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Question:

What is is that I am willing to catch? Do I receive everything in life because of my ability to get it all by myself? What is is that I am looking for?

General Meanings:

Generally hunting shows unexpressed feelings such as hopes, wishes and pursuits that are related to the dreamer’s life.

Repressed sexual desires.
The hunting as a symbol is known for unexpressed sexual desires and wishes. Usually the one who is hunting feels the lack of intimacy and/or sexual act. Maybe the dreamer is not satisfied by the amount of sex he is getting from his partner, or maybe he feels misunderstood for the things he wants to do while is intimated to someone. Consider, that those who rarely have sex or don’t have it at all, dreams more of hunting than those who having it more often. Try to be more open with the one you are in relationship, be more open about what you wish for and express yourself in all means.

Unexpressed emotions.
The hunting can be interpreted as the symbol of unexpressed emotions and thoughts. If the dreamer is hunting, it shows that he is looking for the answers, feeling alone and misunderstood. The thoughts that human beings have has to be ‘’caught’’ by the other ones if they want to be understood in the right way. It also could show the dreamer’s intention to control somebody, therefore he keeps hunting, running and chasing the animal.

The other meanings of hunting have different meanings, depending on the circumstances of the dream:

• New plans if go hunting – according to ancient books, hunting is interpreted as new plans for the future such as sexual adventures or new period of life;
• Disappointments and losses if failed at hunting – such dream indicates that you will lose at whatever you are doing in your life. However, stay calm, because the asperities you will have will be just for particular period of time;
• Persecution if you are the one that is hunted – if the dreamer sees himself being chased by someone, such dream shows you feel the lack of time for things you want to do, or you feel controlled by someone too much;
• Profit or gambling if you are invited to go hunting – if someone has invited you to hunting, according to ancient books, such dream symbolizes the gamble you will take with might lead you to profit.

Psychological Meanings:

Psychologically hunting is the process of search or persecution.
Usually when the dreamer is the one that is hunting, it foretells about his desire to fulfill his wishes. There are many different ways to complete them:

• find the solution to the questions you have;
• fulfill sexual desires;
• take the control over someone or something.

Sometimes the one that is hunted is the dreamer itself. Then the dream shows the fears and doubts he has. There are things in life that looks scary, therefore the dreamer feels that he is chased and hunted. Hunting is the desire to win and be the leader of the situation.

Spiritual Meanings:

On the spiritual level the dream might indicate the spiritual confusion you have. Maybe you are in search of your spirituality which has been lost.

Traditional Meanings:

European (Judeo-Christian)

Luck in a lottery if you are invited to go hunting – such dream promises luckiness;
Will get married if go hunting – there is a possibility that you will get married to your chosen one;
Happy future if somebody is hunting and you join them – you will be successful at anything you do, especially at things that are related to your profession;
Will take risks if go for fox hunting – it is known that the fox is tricky and smart animal, therefore in a dream it stands as risky symbol;
Will be disappointed if hunting rabbits – because the rabbits are small animals, the dream foretells that the things that are easily gotten always bring very small amount of pleasure, because it only brings displeasure;
Prosperity if hunting big animals – if you were hunting huge animals such as bear, deer, then the dream promises wealthy and rich life to you;
Will be left behind by someone if see hunting dogs – keep the distance from those you are surrounded by, because there is a possibility that they will use you and then leave you behind;
Consider to pull yourself together if lost on a hunting – if you were hunting, then appeared to be lost, then such dream shows that you need to be more confident about yourself;
Failure if missed the target while hunting – the dream denotes to disappointments you will suffer through your life;
Disappointments if came home without prey – consider to prepare yourself for frustration;
Joy if came home with a prey – the dreamer will be fortunate person at anything he does;
Will overcome barriers if you organized the game of hunting – the dream shows how smart and clever you are when dealing with difficulties;
Arrogance if using knife while hunting – the dream shows the desire to show up how brave and stout the hunter is;
Pleasure if hear the sound of hunting horn – if you were listening to the sound of the hunting horn, then such dream indicates joy and pleasure;
Hold on to things that makes you happy if see hunting bag – do not waste your energy towards unpleasant things and concentrate on those that make you feel happy.

Hindu (Hinduism)

Will win a lottery if you are invited to go hunting – such dream promises pleasurable winning;
Will take risks if you are hunting – the dream indicates the gamble you will take.

Arabian (Islamic)

Happy future if taking part in hunting – if you were hunting, then such dream shows that through your hard work you will obtain the pleasure and happiness in your life;
Luck in a lottery if someone invited to go hunting – such dream promises richness through accident – lottery;
Success in business if taking part of the game in hunting – any deals you will make that are related to business will be successful;
You will fail if failed at hunting – be aware and do not take any risks, because you will not succeed.

Artemidorus Meanings:

According to Artemidorus everything that is related to hunting is associated with the bad meanings of such dream. The hunting is very normal and natural for human beings, however in dreams it doesn’t have such positive meaning, it is interpreted as bad omen. Hunting causes many emotions and the circumstances such as danger, complications and fear leads to unhappiness and losses. However, it is always better to be the one who is hunting, instead of being the one that is hunted by someone. The two differences make the dream more clear to be explained.

* Please, see meaning of animals.

Water in a dream represents a happy life, money, prosperity, expansion of one’s business, increase in one’s income, or it could mean marriage.

If one sees the water pure and abundant in his dream, it means lowering of prices, peace and social justice. ggg If one sees himself chewing on water in a dream, it means toiling and hardships related to earning his livelihood.

Drinking a glass of water in a dream means protection against any danger from one’s enemy and it denotes a prosperous year for the one who drinks it in a dream.

Drinking more water in a dream than what one usually drinks in wakefulness means longevity.

ggg If one glass of water does not quench one’s thirst in the dream, it means discord between husband and wife.

If one immerses his hand in water in a dream, it means that he will play with money and confuse himself.

Fresh potable water or a well in a dream also could be the immediate cause of a trial, fight or calamity.

Giving someone a glass of water in a dream is glad tidings of a child.

Drinking a glass of spring water in a dream means conceiving a child, or that he will receive benefits from his wife. In this sense, glass in a dream represent the substance of a woman and water represents a fetus.

ggg Drinking hot water in a dream means distress and adversities.

If one is pushed into a pond or a river of clear water in a dream, it means receiving a pleasant surprise.

ggg Seeing oneself submerged in a body of water in a dream means facing a trial, distress, bewilderment and adversities.

Carrying a jar of clear water in a dream means receiving an inheritance.

ggg Asking people for water to drink in a dream means lying to them by claiming to be needy.

ggg Stagnant water in a dream means imprisonment, distress, or depression. It is said that stagnant water in a dream has weaker meaning than running water.

ggg Bad smelling or putrid water in a dream represents a wretched life.

ggg Bitter water in a dream means a bitter life.

ggg Boiling water in a dream means suffering from heat. If boiling water is used during the daylight in a dream, it means suffering from chastisement, afflictions and punishment for one’s sins. If used during the night time in a dream, then it means fear of evil spirits.

ggg Salty water in a dream means hardships and difficulties in earning one’s livelihood. Murky waters in a dream represent unlawful earnings.

ggg Black colored water in a dream means destruction or family problems. Drinking black colored water in a dream also may mean blindness.

ggg Yellow water in a dream means an illness. Boiling water, blazing water, or oozing water in a dream means change of one’s status, or being deprived of Allah’s favors for lack of gratitude and for being a hindrance against those who do good.

ggg Drinking polluted seawater in a dream means turbulences, distress and sufferings that will be brought about by someone in authority.

ggg If seawater runs inside one’s dwelling place or business, and if one drinks from it in a dream, it means an illness. If everyone drinks from it in the dream, then it means a plague.

ggg Murky water in a dream denotes a tyrant.

If a sick person bathes in murky water then walks out of it in a dream, it means that he will recover from his illness. If he is facing adversities, it means that he will be able to overcome them. If he is incarcerated, it means that he will be released.

Pure potable water in a dream means salvation.

ggg Saltwater in a dream means distress.

ggg If one sees murky water gushing froth from a water well in a dream, it means a bad marriage.

Walking on water in a dream represents the strength of one’s faith, certitude and trust in Allah Almighty. This is particularly true if while walking one also speaks words of wisdom and piety. Otherwise, walking on water in a dream could mean ascertaining something that is not too clear. Walking on water in a dream also means undertaking a dangerous trip and trusting in Allah Almighty for protection and guidance. Walking on water in a dream also means undertaking a dangerous venture. If one walks back from the water to dry land in a dream, it means that he will satisfy his needs or desire.

Falling into a deep sea or a deep river but not reaching the bottom of it in the dream means wealth and prosperity, for the world in a dream represents a deep ocean.

ggg If one falls into a river and if he is overcome by water in a dream, it means that he will fall sick.

ggg If he drowns in a river in a dream, it means his death.

Falling into water in a dream also could mean happiness, joy, or blessings.
Observing the reflection of one’s face in the waters looking beautiful in a dream shows kindness toward one’s household and neighbors.
Reaching a pond of clear water in a dream means speaking good words.
Pouring water inside a bag in a dream means spending money to please a woman.
ggg Pouring water over a place where it is of no benefit in the dream means wasting one’s money.
ggg Floods in a dream means distress, suffering and corruption, depending on their strength.

If the water level of a dam or a river rises and inundates people’s homes and businesses and becomes a threat to people’s lives in a dream, it means discord and trials after which evil people will be eliminated from that place.
ggg If one sees water flowing over his own roof in a dream, it means a quick distress, or a permanent stress that will be brought by someone in authority.

Sweet potable water in a dream represents lawful earnings, a good heart, knowledge, revival, recovering from a dangerous illness, a wife, a husband, or marriage.
If one drinks a sweet and a refreshing glass of water from a permissible cup in a dream, it means that his marriage is proper.
ggg Otherwise, if the container from which one drinks in his dream is unlawful, it means that his marriage is illegal from a religious point of view.

Water in a dream also denotes the drink of poor people, or what gallant people exchange and share among themselves. If a thirsty person quenches his thirst with water in a dream, it means comfort, appeasement of one’s bewilderments, prosperity verses poverty, or reuniting one’s family.
Bathing in fresh spring water in a dream means payment of one’s debts.
If sweet and potable water becomes salty in a dream, it means apostasy, or straying from the path of Allah Almighty and meeting with insurmountable difficulties.
Carrying water in a container in a dream means conceiving a child and increase in one’s income.
ggg Abundance of water at a time when it is supposed to be low, or drought at a time when it is supposed to be raining in a dream means injustice, abuse, high prices, divided opinions, weaknesses, or payment of financial damages.

Clear water in a dream also means recovering from trachoma.

The explosion of a water tank or a pipe in a dream means distress, trouble and adversities.

ggg Green colored water in a dream means a long illness or a wretched life.
ggg Drinking black colored water in a dream means becoming blind.
ggg Sucking water in a dream means tight circumstances.
ggg If unexpectedly one is showered with hot water in a dream, it means a fever, an illness or a scare from evil spirits, the intensity of which is relevant to how hot is the water.
ggg If one’s garment gets wet in a dream, it means changes in one’s travel plans, or it could mean delaying a project, or failure of one’s plans.

If a poor person sees himself carrying a container of water in a dream, it means money. If a rich person sees that dream, it means marriage, or conceiving a child.
Carrying water in a purse, socks, a cloth, or in any porous material in a dream means pride about one’s wealth, status, attainments, fame and living conditions.
Pouring water into a container in a dream means getting married.
Bathing in cold water in a dream means repenting from sin, recovering from an illness, release from prison, payment of one’s debts, or dispelling one’s fears.
Drawing water from a well in a dream means earning money through deception and fraud.
Channelling irrigations to water a garden or a farm in a dream means earning money from a woman.

If the trees of one’s garden or farm are doing blossom in the dream, it means conceiving a child from such a woman.
Watering a garden or a farm in a dream also means having sexual intercourse with one’s wife.
If pure water gushes forth from one’s mouth in a dream, it means that he is a gnostic and people will benefit from his knowledge, wisdom and admonition.
If one is a young merchant, it means that he is a truthful person.
Sweet water in a dream also represents the element of faith in Allah Almighty, while salt water represents the element of atheism.
In a dream, water also means wealth.
ggg Seeping water from a crack in a wall means adversities and distress caused by a brother or an in-law. (Also see Distilled water; Earth; Ophthalmologist; River; Walking on water) Source:Strong

Water —
Water symbolizes:
(1) Islam and good knowledge.
(2) Life, fertility, and prosperity, because it helps everything come to life. To quote Allah: “… and We made every living thing of water …” (“Al-Anbiyae” [The Prophets], verse 30), and “If they [the idolaters] tread the right path, we shall give them to drink of water in abundance, that We may test them thereby …” (“Al-Jinn” [The Jinn], verses 16–17.)
(3) Marriage, in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that says: “And He it is Who hath created man from water, and hath appointed for him kindred by blood and kindred by marriage; for thy Lord is very Powerful.” (“Al-Furqan” [The Criterion], verse 54.)
(4) Semen, because God Almighty has called sperm water and Arabs call notfa, or semen, abundant water.
(5) Money, because it generates profit.
(6) Purity.
(7) Birth of one or more children.
(8) Price decreases.
(9) Justice.
(10) War spoils or gains and acquisitions of any kind.
(11) Worries, pain, and sorrow.
(12) Death and destruction. In any case, running water is better than stagnant water.

Stagnant water:
(1) Prison, especially if the dreamer falls in it.
(2) An unhappy life, full of miseries.
Limpid water: Cheap prices and better justice.
Underground water: Isolation, humiliation, and misery in view of the verse in the Holy Quran that reads as follows: “Say: Have ye thought: if [all] your water were to disappear into the earth, who then could bring you gushing water?” (“Al-Mulk” [Majesty], verse 30).
• Salty water: Trouble and worries.
• Stinking water: Illicit gains.
• Yellow water: Illness.
• Seeing black water: Bankruptcy, havoc, and destruction.
• Black water coming out of a well: Will marry an unworthy woman.
• Drinking black water: Will lose one’s eyesight.
• Drinking water: Will be safe from enemies.
• Drinking plenty of water: Will indulge in one’s habits and live long.
• A healthy bachelor drinking limpid water from a well or a water skin, but not to the last drop: Will marry and enjoy sex as much as he enjoyed drinking the water in the dream.
• A patient drinking pristine water from a well or a water skin and leaving some: Will recover and live long.
• A married person drinking pure water: Will have delicious sex with spouse that night.
• Drinking clean and limpid water from a glass: Benefits from one’s children or wife (because glass is part of the essence of women,56 and water symbolizes the fetus).
• Being given water to drink in a glass or a goblet: Will have a child.
• Water in a glass: A child. If the glass is broken and the water remains, the mother will die and the child survive. The reverse is also true.
• An atheist drinking clear and clean water: Will embrace Islam.
• A person seeking learning drinking pristine water: Will acquire knowledge.
• A merchant drinking clear potable water: Will achieve lawful gains, unless something soils that water or if he drinks that water in the house of aliens in a Muslim country. In that case, it means rotten knowledge, a low sexual relationship, or suspicious earnings.
• Trouble water: A cruel tyrant.
• Drinking troubled sea water: Trouble will come from the king (the authority).
• Troubled sea water infiltrating a person’s shop or that person drinking from it: Will get ill.
• All people drinking of that troubled sea water: An epidemic will strike.
• Washing with or bathing in troubled sea water or any dirty water, then getting out of it: (1) If facing hardships, will see an end to it. (2) If sick, will recover. (3) If a prisoner, will regain one’s freedom, provided water has become clean again.
• Drinking plenty of sea water: Will receive money from the king.
• Drinking plenty of water from a river: Will receive money from a man whose condition tallies with the importance of that river.
• Drinking water from a well: Will obtain money cunningly or through a trick.
• Drinking troubled, bitter, or stinking water: Will become ill, profit will be lost, life will get hard, or faith will change, depending on the place where the drinking took place and the condition of the container.
• Drinking hot water: Pain and sorrow.
• A man drinking some delicious cold water from a hole in his robe: He is flirting with a woman other than his legitimate wife.
• Using very hot water by day or by night: Will receive a blow from the authority.
• Using very hot water at night: Will be frightened by a jinn.
• Hot water being poured on the dreamer from nowhere and wetting his clothes: Will go to jail, fall ill, or experience real trouble inasmuch as the water was hot.
• One’s clothes simply getting wet: A trip or something the subject intended to undertake will not take place.
• Sucking water: Things will go wrong.
• Masticating water: Will deal successfully with frustration, depression, and hard living conditions.
• Spreading and moving one’s hand freely in the water: Will play freely with money and dispose of it and of one’s own destiny at will.
• Being thrown in a clear water: A pleasant surprise.
• The quantity of water in a container represents the person’s life span. Whatever he has drunk from it is his past; the remainder is the time left for him. If he drinks the contents to the last drop, he has no more years left in his life. Carrying water in a container: (1) If a poor person: Will make financial gains. (2) If a bachelor: Will get married. (3) If married: Wife or concubine (slave or servant) will have a baby. (1), (2), and (3) are subject to the condition that it is the dreamer himself, his wife, or his servant who pumped the water from the well, large water jar, or water skin and poured it in the container.
• Water flowing and inundating or simply entering people’s houses: Bad dream for the whole area, meaning violence, heavy losses and fines, women and children getting captured by the enemy and considered war booty, and epidemic diseases or plagues (bubonic or others).
• Water, ooze, or spouts entering a specific house or a spring erupting in that house: Tears for a sick person who will pass away in that house, a dear one whom the inhabitants of the house will bid farewell to, a scuffle or a fistfight among the neighbours, or a tragedy caused by a disease or measures taken by the authority.
• Water in a sterile land or stagnant water: People will gather in that place.
• Water flowing in an arable land: Fertility.
• Water springing from the earth or floods inundating a place: A hard test from the Almighty in the form either of a devastating plague, a hellish sword, in case houses were destroyed and their dwellers drowned in the dream; or annihilation or sufferings brought about by the ruler.
• For pious people a spring means welfare and blessings in view of a verse in the Holy Quran that reads: “Wherein are two fountains flowing.” (“Al-Rahman” [The Beneficent], verse 50.)57
• Evil people seeing a spring or a fountain: A tragedy will befall them.
• Water erupting from a wall and logging in the house: Sorrow on the part of a man who could be the dreamer’s brother, son-in-law, brother-in-law, or friend.
• Water springing up and flowing out of the house: The end of all worries. If it stays in the house, that means everlasting sorrow or someone will fall ill in that house. If the water flows in the house, it means exactly the reverse, i.e., joy for the landlord, be he alive or dead, till the end of time.
• Some dreamers interpreters believe that running water in one’s house, emanating from a spring, means that the landlord or the tenant will buy a slave (in Arabic jariyah, a running one).58
• Seeing water springing out from various sources: Will earn money, but be blamed for the way that money was made.
• Water foam or froth: Nothing good.
• Seeing one’s image reflected in clear water like in a mirror: Excellent dream, plenty of benefits. If the face looks handsome, the dreamer will be good to his family.
• Pouring water: Will spend money.
• Water not in its proper container, like in a wrapper or bundle or in some cloth: Leak, because the dreamer thinks that he holds in, but in fact he does not.
• Ablutions with clear or troubled, hot or cold water is acceptable, provided the water is clean.
• Washing with cold water: (1) Repentance. (2) Recovery (from the love of a woman). (3) Release from prison. (4) The settlement of debts. (5) The end of terror.
• Springs are a good augury, except if their water stagnates.
• Walking on the water surface, then coming out safely: (1) Strong faith in God, if the dreams talks wisdom while walking. (2) Otherwise, he is certain of something doubtful and will be, in fact, confused ultimately. (3) The dreamer is undertaking dangerous trips and running risks, but if he comes back from his walk safely, things will go the way he wants.
• Diving in deep waters but failing to reach the bottom: (1) Will have the lion’s share in this life or the best of this world. (2) Will deal with a great personality.
• Irrigating a garden or flowers: Will have sex with a lady.
• Taking water to irrigate a garden or a plow field: Will obtain money from a woman. If the flowers blossom or the plants grow, the said woman will give money and children to the dreamer.
• A woman giving people water to drink: She is spreading lies.
• Giving water to someone without charging a price: The dreamer is a benefactor and might help build a village.
• A physically strong person in the water: The king or dreamer’s chief has entrusted him with some difficult matter, which keeps him busy, and whatever he says will be heard by the higher-ups, especially concerning the matter in question.
• Entering the water with one’s clothes on without getting wet: Dreamer’s religious faith is unshakable and determination unswerving in relying on God in all matters here and in the Hereafter. He will always follow the right path.
• Drinking water from a cup without its quenching one’s thirst: Wife will disobey dreamer.
• Water flowing under a viaduct: Welfare for a man who benefits other people.
• Taking water from a viaduct: Will obtain money from such a philanthropist.
• Diverting sea water or turning away from it: Getting money through an irreligious person.
• Having a hidden jar of pure water: Inheritance.
• The king’s water having turned salty or infiltrated the earth: God has withdrawn His blessings and gifted wealth from that king for having failed to show his gratitude.
• Pouring water in a jar, a vat, or any large vessel: Will have sex with a woman.
• Waves: Pain and torture in view of what is mentioned in the Holy Quran “And if a wave enshroudeth them like awnings, they cry unto Allah, making their faith pure for Him only. But when He bringeth them safe to land, some of them compromise. None denieth Our signs save every traitor ingrate.” (“Luqman,” verse 32.) “He said: I shall betake me to some mountain that will save me from thewater. [Noah] said: This day there is none that saveth from the commandment of Allah save him on whom He hath had mercy. And the wave came in between them, so he was among the drowned. (“Hud,” verse 43.) Source:Weak