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In the example above, the dreamer is “out of reach” from the turbulent waves. She watches them from behind a protective glass window. In fact, she has many dreams where she “observes” the water without going near it. This sounds like someone who notices her choppy emotions but doesn’t really want to explore their meaning. [links]
Analyzing Water in a Dream here
A dreamer who avoids going near the water may feel intimidated by deep emotions and avoid close relationships in her waking hours. The key here is to go near the water – if not directly in it. Whether awake or asleep, allowing uncomfortable emotions to exist while wading into a situation “a little deeper” will yield a new experience. There is the chance of being hurt, but there is also the possible reward that comes with authentic closeness. here
Whether the dreamer is in the water, near the water or far from the water, the key is to uncover what a dream about water reveals during waking hours. here
“In the language of dreams, water often represents our emotional life, the feelings we have under the surface, while the solid ground represents what we knowingly communicate to others,” writes Cynthia Richmond in her book, Dream Power: How to Use Your Night Dreams to Change Your Life. here
Waves are like children of the ocean. They're meaningful to us, surfers. Have you ever closed your eyes while riding a wave against the setting sun? Brilliant experience.
"For a surfer, it's never-ending. There's always some wave you want to surf."
Kelly Slater
"Sometimes, you just have to go with the waves."
Unknown Author [links]
Where does a wave's energy come from? There are a few types of ocean waves and they are generally classified by the energy source that creates them. Most common are surface waves, caused by wind blowing along the air-water interface, creating a disturbance that steadily builds as wind continues to blow and the wave crest rises. Surface waves occur constantly all over the globe, and are the waves you see at the beach under normal conditions.
Waves are actually energy passing through the water, causing it to move in a circular motion. When a wave encounters a surface object, the object appears to lurch forward and upward with the wave, but then falls down and back in an orbital rotation as the wave continues by, ending up in the same position as before the wave came by. If one imagines wave water itself following this same pattern, it is easier to understand ocean waves as simply the outward manifestation of kinetic energy propagating through seawater. In reality, the water in waves doesn’t travel much at all. The only thing waves do transmit across the sea is energy. [links]
NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer hits a large swell during a day spent mapping in the Pacific. Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake. Download image (jpg, 77 KB).
Looking out at the ocean, one often sees a seemingly infinite series of waves, transporting water from one place to the next. Though waves do cause the surface water to move, the idea that waves are travelling bodies of water is misleading.
The idea of waves being energy movement rather than water movement makes sense in the open ocean, but what about on the coast, where waves are clearly seen crashing dramatically onto shore? This phenomenon is a result of the wave’s orbital motion being disturbed by the seafloor. As a wave passes through water, not only does the surface water follow an orbital motion, but a column of water below it (down to half of the wave’s wavelength) completes the same movement. The approach of the bottom in shallow areas causes the lower portion of the wave to slow down and compress, forcing the wave’s crest higher in the air. Eventually this imbalance in the wave reaches a breaking point, and the crest comes crashing down as wave energy is dissipated into the surf. here
Adverse weather or natural events often produce larger and potentially hazardous waves. Severe storms moving inland often create a storm surge, a long wave caused by high winds and a continued low pressure area. Submarine earthquakes or landslides can displace a large amount of water very quickly, creating a series of very long waves called tsunamis. Storm surges and tsunamis do not create a typical crashing wave but rather a massive rise in sea level upon reaching shore, and they can be extremely destructive to coastal environments. [links]
wave height-the vertical distance between the top of one wave crest and the bottom of the next trough here
wave speed-the velocity with which waves travel
One waves motion is completely independent of any other wave motion. When two groups of waves meet, they pass right through each other. This is obvious if you consider light and sound waves. When two people talk or your child has both the TV and the stereo on, you can hear both. One set of sound waves doesn’t garble the other. Likewise you can see two objects at the same time. What does happen, though is that waves can either add up or cancel each other out as they pass through one another. This property is called superposition. If a crest from one wave happens to line up with the trough of another, they cancel each other out. This is called destructive interference. If two waves line up crest to crest or trough to trough, they add up. This is called constructive interference. This is why waves at the beach are all different sizes. There are lots of different wave groups coming in, and they’re interfering with each other in different ways. [links]