Dream Interpretation

I had a really odd dream last night. Most likely not connected to business at all but odd enough that it still has me thinking about it.

At some point in the middle of the night I dreamt that I was at a swim meet getting ready to compete in the 200yard freestyle. As a little background, I've swum competatively all my life - including college - and the 200 free was one of my events. As another little piece of background, dreams about swimming are usually my anxiety dreams. In those dreams I am typically at a meet and can't find my cap or goggles prior to my event. Other races are being swum and it's getting closer and closer to my turn but I can't find those blasted cap or goggles anywhere. When I have those dreams I've found that I'm typically vexing over something or another in my waking life and it's spilling over into my dreams.

This swimming dream was different. In this dream I was in Lane 1 waiting to start the 200 yard freestyle. This was the trials of trials/finals meet (as in, if you had one of the top 8 times from trials you would come back and swim finals) and as I stood there before the blocks I was totally calm. Somehow I knew that I was going to make it back to finals that night and I also knew that I was going to swim a 1.51.89 (one minute, fifty-one seconds, 89 tenths). For the record, the fastest I ever did swim a 200 was 1.51.99 (just under the 1.52 wire!) so somehow knowing that I was going to PR at trials and that the time would be good enough to have me competing at finals seems like a huge leap of confidence. But I stood there and I just knew that to be the case.

Sadly, I never did get to watch myself swim the race in my dreams. Given that I'm still two weeks away from being allowed back in the water - and likely four+ months away from being allowed to dive off a starting block - I don't see myself doing a 1.51 200 yard free anytime soon. I would have enjoyed watching and experiencing the race in my dream.

So how to bring it around to business? Now this is a long shot so bear with me, but I've been thinking this morning about how my swimming dreams are usually related to anxiety and much of that time it's related to the business. Perhaps this is my body & mind's way of telling me that everything is going to work out just fine. Even better than fine, you're going to have a PR so not to worry about it. Just stand behind the starting block confident that you are going to do what's needed to be done to be successful. It's a nice thought, isn't it? Course then again, perhaps it was the drug cocktail I need to take to sleep pain free every night? Nah, I'll go with Option A.