I had my first tidal dream a few years ago in 2005, and since then have had perhaps one each year. The first one happened a few days before I had a big emotional/nervous breakdown at work (working at an amusement park drawing portraits, lots of people) and I dreamt that I was on a very crowded beach, saw a wave coming, but no one would listen to my warnings, no one tried to get away from it except me and I barely escaped the touch of water.

I basically know that these dreams mean I am under a lot of unconscious emotional stress/energy, and the tidal wave represents all of it heaving over onto me, putting my in a crisis so I will do something about it.

Yesterday morning I had a wave dream, but I was in a one storey house on an inlet of sorts, in Iceland (not sure what I was doing there) and the wave was large and fat, it covered the house entirely and I remember crying hysterically in a panic, heaving and sobbing. My mother was there with me and she wasn't doing anything, she was standing there as if nothing was really wrong, she started telling me about Jonah and the Whale and about how being lost at sea taught him a lesson.

Then the entire house became uprooted by the wave and I said, "We've become unhinged!". The house was being tossed by the wave like a boat, lost in the middle of this monstrosity of water.

That's when I woke up. I couldn't even close my eyes until I pictured the wave tossing the house up onto a safe plateau.

I've just moved to another country and have been having a lot of nervous problems and have been stressed that my parents don't seem to understand, that my feelings seem dramatic to them. I've been feeling pretty guilty and overwhelmed. What worries me about this dream is that usually in my tsunami dreams I dream that I escape the wave and there is an epilogue of sorts, and ending. Never have I been caught in the wave, or had anything totally uprooted by the wave, so it makes me wonder if I'm going to break down and not be able to make it through without some serious help. It makes me afraid that maybe I will get depressed again but this time I won't be able to help myself at all, that it will be worse.

I've been depressed off and on since these dreams started, and by looking at them I've been able to kind of put off serious damaging breakdowns...but it's just worrisome. These dreams really shake me up.

I don't know if anyone would have feedback.

This seems to be my only reoccurring dream. I have other dreams of water and night and of things being damp and rainy, flooding sometimes.

Thanks.

Welcome to the forum.

I hope your new surroundings will be much safer than the tsunami type weather conditions from which you came. Maybe the nightmares will stop.

Maybe being away from family will help as well. I get the impression from reading this:
My mother was there with me and she wasn't doing anything, she was standing there as if nothing was really wrong, she started telling me about Jonah and the Whale and about how being lost at sea taught him a lesson.
that they may be a cause of your nervousness.