Tidal Wave Dream Interpretation: Insights from 9 Unique Sources

Tidal waves or tsunamis suggest that you may be in a period of emotional upheaval. Anxiety, stress, and unconscious materials may be coming to the surface and affecting your daily moods. Giant tidal waves from your dream may be symbolic of current emotional unhappiness and psychological stress that may be threatening to destroy or uproot you.

The outcome of this dream could reveal to you how much strength you have to “ride out” this storm.

If you are not consumed, or you survived the tidal waves of your dream, be assured that you will survive the challenges of life and living.

See Waves, Water, Ocean

Dreams of a tidal wave signify emotional overwhelm, as in extreme sadness or as in falling in love. Your dream is reflecting that you are undergoing great transformation and the message for you is to dive down into the deep end of your emotional ocean where the waters are still, calm, and peaceful. Or, if you prefer, allow yourself the space to cry and release any energy that has been held back.

(1) A tidal wave may represent the unconscious (e.g. under its ‘devouring-mother* aspect) as threatening to engulf the conscious ego and / or prevent the emergence of true independence.

(2) It may symbolize the surge of sexuality, or the sweeping strength of some emotion.

A tidal wave can point to a huge emotional shock, the result of a trauma of childhood, which emerges out of the sea of the unconscious as a warning.

A tidal wave may also predict a serious illness or a huge emotional upset

To see a tidal wave in your dream represents an overwhelming emotional issue that demands attention. You may have been keeping your feelings and negative emotions bottled up inside.

1. Turmoil in waking life.

2. Being overwhelmed with emotions.

3. Feelings of being overwhelmed in a relationship.

Big, powerful emotional upheaval. Watch what is happening, resolve things, do not let them slide.

Symbolic of impending disaster, 2 Sam. 22:5