Salt cellar
A small dish or shaker holding salt — the kitchen's basic stash of the indispensable.
A salt cellar in a dream is the dream's image of the kitchen's basic stash of the indispensable. The cellar is small; it has to be refilled, but it never goes away. The dream brings the salt cellar when something in your life — a kept basic supply, a piece of constant readiness, a small habit of preparation — is sitting where it belongs and is being drawn from as needed. A salt cellar topped up and on the table is the dream affirming the readiness. A salt cellar found empty when reached for is the dream noting that the basic refill was missed, and the meal that depended on it has been compromised for want of the smallest input.