who here dreams of chess

Im sorry you all, i know this seems over the top, but anybody dream of playing chess??

I know this is absurd and weird. But when i stay up late at night while playing my OTB games and analyze them hard. Then some nights i actually dream of playing chess and sometimes in the dreams i get into real good positions i lose the game. I know it sounds weird, but i think. It is weird, my obsession of chess has gone over the top.

What do you all think.

Yes, it happens...

I don't dream about it, but often in the evening, if I'm reading and begin to drift off, I see the board and pieces begin to form patterns in my mind--in that twilight period before sleep. 

Usually the patterns are winning for me, so that's a good thing.

It's not unusual to dream of something that's on your mind.

Every once in a while I have a dream where I'm in a chess game, but only the chessboard itself actually exists.  The entire dream consists of playing through a middlegame and constantly calculating, just going through every possible variation on this "chessboard" as the game progresses, and I seem to play perfectly and have perfect vision, even though I don't actually exist.  Then I'll usually wake up for a minute or so, fall back asleep.  It's the same dream every time, but it's not too often, like once every couple months.  Weird lol.  

It's not unusual to eat the fruit, but not the rind....

Seems to me that my subconscious mind is always churning away in the background, working on solutions to the problems that most concern me. During sleep, some of this becomes visible to awareness. I dream about chess often, at least once a week. More so now that I spend most of my chess time on slow (1 move per 3 days) games. These positions really imprint themselves after spending hours on one move. I can almost play blindfolded. But the subconscious mind apparently uses a strange type of processing, mixing the senses, and even mixing unrelated topics. My chess dreams are not simply of a position on the board, they're a wild jumble of chess, math, people and emotions. Not due to drugs (beer is my only mind-alterant these days). I guess that the jumble results from multiplexing -- the processing of multiple problems simultaneously.

Wow.. it's like u just read my mind. Sometimes I experience exactly what you've described. It doesn't happen very often, and I don't think it has happened in the last two or three months or so, but I definitely remember it happens a couple of times before.

TheGrobe wrote: tonightatsix wrote: It's not unusual to dream of something that's on your mind. It's not unusual to eat the fruit, but not the rind.... @TheGrobe: LOL! Nice poetry, I like the way your mind works. I'm old enough to know, but I don't remember. Who is that singer?

I dream about chess almost every night, usually I'm trying to solve some difficult position and feel frustrated in the dreams. I'm happy when I wake up from them.

Tom Jones.

TurboFish wrote: I'm old enough to know, but I don't remember. Who is that singer? TheGrobe answered: Tom Jones. Of course! I should have recognized him, but I'm so accustomed to seeing him much older.

He's pants.

Chess has often been on my mind throughout the entire night as I fall asleep and whenever I wake up (but I rarely seem to dream about it, or at least I don't remember many dreams). Fragments of patterns and tactical moves pass by automatically in a rather abstract way. This happened pretty much every night for weeks when I started playing (excessively), but less so these days.

On the whole the experience of a chess-minded night is pretty similar to what I get when studying intensely for an exam (and acing it!), with math - you guessed it - probably being the most comparable subject matter.

I once dreamed of a game where I remembered a key endgame position when I awoke.  I proceeded to set up the position before I forgot it.  Then I discovered that the chessboard in my dreams had nine files instead of eight.

Yeahh..happens wid me too...I just get dreams where I'm playing in a strong tournament...and the Position's complex...but i just dont remember the result...happened quite a few times..

Yes, actually. I had a chess dream last night.

If you play / study often enough it will happen.

Some people say they play games and even solve puzzles in their sleep but mine were always more frustrating.  I'd "solve" or find a good move but then a different part of the "board" would change so that move was bad and I'd have to look for a different move over and over.  Estragon said it well once when this was asked long ago.  He called it something like "the ever changing thicket"

I put board in quotes because in the dream it's not an actual board... the pieces just sort of relate to each other.  I had a chess dream once where the pieces were difference size rectangles... some so big they overlapped with others... but I knew how they were related and it was just like solving a chess puzzle... heh and you thought your OP was weird

Nice one of Tom Jones with his original face. I saw him perform live once, for about 2 hours, he was brilliant.

Back on topic............... No, never dreamt of chess, and don't want to. 

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