Poker dreams
 

After long usually late night poker sessions I find that I dream about poker all night, not just random stuff but really vivid images as if i'm really playing. I find it's worse if i've been playing omaha probably because thats games more technical and I have to put more thought into it. Maybe it's because I haven't given my brain a chance to slow down before going to bed but I feel mentally exhausted when I wake up in the morning. Anyone else get these dreams?

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Yes.

I also used to dream about Tetris after a marathon session. Now that ought to date me.

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Yes. I'm always deciding how to play my pocket Kings. (sometimes its Jacks.)

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Do yourself a favor and spend an hour or so before you go to sleep doing something other than poker. Don't think about poker at all, take a walk, play a video game. Go to sleep once poker is totally off your mind and you won't have to agonize about whether or not some guy just flopped a set against your AA while you should be getting good sleep.

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last night i dreamt dragging in a HUGE pot with quad 9s.
hopefully it's a taste of things to come on friday!

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Yea this happens quite often. But it's usually always the same thing.

I flop a monster and I slowplay it but extract tons of chips. But then when the river cards come my holecards have changed and I am sitting there with crap facing a major decision on what to do with one people left in the hand and a really huge pot infront of me. I have no idea why I am dreaming a dream like this, anyone know? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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im sure many poker players dream about the game, me included. however i have no problem getting good sleep. you should try and unwind after playing. read a book and not one about poker!! this is an interesting topic. i wonder how many players have similiar problems.

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I think the holecards changing have something to do with not being able to read in your sleep or something like that cause it happens to me in my dreams too. Letters changing in dreams is well documented I think in sleep research.

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Last night I dreamed I was playing against Phil Hellmuth at a table sitting out on the beach.

He later morphed into Bill Filmaff and started talking trash to me. Weirdest dream ever.

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Their's a theory in pychology that people can overcome phobias threw dream analisis. I.E., if they fear public speaking, if the dream that there giving a speech and everything go great, and everyone cheers for them, then they will be a lil less fearful of it when they wake up.

So applying that to poker, if you can alucid dream that like "no one can read me" or something, it might actually improve your live play. it might help get rid of the old "i think they knew im bluffing, im giving it away" troubled thoughts of live play...strange eh?

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Yes.

I also used to dream about Tetris after a marathon session. Now that ought to date me.

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Actually, this kind of dreaming is often called Tetris dreaming because of how frequently it occurs with Tetris players. Some researchers believe that it facilitates learning by continuing the learning process while you are asleep.

Google "Tetris dreaming" for an article.

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A few nights ago I had this nightmare where I held Q6 on a Q-10-rag board and for some reason I couldn't get myself to fold. Scary dream indeed.

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a couple times i've dreamt that I played against phil ivey and danny negreanu and that danny negreanu was trying to con his way into stealing a pot. i got pissed off and was ready to fight him.

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I dream about it almost every night. Usually I am deciding if I should make an all in call that will leave my stack crippled even though i have 18 outs to go from the flop. Sometimes its deciding to lay a big hand down preflop. It's usualy that I am dreaming about an aspect of the game I want to improve on...

I never wake up richer [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one with poker dreams. It was embarassing to admit.

Was just mentioning this one to a fellow poster: Dreamt of hitting the super bad beat jackpot at Commerce ($100,000) with pocket deuces. Starting jumping up and down hollering until I realized that the board had TWO 2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]'s. Woke up screaming!

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After a long session when I was first learning short handed play, I had a dream that I raised 38o UTG. I woke up immediately and was very startled, similar to how you wake up after having a nightmare. I found it pretty humorous when I looked back at it the next day.

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I have them a few times a week. It used to bother me, but now I've decided to treat the dreams as real and play accordingly in the dream.

Now that's a meta-game, baby!

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My wife told me that she once woke me up in the morning, and while I was still groggy, I told her that I was going to fold a big hand.

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I have this wierd reaccuring nightmare where I'm playing hold 'em and get dealt 3 cards. Instead of just speaking up, I always start freaking out and get confused as to what I should do. Do I play just 2 of the cards or can I use all 3? It's so lame.

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I dream about poker 4 out of 7 nights. Most of my play is late at night so I'm thinking the brain is just stuck on. Doesn't bother me to much.

The other day i was napping and I had a dream I was playing Ivey and Barney Miller. Now that was a bit wierd.

I also seem to have a lot of nightmares. Not poker nightmares, just f'ed up dreams. I think that might have to do with the mass amounts of caffine i take in during the day.

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I get this exact same scenario in my dreams a lot too, and I've never been able to extract any meaning out of it.

Another problem I have is with huge grind sessions in my dreams. I go through like literally a hundred hands and fold 80 of them, but I have to sit and watch the action when I'm out of the hand just like in real life. They are usually quite long and accurate dreams so I end up getting bored and I mostly end up just waking myself up out of them to avoid the grind sessions invading my dreams. They're kind of taxing believe it or not.

I've never dreamed of internet poker though. Has anyone?

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yeah i dream about poker a lot.. had a horrible dream about my boat getting taken out by quads..

woke up very happy knowing it was only a dream