Drowning in Dreams: Breathless in a Sea of Anxiety

Drowning in Dreams represent a huge emotional anxiety prevailing over your life.

Water is a powerful element of nature. As humans, we are made up of water. Water represents Emotions. Water is life. The most basic element for survival and existence.

So how do you analyze a dream about Water? Take note of the circumstances of your dream and how it presents water. Is the water in a glass? Or are you drowning in the sea somewhere? Are you surrounded by tidal waves? Or are you in your mother's womb floating and serene?

All of these have elements of water. But the most important thing to take note is your emotional state.

Drowning Dreams are common. It arises from a deep fear of being consumed, swallowed by something whole. Being sucked out of air. These drowning dreams stem from real life anxieties, stresses so overwhelming you believe its gonna take you under. It simply reflects your real life situation that you have lost control.

Drowning in a Pool
A pool is a controlled space. The amount of water is measured. There are no waves here, no external forces of nature, no tide or undertow. Just enough feet of water to drown you. Most likely, this dream is about a relationship that is slowly pulling you down, suffocating you. So get out before something bad happens or try to stay afloat.

Drowning in the Ocean
You vs. the Ocean. Now that's huge. Now this is most likely an existentialist dream of how you perceive yourself against the world you live in right now. Perhaps you are undermining your potential and you feel overwhelm by so many challenges. It is common to have a dream like this when you just moved into a big city.

Drowning is not only limited to water. You may find yourself dreaming submerge in other liquids:

Drowning in Chocolate
Drowning in your most favorite dessert is a dream of abundance. It is a dream rooted in self-reward and if you were to follow Sigmund Freud, Dreams of Food all point to a craving, or satisfying a need. And like all things Freudian, this would lead to things of sexual nature. Drowning in Chocolate could either mean you are enjoying a period of abundance or you are so sexually deprived.

Drowning in Blood
Is it your blood or someone else's? Blood represents passion. So are you so overwhelmed with passion and desire as of late? But if take this too literally, you are repressing something so violent from your childhood.

Drowning in your own Excrement means you are drowning in your own mistakes.

Drowning in Semen
You are being a repressed or oppress by a powerful masculine figure in your life. The dream may not necessary be sexual in nature. Dreams don't necessary represent the obvious. Drowning in Semen may also mean your refusal to accept things, your refusal to swallow or accept the truth about the man you love. As you find yourself drowning in semen, you are suddenly helpless breathing in this fluid- you may find the man your life very emotionally needy.

The Meaning of Cutting in Dreams: Sharp as a Blade

I dreamt I was cutting someone's face with an exacto knife, they were screaming, but they weren't fighting back or pushing me away. They could easily make me stop if they choose to, but they don't, they just rest their heads on my lap. They scream with eyes wide awake as I put the blade to their faces. They would endure the pain, the way a regular person would endure a visit to a dentist or a tattoo artist.

What I was doing seemed important to them. I would cut their faces with a pattern-like spiral, somewhat like a doodle. The cut is superficial, it doesn't bleed, it instantly clots and turns into rusty red scabs. These people want to be marked this way. I cut the father first, the mother and then the young children. They are wearing blue spandex suits with black cuffs. They are caucasian in origin. Once I am through with the youngest, the mother smiles at me for a job well done.

I wake up from this dream thoroughly disoriented.

Possible Meanings of this Dream:

Cutting in Dreams means 'severing' oneself from a bind. It may refer to a broken relationship or a negative behavior you wish to put to an end.

In the case of my dream, I wasn't cutting a part of my body, but someone else's - a whole family. All of their faces. In fact it felt like a job, cutting served like a service of sorts and I was praised for marking them and giving them pain.

Maybe the cutting was a cosmetic procedure, it was aesthetic in a sense. Maybe I have this deep-seated need to clean up my family issues and cut it out of its core.

Maybe I need to severe certain ties to some relative who refuse to change even after all my attempts to help them resolve their issues.

Pop Quiz Hotshot! What Do Dreams about Taking a Test or Exam Mean?

Its been years since you were a student and in your dream you find yourself taking an exam, a dreadful pop quiz, a test. Regardless, whether its a multiple-choice exam, an essay or a test for filling in the blanks.

Dreams about taking Exams is mired by so much anxiety. The dream itself catches you off guard, unprepared, afraid of flunking the said test.

So what does dreaming about Tests and Exams mean?

You are being measured, and weighed of your worth. Will you succeed? Reach a passing mark? Or fail miserably? In real life, its about meeting people's expectations of you. Perhaps you are undergoing a lot of scrutiny at work, being underminded by colleagues, evaluated by your bosses. Dissected and emotionally prodded by your peers and family.

Fear of the Random Variable
Being in that room, helpless, undergoing the exam, and surprised at being tested for something you never studied for or ever known about. May it be a foreign language, complex math, statistics, or useless trivia. The element of surprise in Dreaming about an Exam is facing something unknown, something so random and spontaneous, it becomes an irrational fear itself. Like in real life, it comes when you least expect it and may even ruined your long term plans.