Drowning
Drowning often speaks to feeling overwhelmed by emotion or circumstance—a sense that life's depths have become unmanageable. Whether you sink or surface, whether you watch from shore or dive in to help, the dream asks: what feels too big to hold right now?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for drowning, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of drowning, denotes loss of property and life; but if you are rescued, you will rise from your present position to one of wealth and honor.
To see others drowning, and you go to their relief, signifies that you will aid your friend to high places, and will bring deserved happiness to yourself.
For a young woman to see her sweetheart drowned, denotes her bereavement by death.
Fontaine, 1862
(See Water and Resuscitate.) To dream you are drowning, or that you see another drowned, portends good to the dreamer; to the lover, good-tempered sweethearts and marriage; but to a girl it is a sign she should keep an eye on her lover.