represents our ability to create order out of chaos.
3- A table can represent spiritual judgement and legislation.
[7]Dreaming of a table symbolizes an internal need for support.
To dine at a table that has no cloth shows that you will not be envious of the good fortune of others.
To set the table foretells a happy marriage in prosperous circumstances.
An empty table foreshadows poverty and needy circumstances.
A broken table is bad luck, and to clear the table means your pleasure will become sorrow.
A soiled cloth on a table means you may be guilty of an indiscretion.
[8]This symbolizes your social connection with others.
If the table is bare, it suggests that you are giving very little of yourself.
If the table is expensive or of good quality, it suggests high-quality relationships with others; your place at the table refers to your selfimage and a dressing table refers to your attempts to create a good social image. Alternatively dream tables can also indicate the need for hard work and perseverance to achieve your goals.
[9]Tables usually represent social functions, such as dining together at a table, though tables can also represent work if one has a desk job or a job where one crafts objects on a table, for example. Tables in dreams can draw on meanings associated with the “head of the table,” “a bare table,” “the tables are turned,” being paid “under the table,” or “on the table.”
[10]The meaning depends on the details and the action which must be correlated to get an accurate interpretation, but as a general guide: a kitchen table suggests a season of hard work ahead; a card table predicts a chance to increase your income; a dining table indicates an upturn in social activities; and a library table forecasts an improved status due to intellectual achievements.
[11]The desire for unencumbered connections to others, or a hint that whatever the connections are at present, you’d do better to accept them. Sticking together and belonging. Also refers to a noble attitude that is either to be adopted or has already been incorpo rated (Knights of the Round Table).
See Also: Feast, Communion, Restaurant.
[12]If you dream of something being on top of a table, then it is something that you are dealing with honestly, clearly and directly.
If you dream of something being under the table, then this dream is revealing that you are being secretive, mysterious and that there is a hidden agenda. Consider what is on or under the table.
[13]Vision: Looking at an empty table: start taking tatter care of your family and house. Looking at a table set for dinner: domestic bliss and prosperity.
Depth Psychology: The table usually represents your responsibilities and obligations at work. .Are you working at the table? See Altar, Furniture.
[14]Psychological / emotional perspective: To dream of dealing with a table or list of objects, or perhaps actions, instils a sense of order in our lives. It represents our ability to create order out of chaos. In sitting around a table if rectangular the top end will suggest higher status than the bottom end.
[15]For a table to appear in a dream is often to do with communal activity and with our social affiliations. Rugs and other soft furnishings may show what we need in the way of cosseting, and may reflect our tactile nature.
[16]To see a table in your dream represents social unity and the potential for a gathering to go well.
If you dream that you are setting the table, you are experiencing good self-confidence.
[17]1. Personal relationships, society and community (note condition of table).
2. Hard work followed by prosperity, especially a kitchen table.
3. Domestic pleasure, joy.
[18]A table can represent spiritual judgement and legislation. As a dividing line between those with authority and those without, it signifies a barrier to be crossed.
[19]1. Communion or fellowship;
2. Father’s provision;
3. Communion with God; Ps. 23:5; 78:19; Matt. 15:26-27;
• Under the Table
- Deceit; Prov. 23:7 .
[20]Symbolic of people with shared beliefs or similar interests, 1 Cor. 10:21. Sitting at a dark table is symbolic of ungodly activities in your life
[21]Daily activities, whether working, eating or playing. To put off a decision, as to table a motion. Negotiation.
[22]It is not fortunate to be seated at a Table in your dream; but it is favourable if you see others thus seated.
[23]Good times are predicted by a dream of a dining- table set with clean linen and bright silver and glassware.
[24]Used for serving; type, condition, etc., Represents the service, i.E. Oak is figurative of reliability
[25]To see one denotes sensual pleasures, to break one in your dream augurs a removal (Gypsy).
[26]If you dream that you are setting a table for a meal indicates a desire to please someone.
[27]Support; a platform for presentation, what is laid out before you.
[28]See Also: furniture, tablet See pill.
[29]See Also: Food Fruit Trees Vegetables.
[30]To dream that you are sat at a table dining on sumptuous fare, denotes that a season of affliction and sorrow is about to be your portion.
[31]lucky numbers: 01-09-12-34-38-39
banquet, a: find a start date for the project; a new team is arriving.
being seated at a, with children: luck, prosperity and comfortable circumstances.
card: an opportunity to make money wil arise.
conventioneers: misunderstandings and rowdy disagreements.
marriage guests: happiness is ensured.
relatives: too much to say, no chance to speak.
round: al guests have an equal say, listen to the new stimulating conversation.
boardroom, the: your seat reflects your position in the power structure.
broken, a: pleasure that wil bring misery and poverty.
empty, an: family deserts you, along with their support.
library, a: promotion through self-initiative and home study.
marble top, with a: are entering a period of new sensations and partnerships.
of a, set for dinner: you work hard for others’ indulgence in oral enjoyment.
sitting at a, with own family: happy married life, convivial times ahead.
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