Growing Closer

Love is a funny thing at times. As I grow closer to people, their feelings and interests start to become part of me. This dream is the perfect example. Now, I actually had this dream last week on Thursday, the 22nd of March, but I've been fairly busy these past weeks.

BACKGROUND:
I've been dating a woman lately that has been a great joy in my life. I'd like to think we've grown rather close. We both have a unique view of water. I love being submerged in water, and she would rather not be. Without going into further detail, she is unable to swim in deep water, and I am completely fine with that. Also to add, I tend to have major qualms with life/death situations when involving someone I care about.

Anywho, as the summer draws closer this year, I'm extremely excited to go swimming, kayaking and fishing. Being in water is one of my passions. So this dream must have put together my passion for water and this woman's fear.

DREAM:
I'm out on a date with this woman. We are both in single, sit-in kayaks on a familiar lake. It was a summer evening with the sun half-set. I had a nervous feeling as I watched her ahead.

A few moments later, she fell into the water and my heart started racing. I knew she could not swim, so I flipped my kayak over to go in after her. The water was cool, murky and I could only see a silhouette of her beneath me. As I reached for her, a few thoughts were running through my head:

...will I find her.. will I be able to pull her out.. will she drown.. where's her kayak.. I must find something to pull us up.. is she ok...

There were a lot of other thoughts in my head amidst the confusion in the water, but I took hold of her hand, latched onto her kayak and pulled us above the water.

As dreams often do shift, somehow we went from being in the middle of the lake to washed up on the shore. I was sitting on the sand, the water was up to my chest, and she was sitting on my lap. I was holding onto her and looking into her eyes. Her hair was curly, wet and had been brushed to the sides of her face. Both of us were shivering, but she looked so beautiful. A few moments later, I smirked and said, "heh, you're in the water.." After I said that, she smiled too as if relieved. Afterwards, I woke up.

The context behind my statement was playfully saying that she survived going into the deep water and together, we overcame both our fears. Her fear of deep water, and my fear of losing her.

Slán