Flood in a dream: meaning in Ibn Sirin and al-Nabulsi

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attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

As for the flood, it is an enemy; and as for the enemy, he is a flood.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 15–19

(The flood) its entering into the city indicates plague, if the people are in some such state, or if its colour is the colour of blood, or is murky.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

And it may indicate the entry of an army under safe conduct, or of a company of travellers, if it has no destructive violence; otherwise the people are in fear of it.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

And if it demolishes some of their houses and passes over their properties and livestock, then it is an enemy raiding them, or a ruler tyrannising over them, in proportion to the increase in the vision and the indications of waking life.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

And some of them said: the flood is the onslaught of the enemy, just as the onslaught of the enemy is a flood. So if the flood rises up over the shops, then it is a deluge, or the troops of a tyrannical ruler attacking; and the flood is an enemy given power.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

And if he sees that the roof-gutters are flowing without rain, then that is blood that will be shed in that town or that quarter.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 467–470

Freud and Jung, a separate view

Its counterpart is the sea and the waters of the deep and the floods of rain,[191] the generating, fructifying and “maternal waters,” as the Indian mythology refers to them.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

That stifling, compressing feeling[203] of the onward-surging impulse is projected mythologically as a flood which, rising up and over all, destroys all that exists, in order to allow a new and better creation to come forth from this destruction.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

therefore under him came the great flood, for it is a typical fragment of the sun myth that the hero, when united with the woman attained with difficulty, is exposed in a cask and thrown into the sea, and then lands for a new life on a distant shore.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

But through Vishnu’s ecstasy a devouring flood came upon the world. (Devouring through introversion, symbolizing the danger of entering into the mother of death.)

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. VI The Battle for Deliverance from the Mother

Now they leave their natural bounds and surge over the mountain tops, engulfing all living things; for passion destroys itself.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. IV The Song of the Moth

Kinds and conditions of Flood

flood / torrent

Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam

In a dream it is the attack of an enemy, just as the attack of an enemy is a flood.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 171

So whoever sees a flood from rain, then harm will befall him, or he will fall ill, or he will undertake a journey involving hardship.

Ta'tir al-Anam fi Ta'bir al-Manam, p. 171

rising flood water

attributed to Ibn Sirin, Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam

And if he sees that the water of the sea or other waters increased until it exceeded the limit — and that is the meaning of the flood tide — until it entered the dwellings, the residences, and the houses, so that their inhabitants were on the verge of drowning, then a great tribulation will occur there.

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 583–586

The basic principle regarding overwhelming water is that it is distress and tribulation, because Allah the Exalted named its overwhelming and its abundance "transgression."

Muntakhab al-Kalam fi Tafsir al-Ahlam, pp. 583–586

Noah's flood

Freud and Jung, a separate view

A very close parallel is Noah’s journey during the flood, in which all living creatures die; only he and the life guarded by him are brought to a new birth.

Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious (1916) / Collected Papers (1917), Psychology of the Unconscious, ch. V Symbolism of the Mother and of Rebirth

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