For a lot of folks, skiing and dreaming are inexorably linked.
Thats not really surprising, our subconscious minds are often drawn to the things we obsess over.
Spend your day thinking about skiing?
Theres a good chance your brain isnt ready to forget about all of that when you fall asleep.
And those ski dreams come in a variety of flavours.
My favorite are the superhero dreams, the nights when anything goes, youre invincible on skis.
For me, the incidence of those dreams has decreased directly proportionally to how much ski experience Ive gained.
When I was bad at skiing, I had a lot of dreams about skiing impossibly well.
Ive always wondered how really great skiers superhero dreams feel.
Tricks that have never actually been done?
Talking about your ski dreams isnt very cool apparently.
The flipside to the superhero ski dream is what Id call the unending huck nightmare.
I get this one less often, but its always vivid.
I ski off of something that looks like a tiny roller and instead it drops away to nothingness.
But, while a lot of those dreams are abstract, sometimes I sleep through more specific ones.
I feel like they let me practice in my downtime.
Or maybe theyre just wrecking my confidence before I even touch snow.
Sometimes those more specific dreams get just plain silly.
Ill imagine myself skiing under the lift and then realize Im naked and everyone is laughing at me.
Ill fall off the lift and crush a possy of ski school kids.
Or Im on top of an untracked line and I realize Ive forgotten my pack.
These dreams are stupid, but not terrifying.
I do my best not to dream before big backcountry tours.
But too many of those morphed to nightmares.
Dreams where Id make half a turn and the whole mountain started coming down with me.
Dreams that make me want to quit skiing.
And still others deal with nightmares of impending doom, unfounded ill omens.
Do you dream about skiing?
Whats your favorite ski dream?
Whats your most common?
Do they affect how you ski?
