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I was standing in deep water while my grandmother watched me.
In the Winti tradition water is rarely just water. It is where the Watra Winti live and where the ancestors can be reached. A dream about water is therefore often read as contact: something, or someone, is seeking you out.
Read the full Winti interpretation →In Islamic dream interpretation (ta'bir al-ru'ya), water is classically among the most favourable symbols. In the tradition of Ibn Sirin it is connected with knowledge, life and purification.
Read the full Islamic interpretation →In Wicca and nature-based practice, water belongs to the west, to emotion and intuition, and to the waning moon. A water dream is usually read as a message about your feeling life and about release.
Read the full Wicca interpretation →Water in Santería is rarely neutral. The form it takes points to a different domain: the sea toward Yemayá, the river toward Ochún, still water toward the egun.
Read the full Santería interpretation →In the Christian tradition water carries a strong, largely hopeful weight: cleansing, baptism, and the beginning of something new.
Read the full Christian interpretation →In Hinduism water is almost always sacred water. It points to the rivers, and above all to Ganga, who according to tradition purifies. A dream about water is therefore often read as cleansing, or as a question about what needs to be cleansed.
Read the full Hindu interpretation →In Buddhism water is often an image of the mind: sometimes clear and still, sometimes churning and murky. The texts also speak of the flood that has to be crossed. A dream about water is therefore read as a mirror of where your mind stands right now.
Read the full Buddhist interpretation →In the Jewish tradition water is often an image of peace, life and Torah. The Talmud names a river as one of three dream images that point to peace. A dream about flowing water is therefore usually read favourably.
Read the full Jewish interpretation →In the Chinese dream tradition water often stands for wealth. A well-known saying goes that water is money. Clear, flowing water is therefore usually read favourably, and murky or wild water as a warning about money or health.
Read the full Zhou Gong interpretation →Among the Akan many deities, the abosom, dwell in rivers and lakes, such as the river Tano and Lake Bosomtwe. Water in a dream is therefore often read in an Akan reading as nearness to the spirit world, to cleansing or to the ancestors.
Read the full Akan interpretation →Water plays a large role in Haitian Vodou. Agwe rules the sea, Simbi springs and fresh water, and Damballa the primordial water. After death the soul according to tradition stays for a time beneath the water. A water dream is therefore rarely read as feeling alone.
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Dream interpretation used to be personal.
A grandmother.
An imam.
A wintiman.
Someone in your family who knew you, and knew your tradition.
Through migration, secularisation and distance, that person has fallen away for many people. Dreamkin brings that perspective back.
Traditions
- Akan In the Akan tradition of Ghana dreams are a recognised channel between the living, the ancestors and the spirit world. During sleep the sunsum, a person's spirit, is said to travel and meet.
- Buddhist In Buddhism a dream above all shows the mind itself: what it clings to, what it fears and what it holds on to. The classical texts are sober about prophetic dreams, and the Tibetan tradition even uses the dream as a place of practice.
- Zhou Gong The Chinese dream tradition is thousands of years old. The best-known dream book, the Zhou Gong Jie Meng, is still consulted today. Many readings are surprisingly favourable and play on sounds: fish means abundance, water stands for wealth.
- Christian In the Christian tradition dreams appear throughout the Bible as a means of guidance, warning and comfort.
- Hindu In Hinduism dreaming is a state of consciousness of its own, svapna, which the Upanishads already reflected on. Dreams can arise from the body and the day, but also from karma, from the ancestors or from the divine.
- Islamic Islamic dream interpretation, ta'bir al-ru'ya, has a tradition over a thousand years old, with Ibn Sirin its best-known name.
- Jewish In Judaism dreams have a long history, from Jacob's ladder and Joseph's dreams to a whole chapter in the Talmud. A dream counts there as one-sixtieth of prophecy: sometimes meaningful, often simply the thoughts of your own heart.
- Santería In Santería, also called Regla de Ocha or Lucumí, dreams are read through the energy of the Orishas and the presence of the ancestors.
- Vodou In Haitian Vodou dreams are one of the main ways the lwa and the ancestors speak with the living. A dream is therefore read not only as symbol, but as a possible visit: who is coming, and what is being asked?
- Wicca In Wicca and nature-based practice, dreams are read through the elements, the moon's phase and the wheel of the year.
- Winti Winti is the Surinamese spiritual tradition in which dreams are one of the ways the ancestors and the winti speak to the living.
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