What does water mean in a dream?
Nearly every dream I have contains water of some kind.
I dreamt I was in a house (not mine), and it was full to the ceiling of water, and instead of walking around the house I was swimming. Swimming from room to room , swimming up and down the stairs! All the furniture was intact. It was a normal house but full of water.
Also I dream very often that I need to cross over the road, but the road is like a river or a lake and I have to swim across to get to the other side.
Swimming baths, the sea, allsorts of water dreams.
Surely these must mean something. Mind you last night I had a change, and dreamt I was pulling a tree up out of the ground!.:confused:
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water dreams
I know that some people interpret dreams generically, but I believe that symbols vary in meaning from person to person. However, some symbols are more likely to represent the same thing to more people, as they generally instigate fear or joy in the conscious world.
I spotted your question, as I frequently have water dreams. For me, water represents things being out of control or insecurity. As a child, I once got trapped on a beach as the tide came in, and have been cautious of the sea ever since...... and now when I am feeling trapped, scared, out of control or insecure, I dream of the sea flooding over my pathway, or of frantically swimming in great expanses of water. It was only when recently I started having dreams of swimming willingly, masterfully and with enjoyment, that I saw the correlation with my circumstances, as I had taken control of a lot of things in my life.
Following that theory, I should look back at your past and think about experiences that you have had with water, be they good, bad or whatever, and see if the related emotion correlates with anything going on in your life right now.
Hi,
For me, I find that water relates very much to emotions. I used to have recurring dreams about pipes leaking and me constantly trying to stop them by tying clothes and rags around them. What was going on for me at the time was that I wasn't expressing to my partner how unhappy I was in my job and the fact that we weren't seeing each other. The minute we had a conversation about this, the dreams stopped. I have similar occurrences related to water.
For me, if I'm lost at sea, stuck in water, I find that there's so much going on emotionally that what I need to do is take a step back out of the water (onto a boat that miraculously appears!) and take stock.
Another dream I have sometimes is being in a fast flowing river. When I struggle against the flow I get pushed underneath and start to panic. When I go with the flow of the river it becomes easier and I float quite easily. So rivers for me indicate the flow of life.
Not sure if all this is making sense, but I hope so 🙂
Water is very symbolic of emotions as has been said.
Are you not dealing with your emotions? Do you need to express your emotions more freely?
Thanks for the replies.
Looks like water dreams are linked with emotions. I am not sure whether I am dealing with my emotions. I do tend to keep things to myself a lot, but I am not sure wheher this is such a good thing. I have no idea though how to deal with things any other way.
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