Dream: Football
Last night I dreamt of (American) football twice. It could be because I’ve been following the football season a little (at least checking scores on-line every now and then), but I’m pretty sure there’s some symbolism here.
[Creative commons photo credit at flikr: Football ]
I wasn’t really a player in the game, but I was a kind of omniscient coach/player/observer. I’ve always thought of football as an extremely beautiful and complex system of intersecting strategies at the level of the individual player, and several aggregations of player groups. For instance, a team’s linemen have a collective strategy, as do the individual linemen in order to successfully make or defeat a block. …as do linebacker groups and individual linebackers, etc. …and of course, each player has his own individual strengths and weaknesses on a number of different interacting dimensions…
In one dream, I knew I was dreaming of space travel, but the *real world* was a football game, and my team was about to lose. …but in an earlier dream, we were playing the best in the league, and about to go ahead 7-0. I’m pretty sure these dreams speak to my efforts towards personal goals, and my interaction with the rest of society….
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October 26th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Its curious how some people are so quick to judge what constitutes the real word and also feel so sure about it. At the same time, other people wonder if they actually imagine and project the nature of events in apparaent day-to-day life. Each person can certainly choose to gain new insight into their own truth and reality through dreams.
October 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
One of the things that I try to do is blur the line between dream and reality…both in dreams, and in my ‘real life’. I certainly agree that it is one way to grain new insight into multiple aspects of reality…
October 28th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Brian, you do seem to blur the line between your dreams and reality. However, I have personally benefited from this when you said you dreamed that I should eat oatmeal for my stomach problem. I ate the oatmeal and felt better later on…
However, for tips on blurring the line between dreams and reality reference my lucid dream in Orlando.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Well, lucid dreams are generally when you are aware you are dreaming. That wasn’t really the case with your Orlando dream; you weren’t aware you were dreaming, and mistook it for reality. Perhaps that was an “opaque” dream?!?