Sports Dreams: Interpreting The Meaning For Real Life Situations

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Sports dreams are some of the most common types of dreams you will have. Many times, they will involve sports that you have a personal connection with but, not always. In this blog, I will tell you about a friend’s dream and how it related to a very significant personal event coming soon. Along with that, I will give you the general meanings for seeing sports in your dreams and how you can break down the meaning of various types in order to see how they apply to situations in your life right now.

The dream I am telling today is not my own but rather, a close friend who often gets sports dreams, especially involving the kind that is most closely connected to his personal interests. This is the same friend who had a dream that I wrote about several years ago, oddly enough, using the same sports metaphor!

Kings, Kingdoms & Church: Prophetic Dream Revelation

Dream: A Baseball Dugout Announcement

February 15, 2024 – I had this dream just before waking up…. I’m in a big house with some people in it. There’s a tall guy who looks familiar but don’t get close enough to talk or see him well. I know several people in the house and the place is buzzing. Next thing I know is we’re all outside and up in front of me a ways is tall guy like in a baseball dugout but he’s giving an announcement of a new business forming. I remember seeing him walk back by but it didn’t dawn on me til I woke up it was you. But the baseball diamond and the whole outside was a part of the big house where we started in. Funny thing is it was a big house [additional detail omitted]…[like the one] you picked out [in real life].

Dugout = in real life, these are below ground level and hidden from the sight of spectators and players; this represents being both low and hidden from sight, and refers to both humility and meekness (see previous blog on the platinum heart; also see passages below).
Baseball = a competition, spiritual workout, striving spiritually or in some other field to achieve something great (see below passages).
Sports = (in general) in addition to the above, usually played in view of many spectators who in real life, represent all those who are witnessing how you live your life and whether or not you obtain eternal life and achieve what God put you here for in this lifetime (see more below).
House = in this context, a multiple meaning including a symbol of the general place where a person lives (can include a city), a reference to myself and the friend being under the “same roof” spiritually, and finally a literal confirmation of an exact house I plan to buy very soon in real life (due to its description which I omitted in the dream).
Announcement = (new business) since the person in the dream was me, and I am literally expecting a very large amount of money (imminently) to start my invention business, this is a confirmation of my own recent dreams that all show exactly that; this is a great example of how God will confirm something to us by 2-3 others as the Bible says (see below).

Sports: Common Dream Symbols

Let me now give you a few simple tips to interpreting dreams of sports. As you can probably imagine, a baseball dugout does not appear on most Bible-based dream symbols lists. In order to get the correct understanding of that setting, I had to define it and describe it in the most simple terms. After that, I looked for Biblical concepts and principles that matched it.

As I wrote above, a dugout is lower than ground level and it is hidden from sight. To be low represents humility. To be hidden represents meekness. If you look at the verses I’ve included below that apply to the above dream, you will see they fit (1 Peter 3:4 and Matthew 11:29). This is how you do proper Bible-based dream interpreting! Find the thing you saw in your dream in the Bible; if you do not see it directly, do what I did here. When interpreting dreams, you must learn to discern which details are important and how to find them in the Bible.

To give you more examples of what I’m trying to explain here, let me give you a few more ideas just to start with (remember that there are positives and negatives with most dream symbols!)…

Football = (American) being a team player, a competition requiring effort and confrontation, follow the team leader (quarterback), know your position, don’t try to do another person’s job, requires heavy lifting to confront an opponent, be in shape spiritually and naturally.
Volleyball = being part of a team, be agile and quick to respond, use your hands with skill, gain the high ground over your opponent, communicate effectively.
Golf = requires skill and dexterity, see a prophetic vision and go after it, follow God’s word (the ball), keep your eyes on the vision, have a long-term perspective, avoid traps and pitfalls set up by the devil, be accurate in speaking prophetically and in decrees as a king.
Tennis = an individual effort or assignment, a challenge, conversation, debate or dispute with another person, requires skill, accuracy and practice, watch out for your opponent’s tricks, be agile and responsive, be in shape spiritually and naturally.
Swimming = be in the Spirit, endurance and stamina, develop inner peace (breath control), develop your technique to eliminate things that drag you down.
Figure skating = learn the flow of the Holy Spirit, balance your life between spiritual and natural, practice makes perfect, keep your eyes on your goal, have a positive (up) perspective, avoid a negative one (don’t look down at your feet).
Skiing = going by faith, carried by the glory of God, in the realm of glory, a mountaintop experience (spiritual or natural), watch your speed and don’t get carried away with emotions, run the race of faith, able to handle challenging terrain (moguls and steep slopes).

Here are two more links to a blog and ebook where I have written more about sports in dreams…

Relevant Bible Passages

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Matthew 11:29 (KJV)

But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1 Peter 3:4 (KJV)

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
1 Corinthians 9:24 (KJV)

And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:25 (KJV)

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:1 (KJV)

This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
2 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV)

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV)

Do you have questions about the symbols you see in your dreams? Check out the largest free online list of Bible-based symbols here…

Free Online Dream Symbols List

Prophetic Activation Exercise

Now that you’ve seen how I walked through interpreting various sports, your challenge, should you accept, is to look around at the objects in your daily life and do the same as I did.

Break down each object, person, sport, action and define them in basic terms.
Look at the details and see where you can find a concept, principle or a key word in the Bible to find the meaning.
Then, consider how it applies to your life based on current situations you are experiencing.

When I was new to interpreting dreams over a decade ago, this is what I learned to do. It is a basic exercise that will carry you a long way and, as you see, this is what I still do today when I encounter a symbol in a dream that I have never seen before. As you do this, you will be on the path of learning to interpret your own dreams, and perhaps those of others you encounter!

After you do this, maybe you can pass the quiz that I gave in a blog last year: