A plot about a space being inundated with water—a house, a street, an area—with a feeling of an advancing elemental force.
A flood in a dream in popular tradition is often associated with being overwhelmed by emotions. A flood symbolizes the breakthrough of unconscious material into the realm of conscious life—emotions that are no longer contained by habitual boundaries. Unlike drowning, the emphasis here is on external space—water invades where it usually shouldn't be.
Anxiety, helplessness before the elements, sometimes purification
Often arrives when emotional tension has built up to a point where old methods of containment no longer work. Perhaps feelings you have long kept under control are now asking for more space to be expressed.
Dedicate 10 minutes today just to let an emotion be—without trying to stop or explain it, only noticing where it is in the body.
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