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What are water dreams about?

Water is wonderful! Our planet is largely composed of water. Water can be life giving! Drinking water can feel good and allow our bodies to perform necessary functions. Large bodies of water like lakes, seas, and oceans are beautiful and mysterious. Water can also be dangerous and deadly. Too much water can be a bad thing. 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 water dreams.

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

The circular bar chart above shows how water in a dream will affect dream content as compared to other dream symbols. Higher bars indicate that water is more related to the specific symbol in the graph. Lower bars indicate that water is less related to the specific symbol in the graph. Specifically, water dreams have more disasters than 91.7% of dream symbols, more eating and drinking than 84.9% of dream symbols, and more animals than 84.1% of dream symbols. On the other hand, water dreams have less schools than 78.0% of dream symbols, less hatred than 77.1% of dream symbols, and less unnamed people than 76.2% of dream symbols. 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 water is different than dreams of water in general.

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of dreams have water

How common are water dreams?

7.5% of dreams have the water symbol within the dream. That's about 1 out of every 15 dreams. Considering all the dream symbols, it is common.

Identification

How are water dreams identified?

This symbol is identified by words like water. This symbol is part of the summary dream symbols of things.

Most related

What is most related to dreams of water?

Water dreams are notable because they have substantially more Fiji, swimming, kayaks, drowning, oceans, deluges, canoes, whales, lifeguards, bodies of water, peninsula than 95% of other dream symbols.

Least related

What symbols least related to dreams of water?

Water dreams are notable because they have substantially less Morocco, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Kuwait, abscesses, Somalia, Legolas than 95% of other dream symbols.

Deep dive into water dreams

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

Who is in dreams of water?

Who is in dreams of water?

Dreams of water are more related to animals than dreams in general. They are less related to unnamed people, less related to strangers, and less related to peers.

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What are the emotions in dreams of water?

What are the emotions in dreams of water?

Water dreams are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

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Where do dreams of water take place?

Where do dreams of water take place?

Dreams of water are more related to transportation and more related to natural places than dreams in general. They are less related to home, less related to work, and less related to magical places.

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What happens in dreams of water?

What happens in dreams of water?

Water dreams are much more related to disasters and more related to eating and drinking than dreams in general. They are less related to aggressive acts, less related to friendly acts, and less related to sex.

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

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

Dreams of water are more related to recurring dreams than dreams in general. They are less related to nightmares.

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How do dreams of water related the senses?

How do dreams of water related the senses?

Dreams of water are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing.

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How can you make sense of water in dreams?

Water dreams are common. Among other things water dreams are Do you think this is true for your dream of water? How might your dream of water 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 water 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 water in dreams. See how you feel about water now, in your waking life.

An interpretation of water dreams

An interpretation of water 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. Water in a dream has close associations with emotions. The symbolism is created by the fact that things can be immersed in water. It moves, and moves you. Water can be ineffable, the same as emotions. Bodies of water can spark strong emotions, such as when you look out over an ocean. Emotions are sometimes described as “wet,” whereas the opposite idea is expressed if someone is said to be dry and emotionless The state and condition of water presents a wide variety of uses as symbolism related to emotions: calm, turbulent, hot, cold, frozen, deep, shallow. See: Emotions, Ice Plus, being in water is very much an experience of feeling sensation with the body, and emotions are felt in the body. It’s a great metaphor to describe the mind’s experience of emotions. It’s like floating, swimming or immersion. See: Floating Water can be used figuratively to characterize a situation, such as “in hot water,” or “fish out of water.” A flawed argument “doesn’t hold water.” An inexperienced person is “wet.” The symbolism of water can be expressed by figures of speech such as “going under” and “stay afloat.” See: Drowning Water is associated with the unconscious mind because the content of the unconscious is largely outside conscious awareness, just as underwater objects and creatures can be difficult or impossible to see from the surface. Plus, the unconscious mind is like a womb, and the aware ego “floats” within it—that’s how it feels. When water is used to symbolize the unconscious mind, it is usually vast like the ocean, because the unconscious is vast, especially in comparison with the conscious mind. The ocean is mysterious, and the unconscious mind is mysterious, too. See: Oceans, Unconscious minds Water is used in baptism and other spiritual rites because of its associations with cleansing of sins and impurity. Spirit is compared with water because it flows, overcomes resistance, and shapes itself to any container. People are said to “thirst” for truth, and Jesus Christ said he gave “living water,” another way of saying his teachings moved the spirit within people. See: Clean, Spirits In psychoanalytic tradition, water is associated with birth and infantile desires, because a fetus is surrounded by fluid while in the womb, and a pregnant woman’s water breaks when she is ready to give birth. Water connects people back to their mothers, and if Sigmund Freud is to be believed, everyone has a basic desire to return to the warmth and safety of the womb. See: Babies, Giving birth, Mothers This idea extends to water as a medium for creation, and that describes yin in a nutshell. Water is ultimately where all biological life originates. The human body is made up mostly of water, and it’s essential for life. See: Uteruses, Vaginas Murky water in a dream can symbolize clouded emotions. It can symbolize a situation that is murky, dark, gloomy, immoral, or not fully understood. See: Blindness, Darkness These possibilities are only the tip of the iceberg, but use the entries listed below to uncover more of it. See also: Bathrooms, Beaches, Blindness, Giving birth, Clean, Darkness, Deserts, Drowning, The earth, Emotions, Fish, Floating, Floods, Heat, Ice, Mothers, Oceans, Pools, Rivers, Showers, Spirits, Swimming, Tsunamis, Unconscious minds, Uteruses, Vaginas, Waves

Examples of dreams of water

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 water 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 water dreams. Read at your own risk.

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