Tony Crisp Interpretation: Generally, games can be stances used to meet life; not taking life seriously—making a game of it; competitiveness; team work; life skills. Also a game can be a way of playing creatively, exploring feelings, ideas and approaches in a safe way before trying them out in life. This son of self allowing, of letting oneself ‘want’ something without too much serious ovenones, can be beginning df new developments in life.
Particular games suggest different ‘stances’. Cards, chess: use of strategies and observation. Ball games, athletics: competitiveness, conflict within the dreamer—the two sides; sense of win or lose, success or failure, the game of love. Opponents): what you are meeting or in conflict with. This may be a pan of your nature, such as self awareness, sexuality, even your body. You might be in conflict with life itself or ‘God’. Gambling: taking risks with your life, health, family—whatever is indicated in dream. Idioms: beat somebody at their own game, deep game; dirty game; fair game; game of chance; game to the end; give the game away; know what someone’s game is; mug’s game; name of the game, on the game; waiting game; game is up.
See also ball under shapes and symbols; doll; toy.
Stances used to meet life; not taking life seriously —making a game of it; competitiveness; sense of winning or losing; teamwork; life skills. See playing. In some games there are real prizes, like money, but in many there is the sense of success or the feeling of defeat, so dreaming of games can indicate these. But in dreams games are often used to represent life, where chances we take can have very direct connection with real events. Such adult “games” as making a record, developing a business, starting a job bring us into direct interaction with the world, with an incredibly wide range of responses. Such games are extremely satisfying or disturbing because of these interactions, but like race-car driving, they can be fatal because of how real they are. What we do in our dream game will indicate how we are playing the “game” of life. We may be playing recklessly, by the rules, skillfully, caringly, etc. These indications can be seen as comments on real-life activities.