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Wed May 19, 2004
Go Dreams
This page on Sensei's Library is an interesting and hilarious collection of Go dreams and other involuntary appearances of Go into the mind. Some highlights:
After playing go long into the night, I've definitely woke up to my alarm clock beeping and my brain actively denying it: "it can't be beeping, then i cut and this is atari and it will lose."
Driving to work on a busy highway, I'll have thoughts like: "I'd better change lanes, or that truck could put me in atari".
I had a Go dream a few weeks ago, where the same sequence of moves kept playing out in my head, and I couldn't change it. For some reason I felt very scared.
We were lying on the grass in Cracow, waiting for the meeting with Pope, and were very very tired after few hours in bus. One of the last things i remember before i fell asleep was an illumination. I realized, that we are forming a simple hoshi-joseki lying there. My legs and butt were forming keima, and a girl sleeping on my knees was blocking the corner with kosumi.
What I do is spontaneously generate go positions in my sleep, but before I actually start dreaming. The weirdest thing is that these are positions I've never seen before, but they just show up. They generally appear as a life and death problem, and then I solve them and it goes away.
One night, about 25 years ago, I played a game in my dreams. The following morning I got up and played it entirely on the board. It seems like it was an original game as it was not one that looked familiar to me. Don't remember anything about it now. I was about 2 dan at the time.
On the bus for debate tournaments is interesting though. I once fell asleep and woke up frightened because I only had one liberty. The seats of the bus were the other stones and I was in the window seat. Someone only had to sit beside me and I would be dead, but then I woke up.
Driving to work on a busy highway, I'll have thoughts like: "I'd better change lanes, or that truck could put me in atari".
I had a Go dream a few weeks ago, where the same sequence of moves kept playing out in my head, and I couldn't change it. For some reason I felt very scared.
We were lying on the grass in Cracow, waiting for the meeting with Pope, and were very very tired after few hours in bus. One of the last things i remember before i fell asleep was an illumination. I realized, that we are forming a simple hoshi-joseki lying there. My legs and butt were forming keima, and a girl sleeping on my knees was blocking the corner with kosumi.
What I do is spontaneously generate go positions in my sleep, but before I actually start dreaming. The weirdest thing is that these are positions I've never seen before, but they just show up. They generally appear as a life and death problem, and then I solve them and it goes away.
One night, about 25 years ago, I played a game in my dreams. The following morning I got up and played it entirely on the board. It seems like it was an original game as it was not one that looked familiar to me. Don't remember anything about it now. I was about 2 dan at the time.
On the bus for debate tournaments is interesting though. I once fell asleep and woke up frightened because I only had one liberty. The seats of the bus were the other stones and I was in the window seat. Someone only had to sit beside me and I would be dead, but then I woke up.
And finally, a dream from someone who has taken to heart the lesson that you shouldn't let your groups be surrounded, even if they are alive:
I had a very interresting and depressing go dream recently. It was insane because i was one of the groups standing there and i was about to get captured when this ghost told the player playing my color to extend my group. My group ended up living in the corner because of eyes but it was horrible, I was stuck in the corner i could not move i could not do a thing but stand in the corner for all eternity the group I was could not extend. HORRIBLE
Myself, I've had Go dreams, I know. But I can't really remember them very well. Certainly I can't remember the specifics of any "technical" Go dreams, where the focus is on the actual moves made. I had one dream where a friend of mine became 2 dan, and another where I beat a 4 dan player on the Kiseido Go Server. In yet another dream, I imagined that I, as white, caused a go fight to extend "into the atmosphere", which seemed to be an analogy for "towards the center", to make the fight more difficult for black. And finally, I once had a dream where a decision I made in real life, but later screwed up, was like making a brilliant move in Go, but mis-reading the life or death situation afterwards.
Weird conflagrations between Go concepts and other concepts, like the thing with the alarm clock or the person waking up in atari, do happen to me, when I'm very sleepy, or have just woken up. But generally speaking, when I'm fully awake I don't think about everyday objects in terms of tactical Go concepts unintentionally. Certainly, a lot of high-level, abstract, "strategic"-level concepts will often find relations to Go in my mind (e.g. here and here), but stuff like the alarm clock feels more "tactical", and that only happens when I'm very sleepy.
Also, similar to the Sensei's Library contributor, I'll find that during extended periods when I'm spending a lot of time playing or learning about Go, Go problems will spontaneously appear in my head, seemingly out of nowhere, and not, as far as I can tell, based on positions I've ever seen. I'll often find myself unconsciously trying to solve these problems, in the background of whatever else I'm doing, as if a song were stuck in my head but I don't have to really consciously think about it to keep it there.
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