[Clock King]

I’ll bet you have, you just don’t remember it. I only had such dreams when I was very young, maybe < 7yo. And no. no adult put the idea in my head. I didn’t think about it or understand it until I became an adult.

[MHGinTN]

I've had the drowning dream more than once and also the breathing under water dream more than once. Since all lived experiences are probably retained in some fashion in the brain, it would not be a stretch to believe that sleep apnea could cause the brain during sleep to seek a reason for a smothering feeling and reignite a dream from the womb or during birth. My first wife suffered apnea acutely and I would regularly wake her when she stopped breathing or snorted loudly and had uneven snoring there after. She accused me on more than one occasion of trying to choke her. Oddly, she was born with the umbilicus wrapped around her neck and had to be resuscitated when born blue. My studies in Jungian Psychology helped her to finally resolve the suspicion that I would try to choke her.