Dream of rain

Rain 
To see and hear rain falling symbolizes forgiveness and grace. Falling rain is also a metaphor for tears, crying and sadness. Alternatively, rain symbolizes fertility and renewal. If you get wet from the rain, then it indicates cleaning from your troubles and problems. In particular, dreaming of acid rain indicates that you have been mislead. You are letting hatred and revenge take over and define you.

To dream that you are watching the rain from a window indicates that spiritual ideas and insights are being brought to your awareness. It may also symbolize fortune and love.

To hear rain tapping on the roof denotes spiritual ideas coming to fruition in your mind.

Raincoat 
To dream that you are wearing a raincoat suggests that you are shielding yourself from your emotions. You are not able to face the nastiness. Alternatively, wearing a raincoat in your dream refers to your pessimistic outlook and unpleasantness.

Rainforest 
To dream that you are in a rainforest suggests that you feel your emotions are being undermined and "cut down". Alternatively, the dream represents your waking concerns about the environment. It may also be a metaphor of the impact that you have on your surroundings

Rain water that builds up, or begins to rise reflects your feelings about problems becoming too much for you. 

Example: A woman dreamed that it was raining so hard that the water began to leak into her home through the ceiling. In waking life her husband began to slowly lose his mind to a psychological condition. She felt hopeless about her husband's irreversible condition. 

Example 2: A young man dreamed of walking down a street during the day and then turned a corner to find it began to rain. In waking life he was in the prime of his life and then suddenly fell ill to a disease that slowly destroyed his life. 

Example 3: A woman dreamed of experiencing heavy rain fall. In waking life she was going through a divorce. 

Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing rain. In waking life he had gotten turned down for a job and started to have a bad outlook on his future. 

Example 5: A man dreamed of hard rain pouring down. In waking life he got a job in another city and was sad that he was going to miss all his friends once he moved away. 

Generally rain symbolises emotions, release of feelings.

If the rain is gentle it is usually a relaxing experience and suggests a release from ideas and intellect. If it is a downpour and storm, it is feelings which may drench us, as in sadness or grief about a friend passing. If the land is inundated, then our common sense is lost to sight in the emotions released, and danger may threaten.

But rain may also show a return of feelings after a long spell of dry intellectualism or drought of feelings.

Some dreams show a massive downpour and feel that they have to wade through a flood, making it difficult to move; also it can be dangerous because visibility is poor. This suggests either emotions or natural events make it difficult for you get around as usual. A heavy falll of rain can also can be a start of very big changes in ones life and feelings.

If the rain is entering ones house it can signify worries about ones living conditions and comfort.

Rain can be a cleansing experience when it clears the ground and plants grow because they are watered. So it then represent a cleansing of worries or thoughts and emotions.

If a flood washes your house away or other things it may be that it is about a way of life, an attitude that has been destroyed or radically changed.

Example: I was walking past a large building site which had been excavated for foundations. Rain had filled the excavated pits and a large lake had formed. As I walked past I could see ancient primitive creatures rising out of the water. One of them, a large dinosaur, came toward me. I was scared and ran away. The dinosaur followed and started speaking to me. I couldn’t understand what it said. Don.

Example: I happened to rub or scratch my flesh and felt like bits of something on me. I looked and saw they were maggots. They had come off the blanket. I tried to brush them off, and it was like pieces of dirt or scum coming off the body, but I could not seem to get rid of all of them. Afterwards I saw my sexual feelings rise like a thermometer. This didn’t clear the maggots, but I felt impressed to rise thermometer right up to my head. I watched the liquid rise. Then it came out of my head like a fountain, raining down on my body. This fell upon the maggots, which fell off me. As they did so they became seeds that grew in the ground.

Idioms: Come rain or shine; it never rains but it pours; saving for a rainy day.

Useful Questions and Hints:

What did you feel about the rain in the dream?

Was the rain gentle or a heavy downpour?

Do you dislike or like the rain?

Heavy rain and flooding dream symbolizes God sent removal of contaminants from your life. It falls directly from the Sky so it has divine powers. It floods all over with chances of huge damage to anyone who’s in your way stopping you from reaching your aspirations. Dreaming of great rainfall with overflowing of a large amount of water means that enormous quantity of heavenly energy dedicated to growth has reached you. You will be able to use your knowledge and skills with huge power and that will make a lot of useful harm to someone who is competing with you. As result of it your dream prognosticates forthcoming fortune. Soon enough you will be happier than you are now.

On other hand, large amount of rain drops and flooding water shows that there is plenty of it for cleaning and washing. It can mean that dense emotions are weighing a lot and these feelings reached the peak. It needs to be released. Heavy rain with flood is here to announce it and help to you to let it go. Something what has bothered you will be eliminated completely

Alternatively, storm, strong wind, heavy precipitation and violent overflow of water indicate harsh condition in your life. It can mean that there is something what is not going very well. You can be psychologically broke and it is showed by flooding. But water also symbolizes continuation in regeneration and rebirth. So, your dream means also revival and rejuvenation. As prognostication it foretells bright future because of the finalization of overreaching emotions.

On other hand, water as the main component of rain and flooding represents life. But because flooding is unexpected so it adds symbolism of unforeseen character. Heavy rain and flood augurs that you might receive heavily surprising birth in waking life.

Additionally, to dream of heavy rain and flooding can mean that, when you were dreaming, rain and flood has passed by. The noise of densely falling raindrops and running rain flood water was external stimulus which incorporate real life event into your dream. So, dreaming it means that your hearing is working well even when you are sleeping.

Secondary, fear of flood can be the reason of your dream. This fear works as internal stimulus for your dream. It introduces you to the dream of raining and flooding. So, if you have ever experienced serious flood and now fear for it exists, then such psychological experience is the meaning of your dream. Also, it means that you should manage your fear accordingly to the chances of such happening. Because now it is taking over you and following you into dreams despite the fact that it doesn’t need to be worried about. And an umbrella with food and water stocks should always be prepared in order to help you in the case of flooding and this preparation will let you live free of worries.

If weather outside at night was good and without any strong rainstorm and dense flood, and if the fear of high water doesn’t bother you too, then your dream can be seen as a blessing except one fact. Flooding is usually interpreted negatively. So, first, you are blessed because your mind is free of worrying about weather conditions. Second, this dream has symbolism of vitality, spiritedness and forcefulness, which are overflowing too much. Also, it means growth in financial efforts and personal proficiency, but with negatively impacting others interests. So, dreaming about heavy rain and flood symbolizes success in your professional life and family relationships, which will be reached by doing some damaged to third party.