I haven't put much thought to this reoccurring dream until it came back about two weeks ago.
In it, I am floating peacefully with a dreamy expression on my face, staring at the clouds above my head as they slowly trip upwards into the warm sky. There is always a loud, clapping sound that explodes in my ears beneath the deep, soothing, emerald ocean water, echoing through the watery caves of my ears, shooting needles into my pin cushion heart (this is where I usually wake up with my clammy hands over my ears and sweat beading up on my forehead). With an arching snap my head sends cascading drops of salty water into a rainbow above my head. I look around me, left and then right. I am at the belly of the open ocean. Everywhere I look is a con caving water/sky line and the smell of the ocean and a hot breeze calling and crawling around the backs of my ears. I hear a loud clap behind me. As I spin I clap my arm against the water around me sending a wall of rippling water 180 degrees around me. Beyond the wake of the splash is a pair of hands pressed together in prayer and moving quickly through the water in the manner of a shark's fin. The sound of a thousand clapping hands slaps the back side of my head. As I jerk my head around feel the pressure of a hand slowly clasping around my bicep. I flinch away and look around beneath me into the dark water. I look up and see praying hands encircling me. I feel a slight tug at my hair from the rear of my head. Hands cover my eyes and I taste the salt water down my throat. I always wake up right before the hands pull me under completely and I am always kicking my sheets off when I awake. A couple of times, after I awaken, there is an image in my head of a woman or of a girl's head floating slightly above the surface of the rough water.
