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Dreaming Lens: What type of well was in your dream? How deep did it go? Was it filled with water or empty? Was there anything surrounding the top of the well? Was it usable? Was it private or for public use?

Personal Focus: Any time water is featured in a dream, what is being expressed is the state of your emotional life. Water is the necessary ingredient to sustaining life. A well is dug to provide consistent access to this life-giving elixir. In the symbolic world, there is a correlation between water as emotion and water as life-sustaining substance. We need water to live and our souls need emotional balance to thrive. A well is often a community resource, so the state of the well in your dream may be revealing your current life’s relationship to your own feelings and how much you may have to give to others. If your well is running dry, you may need to consider your own needs first. If it is overflowing, take a look at how your emotional life may be more than you can contain. (See also Water, Fountain.)

Vision: A dried-up well is a negative sign for all your personal affairs and their possibilities.

A well filled with clear water: your emotions and your soul are in balance and alive and promise much success. Falling into a well: you are passionate— but beware, this could end up hurting you! Taking water out of a deep well: you are obsessed with desires, but are denying that they exist; or you have become attached to someone (if the water in the well is clear, a good person, if the water is murky, a false friend). Giving water from the well to someone else: a warning that not everybody is worth your abiding confidence.

Depth Psychology: A well is a symbol of “the fountain of youth.” People who draw or drink the water are reaching unconsciously for inner strength while, at the same time, undergoing a spiritual renewal.

The well is the place where the experiences of your life are “stored” and from which you can draw again and again.

See Fountain, Water.

The structural condition of each well in a dream has its own interpretation. Awell in a dream also represent a woman who has a loud laughter, or it could represent a pleasant and an inspiring woman.

If a woman sees a well in a dream, it means meeting a man of good character.

If one sees himselflooking into a well in a dream, it means that he is thinking about a particular woman for marriage.

A well in a dream is also interpreted to represent knowledge, marriage, a big man, prison, ties, or deception.

If one digs a well and finds water in it in his dream, it means that he will marry a wealthy woman whom he will deceive. Ifthe water gushes forth, 474 rises and runs outside of an old well in the dream, it represents crying and grief in that place. Digging a well and finding water to channel for one’s garden in a dream means taking an herbal remedy to cure one’s impotence, or to save his marriage. Falling into a well of muddy waters in a dream means that one may become subject to the tyranny of an unjust ruler. Ifthe water he falls into is clear in the dream, it means that he will willingly work to serve a righteous man and for a nominal wage. Falling into a well in a dream also means demotion, or it could mean travels. Sitting at the edge of a well in a dream means dealing with a deceiving person.

A collapsed well in a dream represents a dying woman. Reaching a well which is dug for the general public to draw from its water means getting relief after suffering from difficulties. Finding a well adjacent to a barmaid in a dream means finding a spiritual teacher, or joining a fellowship and a school for the seekers. Ifone sees the well ofZamzam quenching the thirst of people in a particular neighborhood other than Mecca in a dream, it means that a gnostic will come to that town, and whose knowledge and wisdom will . greatly benefit its people. It also may denote the bounty and blessings which are imparted to that town, or it could denote the victory of its people over their real enemy. Drinking from such a well in a dream means fulfillment of one’s intentions and satisfaction of his needs. In a dream, a well also means a prison or depression.

If one is in such a state, it means that his adversities will dissipate, and that he will reestablish himself in the circles of people in authority.

If the person in the dream is a seer who predicts events, then he may be involved in the circles of governors, particularly to interpret their dreams.

It is possible that he also might receive emissaries of notable people who will bring him what pleases him. It also could mean a fight in one’s family involving jealousy, envy, betrayal, though at the end one will triumph over them. Falling into a well in a dream also means being indicted in an alleged crime from which one is clearly innocent.

A well in a dream is also interpreted as levying taxes, or it could mean circumcision. Digging a well in a dream also represents a crafty and an artful deceiver.