Dreaming of Swimming

To swim easily across a river or harbor foretells a difficulty crossed by your own labor, the far bank reached. For merchants and travelers it promised safe passage and business concluded.

To swim in rough or darkened water warns of an affair that will demand more strength than you counted on. The old readers noted the shore, if you never see it, the trouble has no near end.

Swimming is the ego moving through the unconscious on its own strength, in the water but not swallowed by it. You are in something deep and still relating to it, stroke by stroke, and that is the healthiest posture a dreamer can hold.

Swimming that exhausts you, or against a current, is the psyche reporting that you are fighting the very material meant to hold you up. Ask whether the effort is keeping you afloat or wearing you down to the bone.