Psychologically: It is a nightmare if one is thrown as a non-swimmer in the water and has panic fear to drown. What this dream shows symbolically, is also a situation in which one feels helpless at times and struggles 'after air': They have not grown to an emotional connection, feel from these overpowering 'feeling waves' overtaxed and want 'dagegen anschwimmen' to have firm ground under the feet' again '. But one does not leave you to the shore: The partner defends himself desperately against the fact that you would be able to do 'free swimming' to yourselves 'from his waters' (his feeling area and influence). Above all if such 'breathtaking' dreams recur, it becomes a time for a (determining) debate. (See also swimming)