Any image involving water relates to an experience of your emotions. In the case of a whirlpool, the implication is that there is a circling back over some focused point again and again until the momentum created pulls you down to your ultimate demise. This is what happens when you perseverate over some challenge that is causing an emotional reaction as a persistent thought or feeling.The whirlpool in your dream is asking you to consider what you can’t let go of.
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(1) A whirlpool may symbolize something in your psyche that is threatening to ‘pull you down’ or even destroy you.(2) If the ‘feel’ of the whirlpool is good, it may mean either that you are in the grip of a negative death-wish or that you are being invited to descend into your unconscious to discover more about yourself.
See also: Spiral.
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A dream in which a whirlpool poses a threat could indicate that the dreamer is resisting a confrontation with a person or situation that he or she must inevitably confront.A whirlpool can also represent being pulled unwillingly into a confrontation with repressed material in the unconscious mind.
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Sinking into emotions, into the unconscious.See also: Diving.
Folklore: You are inheriting something.
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Advice will be given to you well-worth following.An inheritance in the future.
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