Taking dirty water (or dreaming of swimming in it) also symbolizes some kind of a spiritual crisis. Contamination and dirt in water symbolize negativity, clouded thinking as well as angst. To dream of being forced to drink water indicates that you have a feeling that something is being shoved down into your throat.
Atrophic Scars. Atrophic scars are those that leave a pit or depression in the skin. They occur when the injury to the skin has caused a loss of dermal tissue and the healing process does not produce enough collagen to replace the lost tissue.
HYPERTROPHIC AND ATROPHIC AFFECTIONS [Hypertrophic and atrophic] Under the terms hypertrophy and atrophy may be included all cases of development in excess of the normal tissues of the skin on the one hand and wasting on the other; the atrophy and hypertrophy being in each case primary conditions. The maladies ranking under these two classes may be arranged as follows: A. Hypertrophic diseases, comprising:- 1. Diseases of the epithelial layer of the skin, including callosities, corns, and horns, in which the epithelial tissue is especially affected. 2. Diseases involving the dermic portion, in which the true skin is affected with or without the epithelium.