A Field of Dreams - What your Baseball Dream Can Tell You

You might think I’m making this all up, but I’m not!

Baseball and softball images provide some great images and symbols for my waking life. And my unconscious mind seems to think so too!

If you have watched a thousand practices, games, and coaching sessions, you’ll know that baseball is great analogy for 'real' life. It is a shorter, focused, skill-based microcosm of the world.

Here are some things I’ve been told, or told to my son or daughter in a dream:

• ‘Get into the game’ can mean get your head in the  game, or get yourself off the bench and out onto the field of life.
• ‘You have to swing the bat to hit the ball.’ There is nothing more depressing to a player that letting a beautiful pitch go by and not going for it.
• ‘You are up to bat’ means that it’s your turn, show them what you’ve got.
• 'If you are going to go, go now.' Life, like a baseball game has natural points where it's a littel better to stand up and go, like between innings, or when a team is taking the field. Life might present you with such a transition point. 

Baseball Diamond or Baseball Field

The field in baseball is a diamond, which is also a square turned on its corner. It can hold the same symbolism of balance as the square or the number four.

Player

If you are a player who is batting,running or fielding, you are taking an active role in the game of life. If you are sitting you need to stand up, find your spot, and get there quickly.

Umpires

The ump controls the game, the time and the strike zone. With littler kids, they are also mentors explaining the rules of the game, and giving timely warnings about balks etc… If the umpire talks to you in the dream, you are hearing message from an authority. After you translate it, you'll probably find really useful, easy to apply advice.

Let's get on with the game!