The dream in which you were sinking indicates the emotional state of you, where you feel like you are drawing down. Maybe there is some situation in which you feel helpless, therefore you are going down. Probably some important event or part of your life is coming to an end. To get more interpretations about your dream, please also check the meaning of Drowning.
Dream dictionary: Sinking dream meanings
…To dream that you’re swimming and involuntarily sinking, and that youre at risk of drowning, suggests that you may suffer great losses or even die, but if you’re saved and removed from water, it suggests that at the end you’ll get rid of all your problems, and perhaps even gain any profits. To dream about someone who is drowning and that you aid in his/her rescue, is a warning that someone will probably ask for your help. When a young woman dreams that her lover drowns, it suggests that he has already decided to break up with her and there is no chance for them to get married, at least for now….
If the dreamer is in the field of marine navigation then this dream should be taken as a possible danger of sinking, and necessary precautions should be taken in order to avoid this. If the dreamer isnt in the field of marine navigation, then this dream should be interpreted as a need to make changes in life in case that there are circumstances that provoke failures in the future.
Misfortune and persecution. 266.
Terrible news. 324.
Stopping in a love-affair.
…along a dusty road, when a beautiful grey horse suddenly trotted up to me, and, with the gentlest expression imaginable in its fine dark eyes, bid me mount. Not in the slightest degree surprised at hearing it speak, I climbed on its back, and the next moment found myself flying through the air. I forget exactly how the dream terminated, but I fancy it was in some remarkably pleasant manner, and that the horse landed me in a floralElysium, where I fell head over ears in love with a gorgeously apparelled woman.Then, too, I have dreamed of a roan horse; of seeing it struggling desperately to extricate itself from a morass, till gradually sinking and sinking it disappeared out of sight; and nothing was left to mark the spot where it had vanished but a hideous black bubble. I dreamed this before travelling quite unexpectedly from Bristol to Scotland….
…To dream that youre sailing in a lifeboat suggests that you wish for your problems to end. To dream that a lifeboat is sinking suggests that you have lost your hopes for solving a problem. To dream that youre in a lifeboat that is sailing adrift suggests that you’ve seen yourself fail and you have then lost all that you yearned to achieve. If in the dream someone intervenes and saves the dreamer, it indicates that he/she should be hopeful for a better future….
…To dream that some people have shipwrecked, but the dreamer can help, hints that the dreamer will soon have to help someone who is in disgrace, and that these people are losing faith in one’s ability to correct errors. Dreaming of leaving a sinking ship and trying to reach land by swimming, suggests a serious confusion in the dreamers concerning matters, which involves risks, but if in the dream you fail to reach solid ground, it indicates that even if there are difficulties in your business, romantic life, or relationships, you will soon solve them satisfactorily. Dreaming that other people talk about two boats crashing or a shipwreck, suggests that your issues are bad because you neglected them, and perhaps because of the intervention of women (when the dreamer is a man) or men (in the case of women). Dreaming of dying in a boat that is anchored in the…
…water, with mud that you suppose is pestilent (and its worse if its moved by a storm), indicates dangers, sorrow, and risks. In short, youre about to go through a rough patch. If that dirty water floods your home, it symbolizes that you are surrounded by more or less hidden enemies that will try to harm you. If the dreamer is trying to get the water out, but the level keeps increasing and covers your feet, it indicates diseases, a very near ruin, personal and relatives misfortunes. In reality, this dream is a warning for you, so you are more careful in your work performance, business, or social life. Dreaming of sinking in dirty water or drinking it indicates that you are making serious mistakes and soon, youll begin to suffer the natural consequences of it. It will be worse if you dream of drowning in the dirty water….
…To dream one is drowning presages trouble, either domestic or financial, for the dreamer. To see someone else drowning portends misfortune, either from accidents (sometimes drowning, as actually seen in the vision), illness, or loss of money, but not always for the drowning person. This dream, I find, is a very common one. I have often seen in dreams friends of mine struggling desperately in some deep pool or river. Frantically I have plunged in to their rescue, but always too late, and, on sinking down, down, down, have at length come in contact with their cold, clammy corpses. Quite recently I dreamed I saw a near and dear friend fall shrieking into a seething, hissing pool of muddy water. In an agony of mind I tried to go to his rescue, but was held back by one of those cruel, invisible forces that ever haunt dreams. Desperately I…
Denotes being treated cruelly, sinking beneath hard work. 63.
…Dreaming of swimming in clear and fresh waters can mean that difficult issues and problems are about to end. Dreaming of swimming in dirty and muddy waters suggests that the dreamer is going through a difficult situation that will get worse in the near future. People who are in love who dream of swimming in clean waters suggests that there will be a marriage soon and that it will be a happy one. If the water is dirty, then dreams meaning will be the complete opposite. Dreaming of swimming symbolizes success, progress, comfort, and enjoyment of life. But if in the dream there is a feeling of sinking and drowning, then it means the complete opposite. Dreaming of diving suggests that the dreamer has the skills and inclination of investigating and searching in a difficult way the solution to various problems, and also that he or she is very…
…Dreaming of being in a life-boat, denotes escape from threatened evil. To see a life-boat sinking, friends will contribute to your distress. To be lost in a life-boat, you will be overcome with trouble, in which your friends will be included to some extent. If you are saved, you will escape a great calamity….