What research shows
Floods scored roughly 23% in the typical-dreams literature, close to fire at 27.3%.
Nature and elements
Emotion that has left its banks. Unlike a tsunami it rises slowly, which changes the reading from shock to accumulation..
What research shows
Floods scored roughly 23% in the typical-dreams literature, close to fire at 27.3%.
The psychological reading
The water level and what it reaches matter more than the flood: rising to the door, into the house, or above the head are three different states.
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The version matters
Most dream dictionaries give one meaning for the whole symbol. In practice the specific version carries most of the information — losing every tooth and losing one tooth are not the same dream.
How to record a dream, why the feeling matters more than the content, and when recurring nightmares are worth a doctor rather than a dictionary — set out once on the main page.
How the dream felt matters more than what was in it. The same image can arrive as comfort or as threat, and that difference tells you more than any entry in a dictionary — including this one.