Wading
Wading speaks to moving through emotion with deliberate care—the pace slower than swimming, the footing uncertain but chosen. Whether the water feels clear or murky often mirrors how you're navigating a particular intimacy or desire: do you trust what's beneath the surface, or does something feel hidden?
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for wading, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
If you wade in clear water while dreaming, you will partake of evanescent, but exquisite joys. If the water is muddy, you are in danger of illness, or some sorrowful experiences.
To see children wading in clear water is a happy prognostication, as you will be favored in your enterprises.
For a young woman to dream of wading in clear foaming water, she will soon gain the desire nearest her heart.
[237] See Bathing.
Fontaine, 1862
If a girl dreams of wading in clear water, it is a sign that she will soon marry, and be delighted with her husband's embraces: if she imagines that the water is rily or muddy, it foretells that she will enjoy the pleasures of illicit love. If a man dreams of wading, it denotes that he will be engaged in some intrigue with a female—the deeper the water, the more difficult the realization of his wishes: muddy water denotes loose women.