Water dreams 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.

Dreams of water are less related to happiness, less related to sadness, and less related to grief and sorrow.

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.

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.

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

Water dreams are more related to touch than dreams in general. They are less related to hearing.

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 water 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 water in dreams. See how you feel about water 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. 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