Reese Witherspoon has recurring nightmares about drowning after watching her mother rescue kids from watery graves.
The actress, who admits she has a fear of water, often wakes up in a panic after dreaming she is drowning.
She tells Elle magazine: "(I have) those dreams where you're drowning and nobody's helping you and people are just standing on the bank watching you drown? (It's) not really funny.
"I remember three occasions where my mother dove into a pool to save a child that was drowning. Watching children by the pool, I have nightmares."