What does my reoccuring dream from childhood mean?

Question

I've had the same dream since I was a small kid. It's very simple. Basically I'm in a center of deep swimming pool and I feel really uneasy and afraid. I swim to get out of the pool but when I get to the edge, all I see are other empty swimming pools surrounding me. Like a never ending grid of pools.There are no other people in the dream. It's more of a nightmare than dream.

What does it mean?

Answer 1

It seems to me that the pool you're in is your present environment or situation.  You aren't comfortable there in some way, so you want to get out.  However, when you get to the edge - the "limit" of your environment in some way - you see that other possibilities are empty, and that your situation, however bad, seems preferable to THOSE.  It sounds to me like you've been looking for a way out of something for a VERY long time; perhaps you need to learn to see other possibilities, and some of those "pools" will fill up.

Good luck!

Answer 2

it means you feel alone and hopeless ... but you are not people care about you , just hang in there

Answer 3

It means you have a good support system, and your family and friends all love you.

Answer 4

God is playing checkers with you! :O

On a more serious note. It's either something vastly important to you, or nothing at all. My old man had a recurring dream when he was a kid for like 2 years straight (or so he says) and it was about being at the Grand Canyon. The dream started after visiting the Grand Canyon. Go figure.

Answer 5

Water is good.  It means baptismal....rebirth....the starting of something new.....turning over a new leaf.

Answer 6

If you have to swim to get out of the first pool & the ones surrounding you are all empty........isn't that a good thing, since you can't drown in an empty pool?

And don't the pools surrounding the one you were in have edges that you can walk along?

lol

Sorry, but logistics tell me that isn't much of a "nightmare"

Answer 7

Being underwater usually means under emotional distress...but since you're in the center of the pool, it may well be that you were in the middle of somebody else's emotional battle as a child (for instance, did your parents fight a lot or divorce or were you abandoned for long periods of time?). The fact that you swim and get out of there, only to face endless swimming pools would indicate that you might temporarily just keep busy, get the feelings out of the way, or avoid things, but yet it is not solving the problem. If you do not remember any trauma when you were small, you may want to ask your parents if something happened that they know of.

The fact that it is in a swimming pool (contained) rather than something like an ocean, suggests something  contained inside you, but is so deep that even the thougt of dealing with it is causing you anxiety. I keep sensing a feeling of abandonment, but this might have been emotional abandonment (for instance, a mom who had too many or her own emotions or problems to deal with). Definitely sounds like something you've blocked out.

Answer 8

its means your the survivor of end of the world.

beware, you are the chosen one.