River

Dreaming about being beside a river

What does it mean to dream about sitting by a river?

The quiet group, and it belongs closer to the garden material than to the rest of this record.

Dreamers describe simply being there. No crossing, no current, no obstacle. The reports are calm, frequently have no narrative at all, and are reported as pleasant.

These get logged rarely for the reason all pleasant dreams do: nothing happens, so nothing seems worth writing down. A journal of only the eventful dreams gives a badly skewed picture of what somebody's dreaming is actually like.

Moving water appears in these reports as sound as often as sight, which is unusual, since dream reports are overwhelmingly visual.

Where this reads well

Restorative, and worth recording precisely because dreams like this are systematically under-reported.

Where it is harder

None.

Worth asking yourself

Did I hear it or see it? Was anybody with me? Did anything happen at all?

Dream interpretation is subjective. Nothing here is a diagnosis, a prediction, or medical advice.

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