Waves

The waves in dreams may represent emotional fluctuations.

If you are currently experiencing a period of tranquillity and peace, you may be dreaming about calm waters and gentle ocean waves. This dream suggests that you may be gathering energy and recharging emotionally. However, more commonly people dream of violent and dangerous tidal waves. Tidal waves or tsunamis suggest a period of emotional upheaval. Anxiety, stress, and unconscious materials may be coming to the surface and affecting your daily moods. Giant tidal waves may symbolize current emotional unhappiness and psychological stress, which are threatening to destroy you.

The outcome of this dream may reveal how much strength you have to “ride out” personal storms.

For example, surviving the tidal wave suggests that you have enough strength to overcome challenges and drowning that you may be “in it over your head” and should seek assistance.

Waves represents the threatening and sometimes stormy activity of the conscious, but also symbolizes a transcendent, open, and expressive emotion. To notice that you are being carried away by the waves indicates a passive attitude toward the circumstances, as minutiae easily distract you from your goals. By contrast, choppy waves announce a possible emotional conflict. Everything indicates that will jealousy and envy arise, and that aggressive outburst could occur at any time. However, this situation will be temporary. On the other hand, to dream that you walk over the waves predicts you will overcome the obstacles that separate you from your goal. (See WATER, LAKE, and SEA)

Dreams of waves denote, according to some superstitions, a need for inner cleansing.

Waves on a body of water can represent: Power, energy, nature, or the force of nature.

Rhythm or cycles.

Progress or movement forward.

The idea of being carried along in life, making things easy for you.

Regular waves (one right after another) can represent: repetition, consistency, reliability, or predictability, a series of events in your real life.

Turbulent waves can represent a feeling or fear of challenges, obstacles, overwhelm, chaos, turbulence, or loss of control due to external forces.

One huge wave could represent sudden overwhelm or a sudden challenge in your life.

See Water, Body of, Flow or River, Swirl or Eddy