Dreaming of fish could symbolise your association with fish, the qualities of the specific type of fish or a spiritual aspect in your life.
Identify which one of these fits you and your dream by using the surrounding elements, place, people, thoughts, dialogue, and actions.
1. If you have an association use this.
For example, if you fish for a hobby, your dreams may use all the different elements that your hobby entails, such as a fishing rod, fishing and fish, etc, to symbolise your association with your hobby.
To understand what you associate with fish you need to identify why you would use fish to convey something to yourself, your connection with them, your feelings towards fishing and how you would summarise the action of fishing.
Once you have identified this, try summarising it into one word or a phrase to give the overall meaning that you can use each time you dream of a fish. Fish will appear in a variety of ways over different dreams, and you can use your subjective association as the main symbol and use the surrounding elements to define greater detail.
2. The qualities of a specific type of fish can be understood by finding out the characteristics, behaviour, instincts or biological makeup of that species of fish and see how this fits into the message of the dream.
3. Fish symbolising a spiritual aspect.
This suggestion stems from going through a phase of dreaming of fish and using the water element connected to spirituality to identify why I was dreaming of them. They specifically symbolise a spiritual influencing energy that I am consuming via information, books, podcasts, concepts, ideas, etc.
From a whole fish on a plate for lunch to people looking and acting like dead fish, understand if the fish is being conveyed in a positive or negative aspect.
Whole fish on a plate alludes to a complete spiritual aspect being consumed.
Fish eyes allude to spiritual perception.
Dead fish alludes to a lifeless spiritual aspect.
Burnt fish alludes to damaging a spiritual aspect.
Rotton fish alludes to a bad and off, spiritual aspect.
Being served fish to eat alludes to the presentation of spiritual information, concepts, ideas, etc, that you are consuming.
Eating fish alludes to the consumption of spiritual information, concepts, ideas, etc.
For example, I dreamt that my dad had been fishing and we were all sitting at the table to eat a whole fresh fish for lunch.
Translated, Providing (dad) myself with complete healthy spiritual nourishment (fish).
Another example is I was at the table with fish on my plate, I began to eat it and then I realised it was not cooked, then I saw it was rotten and lastly black smoke started coming out of it.
This was showing me a bad spiritual aspect that I had started to consume.
The specific spiritual aspect could be mentioned at any time from the beginning of the dream till the scene of the fish.
The place could represent the topic, for example, a dining room alludes to the topic ‘consumption – what you are consuming via information, ideas, concepts, etc’, or the ocean alludes to a spiritual depth or spiritual search.
The condition of the water could represent the state of the matter the dream is about, for example, glistening water alludes to a positive state, murky water alludes to a dark and gloomy state, or dirty water alludes to an unclean state.
Fishing could also be a play on words and symbolise fishing for something, fishing for the truth, an answer etc.
School of fish alludes to a group of people or the collective. It could also be a play on words and symbolise learning, something many learn.
