The flight into the unconscious (forest) leads into even deeper unconscious territory (water). Whatever is being fled has driven the dreamer from the wild, untamed unconscious into the deepest emotional depths. The more one runs from the shadow, the deeper into the unconscious one goes.
Key Themes
extreme avoidance driving deeper unconsciousthe shadow driving you deeperflight from the forest into the searunning from one form of unconscious to anotherthe shadow always finds you deeper