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Water
Nature
- emotion
- cleansing
- flow
- flood
In the traditional reading
Dream manuals read water as emotion, fortune and cleansing. What decides the reading is its state — clear or murky, ample or overflowing.
From dream research
Content research attaches no fixed meaning to water. It treats the scene as possibly continuous with what currently absorbs you.
Scene by scene, as it was handed down
- Clear water flows abundantly — Taken as things running smoothly and fortune arriving.
- You fall into murky water — Read as a warning about being drawn into something unclear.
- You cross a river or sea — Seen as a rite of passage from one stage to the next.
Dream reading is cultural symbol interpretation and does not foretell anything.