Tsunami Dreams

Greetings all tsunami dreamers. Due to an unprecedented level of interest in this topic I have decided to create a new tsunami dreams page which will (hopefully) be easier to link to, and eventually have all sorts of information and stories on it – this is a work in progress…

So the story goes; I wrote a couple of paragraphs about tsunami dreams in 2006 and received many comments from people who dreamed about tsunamis. Now over 3 years later the comments just keep rolling in (on average once a week). A veritable tsunami of dreams! I now have 163 recorded dream stories attached to that post – probably enough to write a book!

The white elephant has been inactive since 2007 (due to the writer having 3 children under 4, among other things!) It is because of the steady reminder of all these tsunami comments I have decided to resurrect the white elephant – so thanks to you!

So here’s the original post as well as an update written in 2007. I will create another page for the actual dreams people have recorded.

tsunami dreams

July 23, 2006

I sometimes have dreams of a tsunami. In the latest one, I was in some kind of hotel or restaurant with a large verandah facing the beach. I watched the tsunami break over the beach and the wave flowing towards me with the certain knowledge that it would sweep me away. It was fascinating and terrifying.

According to Carl Jung, a tsunami dream is very significant. It is one of those great “archetypal” dreams, meaning symbols which are universal across all cultures. A tsunami is supposed to be a symbol of some great spiritual change, the washing away of the old and the beginnings of new growth.

I am not sure what is going to be washed away but I feel to have an internal tsunami is sort of cleansing somehow.

the white elephant update 21.9.7

This post was written over a year ago, and I am still getting a lot of comments, so I decided to update it.

I’m thinking we must be in the midst of a kind of “global tsunami”. In Jungian terms I’m thinking the tsunami is part of our “collective unconscious” a part of the unconscious that is shared by everyone. Jung spoke of archetypes and symbols as arising from the collective unconscious. This is where Jung starts to get a bit more spiritual and departs from conventional psychiatry.

So why is everyone dreaming of tsunamis? An obvious connection is the huge real-life tsunamis of 2005. Or is there some kind of global emotional / spiritual “wave” that is now affecting everyone?? I don’t know what that might be. Comments always appreciated.

I found a useful entry on a dream website about tsunami dreams. The author says:

“Since water in dreams often symbolises our emotions, tsunamis generally represent repressed emotions which can no longer be held back, or an emotional situation which is about to burst into the waking world.”

She says the common response to a tsunami dream is for a dreamer to run away from the tsunami (sounds practical to me). But she also suggested trying to face the tsunami as a way of dealing with whatever emotions they represent.

I always thought a tsunami dream was like a great privilege, suggesting you are about to go through a spiritual awakening. So it would be interesting to hear back from people who’ve had a dream to see what changes occurred in their life.

I remember the first time I had a tsunami dream (about 10 years ago??) and it seemed to mark the arrival of a time of increased spiritual discovery or awareness, but that process took several years.

I’m not sure there have been any great changes or upheavals since the tsunami dream I had last year. But maybe they are still to come.