For everyone, as internal stimulus is a full bladder. Unavoidable need to use a toilet for peeing makes a dream of water. Your subconscious mind follows physical state of your body and calls you to wake up by giving you a feeling of wetness. Thus it can be achieved by dreaming about swimming in ocean, sea, river or even being in a rain. Any kind of a liquid that touches your body, especially if you are sinking in it, may remind about a time for urination.

For all, a shortage of liquids in a body can be a cause of drinking water dream. This physical dependency is the meaning of a dream and it is represented by any kind of giving or taking water, like fetching it from a well or a tap. An additional need for energy is another meaning, but only if drinking sweet drinks in a dream. Drowning dream can happen because of an excessive consumption of liquids. See full bladder explanation above. All these causes are also internal stimulus, which works as an alert to reassess waking life habits.

For everybody, the Full Moon is a cause of dreams about waves and tides, currents and streams or torrents, floods and waterfalls – or any other movement, the rise and the fall, of water. This meaning comes from the Full Moon influence on the physical World, where the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of the Earth combined together exert the gravitational forces to make water levels changes. Thus bodily liquids are being affected as well. It prompts subconscious mind to recreate water movement, like flooding or waves of ocean or sea, in a dream. The Full Moon and its activity alone is external stimulus, but effect of it on physical body creates internal stimulus. This combined power is affecting all beings.

For a woman, various physical changes brought by fluctuations of liquids before and during the period are a cause for water dreams to occur. It is an internal stimulus. In case of sudden start of bleeding during a sleep, this cause becomes external, as a blood is sensed externally. Thus dreaming of going deep in water, like falling or diving, and suffocating may occur.

For a woman, an ovulation is a reason of floating or walking on water in a dream. It notes that you are prepared to start a new life. Also, dreaming of swimming in deep waters and not feeling shortage of air may represent a release of an ovum. This is internal stimulus. Additionally, same meaning of being fertile is indicated by fishing or seeing fishes in clear water. This fertility knowledge is based on physiological and psychological cooperation in human body, thus it used as a ground for clairvoyance. And symbolic significance of fish in water is always associated with pregnancy.

For a woman, during a pregnancy dreaming of water is usual. An internal stimulus is an amniotic fluid inside a sac within belly where a foetus resides. Thus the movements of embryo increase frequency of water dreams. If foetus moves or water breaks while sleeping, before it happens or during the process, a mind can invoke an image of storm in a sea or an ocean. Also drowning or choking with water means the same.

For a man, especially for a young adult, most common during adolescence, a pressure in the reproductive organs caused by a seminal fluid can be internal stimulus for a dream about water. A nocturnal emission can invoke the visions about being at beach near calm sea or ocean, lying in a bath, swimming in a river or a lake. A release of a sperm resembles running water from shower. Thus during an ejaculation and an orgasm a dream of taking a shower is usual. In addition, a wet dream, as a cause of physical function, consists not only of water but erotic images too, it can be a nude attractive body floating in an aquatic surroundings.

For a woman is same as for a man, but not so frequent. A nocturnal vaginal wetness and an orgasm can trigger the water dreams. It can be seen as overflowing, turbulent water becomes calm.

Additionally such dream can also have those explanations and meanings, which are based completely on physical world:

• As external stimuli:
• the dreamer while sleeping is hearing falling raindrops on the roof or,
• there might be somewhere in the house leaking water from the ceiling,
• also such dream can be induced by running water, by rain, by any similar real sound happening in the waking life while a person is dreaming, as example – actual drip of a leaking tap.

• As internal stimuli:
• the dreamer might have been seeing leaking water from the ceiling of the house in the past, in real waking life or in the movie;
• Also, it is possible that such dream is induced by thinking in the waking life about the level of the weatherproofness of the ceiling or the roof;
• Very often any dream related with water can be an alert to the dreamer that the bladder is full of liquids and the person needs to wake up in order to use the toilet.