Ocean
The ocean often reflects the dreamer's emotional state — calm waters suggesting inner peace, storms pointing to turmoil beneath the surface. Whether you're sailing or watching from shore may matter less than how the water feels: vast and freeing, or overwhelming and deep.
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See what’s rising tonight →What the old dream-books say
These are the entries the historical dream-books record for ocean, 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 the ocean when it is calm is propitious. The sailor will have a pleasant and profitable voyage. The business man will enjoy a season of remuneration, and the young man will revel in his sweetheart's charms.
To be far out on the ocean, and hear the waves lash the ship, forebodes disaster in business life, and quarrels and stormy periods in the household.
To be on shore and see the waves of the ocean foaming against each other, foretells your narrow escape from injury and the designs of enemies.
To dream of seeing the ocean so shallow as to allow wading, or a view of the bottom, signifies prosperity and pleasure with a commingling of sorrow and hardships.
To sail on the ocean when it is calm, is always propitious.