Water in a dream most often symbolizes emotion, mood, or feelings of vitality. The feeling or action of the water as well as how we relate to it in the dream can also represent how we relate to the emotion that has triggered the dream. For example one can have the feeling of drowning in […]
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Water
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
Pool, pond, lake, water
Dream symbol categories: Places · Nature · Dream Dictionary
Pools and lakes, as common places of purification or initiation, can represent a change in your way of life; emerging unconscious material that will promote growth. Like all bodies of water, it can represent the womb; pregnancy; a desire or need to return to mothering waters and be nourished or escape responsibility; knowledge that is […]
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Underwater
Dream symbol categories: Places · Nature · Dream Dictionary
Swimming underwater may refer to your ability to delve into your emotions. A need or readiness to become aware of unconscious material.
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Puddle
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
To find yourself stepping into puddles of clear water in a dream, denotes a vexation, but some redeeming good in the future. If the water be muddy, unpleasantness will go a few rounds with you.
To wet your feet by stepping into puddles, foretells that your pleasure will work you harm afterwards.
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Drown, Drowning
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
To dream about drowning suggests an anxiety. There is a fear of being overwhelmed by repressed emotions or disturbing feelings in your waking life. If the dream involves someone else it shows your concern for their health.
See also death, water.
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Naked, Nude
Dream symbol categories: Body Parts · Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
To dream that you are naked, foretells scandal and unwise engagements.
To see others naked, foretells that you will be tempted by designing persons to leave the path of duty. Sickness will be no small factor against your success.
To dream that you suddenly discover your nudity, and are trying to conceal it, denotes that you […]
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Ship
Dream symbol categories: Vehicles · Dream Dictionary
Sailing over large bodies of water, a ship symbolizes the journey across or through the unknown or unconscious. As a large vehicle that sails on larger, more extensive bodies of water, its more related to the process of transformation or individuation than a boat. How do you behave on the ship. A shipwreck would relate […]
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Cancer
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Dream Dictionary
As a malignant growth, it may be a disguise for some terrifying event or memory that you’ve incorporated into your unconscious, possibly repressed, that’s eating away at you; some aspect of your life that is out of control; anxiety about the disease.
Consider the symbolism for the body area where the cancer occurs. Persons with cancer […]
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Fish/Fishing
Dream symbol categories: Actions, Feelings, Conditions · Animals · Dream Dictionary
For Jung, fish were symbols of some content from the unconscious, emotions, or life energy that is been stirring around in the unconscious from the beginning of our life. Therefore, fishing represents the search for, or process of becoming aware of, material from the unconscious. In this way fish can also symbolize the Self, or […]
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Crocodile
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Animals · Dream Dictionary
Crocodiles in your dream can represent danger or aggresiveness. If the crocodiles are concealed beneath the water they might also symbolize hidden animal instincts. Some psychologists say that crocodiles can represent the “devouring” aspect of one’s mother.
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Umbrella
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
Protection from things of the sky (sun, water). A solar or masculine symbol. A symbol of the canopy of heaven. In some countries, it symbolizes royalty.
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Beaver
Dream symbol categories: Animals · Dream Dictionary
Beaver in a dream can mean that you are overextending yourself or that you have not been busy enought and need to get down to business. As a water animal, the beaver is especially symbolic of the workings of the unconscious. It can symbolize a damming up of emotions. Maybe the dream is suggesting need […]
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Ice
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
Just as water in a dream often represents emotions, ice can symbolize a freezing, withholding, or repression of these emotions.
Ice can also reflect the feeling of being “frozen” or paralyzed with fear, guilt, or other anxieties.
The Freudians also suggest that ice in a dream can symbolize sexual frigidity or repressed sexual desires.
Could you or someone […]
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Rain
Dream symbol categories: Nature · Dream Dictionary
Rain is related, first to your attitude about it, and to the kind of rain it is. General symbolism includes: fertility; renwal; wiping your slate clean; and shares some water symbolism. It can be considered a message or influence from heaven or the divine.
It may refer to unexpressed tears; the need to cry or mourn […]
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Net
Dream symbol categories: Objects · Dream Dictionary
If you are in the net; entanglement caught in a trap, possibly of your own making. Consider the symbolism of anything else also caught. Fish or water could relate to emotions or unconscious ideas, for instance, wild animals to trapped or repressed instincts. You feel trapped by them or have a strong need to keep […]