Sea
The sea often holds whatever longing the dreamer cannot name on land — a vastness that promises both dissolution and freedom. Sometimes it speaks to restlessness dressed as contentment, or the ache for connection that no surface pleasure satisfies, leaving you afloat between what is and what might be.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for sea, 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 hearing the lonely sighing of the sea, foretells that you will be fated to spend a weary and unfruitful life devoid of love and comradeship.
Dreams of the sea, prognosticate unfulfilled anticipations, while pleasures of a material form are enjoyed, there is an inward craving for pleasure that flesh cannot requite.
For a young woman to dream that she glides swiftly over the sea with her lover, there will come to her sweet fruition of maidenly hopes, and joy will stand guard at the door of the consummation of changeless vows.
[198] See Ocean.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of going to sea in a ship or steamer, is a sign that you will be fortunate in money matters: storms and perils at sea foretell difficulties which may be overcome: if you dream you are seasick, it denotes continued health.