Hi Silvia,
Thought I'd paste part of an earlier post I made here, as it may be helpful for you. (This extract is from a longer post, several threads down from this one, titled 'Tidal waves and tsunamis').
Although your dream has specifics, you might like to digest this more general reply first. Please reply with your thoughts so far, and then I'll add something to relate this more specifically to YOUR dream.
Here's the extract:
"Tidal waves, in dreams, tend to symbolise the emotions we try to repress or hold back to 'deal with' later. Water tends to represent our emotions: you can't put water under pressure without drastic results in the same way that you can't lock emotions into a box to deal with later. Tidal waves, in dreams, show the enormous power and pressure of our unconscious emotions.
Tidal waves may be formed from positive shut-away emotions (creativity, love, passion) just as often as from the emotions we think of as being negative (anger, grief, disappointment and so on).
In waking life we say we are 'dealing' or 'coping' with tough conditions, but really dealing and coping are really ways of ignoring and denying through trying to 'carry on' as before instead of address or acknowledge feelings and emotions which (we know) will result in change. How many times do we run away from change - even when it is positive change? That old, familiar safety zone can be so engrossing.
As the dreams show, running away (from emotions or from change) gets us nowhere but - stuck or paralysed in the status quo from fear of facing change ... or bowled over into a 'breakdown' as the wave, ignored for far too long, catches up and 'breaks'.
As the dreams show, facing the wave and showing no fear (facing fear) is the way to go. After this you ride the changes in life, roll with the flow and let the power of your life force take you to a better place .. a place where emotions and feelings are out of the box and therefore not subjected to mounting pressure.
As the ocean can also represent the unconscious, tidal waves can symbolise the forward movement of the unconscious, relentlessly insisting on our forward progress (personal development, self understanding, enlightenment) and showing us, through the dream action, where we are resisting this.
Sometimes your tidal wave dreams are clearer in retrospect. If you do not face the emotions, changes or forward movement the tidal waves urge, then life takes you to a place of forced-facing .. of crisis. Looking back you will see all the signs from your dreams and see where your dreams included hints on how to achieve change through gentler means than getting totally bowled over.
In this way, tidal wave dreams can be seen to be precognitive, as our unconscious is so far ahead of our conscious mind in expressing the shape of things to come.
A book could be written on this subject ... hmm. now, there's a thought!!!
So, next time you catch yourself saying, "I'm coping," or "I'm dealing with it," ... think again. If you're coping or dealing ... consider very carefully that you may, in fact, be NOT FACING."
(end of extract).
Jane Teresa Anderson |
