Sinking Dream Meaning

Not realizing that you’re retreating from the real world, or a situation, only to be in worse trouble.

In quicksand: Losing your identity to a group, corporation, or set of circumstances. Alternatively, having your mobility or normal escape mechanisms impeded by a person or situation.

Feeling hopelessly swallowed up by problems, emotions, or a relationship.

If this is not a frightening or uncomfortable sensation, it may be that you are traveling into your own subconscious, the animal nature, or Super Ego, and integrating the content.

If a boat is sinking, this can symbolize the end of a relationship, partnership, or other joint efforts, particularly profitable ones.

(see Numbers)

In mainstream religions, six is often associated with evil, such as the number of the Beast (666) in the Book of Revelation.

Protection. Tlie six-pointed Star of David, the emblem of Judaism, was frequently used as a protective talisman, bearing specific potency against evil.

An alternative type of crystal symbol, as many natural crystals have a hexagonal form.

May also be considered a number of completeness, as creation took six days, with God resting on the seventh (see Seven).

Among some Native .American tribes, this is the number of mental or emotional strength.

To see someone else sinking would suggest we are aware of a difficulty which perhaps needs our help. We may feel we are losing ground within a relationship or situation. What we are sinking into could be important.

To be sinking in water would suggest a particular emotion is threatening to en,gulf us.

To be sinking in sand or a bog indicates that we feci there is no safe ground for us.

2- A sinking feeling in dreams usually suggests worry or fear. Emotionally we arc unable to maintain our usual happiness. We may feel that we are not in control, and that we cannot maintain forward movement.

To see an object sinking may suggest that we are about to lose something we value.

3- Both spiritually and physically, to be sinking is to be getting into a situation where we are unable to see clearly or to perceive the best course of action.

For sensitives, this may be when the negativity of others threatens to overwhelm us.

To see someone else sinking would suggest we are aware of a difficulty that perhaps needs our help. What we are sinking into could be important.

To be sinking in water would suggest a particular emotion is threatening to engulf us.

To be sinking in quicksand or a bog indicates that we feel there is no safe ground for us. Becoming conscious of a sink or basin suggests that some kind of cleansing is necessary.

See also Dead / Death.

(2) It may be a symbol of depression or despair.

(3) It may symbolize being ‘swallowed’ by vour mother (or your mother-attachment) who (or which) prevents you from achieving a properly separate existence or independent identity.

(4) The water may represent either emotion or the unconscious; therefore sinking may represent being swamped and overwhelmed by emotion or unconscious processes (which will usually be emotional).

(5) If a ship or boat is sinking, this may symbolize the end of something in your life (e.g. a relationship).

and drowning in the sea: big profit wil be lost unnecessarily.

because of another’s negligence: your judgment in selecting whom you trust is weak.

being saved from: good business ventures.

escaping from: consider the proper placement of selfish pleasure.

haystack, into a: wil depart on the capriciousness of others for pleasure.

mud, into the: ruin is coming, wil fal into disgrace.

poaching in soft ground: hasty conclusions signal reverses and trying times.

To see an object sinking may suggest that we are about to lose something we value.

A sink as a water receptacle symbolizes the way we hold onto our emotions.

Some astrologists assert that dreaming of sinking means you have spent too much on purchases.

For sensitives, this may be when the negativity of others threatens to overwhelm us.

The entries for drowning, emotions, quicksand and water will provide additional information.

An opportunity for self-knowledge.

See Submarine, Swamp, Diving.

See second example in falling.

2. Someone is pulling one down.

3. Something important in one’s life is ending.

2. Judgment;

3. Fear;

4. In what area of your life do you feeling overwhelmed; Gen. 7:20-22; Exod. 15:5, 10; 1 Sam. 17:49;