The Red Serpent

I dreamt of a series of times i was attacked by different...sea serpent...things with the same group of people. It was weird because it was like i was telling the story of each time to someone and then reliving the experiences one after another. There were three different...serpents, and each one had attacked us a few times, but i only remember what the last one looked like. It was red. It also had swirls of pinkish and orangish tones along its body. It was very pretty. Its head was shaped like a dolphin with the bottlenose. It had a long body like a snake, and it had a fin at the end of its tail. I remember this because it swam through my legs, and the fin hit me in the balls in every "attack." In each attack, the serpent seemed to get bigger and more violent. I woke up very abruptly and found myself catching my breath (as well as pulling myself out of a pool of drool). I wasn't in immediate danger of drowning or anything when i woke up, so i thought it was odd that i was catching my breath, but i decided that going through the series of attacks was causing my heartrate to rise gradually as well as making me breathe more heavily. I wasn't in a position to breathe very heavily (with my face smashed into the pillow), so it got to the point where i couldn't take it anymore and had to wake up immediately.