Share your weirdest running dreams!

Anytime I dream about running, it's like I'm running through cement or water. It is a huge effort to move my legs and I don't go very far. Sometimes when I dream about being chased(a few months ago Vladimir Putin/Russians were after me with guns), but somehow I'm able to teleport or something. I can still never run in dreams. It's hard to properly remember dreams though. It is like my flying dreams. I can't fly properly, but more hovering a few feet over the ground, and I move slowly too.

I have a lot of running and jumping dreams. Usually I'm hurdling benches or jumping across intersections. If I hold my breath my jumps can be really long. They always end up with my jumping higher and higher until I'm in the clouds and then it stops working and I plummet back to earth. Sometimes I feel the impact and sometimes everything just goes black.

I haven't had the "running in peanut butter" dream in a long time.

Banana Bread wrote:

Anytime I dream about running, it's like I'm running through cement or water. It is a huge effort to move my legs and I don't go very far. Sometimes when I dream about being chased(a few months ago Vladimir Putin/Russians were after me with guns), but somehow I'm able to teleport or something. I can still never run in dreams. It's hard to properly remember dreams though. It is like my flying dreams. I can't fly properly, but more hovering a few feet over the ground, and I move slowly too.

Have you ever dreamed about running with Bekele?

I have a recurring dream where I'm running an XC race, and I suddenly just can't move forward. I'm not particularly exhausted, but for some reason I just lose the ability to command my legs to move in a running motion. I grab onto the rope that is marking the boundary of the course and I start using it to slowly pull myself forward using my arms while other runners stream past me, and I end up dragging myself the whole way to the finish line.

The really strange thing about this dream is that I never actually ran XC in high school or college. I was a mid-d runner, and only ever ran track. So I have no idea why I'm dreaming about XC.

I'd probably drown. That would be a wet one.

The vast majority of my running dreams are about getting lost. Sometimes I can't find the starting line of the race, or I know how to get there but I can't because of traffic jams or some other obstruction. More often, I'm in the race and running well until I make a wrong turn and get lost. I'm frantically casting around trying to find the course and get back into the race. I'm often running through shopping malls or industrial buildings, or sometimes people's houses, up and down stairs, etc. Occasionally I get lost on a trail in remote countryside. In real life, I have never failed to make it to the start of a race and I have made a serious wrong turn in a race only once. But I still dream about it.

My other common running dreams involve chasing after my dog, who is in great danger from something--traffic or a vicious dog. I can never run fast enough to catch him, or even to keep him in sight. This is true in real life also.

Lawn mower chasing me. I finally get away or wake up when I run through a garage sale in the street.

I have a recurring longjump/broadjump dream where I run like mad down the runway. take off and realise that can fly, and I think to myself " Wow! How about starting with 90 metres, and then I think, no I'll get rumbled. Let's just get over 9 m to start with.

I've had a good amount of running dreams...

1) Running a half marathon with Ryan Hall but I win around 60 min.

2) Having a talk with Coach Bob Braman telling me higher volume was key for my breakthrough in performance.

3) Running effortlessly and absolutely demolishing the field. Having almost a supernatural/superhuman like energy.

4) Trying to run away from things and not being able to escape or where I'm in slow mo.

not an XC runner wrote:

I have a recurring dream where I'm running an XC race, and I suddenly just can't move forward. I'm not particularly exhausted, but for some reason I just lose the ability to command my legs to move in a running motion.

I suffer this kind of dream as well. I used to regularly have it the night before races, which I actually found motivational because I'd wake up so relieved that it wasn't real. But now that I no longer run competitively, it's just a bummer. Just once, I'd like a dream where I destroy the field instead of turning to mud, but that would probably require some psychoanalysis and dream therapy, which I have no interest in undertaking.

I don't have any particular specifics but in most of my running dreams, I run *really flipping* fast. Like, I bound a hundred meters with every stride, with my surroundings screaming by and when I come to a stop I slide for an extended period and leave a giant divot in the ground. It's pretty sweet and I'm usually sad to have woken up.

PortlandXCgirl wrote: Anyone else have any weird dream running experiences? Or interpretations of what my dreams meant?

I have an awesome one! It's the Olympic 800. Somehow I have qualified and made it through a brutal semi as a fast loser with a 1:45.20. A new PR! Still, nobody gives me a chance. But for some reason on the start line for the final I feel utterly empowered. I swell up like a giant. The gun goes, Amos inside, Rudisha outside and Bosse outside him. They want to lay it down with a 23 first 200. Great! I have never run this fast in training, can barely manage 48 for the open 400 but now I am flying. Second place around the curve the rhythm is easy, Bosse leading, I am one step behind in the lead pack, elbow Amos and shove him back... don't let Murphy swing wide, move out into lane 2.... 50.3 at 400... and it's not even hurting! Whoa!

I have strong turnover and plenty left... the intensive Lydiardism of the previous three years works at the key moment! Now Rudisha passes me majestically on the backstretch as I move out to take Bosse.. gaps me by 2 meters... can't hold him here, quite, OK, now we are approaching 600 I sense Bosse at his limit beside me, Amos is spent, 1:16.2 YEAH! Now! Track Rudisha around the curve, still holding 3m gap.... but HE IS NOT PULLING FURTHER AHEAD! Now as we straighten up, it's closing!! 2m!! 1m!! He looks back anxiously over his shoulder as straighten... can't see me, because I'm on his right in lane 2 with my stretch drive. LEVEL ON HIS SHOULDER! 50m TO GO! I can't believe I am still running strong... neither can he! 30m to go, attack! I draw level, he fights, so do I...maintain form, remember Rick W's plan, even if I fade maintain cadence...still locked together 20m to go... losing consciousness who gives a f@@.... got a medal!! BUT, NOW AT THIS MOMENT RUDISHA CRACKS! Inside the 10m box! One step to go, lean forwards for the line!

I WIN!

Can't believe it, drop to the track in frog recovery pose, Bosse and fast-finishing Murphy slap my back as they sweep up behind me... Rudisha sadly shakes his head and walks back to shake my hand, gentleman that he is... I look up and the scoreboard flashes:

1. FLGatorKing 1:42.44 NR

2. Rudisha 1:42.49

3. Murphy 1:42.88

4. Bosse 1:43.03

etc.

How could this be better?! But.... IT CAN!!

Because, meantime, Alison Stokke has qualified for her first major comp and is warming up on the infield. My eyes meet hers and we are struck with tesla-force magnetism. She drops the pole and walks directly to me, "Congrats FLGatorKing!! You just won the Oly 800! My you are handsome! I have wanted to talk to you before but now, you are my hero! After I vault, I want to meet you at my room in the village, don't make other plans for the night, here's the number [writes it down]..... can't wait big boy!"

I can barely speak, still, but I'm on my knees...

THEN THE f@@@@ing ALARM DRILLS ME!

Ever had that feeling?

I used to have dreams about running naked.

Maybe subconsciously I want to be a nudist.

This was a wild roller coaster from start to finish.

I usually dream that I have over slept and/or missed the race in some way.

Also the other night I dreamed I was talking to a guy I used to run against in HS..... I'm 51.

One running dream I had was that I was running in the middle of the freeway, and going faster than the cars. A police officer pulled me over and gave me a speeding ticket.

LoneStarXC wrote:

One running dream I had was that I was running in the middle of the freeway, and going faster than the cars. A police officer pulled me over and gave me a speeding ticket.

HAHA that sounds amazing. That would be the type of dream where I’d try to fall asleep again just to experience more of it.

Unfortunately, I rarely remember my dreams but my wife tells me that I often move my legs like I'm running (like a dreaming dog) and she finds it to be as endearing as my snoring. I must not be dreaming about XC or she'd be getting some serious elbow action!

I seldom dream about running which is curious because I run every day and think about running often. But when I do, it's the "running in peanut butter" dream mentioned above where everything is normal but your legs are in slow motion.