Dream meanings · 6 old dream books
Dream about water: what 6 old dream books say
The dream books disagree — China · Sweden · India read it as good · Greek read it as bad
Counted from 90 entries about this symbol · books that give no direction (such as Miller) don't count as a vote
🇨🇳 China · Zhougong Jiemeng
drawing water from a wellmixed — Clear water is auspicious, murky water inauspicious. (取井水清吉混凶) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a bucket full of watergood — great auspiciousness (桶盛水者主大吉) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a bucket without waterbad — great misfortune (桶無水者主大凶) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
a wife entering water with her husbandgood — auspicious (婦人與夫入水吉) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
walking upon watergood — Great good fortune. (水上行者主大吉) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
standing upon waterbad — Ill affairs will come. (水上立者主凶事) · direction from 吉/凶 in the original
Source: 周公解夢 · Public domain (Wikisource · {{Pd-old}}) · 16 more in this book
🇮🇳 India · Svapnādhyāya (Purāṇas · Atharvaveda)
Bathing in cow-dung water, muddy water or ink waterbad — An inauspicious dream; not telling it is auspicious · direction as read by the translator
Being anointed with water flowing from a cow's horn or fallen from the moongood — Grants kingship · direction as read by the translator
White cloth, clear water, a fruiting tree, a spotless skygood — Beneficial · direction as read by the translator
Bathing in cow-dung water, muddy water or earthy waterbad — A bad dream · direction as read by the translator
Crossing waters; crossing rough terraingood — Auspicious; gains wealth without effort, and the sick are freed from disease · direction as read by the translator
Seeing clear watersgood — Auspicious; gains wealth without effort, and the sick are freed from disease · direction as read by the translator
Source: Svapnādhyāya — Atharvaveda Pariśiṣṭa 68 · Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa 77/82 (Sanskrit) · Ancient text, public domain · transcription from sa.wikisource (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 10 more in this book
🇺🇸 Western · Miller (1901)
Mineral Water — To dream of drinking mineral water, foretells fortune will favor your efforts, and you will enjoy your opportunities to satisfy your cravings for certain pleasures.
Water — To dream of clear water, foretells that you will joyfully realize prosperity and pleasure. If the water is muddy, you will be in danger and gloom will occupy Pleasure's seat. If you see it rise up in your house, denotes that you will struggle to resist evil, but unless you see it subside, you will succumb to dangerous influences. If you find yourself baling it out, but with feet growing wet, foreshadows trouble, sickness, and misery will work you a hard task, but you will forestall them by your watchfulness. The same may be applied to muddy water rising in vessels. To fall into muddy water, is a sign that you will make many bitter mistakes, and will suffer poignant grief therefrom. To drink muddy water, portends sickness, but drinking it clear and refreshing brings favorable consummation of fair hopes. To sport with water, denotes a sudden awakening to love and passion. To have it sprayed on your head, denotes that your passionate awakening to love will meet reciprocal consummation. The following dream and its allegorical occurrence in actual life is related by a young woman student of dreams: ``Without knowing how, I was (in my dream) on a boat, I waded through clear blue water to a wharfboat, which I found to be snow white, but rough and splintry. The next evening I had a delightful male caller, but he remained beyond the time prescribed by mothers and I was severely censured for it.'' The blue water and fairy white boat were the disappointing prospects in the symbol.
Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted — Gustavus Hindman Miller (1901) · Public domain (Gutenberg)
🇸🇪 Sweden · folk dream book
Passing watergood — Against a wall: good business; in bed: money you have been waiting for · direction as read by the translator
Watermixed — Being much in water: fear stroke and quinsy; seeing clear, still water: a good omen, especially for travellers, lawyers and judges; seeing muddy, troubled water: disfavour and an unfavourable verdict for lawyers; being out on clear water: influential benefactors; being on muddy water: loss of kin and friends; falling in: danger to life; warm water: sickness; drinking warm water: persecutions; cold: victory and fortune; sour water: fatal illness; walking on the water: brilliant success; seeing water flow out of a place where it cannot: unease and dejection; scooping out water: long-lasting suffering, but if it is dried up or run off, your suffering ceases at once; pouring out water: harm and sorrow · direction as read by the translator
Source: Den tillförlitligaste Drömboken (svensk drömbok) · Public domain (Gutenberg)
🏛️ Greek · Artemidorus (1881 German ed.)
Finding no water in the bath basinsbad — What one hopes for will not be fulfilled, especially hopes that rest on the crowd · direction as read by the translator
Drinking cold watergood — Brings luck to everyone · direction as read by the translator
Drinking warm waterbad — Illness and idleness for everyone, except those accustomed to it · direction as read by the translator
other turbid water flowing into the housebad — one will see the house on fire · direction as read by the translator
clear water flowing into the housegood — gain and money in abundance · direction as read by the translator
Source: Artemidoros aus Daldis — Symbolik der Träume (German ed., 1881) · Public domain (printed 1881)
🇷🇺 Russia · Sonnik (1787 · 1811)
Water seen in a dreammixed — Clear water seen in a dream signifies well-being, but muddy water signifies sorrow. · direction as read by the translator
Drinking clear watergood — Drinking clear water in a dream signifies health. · direction as read by the translator
Drinking warm waterbad — Drinking warm water in a dream signifies grieving over a kinsman or a friend. · direction as read by the translator
Falling into water or into a swampbad — Falling into water or into a swamp in a dream signifies death. · direction as read by the translator
Seeing clear spring water in its sourcesgood — means health, riches, and an honest wife · direction as read by the translator
Washing in water with all one's clothes onbad — Illness or harm · direction as read by the translator
Source: Сонник, или Истолкование снов (1787) · Public domain (printed 1787) · 37 more in this book