Seeing a Flood
A flood dream is a powerful metaphor for uncontrollable emotions or overwhelming changes in an area of life.
✦Spiritual Interpretation
The flood is a symbol of a great transformation and new beginning in nearly all world mythologies — Noah's flood, the Gilgamesh epic, India's legend of Manu. Seeing a flood in a dream may herald that the old will be swept clean and a new era will follow.
♑Astrological Interpretation
Flood dreams increase during Neptune transits and periods when water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) come to the fore. Neptune-Moon or Neptune-Sun aspects trigger overflowing emotions.
◈Psychological Interpretation
For Jung the flood is the overflow of the collective unconscious and the helplessness of the conscious self submerged beneath the waters. It expresses accumulated emotional material that can no longer be contained. Watching the flood but remaining safe shows awareness of these emotions.
◯Freudian Interpretation
Freud interprets flood dreams as the overflow of repressed libidinal or aggressive energy. The inundation symbolises the liberation of instinctual drives that conscious barriers can no longer control.
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