Healing energies within; releasing and expression of emotions.

Constant changes; limitless aspects of personality.

(1) If there is some area in your life where you are - or feel - unable to "keep your head above water", this is probably what the dream is about. Dreams that follow may tell you what to do about the situation. You can either change the situation or change yourself, so that you react differently, or remove yourself (physically) from the situation.

(2) Water may be the symbol for the unconscious, so drowning may express a threat or fear of being swallowed up or taken over - overwhelmed - by unconscious forces. If there is such a threat, it will be from repressed or neglected contents of the unconscious. What have you been bottling up?

(3) Since water may represent the feminine, your dream may be asking you to do something about a mother-attachment that has been stunting your development as an individual in your own right. A mansfailure to free himself from such an attachment (which may be largely unconscious) may have disastrous results in his relationships with women - in whom he will always seek his mother. A woman, unlike a man, doesn't usually have to cope with the effects of an infantile incestuous fixation of her libido on her mother; but both Freud and Rank (Otto Rank) stressed the crucial influence of the mother on both male and female children: for all infants, male or female, the earliest deep attachment is to the mother., the source of nourishment. Moreover, for the achievement of normal development the female child must - according to Freud - perform the additional task of transferring her libidinal attachment from mother to father. Jung, too, regarded the liberating of oneself from psychological bondage to one's mother as the first great step in the process of self-realization.

Reference: Eric Ackroyd

May be a symbol of depression or despair. May symbolize being swallowed by your mother (mother attachment). If a ship is sinking it may represent the end of something in your life.

bring up contents of the unconscious into consciousness.

Anything that swims in deep water is normally symbolic of deep unconscious aspects of the dreamer. Stingrays have the ability to inflict pain wounds.

Dreaming that you are drowning means that you are overwhelmed by emotions or repressed issues that is coming back to haunt you. You may be proceeding too quickly in trying to discover your unconscious thoughts and therefore must proceed more cautiously and slowly. If you drown to death, then is refers to an emotional rebirth. If you survive the drowning, then a waking relationship or situation will ultimately survive the turmoil. Seeing someone drowning in your dream, suggests that you are becoming too deeply involved in something that is beyond your control. Alternatively, it represents a sense of loss in your own identity. You are unable to differentiate who you are anymore. Dreaming that you rescue someone from drowning indicates that you have successfully acknowledged certain emotions and characteristics that is symbolized by the drowning victim.

May symbolize communication between the unconscious (sea) and conscious (sky). May represent some specific unconscious content that is speaking -

or trying to speak - to you.

Power feelings or emotions; drawing energy in; changes.

walled up emotions; if dam has burst emotions are being released.

Sometimes symbolizes the unconscious, a descent into the unconscious with the aim to bring repressed, forgotten aspects about oneself to consciousness. Diving and bringing up treasures may symbolize successful realization of one's true self.

island may be a symbol of the conscious ego's relationship to the unconscious (the unconscious would be symbolized by the sea or ocean).

It may symbolize your relationship with your mother (represented by the sea, the mother being the higher source). Is the sea threatening to engulf the island?

May symbolize refreshment, new joy in life, personal growth. Also getting rid of old ideas, attitudes, emotions.

May represent the unconscious. Putting out to sea therefore would symbolize exploring the unconscious. May be the mother symbol, either that of Mother Nature or your own mother. Drowning would symbolize a fear of being suffocated by a dominating mother or mother-attachment. may symbolize the feminine, or any aspect of it (e.g intuition, receptiveness, ). For a male dreamer it would symbolize getting acquainted with the feminine side of his psyche -

anima. - May symbolize creative potential.

Your unconscious (emotions, attitudes that are hidden that want to be made conscious); emotional energy. Water is a common symbol for fertility, growth, creative potential. Also a symbol for psychic energy {is the water free flowing or stagnant?}