GOLF : Our dream studies have revealed some interesting results with golf dreams. One dream about golf followed a night when the dreamer had been thinking about a report he had been writing. Each time he got closer and closer until he got it just right. At first we found no link to golf - it just seemed bizzare. Yet after some thought I realised that golf is a sport where you get closer and closer to some goal until you hit the target (which is a perfect symbol for rewriting a report - each time getting closer and closer to how you want it).

Golf can also be a sexual metaphor. Any dream about getting something in the hole can be a sexual metaphor. One dreamer in our study had a golf dream after waking up sexually aroused. Freud clearly understood sexual dreams - the mind will use many different symbols to express sexual arousal.

QUESTIONS to help you make associations(pick the one that makes most sense to you)
- Is something getting closer and closer to starting?
- Did you try to get closer and closer to some hidden truth yesterday?
- Perhaps the dream was a sexual metaphor?

KEY WORDS : closer and closer to a solution, sex

KEY PHRASES(Pick a quote which captures your feelings right now. Think especially of the day before the dream) :
- "Yesterday I kept getting closer and closer to the truth"
- "closer and closer to finishing it"
- "Maybe the dream was a sexual metaphor"

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SEE ALSO : Football
DREAM STUDIES : Sports
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Below you will see a series of quotes. Each quote represents the meaning of a particular dream(these are all dreams where the meaning is understood totally). For instance one dream may have meant that the dreamer was having trouble at work. In that case the quote may simply be "There is a bad atmosphere at work". Some information is included about which dream symbols were included in the dream(within the squares brackets). Often a sample dream is included which shows you how the dream interpretation was reached.
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DREAM ANALYSIS : What is the symbolic meaning of golf in dreams?

Golf often revolves around the phrase "closer and closer". You maybe trying to get "closer and closer to the truth" or have been trying to finish some task.

"He keeps prying and its really annoying. I came to the chat room to have fun and fantasy. He keeps wanting to know the truth. Each time he asks a question he gets closer and closer to the truth."[Dream Dictionary - golf][the dream which this quote is based upon is featured in full at the end of this article]

"I kept trying to explain it in such a way that made perfect sense and brought the situation alive. Every time I got a little closer and closer until I explained it"[Dream Dictionary - golf]

"I kept trying to get the job done but every time I got interupted. Eventually it was finished. I got closer and closer each time"[Dream Dictionary - golf]
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SAMPLE DREAM : Dreams generally link to some real issue of relevance to you right now. They may capture your feelings on some health issue, work problem , relationship in difficulty , your feelings about how things are generally going, your plans for the day ahead or some simple paranoia or fear. The dreams featured in this website will try to reduce the dreams meaning to a quote which captures your current feelings on some issue. When studying your own dreams try to think what quotes could capture your own feelings on pressing issues. Think especially of the day before the dream and your thoughts about the day to come.
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THE DREAM I am in the countryside in the garden of a huge country mansion or country hotel. I am hidden in the hedge of the garden. There is a golf course and people are walking by. I am hidden and do not want them to look at me. Then one man goes by and he stops and walks back to where he was . I think he is retracing his steps to see me through the hole in the hedge. I think that if he approaches me I will have to reveal the fact that I am a policeman and will say "armed police! Do not come any closer"

THE REALITY The dreamer was frequently in gay Internet chat rooms and enjoyed people thinking he was cool. But in reality he was not so cool. Just recently one of the people in the chat room had been asking personal questions. He answered some honestly but did not want the man prying too much.

DREAM ANALYSIS Dreams often dwell on things that happened the day before. Here the dreamer was wanting to maintain his persona on the Internet. The police represent the need to restore order and stop people breaking rules that he sets around what people should ask. Obviously he did not like too many personal questions as this would reveal his true identity - not half a cool as people expect. So asking too many questions is a matter of law and order. We all have our own personal boundaries that we "police".

The other symbols seem to be consistent with this issue. Golf is a symbol that shows someone is getting closer and closer to something. Here it symbolises how the questions are getting closer and closer to revealing the truth.

The countryside is a symbol which fits nicely as the countryside is hidden and inaccessible. That in some ways portrays the Internet. In some ways you are face to face on the Internet as people can meet others thousands of miles away. Yet the Internet also is cut off and allows people to hide their true identity. If you do not want to tell people about yourself - even simple facts such as age, sex and other basic facts.

Here the dreamer enjoyed the Internet because it allowed him to get to explore his own personality in ways he would not do in real life as he was quite shy. But often he made outrageous claims that were far from the truth. But often he just like this as fantasy and did not want to actually meet anyone.

Symbolic Meanings
COUNTRYSIDE : "cut off - the dreamers lies cannot be found out because people he meets on the Internet live thousands of miles away"
GOLF : "Questions which are getting closer and closer to the hidden truth"
POLICE : "policing your own boundaries - setting rules to what people can ask"

DREAM MEANING The dream captures the following feeling within the dreamer - "I frequently lie whilst on the Internet but yesterday someone kept asking questions. I was trying to keep the truth hidden"

See how the Symbolic Meanings above weave together to form a key insight in the DREAM MEANING

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• Grandmother
• Group
• Guilt
• Guard
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• Guy

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