Your good luck may, of course, be tempered if you cannot hold your dream eel in your hands and it slips away from you. If you managed to catch an eel in the dream, this may be a sign of good fortune. Dreaming of numerous eels writhing in the water therefore symbolizes a longing for sexual orgasm. According to Freudians, the eel represents temptation and sexual desires. In folklore, solitary trout were sometimes regarded as guardians of the pool and to dream of these fish offers encouragement that you will rise to the top of your chosen profession.Īn eel in a dream may symbolize a slippery acquaintance- someone who makes you feel uncomfortable, because they are not to be trusted. Dream salmon can also suggest single- minded persistence and wisdom. Because of its legendary instinct to find distant spawning grounds, to dream of salmon swimming up a river suggests that home and family are always paramount in your mind, no matter how far you travel. While for Freudians, all fish are phallic symbols, the dream image of cod may suggest a yearning for a homely situation, as cod is basic food for lunch or supper. For example, if you are familiar with Japanese lore you may equate carp with courage, love or good luck the dream carp could, however, be pointing to your tendency to carp on or nag at someone in waking life.
When interpreting the meaning of specific fish in your dreams it is also important to bear in mind cultural associations with certain types of fish that may imbue them with extra meaning. Pay particular attention to the color of the fish as this will add to the interpretation for example, a purple fish connotes spirituality. Individual fish species impart their own meanings to dreamers. species behaviour and habits dream meaning It is enough to begin with if we recognise that a lot of ourself and our potential remains unknown to us because it remains unconscious, or a pan of our unconscious processes. Thereare, of course, many other aspects of the unconscious, such as memories of childhood trauma, the dream process, the image formation process and sensory apparatus. While they remain unconscious we find it difficult to redirect them or even admit to their influence in our life. They are habits developed through thousands or millions of years of repetition. The problem is that many of these patterns are no longer serving us well. We often venerate the norm’ of these patterns and raise them, religiously or politically, to a level of tremendous importance. Why does Catholicism ban the condom and divorce, make a giant figure out of the Pope, worship a woman with a baby in her arms, if it is not based on these mighty urges and biological drives?ĭreams reveal that much of human life arises out of these patterns. The procreative drive, the election of leaders, the parental and child raising urges, are all to be seen in the Christian religion as the bones behind the robes and rituals. The feelings behind them, although seldom acknowledged directly by our conscious self, are often raised to religious status. Although irrational, and not in our best interest to be influenced by, millions of us are moved by them as if we had little will of our own. They are behind enormous hostility between neighbours and nations. Yet they are powerful enough when manipulated to gather huge armies of people who then march to their death. Talking to individuals, these drives are often hardly recognised. We seek outward signs of our status, and wherever possible show them. We elect leaders, and have complicated rituals regarding group status or personal ‘face*. In groups this becomes nationalism and, like ants or some group animals, we fight to defend our territory. We tend to find a partner of the opposite sex and produce children. As a species, humans have certain norms of behaviour, many of which we share with other animals.
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