THE DREAM - I was in a huge mansion. I was there on my own. Later I saw people coming back. I felt it necessary to hide. I was told that any food I had made was unwanted.

GUESSWORK The previous day the dreamer had been feeling very down. He felt that people where he worked all disliked him. Strong moods from the day before can easily trigger dreams.

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ASSOCIATIONS AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS
1. The dreamers food is unwanted. This could easily associate with anything where the dreamer is feeling unwanted so if the dreamer feels disliked and unwanted where he works then this could easily be a symbol for these feelings.
2. Mansions often symbolise the wider world in which we live in. Houses tend to link to personality issues and mansions tend to link to personality issues where we feel heavily pressurized to behave in a certain way.

DREAM ANALYSIS In guesswork the dream was linked to the dreamers workplace. Its easy to see how the dream deals with the following themes:
- feeling unwanted
- other people and their opinions and attitude towards you.

If you weave together the different themes then you find that the dream could easily capture this following feeling - "I really feel unwanted and rejected. They all hate me. I really do not seem to fit in. they don't want me"