Clear water is a positive dream symbol. If you’re swimming or spending time near clear water in your dream, you probably are in touch with your emotions and clear with how you feel about life.
Clear water is a positive dream symbol. If you’re swimming or spending time near clear water in your dream, you probably are in touch with your emotions and clear with how you feel about life.
A flood, though from the face of it, may seem to be destructive, may facilitate new beginnings. So, a flood-like situation in your dream could suggest that you are on the threshold of a new beginning. It could also mean that a destructive or a negative phase in your life is nearing its closure.
Water has the power to purify, to provide deliverance, and it can also destroy evil and enemies as in the stories of the Flood (Genesis 6:17) and the flight of Israel from Egypt (Exodus 14:1-15:21). 70 to 75% of the earth’s surface is covered with water.
The New Testament uses water as an image of the Holy Spirit.
Throughout history, water has been used as a symbol of wisdom, power, grace, music, and the undifferentiated chaos that gave rise to the material world.
(slang) To trounce or defeat thoroughly or in a humiliating manner. She mopped the floor with her opponent, defeating him 68 to 2.
Water is often associated with intuition, dreams and innovation, and journeys. It represents time and change. Water is purifying, and it has rhythm and movement. It is associated with wisdom, as in the Daoist image of water always finding its way around obstacles.
In the spiritual realm, the waves represent the change in flow we face throughout life. In other words, it represents the ups and downs of life and how we overcome it.
The symbols of the Holy Spirit are: Dove, Fire, Oil, Wind and Water. The Dove: This can be seen in the description of the baptism of Christ (Matt. 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22; John 1:30-34). A dove symbolises peace (Psalms 55:6; Song of Songs 2:12); purity (Song of Songs 5:2; 6:9); innocence (Matt.
We believe we must be baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (through an ordinance called confirmation) to be saved in the kingdom of heaven. The Savior taught, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).
The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a personage of spirit, without a body of flesh and bones. He is often referred to as the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of the Lord, or the Comforter.
The history of philosophy and the rites of ancient cultures and religions confirm it: in all of them, water is a symbol of life, of purification and hope, values that are a common denominator that unites us and that we should take into account much more.
Literary critics have deduced that water is representative of rebirth – usually mental – or some type of cleansing or healing process. With these concepts inevitably comes change, and this idea is conveyed by books written throughout the centuries.
Related Definitions
Flowing waters means fresh waters flowing unidirectionally down altitudinal gradients. These waters may or may not be confined in distinct channels. Flowing waters include streams, flowing springs and seeps and ditches and flumes.
Cultures around the world equate water with healing and energy. People travel great distances to drink or bath in water from mountains, wells and springs that are imbued with special energy. Many people believe that water has the ability to absorb prayers, cleanse unwanted energy and bestow good medicine.
In the Old Testament, flowing or “living” water stands for God’s faithful and lasting provision for his people. From the opposite direction, from above, God’s presence is announced by powerful, dramatic, life-giving storms.
Spilling water for luck is a folk custom in Armenia, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and other nearby countries. According to folk belief, spilling water behind the person who goes on a journey, or to do a job, will bring good luck, and is done so that the travel or the job will end happily.
The huge waves can represent the surging of your emotions in a situation where you feel overwhelmed or unprepared to cope with what is occurring in life, where you may be procrastinating, or not facing up to your true feelings about something.
Water dreams and negative emotions
Yet waves crashing on the shore could symbolize feelings of anger and negative energy. Likewise, water overflowing can represent emotions of inadequacy or a lack of control over one’s life: turbulent water as a sign that you feel overwhelmed.
Waves Dream Meaning
Waves in a dream represent feelings and information about events that are going to occur in the future. The dream about waves represents your subconscious desire, emotions, and beliefs that may work against your wellbeing.
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. While some Christans accept these as a definitive list of specific attributes, others understand them merely as examples of the Holy Spirit’s work through the faithful.
Acts 1:8 says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” This power that comes from the Holy Spirit allows you to stand strong for the things of God.
For them, the Holy Ghost may produce a subtle feeling of gratitude, peace, reverence, or love (see Galatians 5:22–23). The scriptures also describe the Holy Ghost as a “burning” in the bosom (see Doctrine and Covenants 9:8–9). But the intensity or degree of that “burning” can be different for everyone.
It is only through faith in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ, followed by repentance, baptism by immersion (representing rebirth), and “the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost” (2 Ne. 31:13), that a new heart, or new spiritual nature, can come to us.