Ocean
The ocean is a symbol for the Unconscious Mind: the part of your mind that you don’t know...
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The enormous size of the ocean lets the dreamer feel the greatness of their unconscious mind compared to their normal, small self.
The ocean, like other bodies of water, reflects the light that wants to penetrate and see beneath.
The is symbolic of the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind.
In a dream, tidal waves, flooding, or an overflow of water confronting the dreamer means the build up of energy in the unconscious mind is threatening to the dreamer and could kill them symbolically, or cause a great change to their situation.
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The ocean however is an ambivalent symbol.
What lies beneath the water, such as whales, treasure, or fish can have a positive or negative meaning for the dreamer.
It could build up the personality, like pushing a ship in a new direction, or it could destroy the personality drowning the dreamer.
Over thousands of years of man-kind’s experience of nature, the ocean always symbolised the edge of the known world:
The Ocean IS the unknown.
The Ocean IS the Unconscious.
