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.
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