Dreaming Lens: Was there a fountain in your dream? Was it flowing with water, or dried up? Was size was it? Was it in a public or private place? Was it from an earlier time period? Did you use it in any way?
Personal Focus: Because a fountain is a water fixture, it is important to work with the symbolic meaning of water when working with a fountain. This is so even if the fountain was devoid of water in your dream (see Water).
At its core, water represents the emotions. How the water behaves gives color and shading to the meaning you discover. A fountain manages and manipulates the water that flows through it. In this way, the fountain represents the ability to manage the emotions. Since many fountains inspire a sense of tranquility, they embody this ability to take an emotional experience and process it in such a way that keeps the integrity of the water and allows it to move with grace and ease. It has no need to make the water disappear and a fountain only does what it is capable of. In the real world of human emotions, this is very difficult to accomplish. A dream with a fountain in it may be compensating for waking life emotions that are a bit overwhelming.
The size and scope of the fountain in your dream, as well as the amount of water involved, should be applied to your interpretations as a barometer of the situations that may be inspiring it. Because they are decorative and are often placed strategically for others to see, a fountain in a dream may be revealing a desire to be more restrained with your emotional expression in social or public settings. From the opposite perspective, it could be your unconscious showing you that your sedate and charming expression of feelings may be too constricted. Look to both the Dreaming Lens and your current life circumstances for a more effective interpretation.