What does it mean to dream about current?
A current often pictures a force pulling beneath the surface, the drift of events or feeling that carries you along, sometimes gently and sometimes against your will.
Four ways to read it
Each reading below comes from a named tradition and a cited source, so you can see where it came from and decide what fits your dream.
Freud
Freud would read a pull beneath the water as a drive working below awareness, drawing you in a direction you did not choose. The undertow can stand for a feeling that moves you against your conscious will.
After Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (Brill trans., 1913), public domain.Jung
Jung might see the current as the movement of the unconscious carrying the ego along, a force larger than the will. Whether you swim against it or let it take you can say something about how you meet what is beyond your control.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Modern
The continuity view ties a current to waking feelings of being swept along by events, or of a hidden pressure pulling at a plan or a mood. The fear of being dragged under often drives the unease.
Threat-simulation theory (our summary).Mythological
Hidden currents and the pull of the tide filled seafaring myth as the work of sea powers who claimed the unwary. Such unseen forces were dreaded as the will of the deep made felt beneath a calm face.
Rosmerta Publishing editorial synthesis (after Bulfinch; Brewer).