Paddling is read as small, constant effort to stay afloat and on course. Tradition sees it as emotion being managed one stroke at a time.
Has this come up in your dreams before? What was going on in your life then?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.