Sunday, January 19, 2003		Dream Theme

Dreaming of swamps
Vinaya Katoch manhas

SEEING swamps is generally a fear-evoking dream because the context in the dream is generally of getting trapped, drowning in a swamp or seeing a loved one entrapped in one and getting slowly swallowed in it. As per the Indian context, to see yourself walking through a marshy area and to fall in it is not taken as a good omen. After such a dream beware, for situations could arise that would mar your character. You could also face losses in your business or on the job front. You could face a lot of opposition too from all fronts.

In such a situation, if you were to be patient and take steps after a lot of forethought, then you stand to gain and shall be able to overcome your problems. According to the western point of view, to see yourself walking through a swampy area foretells of adverse circumstances in the coming future. However, if you see yourself walking through a swampy area and see clear water and green growths, it shall bring forth prosperity and singular pleasures. These gains shall be accompanied with a certain amount of danger and intrigue. Should you see yourself entrapped in a swamp, prepare for some major illness and worries. You could also get embroiled in an unpleasant situation, so beware.

Psychoanalytically, the overflowing of our emotions causes dreams of swamps and marshes. Such dreams have an emotional connotation attached to them. To see yourself enveloped and drowning in a swamp or marsh is to find yourself overwhelmed by a particular emotion. To struggle so as to be able to save yourself from drowning portrays that you are uncomfortable with that particular emotion and wish to get over the emotional situation. To manage to escape is a portrayal of the feeling of a relief by managing to escape from an overwhelming emotional situation. To drown in the marsh is to accept the situation and let yourself get swayed by it. With such dreams, you are getting in touch with your basic feelings.

Another interpretation is that of trying to search for some potential within us, as swamps are also taken as fertile areas from where everything emerges.

A man would often dream of falling again and again in a marsh and getting muddied and dirty. Of course, it did not have any drowning sensation associated with it. The man seems to feel bogged down and entrapped in a particular situation in which he is not comfortable and fears certain reprisals. He wishes to get out but does not know how to do so.