Dreams about water: a Jungian reading

Water in dreams tends to stand for what moves in you without your steering — feelings, moods, things that happen on their own. That is why it usually matters more WHAT the water was like than that it was there at all.

It depends on how it looked

• clear and stillyou can see all the way down — an image of clarity, not of happiness
• murky or darkyou feel something and it does not have a name yet
• a great waveit is coming faster than anyone could prepare for
• drowningthere is more of it than can be carried at once

A question for you

What in your life is running outside your control right now?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.