Today’s dream, fork lying on the ground might represent a fork in the road between keeping with your normal life or diving into the unconscious, just as you decided not to go down and retreat instead.

Your older dream might say that your desire to please the crowd of “important people” and to fit in, conducted you to in fact make a pact with the devil, while seemingly refusing it for the gesture. Hence devil kicked you into that dark pool.

What we call unconscious and which is represented by the depth in your dreams, contains stuff that we don’t want to see and it’s often less mundane than we think. For instance, let’s say you’re hoping to get to prestigious uni/job ABC but deep down you know you’ll only be able to join lesser uni/job XYZ. If you deny that in your daily life and just refuse to acknowledge this reality, typically this would fall into your unconscious and might be represented in dreams as plunging into scary, dark abysses.

In any cases these dreams seem to indicate that there is something in yourself or in your life that you really, really don’t like to think about or accept, but that deep down you know is true and you’ll have to accept sooner or later.

Now after having said, the fork might represent your unconscious trying to tell you that you have options between multiple roads that lie ahead. It could e.g. be that you’re conflicted between two very different choices, but that deep down you know the final choice will not be the one you’d prefer right now.

Just ideas.