Fish
Category: animals
What does dreaming of Fish mean?
Fish in dreams often appear when something has been moving in the deeper layers of the psyche and is now coming close enough to be seen. Jung treated them as inhabitants of the unconscious waters, and he paid attention to whether they were swimming freely, caught, or surfacing of their own accord. The dream-fish usually marks an insight that has been forming below the level of words. A fish that is dying out of water rarely predicts a literal loss. In dream language this may point to an intuition that has been pulled too quickly into the daylight of analysis and is asking to be returned to its element. Letting the fish remain a little mysterious, rather than rushing to interpret it, often preserves the meaning it is trying to bring.
Common Variations
- ✦Colorful fish
- ✦Big fish
- ✦Fish out of water
- ✦Fishing
- ✦Aquarium fish
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