Flood
A flood is water rising past what you can handle. Traditional reading takes water as wealth, so clear water pouring in was read as a great omen of money arriving, while muddy water swamping a house meant work piling up beyond your capacity. Climbing high and looking down on the water reads as getting past a hard stretch, while being swept along says your schedule is too heavy. This is not a forecast of real flooding, so there is no need to be alarmed.
A flood is the scene of more arriving at once than can be handled. Water gathers only where the ground is low, so how high it came shows exactly where you are weakest. Which water it was, and how high it came, decides the meaning.
Readings by Situation
Clear water pouring in
Tradition read this instead as a great omen of money arriving. The clearer the water, the better it reads. That is no reason to spend more, though, so confirm with numbers.
Muddy water swamping the house
The point is not the water but the earth mixed into it. In tradition clear water is wealth and muddy water is tangled worry, so the same flood here points at an affair snarled up with people and talk.
Climbing high and looking down on the water
You are placed where you wait for the water to go down. Tradition saw rising above water as standing on top of a hardship, but what matters here is less that you climbed than that you have not come down yet.
Being swept along by the current
A sign that your schedule is too heavy. If your feet could not touch, something is too much to carry alone. Asking for help beats gritting your teeth.
A flood dream does not forecast real flooding. It appears when you feel there is a great deal to shoulder. If you often wake with a suffocating feeling, rest matters more than interpretation.