If you dream of clear, still water, it promises that abundance and genuine happiness are on their way to you.
Muddy water signals danger and the kind of heavy gloom that pushes joy to the margins of your life.
If water begins rising inside your home, you are in a struggle against corrupting influences — and unless the water recedes in the dream, those influences may eventually overwhelm you.
If you are bailing water out but your feet keep getting wet, expect a difficult stretch marked by illness and hardship, though your own vigilance will carry you through. The same meaning applies when muddy water rises inside containers.
Falling into muddy water means you will make a series of painful errors in judgment, each one leaving its own mark of regret.
Drinking muddy water warns of sickness, while drinking water that is clear and cool suggests that your most cherished hopes are moving toward fulfillment.
Playing freely in water signals a sudden, unexpected awakening to love and desire.
If water is sprinkled or poured over your head, that awakening to love will be fully and warmly returned.
One young woman who kept a record of her dreams described this episode: she found herself aboard a vessel moving through vivid blue water, arriving at a landing that gleamed white but was rough and uneven beneath her hands. That very next evening, a charming young man paid her a call — but his visit extended well past what her mother considered proper, and she faced a sharp reprimand for it. The luminous water and the flawed white structure together had signaled how an inviting prospect can carry hidden disappointment.