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

Dreams of drowning 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.

Dreams of drowning are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to human-made places.

Dreams of drowning 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.

Dreams of drowning 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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