WEATHER

According to ancient dream-lore, dreaming of fine weather foretells happy events and dreaming of bad weather indicates future misfortune. Although dreams in which weather features strongly may be presenting you with a forecast of sunny or stormy times ahead, modern dream analysts tend to follow the Jungian interpretation; this suggests that weather dreams often reflect the emotional climate in your waking life. Whether your dream featured sunshine, snow, rain or a gentle breeze, it is likely that the symbolism of the weather mirrored your current emotions or thought processes in waking life. Another interpretation focuses on the changeability and fickleness of weather, suggesting that your unconscious is forecasting your own change of mood in the real world.

The message of your dream is often highlighted if you felt extremes of temperature or if the weather was uncharacteristic in some way, such as snow falling in summer. Stormy skies may show arguments and anger, sunshine may show happiness and optimism, and snow may indicate that your emotions are frozen. Dreams of earthquakes, avalanches and other natural disasters suggest emotions that are so powerful and uncontrolled that they can have disastrous effects when unleashed on your waking world.

See also DISASTERS; NATURE AND THE SEASONS.

Weather also can indicate our internal responses to situations. If. for instance, there was a storm in our dream our emotions would be stormy, perhaps angry and aggressive.

If we arc watching a very blue, unclouded sky, we may be recognising that we have the ability to keep the situations that we are in under control. We do possess the ability to control internal moods and emotions which may not have been possible in the past. Being aware of the weather would indicate that we need to recognise that we are part of a greater whole rather than just individuals in our own right.

3- Different types of weather maybe symbolic of a spiritual response.

The dreamer requires an answer to a question, for example (see Wind).

The “conditions” in your life or the “climate” within your consciousness, from the point of view of your subconscious mind.

Your current feelings about a past, current, or future situation.

Your mood during a past real-life event (such as a sunny day representing your “sunny” mood at a party last weekend).

The mood in a particular group or social environment (such as a hurricane representing your project team’s chaotic mood during last week’s crisis).

Unpleasant weather can represent a challenge in your life or unpleasant feelings (angry, sad, etc.).

Fair weather can represent well-being or a sense of things going well in your life.

See Sunny, Cloud, Sky, Cold, Warm, Hot, Rain, Snow, Hail, Wind, Storm, Lightning, Thunder, Tornado, Hurricane, Flood