See Also: Journey
1- When we dream of sailing, we are highlighting how we feel we are handling our lives. We can cither work with the currents or against them.
If we are sailing in a yacht there is more of a sense of immediacy than if we were sailing in a liner.
The first is more to do with one-to-one relationships, while the second suggests more of a group effort.
2- To be tacking - sailing against the wind suggests that we have created difficulties possibly by setting ourselves against public opinion.
To be sailing with the wind means we are using opportunities to the best of our abilities.
3- Sailing suggests a sense of spiritual freedom and the ability to use our intellect.
[1]How we are handling or feeling about our life.
The images in sailing lend themselves to depict human endeavours to work with the tides and influences of life. Dealing well with wind, waves: suggests being able to meet internal and external pressures, emotions and drives, and using them to advantage. Being overwhelmed, sinking: finding emotional, sexual drives and anxieties too much to cope with.
See Also: boat, ship. Idioms: plain sailing; sail against the wind; sail close to the wind; sail into something; sail under false colours; set sail; trim one’s sails; take the wind out of someone’s sails.
[2]To have a dream where you are sailing on calm waters show that you will have an easy time of it as you strive to make your fortune.
A beautiful sail full of wind shows that you will be free from poverty and much misery.
If you are on a small vessel this shows that your desires will remain modest and not beyond your means of earning them.
[3]This is another form of the Water dream, and the meaning depends upon whether the water is smooth and your voyage pleasant.
If not, then expect trouble and worry, according to the severity of the storm in your dream.
The smaller the Boat, the greater your success, or your misfortune.
[4]To dream of sailing on calm waters, foretells easy access to blissful joys, and immunity from poverty and whatever brings misery.
To sail on a small vessel, denotes that your desires will not excel your power of possessing them.
[5]To dream that you are sailing on peaceful waters suggests that you are living life with ease. You will achieve success without major barriers.
If the sea is stormy, you are troubled about a personal situation.
[6]On the ocean blue, sailing is an activity that signifies letting go and allowing the forces of the winds and currents of spirit to propel you forward in life.
[7]To dream of sailing on clear blue water warns the dreamer to be alert even though everything seems to be under control.
See Also: Ocean.
[8]Over smooth water, prosperity; rough water, misfortune; in a small boat, gaining harbor, sudden wealth (Raphael).
[9]If it is on calm waters, your sailing in a dream is a forerunner of achievement.
[10]1. Feeling free and easy.
2. On the way to achieving whatever one wants to.
[11]To dream that you are sailing on the great deep to some distant country, indicates that you are about to change your residence for one that is more respectable in appearance than that you at present occupy.
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