Okay I had a look at our dream dictionary for this site and noticed the entry for 'water' was a bit lacking, so I wrote a special page on water dreams: Click Here to see it. Also, if you really want to delve deeper into it, there's a couple of relevant books if you click the amazon.com logo at the top of the 'Water Dreams' page and scroll down the results.

Very good we were right!

Dreams of being swallowed up and covered with water are very common; these are anxiety dreams which show that the unconscious is negative and holding you back – often the central image in a case like this is most likely the mother.

I believe this to be true, except for the mother part, but they ARE anxiety dreams which are negative & holding me back

Great! I mean that it makes sense of course, not that your anxiety dreams are holding you back.

Now the work begins