Dreaming of fish

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Provision drawn from deep places, and along Ghana’s coast, a livelihood image.

Akan · traditional✓ reviewed

A good catch is provision from a source you cannot see into, the deep. Among coastal peoples it reads as livelihood and increase; many also read plentiful fish as a sign of children and family growth.

Biblical✓ reviewed

Fish and the full net carry provision and calling in scripture, abundance arriving after obedience and after a night that seemed wasted. Commonly read as encouragement to persist.

Qur’anic · Ibn Sīrīn✓ reviewed

Fish are read as sustenance drawn from Allah’s provision, and a good catch is favourable. Fish taken from clear water is read more favourably than from murky.

Psychological✓ reviewed

Fish rise from deep water, the classic image of contents surfacing from the unconscious. Catching one suggests an insight becoming graspable.

Secular · sleep science✓ reviewed

Water-life imagery is usually tied to what you sense but have not yet articulated. Catching something from deep water often accompanies periods where an idea or realisation is surfacing into conscious thought.

Sources

  • Kofi Asare Opoku, West African Traditional Religion (1978)