Universal Landscape: Reward and pleasure; nurturing.
Dreaming Lens: Were you eating the cookies or was someone else? Were they uneaten? Were there limits or obstacles to getting the cookies? Were you being generous with the cookies and giving them away? Did they taste good? Were they homemade, or a favorite brand? Were the dream cookies in a plausible environment (kitchen, school, store), or in a strange setting?
Personal Focus: Cookies take their universal meaning from the child’s perspective, for it is as children that most of us were introduced to these potentially irresistible sweets. Cookies are intrinsically bound to the nurturing energy of mother, grandmother, or female caretaker. And while not all mothers bake cookies for their children, this notion is reinforced through literature and the media. Mother and child baking cookies together is a television staple for representing healthy bonding in the home.
Cookies connect to early lessons of reward and punishment. They might be offered as a prize for good behavior, or a prescription for lifting the spirits in a sad moment. However, they are to be limited before meals for fear of spoiling the appetite. And beware the wrath that might befall the child who got his or her hand “caught in the cookie jar.” This construct of a highly sought after object under the firm control of the adult imbues cookies with a combination of desire and guilt, as well as the meaning associated with reward and pleasure.
Your own life experience around this brand of nurturing should play a large part in your interpretation. The type of cookie in your dream and your personal tastes should be factored in as well. A disagreeable taste might indicate something askew in your sense of personal reward. Eating too many or feeling sick might represent a pattern of overdoing the reward in life and the refusal of responsibility. Baking them yourself may suggest a regressive need to be comforted in some way.
[1]Dreams of a cookie symbolize your just desserts, a sweet reward for your hard work.
If you dream of baking cookies, then this represents that you are manifesting and creating something in your life that is sweet and wonderful.
See Also: Fortune Cookie.
[2]Mental and emotional food. Gratification.
[3]See Also: Eating/ Drinking.
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