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Nature
Flood
Feeling overflowing its banks
What it often means
A flood in a dream is emotion that has risen past its container — feelings, demands, or circumstances overflowing the boundaries that usually hold them. Floods destroy, but they also leave fertile ground. What is being submerged, and what floats, both matter.
When it tends to appear
- When emotion has overflowed its usual limits
- When responsibilities have risen past what you can hold
- When something long contained finally breaks its banks
Sit with these questions
- 1
What has risen past the line you usually keep it behind?
- 2
What are you trying to save from the water, and what are you letting go?
- 3
What might grow in the ground once it recedes?
Did this symbol visit your dream?
Decode the whole dream