Dreaming about Dead Fish
Dead fish, fish floating belly-up, or fish gasping out of water carry a distinctly different reading from living fish: less about contents surfacing and more about something vital that has lost its environment.
Common interpretations
Jungian
In the Jungian frame, dead or dying fish often point to inner material that has been cut off from its source. Where living fish suggest unconscious contents in motion, dead fish typically suggest that something that once carried psychic life has been stranded, repressed, or left without the conditions it needed.
You walk along a dry riverbed lined with dead fish. The reading often points to a part of inner life that has been deprived of its element and is no longer functioning.
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