Kacie,
Thanks for the reply. The dream is addressing your current emotional state of mind and being able to control your emotions during these trying times. From the recent job change as well as the issues related to your mother.

Dreams are about the emotions and address both the literal experiences during the time period of the dream as well as the foundations for how you manage your emotions, the developed attitudes and personality traits you exhibit. Most images/actions are symbolic of your emotional energies but there are also literal applications {less often than symbolic}. An experienced dream analyst using Jungian concepts can read the outlines of the emotional energies and when possessing personal information about the dreamer link the symbolic images and actions to the actual experiences currently affecting you {emotionally}. The dream pointed to current strong emotional issues that threaten your emotional well being {the flood} as well as your ability to contain/control your emotions. Most of what I provided in my interpretation of the symbolic images and actions seem to fit. Of course all I have to go on outside the dream contents is your age and gender and that limits my ability to provide any personal applications. Additional dreams would expand on these emotional energies and would likely provide clues to your 'normal' attitudes and personality traits, the usual inability to control your emotions during stressful times {I take it from your response that is the norm}.

The one factor that is not readily available from the dream and in the personal info you provided is your wanting to write a book. Often the ability to focus on the creative self will provide inner strength when having to address stress and anxieties. When one utilizes the creative aspects of the psyche they are using their greater self which can provide strength in other emotional aspects of life. Your desire to write may be why you are able to better control your emotions and if so imagine the positive aspects it can provide later in life. When you are in the creative realm you are in what Jung called the true self, not controlled by society or outside influences but a focus on your inner strengths. Creativity is an expression of your true self and utilizing the creative mind you have a release mechanism for your stress and anxieties. You are still relatively young so I would do all I can to follow through on your desire to write.

Jerry

Age & Gender & Location {Required}: 69 Altoona, Fl