Aquarium
To dream of an aquarium represents feelings about observing life or behavior contained and isolated from direct interaction. Controlled and isolated awareness of a situation that you are observing from a safe distance. Being detached from an situation and feeling content without actively involving yourself in it. A fascination with people, events, or aspects of yourself that you have no intention of deeply engaging with. It highlights your ability to notice and understand the impact of certain issues on your life, while staying emotionally uninvolved. Curiosity, reflection, or the study of feelings, thoughts, or aspects of oneself, all viewed from a detached or objective perspective. Safely having no involvement with something you are observing happening in your life. Observation of a situation that can't hurt you.
Positively, dreaming about an aquarium may reflect your fascination or interest in observing problems you are safely distanced from. Fascination with people, situations, things about yourself that you have no interest in seriously involving yourself with. Intelligently keeping yourself separated from something dangerous you are observing. Feelings about the full weight of a controlled situation you are aware of not embarrassing you. It implies an intelligent decision to keep yourself separated from potentially dangerous circumstances that you are merely observing. Your perception of a controlled situation that does not embarrass or threaten you.
Negatively, dreaming about an aquarium could represent feelings of being detached, isolated, or restricted in uncertain situations you prefer to never do anything other than observe. Feelings of being observed and scrutinized without the ability to affect the outcome. Feeling of alienation or the fear of being directly interaction with certain aspects of your life, emotions, or people. Feelings about a situation that limits you with only getting to observe it. Indifference, lack of fear, or lack of enthusiasm for something you are aware of happening. Indifference towards harmful or negative events happening around you. A lack of emotional involvement with problems you are noticing yourself or someone else experiencing. It may also represent being aware of how issues are effecting you, but being unwilling to confront them. You may be watching something negative unfold without feeling compelled to take any action or responsibility. Watching people too much from a safe distance and thinking there nothing wrong with it.
To dream of fish in an aquarium represents feelings of insight, perception, and careful observation of one's behavior or other's behavior from a controlled or limited perspective.
To dream of a spider in an aquarium represents feelings of insight, perception, and careful contained observation of a situation that makes you feel anxious, trapped, or threatened. You might be observing a difficult or anxiety-inducing situation from a safe distance or studying behavior that scares you without directly engaging with it.
To dream of a snake in an aquarium represents feelings of insight, perception, or careful observation of a situation or behavior that you find corrupt, threatening, sinister, or deceptive but is contained and can't directly harm you.
Consider the colors of the animals in the aquarium for additional meaning.
Example: A young woman dreamed of seeing an aquarium filled with white fish that were having babies. In waking life, she was noticing herself desiring a boy she liked while carefully doing everything to be closer to him without talking to him at all. In this case, the aquarium scene may have reflected her awareness of herself creating too many safe situations to be close to her crush while keeping herself carefully isolated from ever taking action to talk to him. She may have preferred to never talk to her crush, choosing instead to live with the uncertainty of ever dating him while watching him from a safe emotional distance.
Example 2: A young woman dreamed of seeing a python get placed into an aquarium that was attacking or eating others animals. In waking life, she felt indifferent to her friends beginning to not like her as she tried to do well in school while having a part time job. In this case, the aquarium with the python snake attacking other animals may have reflected her indifference to observing her job and stronger academic focus "strangling" her social life.
Example 3: A woman dreamed of seeing a developing baby in an aquarium that was close in term development to a previous baby she had aborted. In waking life, she was very sensitive about experiencing or observing herself surpass her previous failed pregnancy term record. In this case, the aquarium may have reflected her thoughts about safely observing her new pregnancy through testing while feeling indifferent to the possibility of needing get another abortion if something was wrong.
Example 4: A man dreamed of looking into an aquarium and seeing a big fish eat a smaller fish. In waking life, he was observing his wife move from her initial stage of pregnancy to a much more sensitive serious stage. He felt he couldn't do anything except be an observer and not a participant in the pregnancy as he watched his wife manage most issues related to the pregnancy on her own. The aquarium in this case may have reflected the man's feelings about observing his wife move into a more serious stage of pregnancy and how she managed it. The big fish eating the smaller fish might symbolize his perception of the increasing demands and responsibilities of the pregnancy 'consuming' the less complicated early stages.
Example 5: A man dreamed of standing in his grade 8 classroom while seeing an aquarium scene change from a weird brown pleco cleaner fish change into an aquarium scene with smaller white fish scared into single file order. In waking life, he was experiencing a criminal situation that was difficult to fix eventually sorting itself out. In this case, the aquarium may have reflected his perception of observing the criminal situation as it unfolded, with no ability to intervene directly.
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