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Dreaming of rain: meaning in Korea
In Korea, rain in a dream is a blessing: gentle and well-timed, it feeds your projects the way it feeds the rice paddies. It washes away the old and brings the new.
What they say in Korea 비꿈
In a farming culture like Korea's, rain was a blessing from the sky: Joseon kings held ceremonies to ask for it during droughts. That is why kkumhaemong says that dreaming of gentle rain announces prosperity, growth and help arriving at just the right moment. Getting happily soaked in the rain is read as receiving good luck directly. Rain washing the streets clean is read as problems washing away by themselves. If the rain is torrential and frightens you, the reading speaks of intense emotions or too many tasks at once. And if the sun or a rainbow comes out afterward, it is one of the happiest dreams there is.
Depending on the details
if you get soaked and enjoy it
You receive blessings directly: good news, some income or emotional relief. It is read as letting luck touch you without resisting.
if the rain is torrential
A period with lots of emotions or tasks at once. Not bad, but it calls for shelter: rest, organize your schedule and wait for the worst to pass.
if the sun comes out after the rain
One of the happiest endings: a hardship ending and a clear chapter beginning. Korean tradition considers it very lucky.
And luck?
After this dream, a Korean might have pajeon with makgeolli, the classic rainy-day combo in Korea.
In other traditions
In the West rain in dreams is tied to sadness, melancholy or emotional cleansing. Gentle rain can be read as renewal, and a storm as conflict or bottled-up emotions.