Thread: Recurring dream I cannot figure out...

It normally starts not very far from my house, a few blocks or so, but as I continue walking, somehow w/o my noticing I end up in this abandoned, old New York-like city. It isn't messy like it was evacuated or anything, but there aren't any cars or people around either, and it's very quiet. I'm not really paying attention or wondering why it's so barren though, I just keep walking. I eventually reach this train station, and board the train, and I'm the only one on it. Nothing is announced, but as soon as I'm on the train it takes off. Throughout this whole walk I feel determined, like I'm going to get something done and be done w/ it.

When I get off the train, there are lots of trees in front of me. I walk a little bit into them, and see a really deep pit of water (I don't use pond b/c it's so deep, and not lake b/c it isn't very wide/large). The water hole is only about 40 feet wide, but it's so deep I can't see the bottom. The water starts to make me uncomfortable, so I turn around and the train is gone, and there's nothing around. It isn't like the city where things are there but just not tended to, theres just nothingness beyond the trees, so I feel stuck b/c I can't leave anymore, and whatever determination I had before is gone by this point.

This is the part that confuses me the most. The water starts to talk to me, and it has my voice. It wants me to get in the water, and I argue that just looking at it makes me uncomfortable, and there's no way I'm going to get in. I say I'm afraid of drowning, too, which is weird b/c I'm a fairly good swimmer. It talks to me very soothingly, it doesn't seem like it's trying to trick me or anything (I'd know my own tricky voice), but it still makes me feel nervous and unwell the longer I'm around it. Before long, I'm screaming at the it in near hysterics, absolutely refusing to get in the water.

I've had this dream for the past 4 or so years, since I was 14, and it pops up every few months along the way. I want to figure out what it means. Can anyone help?

Seems like maybe you had some traumatic experience with water when you were younger, perhaps before you became a strong swimmer?

Maybe you are still uneasy about swimming because theres always a chance that something could go wrong. Do you swim in lakes, etc., or do you only swim in pools. I know that I have no problem swimming in a pool but if it's a lake or river I'm always uneasy because of fish, things you don't know about, dead bodies just to name some possibilities. I would also agree that it could be something rom your early experiences with water. Maybe it could mean nothing and its just that in the dream that particular place is evil because it reminds you of somewhere in real life that you associate with bad things. O and BTW Welcome to Dream Views!