I'm sure I'm not the only one of us who has dreamt about go. But as a rule, they are boring when you try and tell other people. In spite of that, I suspect I may have had the lamest go related dream.

Last night, I dreamt that I was looking up professional go players on Sensei's Library. Even lamer, there was nothing interesting about the search: I think the player was Tsuneishi Takashi, though he looked different (I had no idea what he looked like until this morning) and was 26. Nothing else.

Beat that.

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Occupy Babel!

Once, close to 40 years ago, I dreamed I played a game of go. I woke up the next morning and replayed the whole game. It was not one I had seen before.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

In times where I am studying a lot, I sometimes dream of sequences of moves (like what you'd visualize when doing a go problem).

The sequences don't usually have meaning, as far as I can tell.

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be immersed

My most memorable dream was playing a blitz game on KGS against Cho Chikun. It boggles my mind to this day why I didn't catch myself for realizing it was a dream, because...

1) I was playing a 9d account in an even game
2) Somehow I knew Cho Chikun's handle
3) I was winning

My go dreams are never that interesting of specific. I believe the last one I had involved playing a friend of mine whom I've played many times before. That's sort of lame.

I did have one dream that I thought was fun. In many of my dreams my spacial reasoning goes out the window - this results in bizarre things like being able to carry a car under my arm.

So one time the go stones kept changing in size from Tic-Tac sized to the size of full pancakes and everything in between. It was not a constant size changing and it was more like I would look away and then look back and the stone would be a different size in my hand. I never questioned it in the dream and didn't even see it was a problem until after I woke up and realized how insane that was.

In case you were wondering I don't think the board or the stones on the board changed size, only the ones I was holding - at least, as far as I can remember. I don't remember exactly how I played the giant stones, but I guess it wasn't a problem somehow...

I've never been able to remember any of the board positions and they always seem to just exist as generic go positions. I never end up playing the game for real it is more like I am watching myself play the game from behind my own eyes and I don't have the motivation to evaluate the position for whatever reason. Dream logic is strange.

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"You have to walk before you can run. Black 1 was a walking move.
I blushed inwardly to recall the ignorant thoughts that had gone through
my mind before, when I had not realized the true worth of Black 1."
-Kageyama Toshiro on proper moves

Do you recall the dream game to any degree now, and if so, was it a good game?

I was only about shodan at the time and I have probably played 25,000 games since then, so no, not a chance. The only reason I was able to even do it is because I was playing and studying it about 4 or 5 hours a day and one of the ways I studied was to play lots of quick games against myself so as to be exposed to lots of positions.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

That is amazing, I would assume the moves played in a dream would be totally nonsensical making it impossible to replay.

When I was participating in the World Amateur Pair-Go Championships in Tokyo a few years ago I had a moving dream.

I dreamed that at that tournament a professional player, while discussing a tactical position, came up with an aphoristic way of describing a certain principle that was so full of wisdom that a professor of economy who happened to be present, watching the games, promptly exclaimed "That can be applied to macro economics!". It turned out to be such a clever way of understanding things that the discovery immediately had massive effects on the world economy, and pretty much solved all of the world's problems with distribution of resources. It was followed by a collage of news outlets covering the story and as a television frame zoomed in on the tournament I felt truly blessed and happy to be part of such an important event.

Then I woke up.

Guess I'm not the only one. I started playing Go this month, because I wanted to see what it'd do to my brain. Would it be like playing Tetris too much?

They say you can see the universe in Go. I see Go in the universe. Everywhere I look, objects take on Go shapes. Standing with other people, I wonder who needs to move where to live. I fell asleep with a joseki book open (first physical book in years, since I've gotten Kindles) - all night long, pieces move and shape up. Life and death. Snapbacks.

I still suck, terribly. (Just got cleaned off the board by MFOG12 18k... after trouncing it previously.)

Should be an exciting new year.