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What are drowning dreams about?

Drowning is the process of a life ending as a result of water obstructing respiration. Usually a person drowns in a large body of water, but drowning can happen on land if too much water enters the lungs. Additionally, drowning is often used in linguistic expressions. For example, 'I am drowning in work.' The DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon insights from 1,200 dream symbols in over 200,000 dreams. Let’s see what the data has to say about drowning dreams.

The word cloud above shows the words that are specifically associated with drowning dreams. These are the words that make drowning dreams unique compared to all other dream symbols. Just examining the graph and reading the words of drowning dreams can be illuminating about show drowning affect our dreams. Be sure to check out the example drowning dreams at the bottom of the page.

The circular bar chart above shows how drowning in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that drowning is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that drowning is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, drowning dreams have more disasters than 88.5% of dream symbols, more nightmares than 88.3% of dream symbols, and more death than 88.3% of dream symbols. On the other hand, drowning dreams have less home than 89.4% of dream symbols, less eating and drinking than 87.4% of dream symbols, and less human-made places than 86.2% of dream symbols. Notably, drowning dreams might be nightmares! Though even if these dreams are nightmares, it doesn't necessarily mean that they are bad dreams or that drowning is a bad thing to dream about. It just means that dreams of drowning are more likely to be nightmares than dreams of other things. Every dream is unique. These are general patterns observed in an analysis of over 200,000 dreams. This analysis is a tool to help you make sense of your dreams. It is best to look at the differences. See how your dream of drowning is different than dreams of drowning in general.

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of dreams have drowning

How common are drowning dreams?

1.2% of dreams have the drowning symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 80 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is relatively uncommon.

Identification

How are drowning dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like submerge, drowned, and drowning. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of events.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of drowning?

Drowning dreams are notable because they have substantially more emaciation, Fiji, lifeguards, water, elements of water, swimming, Hannibal Lecter, tsunamis, pheasants, natural elements, bankers than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of drowning?

Drowning dreams are notable because they have substantially less antelopes, calluses, Indiana Jones, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Yoda, R2-D2, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into drowning dreams

Get an overview of characters, emotions, places, events, dream events, and senses in drowning dreams.

Who is in dreams of drowning?

Who is in dreams of drowning?

Dreams of drowning are less related to insects, less related to unnamed people, and less related to fantastic beings.

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What are the emotions in dreams of drowning?

What are the emotions in dreams of drowning?

Drowning dreams are more related to grief and sorrow and more related to fear than dreams in general. They are less related to happiness, less related to embarrassment, and less related to confusion.

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Where do dreams of drowning take place?

Where do dreams of drowning take place?

Drowning dreams are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human-made places.

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What happens in dreams of drowning?

What happens in dreams of drowning?

Drowning dreams are more related to disasters and more related to death than dreams in general. They are less related to friendly acts, less related to sex, and less related to eating and drinking.

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How do dreams of drowning related to the type of dream it is?

How do dreams of drowning related to the type of dream it is?

Drowning dreams are more related to nightmares, more related to recurring dreams, and more related to bad dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to lucid dreams, less related to weird dreams, and less related to vivid dreams.

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How do dreams of drowning related the senses?

How do dreams of drowning related the senses?

Dreams of drowning are less related to hearing, less related to smelling, and less related to vision.

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How can you make sense of drowning in dreams?

Drowning dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things drowning dreams are nightmares. Do you think this is true for your dream of drowning? How might your dream of drowning be different?

All dreams have meaning

All dreams have meaning

You can gain insight from thinking about any dream, no matter how strange. Only you, as the dreamer, have final say on what your dream may or may not mean. Each dream is unique.

Look for the differences

Look for the differences

The DreamWell dictionary provides information on how each dream symbol appears in dreams in general. Finding how experience drowning in dreams can be a key to understanding its meaning.

Return to the feelings

Return to the feelings

Our emotions in dreams can help us understand its meaning. Pay attention to how you felt in the dream. Pay attention to how you feel about drowning in dreams. See how you feel about drowning now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of drowning dreams

An interpretation of drowning dreams

This interpretation is from ""The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings" and is provided by J.M. DeBord aka "RadOwl". He is the author of several acclaimed books about dreaming, the host of The Dreams That Shape Us podcast, and is a moderator of r/Dreams, one of the largest dream sharing communities on the internet. To drown in a dream can symbolize feeling overwhelmed—by work, circumstances, emotions, or illness, to name a few possibilities. Because water can symbolize emotion, drowning is especially well suited to symbolize being overwhelmed by emotion, but the analogy carries over to any situation where you feel overwhelmed. For example, a man dreams about watching a horse drown, symbolizing that he’s overwhelmed by work. See: Horses Drowning can mean you’re in a situation where you have no control, or are desperate. For example, you are low on money and rent is due. Almost drowning can symbolize a situation you want to avoid or don’t want to repeat. Or a situation could have been really bad but you escaped at the last moment. Saving someone from drowning can connect with trying to save someone figuratively, or helping the person through a rough time. Remember, though, that dreams can project you into a dream as a character that you save from drowning. Question is, if the character doesn’t represent someone in your life, what does it represent about you, how does drowning describe how you feel, or how is it used to tell the story? Drowning in a dream can relate to a physical issue. For example, you have pneumonia and your lungs are full of fluid. Dreaming about drowning can be a reaction to breathing difficulties while asleep. It’s your dreaming mind’s way of visualizing the feeling that you aren’t getting enough air. Drowning can symbolize something about yourself becoming unconscious. Everything that’s conscious about you arises from the deep waters of the unconscious mind, so when those parts of you return to the unconscious, that occurrence can be shown in dreams as a person submerging into water and disappearing. See: Water See also: Body parts, Death, Emotions, Floods, Horses, Pools, Oceans, Rescuing, Rivers, Tsunamis, Unconscious minds, Water

Examples of dreams of drowning

Reading dreams is one of the best ways to understand dream symbols. Even though the DreamWell Dream Dictionary is based upon data, it is grounded in the experience of reading thousands upon thousands of dreams. We invite you to read examples of drowning dreams for yourself. These dreams are actual dreams people have had. As result, they may contain racist, sexist, violent, or otherwise offense language and imagery. This can be true even for drowning dreams. Read at your own risk.

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