(See Also: Acrobatics, Jumping, Marathon, Olympics, Running)
Each sport depicted in a dream reveals different dynamic emotions or actions on your part.
For example, seeing an acrobat is far different from dreaming of a football player.
The first likely symbolizes a recognized need for flexibility in your current situation, whereas the second might reveal aggressive action needed to achieve your goals. Consider each vision separately, as well as how the athlete(s) performs, for more insight.
Team sports speak of the ability to act in concert with others. How well does the team play together? Does one person seem to dominate the field, or is it a cooperative effort?
Extreme sports like windsurfing and skateboarding reflect the need to push yourself to the limits of excellence, hut sometimes with tremendous risks involved. Start considering the price you may pay for trying to obtain that proverbial brass ring.
[1]If you are playing at a team sport, busy times working with other people lie ahead. Whether or not your team wins or loses indicates your level of success. Losing the game, however, does NOT mean failure. It only indicates delays.
If you are watching a team playing a team sport, you may feel isolated from the others around you - being on the “outside looking in.” Courage may be necessary for you to join with your community.
Participating in an individual event, such as in golf, tennis, swimming or track indicates a strong desire to improve yourself and your circumstances.
[2]Any display of sportsmanship in a dream is a generally favorable omen and indicates advancement in your chosen endeavor through the help of influential friends.
More specifically; Badminton suggests important decisions in the offing; Baseball promises a happy homelife; Basketball predicts competitive but satisfactory sex affairs; and Cricket forecasts boring but useful social affairs.
It is especially lucky to dream of winning in any athletic or sports endeavor.
To injure (or strain) yourself in a game or contest augurs business and/or social advancement
[3]Dreams of spectator sports reflect the mass hysteria often found in life.
If you have a decision to make, be sure that it is your own decision and not just reflecting the general feelings of those around you, even if it means having to go against those general feelings.
Playing sports can have different meanings for the type of sport involved:
[4]To dream that you are playing a sport, represents the learning of rules, talents and the achieving of your goals. It also highlights the importance of cooperation, harmony, and teamwork.
To dream that you are watching a sports competition, represents two opposing viewpoints or conflicting opinions. Also see “Athlete”.
[5]Playing sports represents being active and aggressive in pursuing your goals in life through fairness and good sportsmanship. Dreaming about sports may comment on a competitive endeavor. Observing sports events may point to witnessing your progress in achieving your goals. It may suggest that you are being competitive.
[6]Dreams of sports signify your attitude about teamwork, competition and sportsmanship, winning and losing. Dreams of sports also denote your desire to come out ahead in your current life challenge. Consider whether or not you are handling your circumstance with fairness and sportsmanlike conduct.
See Also: Competition.
[7]1. If one gets a general sense that what unfolds in the dream represents sports, then it is a message to abide by all the rules and regulations of sports, as well as to be a team player.
2. People one knows are very fair about something.
[8]Dreams about baseball, football, hockey, and the like reveal a subconscious desire for harmony and teamwork. Playing a game means you expect a fair deal from others.
[9]Ambition, performance, and physicality. In a dream it is often a suggestion to be more playful in everything you do; or are you taking things too lightly?
[10]To dream about playing sports can be symbolic of the game of life
[11]See “game”
[12]lucky numbers: 15-17-26-31-35-48
arena, being in a: consider careful y before taking your new position.
winning in a: insight into how to win and not just play the game.
bungee jumping from a bridge: check al of your equipment before making a move.
being pushed: are terrified of making the wrong move.
cheering at a, event: avoid spending too much money on the inessentials.
children’s: begin with basics, then advance to adult exercise.
cricket, of: feel bound by others’ rules, from which you wil escape.
ball: your impatience needs to be checked at the gate.
bat: petty jealousies create rivalries out of irrelevant objects.
cycling: wil encounter bumps on your visit to a distant place.
children: expect a new employment opportunity.
others: misfortune in love affairs.
football tackle: trouble caused by your prying into another’s affairs.
handicap, succeed despite a: a better position wil be offered to you.
hockey: success through close attention to the disparate paths to your goal.
javelin, throwing the: a broken friendship can be repaired by good business ethics.
jujitsu, practicing: intricately conceived plot is on the brink of col apsing.
losing at: a delayed decision must final y be made.
medal, receiving a: are on the right track; proceed ful y aware of your goal.
Olympic Games, participating in the: you exaggerate the importance of your work.
visiting Mount Olympus: trust a higher power that wil not give you the wil .
penalties, imposing: charge the instigator of the action first.
being imposed on you: you created the altercation; placate your opponent.
score, keeping: your judgment wil be disputed by a person passed over for your job.
soccer, playing: your flexibility appears as nonchalance.
scoring a goal: coordination is essential; persistence and skil are in demand.
sportsmanship, displaying: wil be in fashionable, influential, discriminating company.
team, playing on a: al inner aspects of self must team up for life’s game.
tennis against a concrete wall, playing: your toughest opponent is yourself.
balls: certain high birth of a child.
trophy, drinking from a gold: have passed your life’s most difficult task.
raising the, over your head: enjoy the fact that you have earned it.
silver, a: honors received wil never be enough.
your side winning a: loneliness amidst the crowd.
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