Swimming
Swimming often reflects how you're navigating emotional currents — the ease or strain of staying afloat reveals something about your relationship to what surrounds you. Whether you glide or struggle, sink or surface, the water asks: are you moving through life, or is life moving through you?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for swimming, 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 swimming, is an augury of success if you find no discomfort in the act. If you feel yourself going down, much dissatisfaction will present itself to you.
For a young woman to dream that she is swimming with a girl friend who is an artist in swimming, foretells that she will be loved for her charming disposition, and her little love affairs will be condoned by her friends.
To swim under water, foretells struggles and anxieties.
[219] See Diving and Bathing.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream of swimming is an excellent omen, as it foretells success and good fortune generally: if you dream you are swimming, or bathing in clear water with ladies, it predicts that you will soon marry the one of your choice, particularly if she be present.