Any image involving water relates to an experience of your emotions. In the case of a whirlpool, the implication is that there is a circling back over some focused point again and again until the momentum created pulls you down to your ultimate demise. This is what happens when you perseverate over some challenge that is causing an emotional reaction as a persistent thought or feeling.
The whirlpool in your dream is asking you to consider what you can’t let go of.
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Eric Ackroyd
A Dictionary of Dream Symbols
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(1) A whirlpool may symbolize something in your psyche that is threatening to ‘pull you down’ or even destroy you.
(2) If the ‘feel’ of the whirlpool is good, it may mean either that you are in the grip of a negative death-wish or that you are being invited to descend into your unconscious to discover more about yourself.
See also Spiral.
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James R. Lewis and Evelyn Dorothy Oliver
Dream Symbols in The Dream Encyclopedia
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A dream in which a whirlpool poses a threat could indicate that the dreamer is resisting a confrontation with a person or situation that he or she must inevitably confront.
A whirlpool can also represent being pulled unwillingly into a confrontation with repressed material in the unconscious mind.
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Stephen Girard
The Mystic Dream Book
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To dream that you are in danger of being engulfed in a whirlpool, signifies that, if single, you will be soon married; and if married, that your domestic enjoyments will be neither few nor small.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dream Interpretation
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To dream of a whirlpool, denotes that great danger is imminent in your business, and, unless you are extremely careful, your reputation will be seriously blackened by some disgraceful intrigue.
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Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dream
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A dream warning you of danger, physica/1 or otherwise (Gypsy). The dreams of whirling or of being whirled are readily attributable to physical causes, headaches, vertigo, etc.
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myjellybean
My Dream Interpretation
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A whirlpool in a dream suggests you have been avoiding confronting a person or situation that you will have to eventually face.
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Stearn Robinson - Tom Corbett
The Complete Guide to Interpreting Your Dreams
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A whirlpool in your dream suggests confusion in your current affairs; if you can’t sort it out alone, get professional help.
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Klaus Vollmar
Little Giant Encyclopedia
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Sinking into emotions, into the unconscious.
See Diving.
Folklore: You are inheriting something.
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Raymond Buckland
Gypsy Dream Dictionary
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You are in a very dangerous situation and could be swept away, without warning, at any time.
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Internet Archive - Anonymous
Mystic Dream Book
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Advice will be given to you well-worth following.
An inheritance in the future.
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Joan Seaman - Tom Philbin
New American Dream Dictionary
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Anxiety that one will be pulled into a situation and not survive.
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Margaret Hamilton
Dream Dictionary Unlimited
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A spiritual confusion
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Gillian Holloway
The Complete Dream Book
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(See Torrent).
About These Interpretations
This page presents 14 different perspectives on this dream symbol from various expert sources. Each interpretation considers context, emotion, and personal meaning rather than providing fixed definitions.
