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Nature
Tsunami
A wave of feeling, too big to outrun
What it often means
A tsunami in a dream is emotion at overwhelming scale — grief, fear, or change rising into a wall of water that cannot be outrun, only met. Unlike a flood, it comes from the depths and arrives all at once. It often marks a feeling you have sensed gathering far offshore.
When it tends to appear
- When a large emotion has been gathering out of sight
- Before a change you sense but cannot stop
- When feeling threatens to overwhelm your defences
Sit with these questions
- 1
What feeling have you watched gathering on the horizon?
- 2
Are you trying to outrun it, or learning to climb above it?
- 3
What would it mean to meet the wave instead of flee it?
Did this symbol visit your dream?
Decode the whole dream