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Originally Posted by Wikipedia's Entry on Tashlikh
Tashlikh (Hebrew: תשליך, meaning "casting off") is a long-standing Jewish practice usually performed on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, however it can be said up until Hoshana Rabbah. The previous year's sins are symbolically "cast off" by reciting a section from Micah that makes allusions to the symbolic casting off of sins, into a large, natural body of flowing water (such as a river, lake, sea or ocean).
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Maybe the message of your dream was to remove elements from yourself that are impeding you from having lucid dreams and astral projection experiences. I am not Jewish but I may practice something that is somewhat similar to this custom. I will take bubble baths in Epsom salt (and then a shower) in hopes that impurities will wash away from me with the flowing water.
Also, my experiences with lucid dreaming seem to indicate that an ocean in the astral dimension (especially a turbulent ocean) is the dividing line between those who are lucid and those who are not. Those that exist beneath the ocean's waves have not achieved spiritual progress to be lucid in the astral dimension. Those that exist above the waves are lucid and experiencing more of the "real" or "spiritually purer" areas of that dimension.
Thus, by practicing Tashlikh in a constructive spiritual context with results, you will be able to cast off "impurities" of yourself "into the ocean" of negative and impeding emotions. The surface of the ocean in the astral dimension is the fine line between lucidity and nonlucidity. And if you are able to walk on water in the astral dimension, then this will show that spirit and the soul have a greater influence on your consciousness than the mind and emotions.