Do You Dream Of Drowning? Here’s What It Means

The Flow Of Water

The first important thing to note is that the element of water often represents our emotions, their fluidity, and the way they move us. Water is kind, empathetic, and healing, but it is also deep, cold, and harbors vast expanses of the unknown.

Drowning in waters that carry this much symbolism already tells us that these dreams not only carry heavy meanings but also carry very varied meanings, so determining the meaning of your drowning dream will take some close analysis.

Feeling The Weight

The first and most common meaning of drowning dreams is that you're struggling with feelings of being out of control or overwhelmed. Fighting against a force that surrounds you, that represents weighty emotions, all while fearing that there's nothing you can do about it, that all culminates in visions of drowning while you sleep.

It's also possible that such a dream may highlight areas of your life where you're not keeping your head above water, such as in your professional life, personal relationships, or within the personal challenges you're facing.

Keeping It Inside

Drowning dreams can also be a measure of our unexpressed or unprocessed feelings, acting as emotional barometers. If you're experiencing a particularly stressful period or coping with emotions that have been bottled up, these dreams may be signaling a need to release and confront these feelings before they overwhelm you.

On the opposite end of the emotional spectrum, drowning in dreams can also represent a fear of being overtaken or losing ourselves in what we feel. Both of these meanings represent an irregularity in how we process what we feel. We're either doing it too much or not enough.

Near Or Far

The body of water in which you're drowning can also change the meaning. While drowning in an ocean might symbolize vast, overwhelming emotions, a pool might indicate emotions that are more contained but are still troubling. The ocean versus a pool can also point towards whether this stress you're facing is 'close to home,' so to speak, or if it's distant, maybe centering another person rather than yourself.

Maybe you're not the one drowning in this dream. If you're attempting to save someone else from drowning, it could reflect a burdensome sense of responsibility or a desire to rescue a particular relationship in your waking life.

Thorough Analysis

To understand the message behind your drowning dream, it's important to consider the context of your current life situation. Are you facing challenges that leave you feeling overwhelmed? Are there unresolved issues that you need to confront? What is your process for handling and working through your emotions?

If you're unsure what part of your life these dreams are referencing, see where your mind goes as soon as you wake up from them. That immediate association could tell you exactly what troubles are rooting themselves in your subconscious.

Expressing It All

Once you've woken up from a drowning dream, it's beneficial to take practical steps to process the experience. This may sound silly if you've never done deep dream analysis, but sitting down to really think and meditate on these experiences is the only way to help rid yourself of these troubling dreams.

Begin by journaling about the dream and your feelings about it as soon as you can after waking up. You want your memory to be as fresh as possible. Also, consider discussing the dream with a trusted friend or therapist who can offer a different perspective and assist you in working through the underlying issues.

Healing The Mind

Dreams about drowning are scary. While some may consider them simply stress dreams, others find them to be full-blown nightmares, lingering in your mind and continuing to affect you hours into your day.

There's no surefire way to cure any type of bad dream, but what you can do is try to rid yourself of the reason you're having them. By identifying, analyzing, and thinking about what these dreams are calling attention to, we can focus on healing these pained parts of our psyche.

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