fighting in dreams

[Lizard]

Sometimes I dream about having fights. One thing that I have noticed is that whenever I fight in a dream, my punches are really slow and weak, like punching through water. Is this some sort of psychological phenomenom? Does anyone else suffer from it. Last night I dreamed about having a fight. I threw about six punches (crosses and hooks) before one of them hit, my opponent kept dodging but once I hit my opponent walked backwards into a wall and I started doing full power right and left elbow strikes to his body. The fact that I was determined to win and my merciless use of elbows suggests that my Muay thai training is making me more comfortable with the idea of fighting.

[swan104]

Re: fighting in dreams

Originally posted by Lizard
One thing that I have noticed is that whenever I fight in a dream, my punches are really slow and weak, like punching through water.

Its called a "wet" dream! lol

Yeah, I've had similar dreams like that before, when all your punches feel heavy. I've also had dreams when I've been running from someone, and I fall over, but my legs turn to jelly and I don't have the strength to get back up.

I'm sure there is a deep psychological meaning behind it. I think it just means I need to chill a little and have a few beers!

[street]

with me its running, whenever i dream of running it also feels like im running under water, no quickness it feels horrifyng or atleast it gets on my nerves.

[crazyjoe380]

I have those dreams all the time. sometimes they are slow and i feel like i can't hit... sometimes they are fast. I beat people up in my dreams all the time. i've been shot in my dreams and the bullets are not effective or the gun turns into something else. sick shit.

but i never grapple in my dreams it's always muay thai.

[Lizard]

Recent dream of mine: Went on a school trip to Australia, met crocodile dundee, went on a chair that was swinging wildly around a farm on a rope attachted to a post with bulls, lions and cobras jumping up to bite me. When I got back to the airport I had a fight where I floored a guy, sat on him and puched him softly for about five minutes doing no damage whatsoever. But another dream I had was shortly after starting Muay Thai, I was hitting a banana tree in the playground, then I got up on a stage and one of my annoying friends came running onto it and challenged me to a fight. Cross to the face, low roundhouse he fell in slow motion while I punched him (like in "The One").

[eighteenvisions]

I had the same dreams str8 up! My punches were always slow and weak.UNTIL I got serious about lifting weights and hitting the bag,working out etc. Now I'm like a damn animal when I get into fights in dreams. I think its a pyschological thing. Then again I've had some ****in weird ass dreams I have no answers for

[Lizard]

Im sorry but NO dreams could be as wierd as some of mine. You dream about 7 or 8 times a night but usualy you don't remember it unless something happens to remind you.

[swan104]

I think I read somewhere that if you dream to often, it means you aren't sleeping well.

Try a cup of milk before you go to bed...or a few pints!

[Lizard]

I always get at least 8 hours sleep. I drink hot chocolate before I go to bed. But I think I need more sleep than most people. If I get deprived of sleep I get really depressed. Schools should start later. Cats are lucky, they can sleep when they want. The worst thing is when you know you need sleep and you TRY to sleep, then you've got no chance!

[Lizard]

Nightmare fight. I was in a castle and I was standing doing something (I think I was talking with friends) a big black guy stood on my foot and pushed past me, so I attacked him. He got pushed back against a table and he put his guard up, I smiled because I realised that we had both been trained and that it was going to be a good fight, I tried to punch him but he kept his guard up and it was like he had a forcefield around his face, I couldn't hit him. My knees kept missing because he was leaning back slightly. So I remembered what people on this forum had said about groin hits, throat hits and eye gouging, I tried to grab his groin but it didn't work, then I put my finger on his eye so he couldn't see and I started to spear hand his throat, no effect, his throat was hard and bony. Don't remember what happened after that. I started a fight, used "dirty" techniques and still got beaten.

[Tom Yum]

I've had dreams (like Crazy Joe) where I get shot and it doesn't damage me. Others include the ability to fly (i never want to fly too high or fast for fear of escaping the atmosphere or crashing), breathing underwater (in the deep ocean) and projecting my spirit from my body in the form of some animal, like a dragon, tiger or something. Weird huh?

My fight dreams involve me being scared to fight (in the street, in Mortal Kombat like tournaments or in the ring) but I go in anyways and do really well. In my dreams my stand up is K-1 level awesome, but my grappling is mediocre.

Lizard, I think your imagination and or creativity is unproductive during your 9-5 stint in the office.

[Bau13]

Can anybody here control their dreams??

I often find that in dreams, I realise I'm dreaming... then I do whatever the hell I want!!

[kh_s]

LoL, I`ve had the weirdest dreams I think I had one once when a shark bit my foot and there was no blood ?? Only like, 1 dot of red and 3/4 fo my foot was missing rofl. But then when I woke up I kinda limped, I still thought my foot was bit !!

As for the fighting dreams, I only remember once. I was in the caf at school and got into a fight with some dude and I musta kneed him in his gut 10 times and it didn't hurt him, and he pulled back and laughed.

These dreams make me worry sometimes, as I never get into fights, maeks me think that I don't stand a chanceagainst anyone.

[Nick]

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Some guy pushed by you, so you beat him up? Huh.

Well, just about any time I do anything physical in a dream, it's hard as shit.

Later...

[TracyKarate]

I believe I have some knowledge to offer on this topic. Jung had a theory about dreams, which stated that they are in fact an opprtunity for our sub-concious minds to break through and in a sense make itself heard and correct the shortcomings of the concious mind. Now he believed that, in certain instances, the way you treat a person in your dream is usually the opposite of how you are treating that person in real life. Therefore we have the sunconcious mind acting as an alert to show the concious mind something it may have "overlooked". Now Freud did not wholeheartedly agree with this theory and even though the two worked together for many years, they did not see eye to eye on many subjects.