Flashing Sleep

After a soccer game I had recently my sleep patterns were interrupted for two nights in a row. It was a really intense game. Running really hard, the coach was yelling and such. When I went to bed I woke up around 3 or 4 times that because I was having like flash backs of the game. Like my brain was running through the game. It wasn't like the concious thought that I experience everyday. It was on a semi concious level. Partly subconcious but partly concious. I would be like hovering between sleep and awakeness and these thought would be running through my head. The coach saying stuff. Me running up the field. Kicking the ball. It was like listening to music as you try to fall asleep. Your right on the verge of losing conciousness but the music keeps snapping you back into reality. This happened a couple times the second night too. I kept having to sit up and clear my mind because it was bothering me so much. I was like don't think, let go of your thoughts sephiroth. It has stopped but it was pretty exhausting. I felt hot when awoke. any thoughts...

I have had exactly the same experience. :)

I play football (soccer) every week in the evenings. And when I go to bed I too find myself re-playing moments of the game. For a while I start to believe that Im actually playing. And I, for example, feel guilty for making a bad pass. Often during this state my legs twitch. The ball nearly hits me in the face and naturally jolt in the bed and snap back into reality and realise I'ts not real but then as I drift away again the game continues. Its fantastic. It is amazing when you suddenly realise that its not real.

For a game you must have very intense prolonged focus.. for an hour or two. After the game, the brain does not completely switch off this mode of thinking. So it is quite natural that you will slip back into the game in your dream time. Also, even though footballers are often thought of as stupid, ... making complex decisions and creating opportunities and so on must be quite hard for your brain. When i'm playing in my team, I like to think of myself as a neuron in a larger brain. The team has to work as one giant mind. So to communicate with team mates and to know what they are thinking, while at the same time trying to calculate what your opponent is thinking and deceive him.. is actually quite a profound thing to do.

Well, you did say it was a really intense game. It sounds like it was just an experience that stuck with you longer than you thought. You may have pushed it aside (emotionaly) throughout the day but it came right back once you got back into a relaxed state.

Soccer was the only sport I ever played as well. When I was little and growing up in Argentina I played in the streets with my friends. I was there when they won the Cup in '78. Then, throughout high school there were games that were so important or intense that I just couldn't help get some of the "scenes" and "snapshots" of the game out of my head. Sometimes I would try to change the outcome of a certain play or event that didn't turn out the way I wanted.

I think it's a natural thing, I'm sure it happens to other people who are involved in other kinds of events. Being a lucid scholar, you should try and see if you could play that game again and change it! I'd love to be able to do that!

ha... I would but after dreamviews being down I'm not meeting my lucid scholar quota. I just getting on here helps my mindset for LDing. I had a semi lucid last night and I hope I"ll get some more soons.