Golden Fish in dreams
The unconscious — what swims below the surface of your day-to-day awareness.
How golden changes the reading
The base reading of Fish
Because fish live in water — the dictionary's standard image for the unconscious — they represent thoughts and feelings that have not yet surfaced. Catching a fish is becoming aware of something. Letting it go is choosing not to dwell.
A school of fish is the volume of half-formed thoughts moving in you at any time. Watching them is restful; trying to grab one is usually frustrating.
A fish out of water is a feeling that has been pulled into your conscious life too fast and has nowhere to live. A dead fish is a feeling you killed off by analyzing it too hard.
Where you often see it. A fish glimpsed in clear water. A fish you catch and release. The dream uses the fish for the unconscious — what swims below the surface of your day-to-day awareness.
What it is not. A fish is not always food-symbol. The dictionary reads it as the moving below-the-surface contents of the dreamer's life.
Related in the dictionary. Read fish with water, sea, lake, and any scene where the unconscious has briefly become visible.