Rapids Dream Interpretation: Insights from 6 Unique Sources

Rapids are created when a river is constricted in some way, forcing more flow into less space, thus increasing the intensity of the energy created by the rushing water. Water in dreams represents your feelings, and a river is symbolic of your flowing emotions. In this way, rapids indicate an increased intensity of some emotional experience in your life that not only is causing a rise in how much emotion you are feeling, but also adds an element of overwhelm and sense of potential danger.

Dreaming of rapids (choppy water) suggests a troubled state of mind.

If you fell into the rapids, you are having difficulties with friends or family members.

If you jumped in, beware of taking hasty actions.

If you successfully navigated through the rapids to calmer waters, you will succeed in getting through your current problems.

To imagine that you are being carried over rapids in a dream, denotes that you will suffer appalling loss from the neglect of duty and the courting of seductive pleasures.

1. An emotionally turbulent period is ahead.

2. A deep feel­ing of a loss of direction in life, a loss of control over one’s destiny.

To dream that you are riding over or through rapids warns of negligence.

See Riding.

This is a symbol of a fast paced or out of control situation