Dreams about swimming ?

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!

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.