An Intro To Dreams And Hockey
CoachChic.com members know I love getting far outside the hockey box — for sports ideas, as well as for ideas on business and my personal life. What I’ve never mentioned here before is my love of listening to a nighttime radio program called Coast To Coast AM. Hosts get a lot into the paranormal over 5-hours, with there also being a lot of shows that have a connection with things like physical training and nutrition. I really loved a recent program, though, that now turning its ideas into “an introduction to dreams and hockey” for you.
Please appreciate that a Part 2 is soon to follow on this post. In fact, it’ll be loaded with details, including a pretty good “how to” segment on ways coaches, parents and players can benefit from combining dreams and hockey.
As for recent program, it involved a couple of hours of an interview with Craig Sim Webb, a pioneer in the lucid dream research at Stanford University and Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Hospital. As his resume states, Webb has 25-years of experience researching dreams.
Webb is a musician and singer, which had him going on for quite some time citing “… the fascinating dreams behind the music and lives of such artists as Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Sting, Taylor Swift, U2, Stevie Wonder, and many others. For instance, one night while on tour, Bono of U2 fell asleep listening to a song by Roy Orbison, and lyrics involving a “mystery girl” came to him in a dream.” And, as he got deeper into the relationship between creativity and dreams, Webb shared a story about Roy Orbison showing up backstage, with he and Bono and The Edge ending up writing the song “She’s a Mystery to Me”. The point, though, was that Bono had previously fallen asleep listening to a song by Orbison that talked about a “mystery girl”, and he’d ultimately woen to write the lyrics to that song for Orbison. Anyway, as the show went on, there were a couple of things that really turned me on to dreams and hockey…
For example, at one point, he offered that, “Dreams can be a gateway for synesthesia-like experiences — the combining and bridging of sensory faculties.” Ya, and dreams could be used by any of us.
Then, what got me to open my eyes quickly before I drifted off to sleep, was his mention that a German sports team had been using “lucid dreaming” as a regular part of its training. Hmmmmmm… Lucid dreaming. As he went on to explain, that sounded an awful lot like the “visualization” sessions I’ve often recommended to my CoachChic.com members (and used with some of my students and teams).
Even more appropriate to our want to combine dreams and hockey, I recalled a long ago lecture I’d attended by one of the US’s top sport psychologists. Ya, Dr Jim Leohr told us of hearing that Bobby Orr kept a pad of paper and pen on his nightstand, and he’d often get up and jot notes from his latest dream, usually about a move he’d like to try on the ice. (Wow! And don’t you know I rushed to Dr Leohr during the symposium break, and stole as much advice as I could possibly gather.)
Okay, for now, I’ve only intended this as an intro to dreams and hockey. It ought to provide some food for thought to casual visitors, while I’m only hoping to warm the interests of my members for a really meaty post and video that will soon follow.
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I’ve just complete the promised sequel to the above, and I’ve posted “Dreams And Hockey – Part 2” to include some truly awesome stuff! Sorry, but that one is for members only.
