Quote Originally Posted by Sensei View Post
That is quite interesting about water, a schema that seems to haunt you. Have you thought about dispelling this while lucid?

It reminds me of Fin the Human from Adventure Time. He is super afraid of the ocean, but not lakes and rivers. Not quite the same, but he did once have an awesome lucid dream with the ocean in it.

I love seeing lucid dreams in TV shows and movies.
I have attempted to confront this phenomenon while lucid many times. Quick list: Diving into the water and meditating on a feeling of safety and security, seeking out whales (which I love and consider powerful and protective), eradicating the water altogether with dream control, Drinking the water, trying to clean the water (it's often scummy and rotten, bathrooms are always unbelievably unsanitary in my dreams as well, I think it's a different facet of the same issue), trying to save the "good" aquatic life that's being destroyed by the "evil" creatures, and so on

These all had varying degrees of success (and failure) in their respective dreams, but none of it has even slightly derailed it from happening again. Don't know where to go from there.

I love adventure time When I watched the first Ocean episode I immediately made the connection to me dreams. I was actually really disappointed that Finn didn't come up with an infallible way to overcome his fear, I was going to steal it XD.

I do think its worth mentioning that these dreams never carry a fear of drowning or the force of the water itself damaging me (whirlpools, tsunami's, rip tides, etc) it's always what's IN the water that transforms the dream into a nightmare.