The Great Mother
Dreaming of water: meaning and interpretation
The unconscious in motion
Emotion and the stuff of the unconscious: what flows when control loosens.
Symbolic reading
Water shows the state of feeling. Clear, it is emotion that can be seen; muddy or overflowing, it is affect that no longer fits the waking channel. To swim is to relate to it. To drown is to fear that feeling will take everything.
Jungian key
For Jung, water is the unconscious itself. How it appears in the dream — still or rising, clear or murky — shows how your emotional life is moving right now: when it rises or overflows, a psychic content wants a place in waking life, not a dam.
Do not dam the current: name it, and the water finds a shore again.