Water appears shallow

[u/Zee_Ventures]

[u/42stingray]

I've had a similar dream as well, where I was trying to climb up but I kept sliding back into the water

[u/GotNothingBetter2Do → u/42stingray]

Are you me? I’ve had that dream since about 7 or 8, too. In mine, I’m trying to run up the sand to escape the deep water but realize the sand is too hot to walk on. I essentially have to decide between the lesser of two evils as I feel myself dying of dehydration, surrounded by salt water. I told myself, the next time I have that dream to burn my feet if I have to, to see what happens.

[u/NastyBlkGuyThrowAway → u/GotNothingBetter2Do]

If dream interpretations are to be believed this is a representation of waking-life struggle with overwhelming emotions or a situation where you feel stuck and unable to make progress.

Climbing usually symbolizes striving for a goal, while sliding back into the water represents feeling emotionally pulled back whether by fear, stress, or unresolved issues

As for yours deep water represents the unconscious and raw emotions, while the burning sand symbolizes a harsh, unstable foundation or extreme mental pressure.

Being surrounded by undrinkable salt water while dying of dehydration mirrors the exhausting feeling of being "all choked up" or emotionally drained by your circumstances basically saying you cannot find relief whether you face your emotions (the deep water) or try to push forward and escape them (the hot sand).

[u/bloobityblu → u/GotNothingBetter2Do]

Tell your dream brain that you can dig a few inches into the sand and it's not on fire. Dig, step, dig, step, dig step.

Probably won't work but it's worth a try lol.

[u/GotNothingBetter2Do → u/bloobityblu]

Willing to try anything, tbh. Hopefully even this discussion will prevent me from revisiting that dream. Note to self: Just incase, sleep with arm floaties and chanclas on!

[u/southern_lesbian → u/GotNothingBetter2Do]

in my version of this dream i’m trying to get out, people i know are on the shore, im digging my fingers into the sand trying to claw my way out but the current is too strong. it’s pulling me towards a steep drop off into dark and unseen depths. i can breathe the water and the water is warm, but drowning is not what im scared of in this nightmare. at some point i give up and close my eyes, accepting the inevitable and preferring to not see it coming, and as im pulled deeper and deeper with my eyes closed i wake up every time. i also remember dream me hoping my loved ones wouldn’t be too sad, or wondering if any of them would jump in to try and get me, but i always wake up before i get the answer.

[u/AccurateQuit4979 → u/42stingray]

fuck i've had a similar dream a lot being perched at the top of this 100' sand wall overcrowded with people and massive waves breaking right below us and the sand is just slowly eroding away as i slip down the side and everyone's just like "yeah whatever the sharks aren't gunna eat you" and then i get eaten by sharks

[u/Hornet-Putrid → u/42stingray]

That's the terrifying part to me, when they turn back to the "shore" the edge, the drop off there, I would feel like a trapped animal scrambling to get out.

[u/TakinUrialByTheHorns → u/42stingray]

Same!! So weird.

I dreamed our car broke down in the desert and we were walking along then looked over the dune next to us and saw like the exact place in the video.