To dream that you are fishing indicates that you are confronting and bringing your repressed emotions to the surface.
In particular, to dream that you are ice fishing suggests that you are breaking through a hardened emotional barrier and confronting difficult feelings from your subconscious.
To see a fishing rod in your dream represents your quest and exploration of your subconscious mind. You are ready to confront issues and emotions which you have suppressed.
Physical
Catching a
fish, especially a big one, portends success in a venture. Seeing fish means you need to be more adaptable, flexible, and sensitive.
Emotional
You are focusing on specific feelings in your subconscious. Catching a fish means dealing with one
deep emotional issue. Trying to
hold a fish that wriggles away means you’re having trouble forming or maintaining a relationship. A
dead or
dying fish signifies
disappointment or hopelessness. You are insecure, “fishing for compliments.”
Spiritual
You are dipping into the collective unconscious for creative ideas, or
messages from the superconscious mind. You are actively pursuing a spiritual quest and transformation.
Fisherman
To dream of a fisherman, denotes you are nearing times of greater prosperity than you have yet known.
Physical
Catching a fish, especially a big one, portends success in a venture. Seeing fish means you need to be more adaptable, flexible, and sensitive.
Emotional
You are focusing on specific feelings in your subconscious. Catching a fish means dealing with one deep emotional issue. Trying to hold a fish that wriggles away means you’re having trouble forming or maintaining a relationship. A dead or dying fish signifies disappointment or hopelessness. You are insecure, “fishing for compliments.”
Spiritual
You are dipping into the collective unconscious for creative ideas, or messages from the superconscious mind. You are actively pursuing a spiritual quest and transformation.
Fishnet
To see a fishnet in your dream indicates a fear of being found out or caught in the act.
To see or wear fishnet stockings in your dream symbolizes sexiness, lust, and allure. The dream may be telling you that you need to be more daring.
Fishhooks
To dream of fishhooks, denotes that you have opportunities to make for yourself a fortune and an honorable name if you rightly apply them.
SYMBOLISM
Peter is
called “the fisher of
men” and the fish becomes a
symbol of
Christ.’ This fragment of legend, taken from Waldemar Vedel, affords a clear explanation of the mystic sense of fishing and the fisherman, a sense which has been corroborated by all students of mythology and anthropology, Schneider among them.
Fishing amounts to extracting the unconscious elements from deeplying sources—the ‘elusive treasure’ of legend, or, in other words, wisdom. To fish for souls is quite simply a matter of knowing how to fish in the soul.
The fish is a mystic and psychic animal that lives in water (and water is symbolic of dissolution and, at the same time, of renovation and regeneration).
The fisherman is able—like the doctor—to work upon the very sources of life because of his knowledge of these founts.
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Large bodies of water often symbolize the unconscious, so any sea creature can represent a message from the unconscious or “diving” into the unconscious. Completely at home in the ocean, fish are the best-equipped creatures for exploring its depths, and are thus positive symbols for any-one engaged in therapy or self transformation.
The activity of fishing can indicate a quest, particularly for nourishment, and it can indicate an exploration of the unconscious. Fish can also be sexual symbols and, because of their association with Christianity, can be Christ symbols.
If your dream involves the act of fishing, there is an entirely different interpretation to consider. The act of fishing is the search for an idea that matches a particular desire. The process requires the proper tools, an element of attraction (bait), and the most important ingredient – patience.
To dream of fishing symbolizes your search for meaning. You seek a deeper relationship, a more relevant or important job, or something that will connect you to a higher purpose.
To catch a fish in your dream means you’ve hit on a great idea or you’ve recently met someone with relationship potential.
To let a fish go in your dream represents sacrifice. You’ve given up something you want to help someone else.