Chopsticks
Two slender sticks held in one hand — a small, learned skill for taking food a precise piece at a time.
Chopsticks in a dream are the dream's image of a skill of restraint at the table. Chopsticks do not scoop or stab; they pick, one piece, with attention. The dream brings the sticks when something in your life — a way of eating what is offered, a way of speaking in a conversation, a way of taking from a shared resource — is being asked to happen one careful unit at a time rather than by handful. Chopsticks used easily are the dream affirming that the discipline has been learned and the taking is graceful. Chopsticks fumbled, dropping the food back into the dish, are the dream noting that the situation calls for the fine, learned method and you are reaching with the habits of a different culture's hand.