Dreams about swimming ?

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Former Member — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:34:13 GMT

Before I got into competitive swimming, I had a recurrent dream in which I was getting ready to compete in a swim meet. I was in a locker room changing into my suit, but I was nervous because I was afraid I wasn't ready. After I had the same dream a couple of times (same locker room - one I'd never actually been in in real life), I decided it was something I was supposed to do. Bob

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Karen Duggan — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:25:04 GMT

I was a very active sleeper! One night I went running full sprint down the hall and into the closed door leading to the garage. Maybe I was late for swimming?! My family came running and in the morning I didn't remember a thing. I do remember one night though waking myself out of a dream where I was swimming. When I woke myself up I was going back and forth from my window sill to the dresser in my room, across my bed. I was actually doing turns! And whenever I went to "away" meets with my Mom we'd share a bed. In the morning she would tell me that I was swimming in my sleep. I didn't believe it at first, then I saw the bruises on her legs where I had been "kicking". Ah, the love and patience of a mother... :)

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Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:00:05 GMT

I seem to have swimming dreams when I've been out of the water too long. And then about practice with new teams

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Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:04:21 GMT

I had a dream once....

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Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:37:28 GMT

I've had many dreams about swimming.......... most of them fantasies, about swimming in the olympics, which will never happen, but one can dream can't they!? haha Although sometimes I'll have a dream about swimming in a meet and getting beat by one of the worst teams in our district. Those are horrible, and the really bad ones are the ones where I'm swimming and I can't seem to move, like I'm kicking and stroking but I'm not getting anywhere, it's really horrible. And i wake up doing the kicking motion for the *** stroke sometimes, heeheehee. Glad to know I'm not the only one!:D

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Glenn — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:45:17 GMT

Gab, Where is this on-line dream dictionary? Sounds like an interesting site. Glenn

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Former Member — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 15:38:58 GMT

The other night I dreamt I was swimming in a pool, and the water turned to blood. It was shocking as well as scary, as you can imagine!! According to an online dream dictionary, blood symbolizes passion as well as disappointment. Water symbolizes the emotions. Considering what I've been going through, it makes sense.

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Former Member — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 16:29:17 GMT

oh boy!!!!!!! I thought l was the only one with dreams about water and swimming!! it is good to know l am in such good company. My dreams are about swimm meets and l often see my self swimming. Some times l even recall feeling those "butterflies" in my stomach. l also recall dreaming about my very first swimm meet back in 1967!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing. We swimmers even have this in comon. I think it is great. Maria

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Former Member — Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:23:58 GMT

One time I dreamed I was swimming, and the water got thicker, and cold, and turned into slush -- they were freezing the pool for a hockey game, it turned out. Another time I dreamed I was swimming in a pool cluttered with people, then it became clutter, and then it turned out I was trying to do the crawl along my living room floor, which was strewn with laundry. I guess these ones have little to do with swimming, really. The ones that have to do with swimming, I suspect, are the ones where I am managing to gracefully muscle my way through the air! juneo

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:56:17 GMT

The other night I had a dream that I was at an indoor meet that was taking place in a very small pool. It was very crowded; and there was only one event - the 1,650 (funny thing is that I was preparing to swim the actual event in a few days!). Anyway, instead of the heats being slow to fast, they were fast to slow. One guy in particular was so fast, that he had the first heat to himself. After his swim (oh yeah - people were warming up in the same pool but in different lanes even while this guy was competing), he got out and started to look at his time and splits on a tiny monitor screen that looked something like a digital alarm clock. I asked him why he was being so secretive about it, and his reply was, "I don't want anyone to know what my time is because the swimming federation is very intolerant of gays, and because there is so much discrimination and gay bashing, everyone has to keep their swim time a secret."

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:55:23 GMT

yes, the dream of breathing underwater is very peacful and beautiful. Sometimes I'm in a crystal clear pool swimming underwater, sometimes in the ocean, reef diving, usually alone, and there is a sense of well being and filled with spirtual happiness. But to achieve this (in my dream) I have to breathe in a very specific way. One has to breathe very very very slowly and feel the water in the lungs inorder to 'extract' the oxygen.

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:39:51 GMT

Hippie days,he he. I was only 12 in 1969 and when they compared babyboomers, they tend to forget those born in the late 1940's were young adults while those born in the early 1960's were children in the 1960's. As for dreams I had several and that its before I even started back swimming laps and they dealt with swimming in races,some of it was mixed up with age group swimming and masters swimming. Maybe, I was destined to try meets again.

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:11:40 GMT

Another thought.... I'm always swimming in a certain direction ie 'right' ....whether that has anything to do with the predominance of the left & right hemispheres of the brain...don't know for sure. No, that's strange about breathing and talking under the water..never experienced that before. Yes, agree with you jerrycat ...."but the water is always something that I'm looking to get in, or am in" ..expereince the same too!

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 13:48:34 GMT

I've read that breathing and talking underwater is symbolic of breathing and talking surrounded in peacefullness--or protection I never dream of breathing or talking underwater--but the water is always something that I'm looking to get in, or am in. I've been on inner tubes, swimming in the water, or in boats. Alot of times this water is turbulent in some way--either by wakey water, or dirtiness/murkeyness. It's really strange. My mother tells me that water symbolizes life--who knows. Really though, I am afraid of murkey water and ocean water. Maybe it's the fears I have in life being represented by water. I'm stressed out alot because I started up a business 13 months ago--money is always on my mind, or the fear of lack thereof.

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:58:25 GMT

Yes, I've been doing yoga and meditating since my hippie days, never quit (lol saw it as a sell out) Never studied dream interpretation in grad school. This psychologist has no idea what they mean, if anything, other than our brains are just connecting memories in strange ways.

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:11:16 GMT

I have dreamed about water and swimming since I can remember. Like Laineybug, I sometimes find myself underwater with no way to get to the surface. At first I start to panic and as I try to gasp I realize ... heyyyyy ... I can breathe .... wow... this is great! Then I swim around and breathe, it's pretty cool. (I wish that would happen in a workout!) I heard that dreaming of being in water is a memory of the womb!

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swimr4life — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:35:28 GMT

I'm glad I'm not the only one that dreams about swimming! A few nights ago I woke up exhausted because I dreamed that I worked out with the UGA swim team. I kept trying to keep up with Kristy Kowal (has already graduated) and she kept blowing me away! I couldn't make the intervals no matter what. It was not a relaxing dream. HMMMM?? I wonder what the hidden meaning is in that one. I've also dreamed many times of swimming and woke myself up doing an actual kick! I've done that for years. My mother used to swear I did the IM in my sleep when we went to away meets when I was young! :D

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:02:21 GMT

Yeah, Lainey, those are great dreams you're talking about there. I yearn for a dream like that! Serenity and peacefullness... Do you do yoga or something? Mediatate? Another thing I dream about alot is rowing. In college I was a rower, and I quit my third year. I've never gotten over "quitting", as I have never quit anything...I still dream that I'm on the team, or that I'm rowing in a swimming pool, or in Baltimore. And Baltimore is surrounded by big open water and bridges. Ok, I swear I'm not going to go on and on. but for the person what had the gay bashing dream, it might be a clue that you suspect some successful person might be gay and they're afraid of being ridculed, so they hide it. I promise I'm done. jerrys

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:24:07 GMT

Most dreams come and go, so what I find is interesting is the awareness we know we are swimming and that we are kind of half asleep and swimming dreams seem much more vivid, so there's a stronger recollection in the morning. Maybe Laineybug you were a fish in a previous life !! But what a great dream to have.

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Former Member — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:23:10 GMT

My username is actually a bit of a misnomer... I used to dream of swimming all the time--at least once a week. Pools, oceans, rivers, you name it. When I learned to swim two years ago, the dreams stopped. While I'll take real swimming over dream swimming any day, I miss those dreams as they were some of the most intriguing ones I have ever had. Especially when you realize you can breathe underwater. It's cool to hear from other dream swimmers!

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:50:51 GMT

I have never had a dream about swimming. I've had dreams about drowning, however. Sometimes I dream about running -- freely, effortlessly and without pain -- something that I can no longer do in real life (bad knees, bad foot, bad hip). Most of the dreams I remember have to do with being on a campus-like setting. Not surprising, since I spent 32 years of my life in school, as either a student or a faculty member. Sometimes I'll dream I have a calculus test to take, then suddenly remember that I taught the subject for twelve years. On rare occasions I dream that I can fly through the air by flapping my arms and thinking light thoughts. Awake, I have never been able to do that.

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:18:10 GMT

Originally posted by laineybug The dream varies from week to week, but there is one reoccuring part... when I discover that I can actually breathe underwater. I don't dream about swimming very often now, but I did when I was younger; and almost every one of the dreams was about breathing and talking underwater. I also used to dream that I could fly, but my flying was like swimming breaststroke, and when I quit "swimming" through the air I would sink and land.

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:52:50 GMT

Sometimes I dream about swimming in a pool with no water. Or in a pool where the water level is slowly depleting. My fear of having nowhere to swim?

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:47:00 GMT

i dont remember ever dreaming of swimming,but would like to dream of anything as ive never dreamt for years...the last dream i had was along the lines of nightmare on elm street..seriously..i think because of this i tend either to not dream or to forget them that i do..maybe i just eat too much red meat....what?

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Former Member — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:21:32 GMT

I think there is a correlation to water and the emotions...that makes sense about dark murky/ clean water and how one is feeling. Also think swimmers really love this element, and we possibly express our innermost feelings through this medium. From the sounds of things you probably love your freedom ..with the open water and all that!