Common dreams

Water

The unconscious itself — emotions, intuition, the maternal.

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Across nearly every tradition, water is the unconscious. Jung: ‘Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious.’ Its state matters: clear water suggests clarity of feeling, turbid water a disturbance, tidal water cycles of emotion. In Vedic dream-lore, bathing in clean water is auspicious; drowning, a warning.

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