I wonder if recurring dreams are some form of psychosis. Probably not. At any rate, I have one, that seems to occur more frequently than anything else. It isn't scary or anything, but a little on the weird side. It revolves around a large body of water, possibly a large lake or river. There doesn't seem to ever be much current to it, so my guess would be a lake, although the shores of the lake on two sides are usually out of sight. At any rate, this lake is located in the woods- usual New England-type forests, maple trees, oak trees, a few pine trees and birch trees. The forest comes pretty much right up to the shore, and the bank drops off steeply to the water's edge. The lake itself is somewhat murky, and deep- looking into it gives the impression of depths far over your head, deeper than I could imagine. I'm always swimming across this lake, sometimes in a boat, but always in the water. The depth of it doesn't seem scary or threatening, and swimming in it is easy. There is an island in the middle of the lake, not much really, just a small patch of land that has a few trees and shrubs on it, that I sometimes swim out to. Just under the surface of the water, in a straight line to the shore from the island, are a series of metal pylons, such as would support a bridge. They are rusted and old, and any bridge they may have supported is long gone. It's possible to sit or stand on top of one and jump to the next across the water. I found these by whacking my shin on one, (being a dream, fortunately it didn't hurt). But there they were, their ends buried in the incomprehensible depth of the lake.
So what does all this mean? Well, various dream dictionaries indicate the water is more important than the lake. Water, especially a body of water, often indicates the subconscious. How you relate to that water tells a good deal about yourself. Here, the water is deep, and the depths can't be seen, indicating there's something I don't know, or at least am not consciously aware of. The fact that there are pylons in it, indicating both that the depths are not infinite and that I can get a grasp of whatever is down there, is a good sign, I think. Another interpretation says that since the water is easy to move through (sometimes with superhuman speed) points to a good relationship with a partner. (That much is true). The lack of any threats seems to indicate a good chance of finding out what is in this lake, apart from the pylons. I think overall it indicates some untapped potential, and a sense of growing into what I could be. Since I met the love of my life, I've been finding this to be the case- things are opening up, and I'm finding myself able to do things I didn't know I could do, and posessing courage and fearlessness I also didn't know I had. If that's all it means, then good. Perhaps there's something more, though- perhaps a sense of lost direction- there's so much out there, and being on my own, on the fringe of this new world, is quite a tall order. Better to be a master of one trade than a jack of all, as they say. But luck and dedication have gotten me this far- let's see how far down the rabbit hole we can go!
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