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What are pool dreams about?

This symbol is identified by words like pool.

Pools in dreams is a relatively uncommon dream symbol, occuring in about 1.8% of dreams. That's about 1 out of every 55 dreams.

What are the major highlights of pool dreams?

Pools is a normal dream symbol. Having pools in a dream changes the dream in the same way as most other dream symbols.

How does the dream symbol of pools affect the different aspects of a dream?

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Who is in pools dreams?

Overall, dreams with pools are aren't really related to characters in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pools are more related to close people than dreams in general. They are less related to different roles.

Animals

the same as usual

Insects

the same as usual

Different roles

less than usual

Fantastic beings

the same as usual

Distant people

the same as usual

Close people

more than usual

Family

the same as usual

Romantic partners

the same as usual
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What are the emotions in pools dreams?

Overall, dreams with pools are less related to emotions in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pools are more related to hatred than dreams in general. They are less related to confusion and less related to love.

Happiness

the same as usual

Sadness

the same as usual

Grief and sorrow

the same as usual

Embarrassment

the same as usual

Confusion

less than usual

Fear

the same as usual

Pain

the same as usual

Hatred

more than usual

Fun

the same as usual

Love

less than usual
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Who is in pools dreams?

Overall, dreams with pools are much more related to places in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pools are less related to work, less related to human places, and less related to magical places.

Home

the same as usual

Work

less than usual

Human places

less than usual

Transportation

the same as usual

Natural places

the same as usual

Magical places

less than usual
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What happens in pools dreams?

Overall, dreams with pools are less related to events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pools are less related to aggressive interactions.

Aggressive interactions

less than usual

Friendly interactions

the same as usual

Sex

the same as usual

Disasters

the same as usual
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How do pools in dreams related to other dream phenomenon?

Overall, dreams with pools are less related to dream events in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pools are less related to lucid dreams and less related to sleeping.

Lucid dreams

less than usual

Nightmares

the same as usual

Recurring dreams

the same as usual

Recurring nightmares

the same as usual

Sleep paralysis

the same as usual

Sleeping

less than usual

Waking life

the same as usual
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How do pools in dreams related the senses?

Overall, dreams with pools are less related to senses in dreams. Specifically, dreams of pools are less related to hearing and less related to vision.

Hearing

less than usual

Smelling

the same as usual

Taste

the same as usual

Vision

less than usual

Touch

the same as usual
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How can you make sense of pools in dreams?

Pool dreams are relatively uncommon. Among other things pool dreams are normally interconnect.

Do you think this is true for your dream of pools? How might your dream of pools be different?

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

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

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 pools in dreams. See how you feel about pools now, in your waking life.

What are possible meanings for dreams of pools?

Like other bodies of water, a pool has associations with emotions. It can describe your emotional state or the emotional dynamics of a situation or relationship: calm, turbulent, hot, cold, deep, shallow.

A pool can be a metaphor for a group, such a “job pool.”

When associated with bathing or nudity it can express sexual feelings or desires. Remember, however, that dreams can use scenes that evoke feelings of desire and sexuality as symbolism for something else related to pleasure, attraction, or desire. For example, a beautiful sex partner beckoning you to a pool can symbolize your love of swimming. See: Being naked

A lifeless body in a pool can be an image of something about yourself that has receded into the depths of your mind. Some part of yourself is “dying” in the figurative sense. Sometimes it is necessary—a part of your personality or character needs to change or mature. Sometimes it is caused by circumstances or pressure. See: Body parts

Pools can be used to tell a story. For example, if you have a young child, you know what can happen if you turn your back for a moment. Stories abound of young children drowning in pools, often when adults are distracted. Even if you do not have a pool near your home, you are aware of the association between pools and danger to young children. Thus, a pool can be used in a dream to tell a story about fears related to your young children inadvertently getting hurt.

See also: Body parts, Emptiness, Fish, Lifeguards, Being naked, Oceans, Rescuing, Water

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.

Examples of dreams of pools

Read some real dream reports of pool dreams.. These real life dream reports come from the moderated dream sharing communities of Reddit including r/Dreams, r/Nightmares, r/DreamInterpretation, or r/thisdreamihad. Please note that some of these may contain graphic, sexual, or violent images and text. Use the source link for each dream to view and join the discussion of each one.

I had a really distressing dream

I just work up from a nap and had a very distressing dream in which I must have been at a holiday house or somewhere similar. I was in a room with just the guy I knew from high school, let’s call him James. Everyone else had already gotten changed and was at the pool. I mentioned that I would likeJames to leave the room so I could get changed and it took a lot of stern words and a strong voice to get him to leave. Eventually I start changing into my swimmers and I can see James has opened the door a crack and is watching me through it. I started yelling at him to close the door and I was hiding behind the bed as I wasn’t dressed on my bottom half but he refused and continued to stare at me with this evil smirk on his face at which point in time I woke up. I immediately began crying when I woke up and I’m just wondering is anyone has any insight into why I felt this kind of strong and sudden emotion.

I just work up from a nap and had a very distressing dream in which I must have been at a holiday house or somewhere similar. I was in a room with just the guy...

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I had this dream about a woman who wanted to bring back her lover because he died saving the world from annihilation. So she sat inside a pool that was red like blood and began to "give birth" to body...

It was a really long dream, but I've written everything I remember about it in a notepad.

The world went through a metamorphosis or some sort? As if it was judgement day or something. Everyone was being pulled to the sky and their shoes fell off. A clumsy but intelligent man did something and put a stop to it, but he gave his life in the process.

A woman who loved him, was a very serious woman. Devastated by what had happened, and knowing no one will help her bring him back, she got to work in her laboratory. Her laboratory had many incomplete dolls everywhere.

She began to "give birth" to body parts. Literally. They weren't huge or anything, they were small like the parts of a baby doll. Numerous hands, legs and torsos were made, I think there was a head? She was trying to make her lover from scratch. But regardless before she finished giving birth, an asteroid crashed into her facility.

Out of which came a man and a woman, presumably a new Adam and eve, and they were happy to be on earth, planning to conquer it. They didn't notice the woman crept behind them and killed them.

It was a really long dream, but I've written everything I remember about it in a notepad.

The world went through a metamorphosis or some sort? As if it was...

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Being shot multiple times?

I had a dream where I was in my primary school’s pool. It was full and everything. There was a man standing just behind the pool and laughing. My classmates were in the pool too but they were sort of zombies? They were trying to kill me. The man just behind the pool was holding a sort of gun which looked like one of those cameras cops catch your speed on. I was running around the pool, screaming and crying closely followed by my zombieish classmates who were trying to kill me. The man pulled the trigger of the gun thing and it felt so painful. It felt like my back was spasming. Then I was back in the pool and it happened again. This happened multiple times. This was all in the same dream too. It hurt so bad. Anyone have any ideas why I dreamt that?

I had a dream where I was in my primary school’s pool. It was full and everything. There was a man standing just behind the pool and laughing. My classmates...

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Just a weird dream, maybe someone can help me find meaning in it.

I was in this big pool underwater and I couldn’t get to the top, my dad was just at the surface watching me, and i could see him yelling at me, and i kept getting pulled down deeper, but sometimes my arms made it out the water, but everyone in the pool area was just watching me and yelling at me to sink deeper, so i let go and sank to the bottom, but the water ended and i fell through it like, looking up it was the bottom of the pool water and i was then falling through air. I landed in a pile of beetles that all had faces of people and they were trying to bite me, but i started squishing them and everytime I did I grew a little bit taller and eventually i was so big that i like filled out this box and i was then laying in a box with no exit, and i started kicking the walls hoping they would break but it was obsidian so it was too strong. Then i woke up

I was in this big pool underwater and I couldn’t get to the top, my dad was just at the surface watching me, and i could see him yelling at me, and i kept...

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I had a nightmare and I NEED to know what it's about

So the dream started as me waking up in my bed, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think, I couldn't scream, and I couldn't cry, but all I knew was I was scared. It wasn't just any old kind of scared though, it was the one where you knew you had fucked up and hurt the people you hold the closest, the kind of scared that you'd expect to feel right before you hit the ground from jumping off a fatal height. I realized I could move though, so I got up and started stumbling down my stairs, shaking from fear. The kind of fear to start at the pit of your stomach to consume your whole body until it really settles in what the situation is, but the thing is I don't know what the situation is. I make it downstairs and see my dad sitting on the couch of my living room looking devastated, disappointed, and depressed, or as I will to call the dangerous D's as the occur quite frequently throughout this. He looks at me with a look of the dangerous D's and grief and shakes his head. He tells me to sit down next to him because we need to have a talk and that fear from earlier gets more intense as a feeling of guilt and sadness joins in with them. he starts asking me questions with his head in his palms but get's no response as I try every bit of my power to get a single sound out but to no avail, and he looks up at me again tears streaking his face as he tells me to stand up and shows me the door. I open it to see an empty void, almost as if the world had been swallowed whole leaving my house, and the feelings consume me and I jump. I keep falling and falling until something pulls me aside and I am on this farm like land on a pasture. There is a house and a barn in the distance and the sunlight is bouncing off the blades of shiny green grass swaying in the wind. I look at my surroundings and see an old man in a dark cloak, almost looking like the grim reaper, as he whispers in my ear that he knows what I'm going through right now and that he can help me escape this but I don't trust him and jump off into the void again as he gives me a sad look and shakes his head. My fear keeps growing larger and larger as it keeps ungulfing me in these awful emotions and I start feeling the dangerous D's start to come along. I get pulled one last time and this time I am in a broken down version of my house with my parents giving me the look of the dangerous D's and shake their heads and walks off. After they walk off I see my little sisters, the two girls I had sworn my life to protect, lying there, dead. There skin is pale while they are lying in a pool of blood with there wrists sliced and there throats cut, giving me a blank stare with their jaws unhinged and their faces stuck with a look of an overwhelming look of the dangerous D's along with the saddest, most heartwrenching, most overwhelming look of pure grief. I look in disbelief, every feeling I was feeling before multiplied times one million. My two baby sisters, laying there, dead. I can't take it. Their heads suddenly perk up and they smile with blood gushing out of their mouths. They say that this is all my fault, I made them do this, I went down the path I did and died and made them do this to themselves and my parents come back and stand behind them with the same looks they had before and I look in the distance and see the old man giving me that same look of sadness with an "I tried to warn you" king of look on his face and he turns around. I can't take anything anymore, I can't cry, I can't scream, I can't talk, I can't think, I can just feel these feelings make me do things. The feelings keep getting worse and worse and the fear finally settles in on what the situation is and the fear keeps getting worse from this realization. I am in my own personal hell, being tormented, so I turn around and jump into the void one more time hoping I can escape this hell. I keep falling and falling until I see a bottom, and I know it's finally over so I take a sigh of relief and hit the bottom

I'd make a TL;DR but I don't know how I'd do that with this story. please tell me what this is about. It's the most disturbing dream I have ever had.

So the dream started as me waking up in my bed, I couldn't talk, I couldn't think, I couldn't scream, and I couldn't cry, but all I knew was I was scared. It...

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