Common Dreams: Drowning and Water
When you want to understand drowning dreams it’s easier
to break the dream into as many components as you can firstly start with the
water itself, what type of water was it, was it sea-water or swimming-pool
water, a lake, stream or pond? This will help you in your translation as many
clues can be gained by from where the drowning takes place. If the water is confined
like in a swimming pool that has sides to cling onto then the dreamer can
understand how help and support is not far away. The emotions are contained and
relatively controlled, this depicts an emotional situation which is likely to
affect the dreamer, or the person drowning. This type of dream scenario is
often used when a person who is under emotional pressure doesn’t like to share their
feelings with other people.
Drowning
dreams also require you to consider ‘how much’ water there was? And this will help you to understand the depth of emotion associated with the event
being portrayed. Also consider if the water was clear, dirty, still or moving. The larger the deluge of water the
bigger or deeper the emotional drama, whereas water which is scarce in a dream shows
a lack of emotional attachment or a situation that the dreamer doesn’t
really care about. A lack of drinking water will link with the feeling of being
unfulfilled or un-nourished in some area of the dreamer’s life. Thirst usually symbolises a thirst for knowledge or being left high and dry, all these
translations will need to be adjusted to fit with the dreamer’s situation of
course.
Water: The wonderful life
giver in its many forms, it holds within it the ability to give life to
just about anything, in dream language, it is used widely as a conduit for
our emotional energy, it can flow and ebb, get over, under, in and around anything
in its way.
Freshwater links with fresh
clean ideas and feelings, new concepts will be introduced to you which can
instigate a fresh start, drinking freshwater is a way of showing you how to
absorb and initiate those ideas. Freshwater is used for cleansing and will
help you understand when the time has come for a clean start, this could be
regards your health or your personal circumstances.
Salty water can symbolise mixed
emotions or mixed feelings, salt is often used as a symbol to describe
preservation or trying to preserve something which if left alone would
deteriorate. Salt can also be a healer, it is used to cleanse and clear
negativity, therefore the meaning of salty water in a dream will need to be
personally determined by the dreamer, its actual meaning can be better defined
by the other symbols in the dream.
Murky water highlights confused
or clouded feelings and emotions which have their roots in the past. Trying to
understand why the water is dirty in the dream can help you to translate it,
for example, you could look up dirt and mud, you need to understand what is
contaminating your emotional life or try to find out why it is being polluted
externally.
Dreaming of
drowning is very common, either oneself drowning or other people that you know,
basically in dream interpretation drowning symbolises being overcome by one’s
own emotions and feelings. The source of these overpowering emotions is
individually determined but are usually caused by problems or circumstances
that are new or need you to learn to swim and survive very quickly.
Drowning
dreams require us to gather our emotional strength and find new ways to cope
and survive. Sometimes problems become too much, and we are unable to cope with
what life throws at us, maybe we are not ready for new challenges or changes that
happen too quickly.
A lack of stability is symbolised by drowning dreams,
the need for support and help from other people, incidentally needing to be ‘saved’
spiritually can also be portrayed by drowning.
When we
dream of youngsters drowning and we are trying to save them it is because
they are learning to deal with 'growing up' and all its demands, you are
actually trying to help them cope and learn to adapt to their own emotional
turmoil’s, they need to learn fast to stay afloat and you are trying to rescue
them when they need support. This overlaps with rescue dreams but must not be
confused or misinterpreted as a premonition dream. We can rescue
people in our dreams and then find we must help them out in waking life and this doesn't necessarily
mean you are going to stop them from drowning literally, more likely you
are needed to help them stay afloat or help with their emotional
struggles.
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