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What does it mean to dream about swimming?

Swimming dreams often reflect how you're moving through a stretch of life. Swimming easily may be about going with the flow; struggling against a current, working your way through something hard; going under, something that feels like too much. Whether it was a pool or the open sea, and what swimming is to you, change the reading.

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Swimming dreams can feel wonderful or exhausting. There's no single meaning, and much depends on what swimming is to you. Where you were swimming, and how easily you moved through the water, change the reading.

What dreaming about swimming may mean

  1. AWhat swimming is to you

    Swimming carries very personal memories. For one person it may bring back a painful moment from childhood, for another a happy summer. Those memories may shape the dream more than anything else.

  2. BA pool, or the open sea

    A pool has edges; the ocean doesn't. Swimming in a pool may be about something contained and held in place, while the open sea may stand for something wider and deeper.

    You were swimming in a pool, or in the open sea

  3. CWorking your way through

    Struggling against a current may reflect finding your way through a hard stretch of life, and perhaps balancing a way of handling things that has become one-sided.

    You were struggling against the current

  1. DLearning to go with it

    Swimming easily, moving with the water, may be about loosening up. If you tend to be careful or rigid, the dream may show you flowing instead.

    You swam easily, moving with the water

  2. EGoing under

    If you couldn't keep your head above water, the dream may be about something that feels like too much, feelings or tasks you're barely keeping up with.

    You were going under in deep water

These are possibilities, not verdicts. The reading that fits is the one that matches the details and the feeling of your dream, and what's going on in your life.

Questions that tell the readings apart

  1. Q1What is swimming to you? Does it bring back any memories?Swimming can mean a happy holiday to one person and a hard childhood memory to another.
  2. Q2Where were you swimming, and how was it going?A pool and the open sea, swimming easily and struggling, are different dreams.

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