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What it means to dream about rain
Rain in a dream is the image of what pours out of you - tears, everything stored up that asks to be released. Warm rain washes you clean, a downpour drowns you, so notice the feelings you gave room, or the ones about to spill over. Dreams don't write fate, and this one hands you your own state right now - with the question underneath it: which feelings have been waiting for room to come out?
First layer · what tradition says
What the traditional dream book says
In the dream books rain is tied to tears, and just as often to washing clean and to fertile ground. Warm rain brings good, a downpour a storm of feeling, and standing out in it with no umbrella the sense of being unprotected.
Second layer · the honest read
What the dream really reflects
Rain is what pours out: tears, everything stored up that's asking to be let go. Warm rain washes you, a downpour drowns you. This is about the feelings you gave room to, or the ones about to spill over whether you planned it or not.
What changes the reading
Change the detail and you change the reading: “warm summer rain” and “rain while the sun shines” sit further apart than they look.
- Warm summer rain
- Something is washing you clean. The tears or the feelings you let out have done you good, even if you braced for the opposite.
- A downpour, getting soaked
- What you stored up has overflowed. The feeling went right through you and there was nowhere to hide from it this time.
- Rain while the sun shines
- Tears mixed with hope. The hard thing and the bright thing arriving in the same hour, which happens more often than it sounds.
FAQ
Is dreaming about rain a good sign or a bad one, and does it change anything if you are caught in a downpour?
Hunting for a fixed sign will get you nowhere: a downpour speaks of what you stored up finally overflowing, and warm summer rain speaks of tears that washed you and did you good. A dream reflects and never decrees.
Why do the old dream books read dreaming about rain as tears, and just as often washing clean?
Folk tradition stamped this image as tears, and just as often washing clean, and the lists themselves were compiled in different centuries, each one arguing with its neighbor. I read it as a mirror of your state, and for a woman or for a man the meaning grows out of your own today, because the real question is this: which feelings have been waiting for room to come out?
The dream reflected you for one night. The chart of the sky holds your whole reflection.
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