Salmon upstream

A salmon upstream in a dream is the dream's image of a creature returning, by sheer force, against the current to the place where it began. The salmon does not spawn anywhere; it spawns at home. The dream brings the salmon when something in your life — a return to a place, a family, a project of origin — is being driven by an instinct to complete a circle and is being paid for in real exhaustion. A salmon reaching the gravel where it was born is the dream affirming the completion. A salmon stopped at a weir, with the home water still upstream, is the dream noting that an obstacle has been placed in the way of a return the creature was built to make, and the cycle will not close on its own.