Eel Dream Meanings

As the snake of the sea, an eel can come to reflect unseen or unconscious emotional forces. Being bitten by an eel in a dream may suggest that you felt attacked by someone without much evidence of a real assault.

See serpent and snake in animals

Eels embody many of the meanings of snakes or serpents, although their watery habitat links them more explicitly with the powers of the unconscious.

As phallic symbols, they indicate unconscious sexual desires. They may also symbolize something in the unconscious of which we are afraid.

Symbol: In a woman’s dream, often a phallic symbol.

Vision: Dreaming about an eel: good news or the positive outcome of a project. Catching an eel: a new business deal is proceeding successfully, but people around it are envious.

If you are ill, the eel may be a sign that you are getting well and will have more energy.

If the eel is squirming: look out for a “smooth operator.” Numerous eels in the water: a longing for sexual orgasm.

Depth Psychology: The eel is a sign of temptation and usually symbolizes hidden sexual desires.

See Fish, Serpent.

If you dream that you cannot hold onto a slippery eel this augers ill for your fortunes as they will slip away from you.

If you dream of seeing a dead eel this shows that you will overcome all your enemies, and an eel in clear water shows excellent luck and fortune.

See Snake.

The eel appears often as a dream symbol when you are feeling numb and lethargic.

The eel symbolizes activity, and expresses the desire to be like a Fish, in Water, able to move through life like an eel, smooth and unencumbered.

It is also connected with being unemotional (distant).

The quality of the water in which the eel is moving is important.

If there is a feeling of disgust when seeing the eel, it indicates a childlike aversion to sexuality.

The same holds true when fleeing from the eel. In classical psychoanalysis, the eel is also seen as a phallic symbol and having sexual urges.

To see an eel in your dream, indicates that you have issues with commitment. It also means that you have problems holding on to things.

1. Phallic symbol.

2. Something hidden and dangerous.

3. Not sure which way to go.

4. Difficult to trap.

5. Concept that is diffi­cult to understand.

See Snake.

To dream of an eel is good if you can maintain your grip on him. Otherwise fortune will be fleeting.

To see an eel in clear water, denotes, for a woman, new but evanescent pleasures.

To see a dead eel, signifies that you will overcome your most maliciously inclined enemies.

To lovers, the dream denotes an end to long and hazardous courtship by marriage.

Grasping an eel in a dream is a gpod omen if the fish does not wiggle out of your hand.

Stealthy, slippery.

Questioning your or someone else’s motives.

The element of surprise, or waiting for the best timing in order to be most effective.

Flexible or adaptable.

Dreaming of this animal can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or animal.

Consider also the animal’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.

See also: Animal; Snake; Worm

If you dream that you cannot hold onto a slippery eel this augers ill for your fortunes as they will slip away from you.

If you dream of seeing a dead eel this shows that you will overcome all your enemies, and an eel in clear water shows excellent luck and fortune.