Decode Your Dreams

A flood in your dream usually points to emotions, pressures or events overflowing their usual limits, but it can also mean a cleansing that clears the way for something new. Learn what rising and receding water, a flooded house, and escaping or saving others mean, and how flood dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

A lake in your dream usually reflects your inner emotional life, whether you're resting in calm, clear waters or facing murky depths, frozen feelings or something stirring beneath the surface. Learn what clear, murky, frozen and drying lakes mean, and what it means to swim, fall through the ice or see your reflection, and how lake dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

Light in your dream can mean hope, guidance and new clarity, or exposure, overwhelm, or a feeling that your usual sources of help have gone dark. Learn how the light's color, strength and source change the meaning, and how it's read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

The ocean in your dream usually reflects the vast, deep parts of your emotional life and the big forces you can't control. Learn what calm seas, storms, tsunamis and drowning mean, and how ocean dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

Rain in your dream usually points to emotional release, cleansing and renewal, but cold, endless or violent rain can reflect sadness, delay or trouble that won't let up. Learn what it means to walk in the rain, get soaked, take shelter or see rain inside your house, and how rain dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

A river in your dream usually reflects the flow of your life, where things are carrying you and whether you're moving with the current or against it. Learn what crossing a river, being swept away, or seeing a muddy, dry or flooding river means, and how river dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

A tsunami in your dream usually points to something overwhelming heading your way, like a surge of emotion, a sudden change or pressure that feels bigger than you, but it can also mark a powerful clearing that makes room for something new. Learn what it means to run from a tsunami, get caught, survive or watch the wave stop short, and how tsunami dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

Water in a dream usually mirrors your emotional life, but whether it's clear or murky, rising or still, changes everything. Here's how to read your water dream layer by layer, including what it means in Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.

Waves in your dream usually point to emotions, energy and change moving through your life in rhythm, whether you're riding them with ease or being knocked down again and again. Learn what huge, crashing, calm and dark waves mean, what it means to surf, dive under or be pulled out by a wave, and how waves dreams are read across Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Hindu, Buddhist, Jungian and Shamanic traditions.