Not sure if this belongs in swim-related or non-swim-related, but I'll try here first.
Anyone want to share swim meet dreams with me? Actual dreams about swim meets? I think it would make a funny article and might cull your dreams and write about them for our newsletter.
I'll start off with mine.
I'm swimming the 500 free, SCY. There is no water in the pool. I'm pulling myself along the bottom, which is a blue vinyl I can grab hold of. It's disconcerting, but I keep pulling. I am stymied by the wall, however. How on earth do I do a flip turn without any water? I lose time. I am aware I am losing time. I decide to do open turns.
I finish and win. My time: 5:13. (In real life, my best time is 7:07, I think.)
I ask my coach (from childhood) if this is a common experience, to swim a race and not feel that there is any water in the pool, even though there is. He says for women it is a common experience, but for men it is not.
OK. Any weird-o-la swim dreams from Forumland you'd like to share?
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I have the same dream as Lump. Middle-aged and unprepared, and swimming at a huge meet with my old USA or college team. And then of course I forget to shave down or don't have my tech suit. Everything in the world goes wrong. Like my performance wasn't going to be bad enough already!
Only once I have I had a dream where I'm still this middle aged dude, but I swim GREAT at the meet, even best times, to my delighted surprise.
I haven't kept track of what's going on in my life at the time, but I'm sure these dreams reflect how we are feeling about our careers, home life, etc. at the time.
I have the same dream as Lump. Middle-aged and unprepared, and swimming at a huge meet with my old USA or college team. And then of course I forget to shave down or don't have my tech suit. Everything in the world goes wrong. Like my performance wasn't going to be bad enough already!
Only once I have I had a dream where I'm still this middle aged dude, but I swim GREAT at the meet, even best times, to my delighted surprise.
I haven't kept track of what's going on in my life at the time, but I'm sure these dreams reflect how we are feeling about our careers, home life, etc. at the time.
