Many people dream of water frequently, and the following are some of the most prevalent water dreams that you can come across. Water is known to represent feelings, the soul, desire, the true self, and the subconscious. Concerning elements, paying attention to the qualities, roles, relationships, and feelings concerning water in the dream may reveal more about the meaning of the dream. Below are the possibilities that may be associated with a water dream.
Swimming in Water
Interpreting Dreams About Water, Interpreting the dream If you have a dream that you are swimming in a lake, river, or ocean, it is an indication that you are using your freedom to explore some deeper parts of your personality or emotions. It is felt that the quality and temperature of the water in the well is a reflection of the emotional state in the dream. For instance, clean and clear water may mean a lot of tranquility while cold, murky water may mean pressure or confusion. Moving through water may represent overt activity while swimming underwater means looking at subconscious activity or instinct. They say that if you are frightened to swim it means that you have some fears or doubts in your wakeful existence. But to swim joyfully can be equal to moving as free and consequently, one can be with the Self.
Floods
Interpreting the dream of floods, it can be said that these dreams occur during one’s emotional shifts or at least during some kind of change. Depending on how one feels about the flood, the meaning of the word will also differ. Fear of a flood can mirror fear from strong feelings or changes for example a flood may be considered as fear of strong emotions in life. However, observing a flood passively entails that the pressure that has been building up is now let out, and cleaned, or that the emotions that one is experiencing are in harmony with the flood. If you try to stop a flood, this may mean that you are trying to keep something behind a dam or refusing to acknowledge feelings and change.
Bathing
Taking a bath or shower in a dream may represent washing and purification processes and a similar way people think about themselves. The water splashing on one can represent washing off negative energy, past difficulties, sins, or psychological pressures. Steam and heat indicate washing away of hate or ridding oneself of unnecessary feelings whereas, cold or ice can be viewed as an indication of freezing of feelings or lack of them. Bathing is also associated with creativity; shower implies the flow of ideas. Do not lose focus on the experiences you have in the dream bath; quality should be the main aim. Is it comfortable or unsafe?
Drowning
Interpreting dreams of drowning is based on the notion that such dreams are often the product of overwhelming emotions, psychological states, or spiritual conditions. The left can symbolize threats to creativity, sexuality, or the unconscious because a force in your life is demanding all your attention. The inability to swim details the impression of insecurity when being true to one’s self. However, learning how to breathe underwater in the dream state may also indicate the desire to enter and engage in areas of oneself that have previously been avoided because of fear.
Traveling on Water
If you’ve experienced a dream in which you are trying to cross a body of water, think through which part of the emotional process of overcoming the waves corresponds to you. Ripple may represent your ‘riding the wave’, a phenomenon commonly used to describe the ebb of moods and feelings in everyday life. Rapid currents can imply situations of change, which may call for hasty decisions. And being still as water may suggest that one needs to contemplate his/her present path in life. Try to focus on anything that is happening on the opposite side, so it will be symbolic of the further direction of your emotional trip.
Conclusion
Interpreting Dreams About Water, Dreams use symbols to ‘voice’ themselves, and may employ such elements as water imagery to hint at the state of the dreamer. Through reflective water images such as flood, water as bath water, and drowning, it is possible to discover the potential of letting go or exploring feelings, coping with change, and incorporating feminine/ intuitive intelligence. As water is associated with spirituality in many people, water dreams can result in the understanding of the issues concerning your soul. Writing down your dreams and searching for different dream book interpretations can add the following step to engage with self-identity even more, decrypting the water symbols that come from the depths of your psyche.
Recording your experiences of associations and reactions to water dreams will uncover repeated patterns as to yourself. Water could always happen at some specific time in your life that is full of some transitional phase feelings. Therefore the next time you are called for a period of meaningful dreaming involving any form of water, consider it as an opportunity to embark on a period of reflection about yourself in the future.
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