To see an aquarium in your dream signifies that you have acknowledged your emotions but have not yet confronted them.
Thus, it may refer to your subconscious thoughts or repressed sexual desires. Also, you may feel that your life is going nowhere or that you feel it is going in circles.
An aquarium full of water
An aquarium full of water in your dream can symbolize being aware of your emotions, but unable to fully access them.
It can symbolize being bottled up inside.
Watching fish swim in an aquarium can symbolize idleness or killing time.
An aquarium can symbolize the bladder.
Changing the water
Changing the water can relate to urinary trouble and the need for good hydration and show the need for better fluids in your system. Fetid or nasty water in an aquarium can symbolize a urinary-tract infection or similar issue. It can characterize the quality of the liquid you consume.
Dreaming of Fish in an aquarium
To see fish in an aquarium in your dream represents life and movement. This could mean that you may need to take an important trip or journey, especially if you dream of fish swimming from one side to another.
Dreaming You Are Inside the Aquarium
To see yourself in an aquarium in your dream represents that you might feel like you are on display for others. You may be worried that people talking behind your back.
Buying an Aquarium
To see yourself purchasing an aquarium in your dream can possibly mean that you will be undertaking a large project that might require an emotional investment. You may also be trying to consider possible choices and options for your feelings on what to do with your life. See shopping dream meaning for additional resources for what it means to buy something in a dream.
Selling an Aquarium
To see selling an aquarium in your dream suggests that you will help someone who is currently struggling financially or emotionally. This person whom you will help will mention you favorably to others in the future.
Small Aquarium
To see a little aquarium in your dream symbolizes small issues within your household and you will find a way to resolve these problems with the help of a person outside your household.
Large Aquarium
A big aquarium suggests that your problems with your family members will vanish as soon as possible as a result of your own efforts and your household ties will strengthen more.
Broken Aquarium
To see that an aquarium is broken or blown up in your dream symbolizes that you will occupy the same environment with people whom you don’t like. This most often portends to a work environment.
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As always, the correct interpretation of such dreams depends on the details. So, looking at an aquarium with clear water and fish swimming inside reveals a happy and peaceful mood.
However, if the water is dirty or the fish are nervous, the oneiric scene might be giving you clues about your repressed impulses.
If the fish are dead in the aquarium it is a sign of vain hopes and disappointments.
A beautiful habitat enclosed in glass, filled with creatures that breathe water instead of air …. Aquariums symbolize the small realities we keep self-contained within us: our fantasy lives, our dreams for the future, our separate worlds of work, family, and love.
Aquarium dreams celebrate these inner worlds, but also show us how we limit ourselves by our own rules and preconceived notions about the world. You can’t swim past that glass wall.
To break an aquarium means your neatly compartmentalized realities are breaking down. Time to integrate some parts of your life?
To dream you are inside an aquarium means you limit yourself, or someone else limits you. If you don’t like it, take a deep breath and step out into the open air.