Recurring golf dreams or nightmares

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This post of SLH made me think...
LOL - I have a recurring nightmare where I am on a tee and trying to find somewhere to tee up. But no matter where I try I can't make a swing at the ball for some reason or another, and any place I might find to tee up where I can make a swing there is something like a wall a couple of yards in front of the tee that I can't possible get a shot over or around to get anywhere near the fairway.

And of course - all the time I am trying to find a spot to tee up, my FCs are getting frustrated waiting for me they having played (somehow) and the groups are piling up behind me. But I'm sooo frustrated about not being able to find somewhere to tee up in my anger I REFUSE to let them play through AAAAAAARGHHHH

Do you have a recurring golf dream or nightmare?
I have dreamed at least 3 times that I have been INSIDE the clubhouse and trying to play a shot to get back on the course, getting people to move furniture and opening windows...
 
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LOL - I had it last night. This time I had the added dream where I end up hitting it into unholy crap - I think I just end up hitting it anywhere just to get off the tee. When I get in there to look for my ball I start finding more and more balls but none are mine - and it's wet and I start sinking in the water and it's stagnant water so stinks...and that's why so many unclaimed balls are in there - so get out.

Weird that a few have the 'unable to make a swing and tee off' nightmare. I hate it. Sometimes it's like I'm in a walled driving range with only the front open - but then when at last I find a spot I can tee it and swing walls appear oput of nowhere to be in my line.
 
This post of SLH made me think...


Do you have a recurring golf dream or nightmare?
I have dreamed at least 3 times that I have been INSIDE the clubhouse and trying to play a shot to get back on the course, getting people to move furniture and opening windows...
I have a very similar dream to SLH. There has to be a meaning to it.
BTW, getting those people to rearrange the furniture and open windows puts you in breach of the rules. You can't improve your line of play. Believe it or not this DID happen in the 1974 English Amateur Championship at Moortown. Nigel Denham played a miraculous recovery shot from the clubhouse bar which was not deemed out of bounds. He opened a window, through which he played one of the recovery shots of all time. One of the members was heard to comment that there should be a two pint penalty. Denham went on to win and the R&A were forced to admit later that he should have been penalised. True story.
 
This post of SLH made me think...


Do you have a recurring golf dream or nightmare?
I have dreamed at least 3 times that I have been INSIDE the clubhouse and trying to play a shot to get back on the course, getting people to move furniture and opening windows...

I didn't see this post from SLH but I have exactly the same dream as he does (glad it's not just me)
 
I didn't see this post from SLH but I have exactly the same dream as he does (glad it's not just me)


And me. Fellow golfers have no problem but being of the "other persuasion" I can't find a suitable spot to tee up. There is even one tee where the only way I can play my tee shot is through an open window. Yeh. I know. I can play all the shots - but not necessarily in the right order :)
 
LOL - I have a recurring nightmare where I am on a tee and trying to find somewhere to tee up. But no matter where I try I can't make a swing at the ball for some reason or another, and any place I might find to tee up where I can make a swing there is something like a wall a couple of yards in front of the tee that I can't possible get a shot over or around to get anywhere near the fairway.




I have a very similar dream to SLH. There has to be a meaning to it.


I didn't see this post from SLH but I have exactly the same dream as he does (glad it's not just me)





This is one freaky thread coz i have it aswell . i think its whem im frustrated at work or doing stuff at home , i do get fair frustrated & thick in the dream anyhow ha ha
 
And me. Fellow golfers have no problem but being of the "other persuasion" I can't find a suitable spot to tee up. There is even one tee where the only way I can play my tee shot is through an open window. Yeh. I know. I can play all the shots - but not necessarily in the right order :)

Left-handers deserve everything that can be thrown at them. Every course I have ever played has been a left-hander's course.
 
I have the same kind of dream, trying to hit a shot and cant take a swing because of walls, furniture, trees and other obscure objects. Gets really frustrating and you think why the hell has someone built this wall so close to the tee!

Last night I dreamed that I had cracked a drive down the middle only to find the ball resting on the seat of restaurant/diner booth. I could see the shot but couldnt get a proper swing because of the table, seats and then a few walls appeared as well.

The amateur psychologist in me says that it is to do with being frustrated at not being able to play more. That you have the potential to be better but things get in the way and restrict you, be it work, family, weather or time in general. In your dreams these restrictions manifest themselves as physical obstructions and stop you hitting the shots you want to.

Just a theory.
 
I used to have one when I played cricket where a wicket would fall and I'd have to go get padded up, but then another one would fall and I'd be next in but I can't get my pads on. Then another wicket and I'd be due in, still not padded up, can't find my kit. Then people would be saying "come on" but no, I still couldn't get my pads on and so on it went.

Weird the dreams you have about your sport. Not had a golf one like that yet.
 
I have a very similar dream to SLH. There has to be a meaning to it.
BTW, getting those people to rearrange the furniture and open windows puts you in breach of the rules. You can't improve your line of play. Believe it or not this DID happen in the 1974 English Amateur Championship at Moortown. Nigel Denham played a miraculous recovery shot from the clubhouse bar which was not deemed out of bounds. He opened a window, through which he played one of the recovery shots of all time. One of the members was heard to comment that there should be a two pint penalty. Denham went on to win and the R&A were forced to admit later that he should have been penalised. True story.

I call shenanigans unless the committee had deemed the club house an integral part of the course ;):p

My recurring nightmare is a 1 foot putt that will not go in and always leaves a 1 foot return putt. Goes round the hole, power lips, bounces out and never finishes in the hole.

I have a recurring dream where I am playing a course made up of bits of other course I have played, . Weather and conditions are perfect and if I can think of a shot I can pull it off. Never play it perfectly. Occasionally go in the rough but I can play miraculous recovery shots.

The nightmare is more likely to happen!
 
I have a very similar dream to SLH. There has to be a meaning to it.
BTW, getting those people to rearrange the furniture and open windows puts you in breach of the rules. You can't improve your line of play. Believe it or not this DID happen in the 1974 English Amateur Championship at Moortown. Nigel Denham played a miraculous recovery shot from the clubhouse bar which was not deemed out of bounds. He opened a window, through which he played one of the recovery shots of all time. One of the members was heard to comment that there should be a two pint penalty. Denham went on to win and the R&A were forced to admit later that he should have been penalised. True story.
There was a question on that scenario in the R&A golf quiz, and he was allowed to move the furnishings that were not fixed if I remember correctly.:thup:
 
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Similar, but my recurring dream is not being able to find anywhere to tee the ball up. Everyones waiting for me and the ball just won't sit on the tee. I seem to spend ages trying to find somewhere... Reminds me of a recurring dream Ii used to have when I was Diving. Just couldn't find the Regulator when I was underwater. It usually ended with me realizing that I could breathe underwater. Used to frighten the living daylights out of me...
 
Super spooky
I have EXACTLY this type of dream
Usually it's just not being able to get the tee shot away, then ball won't stay on tee, then often I realise the tee shot is from inside some kind of she'd through a window , with the tee on a table that you don't have the room to stand on, and if you could the table then tilts really badly, and then you note that you need to hit a slice but the window is in the wrong place, and then you have to tee it off a 1m high tee, that won't then go into the artificial table-teeing ground, and then the fairway turns into a forest .

That one is actually frighteningly common, and I would seriously love to know what unit means, or at least why so many of us are having it.
Personally I think it's a kind of Close Encounters thing, and we're all about to be "visited" by golfing aliens


There's a new one I've recently started to have, which involves at least one hole being played in the middle of a town and having to hit driver down a busy street and round corners etc

If you don't hear from me,then I'll be playing golf on Mars with my alien abductors in the Universal Ryder Cup
 
I find it incredibly spooky that so many of you have the exact same dream...........I like psychology and it's interpretation.....

The amateur psycho in me finds this fascinating and I have a good idea what it means but will reserve my amateur analysis for now
 
There was a question on that scenario in the R&A golf quiz, and he was allowed to move the furnishings that were not fixed if I remember correctly.:thup:
It seems they were careful not to break club rules. They made him take his shoes off, otherwise he would have been in breach of a no golf shoes in the bar rule!
 
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