Aren't dreams great??  You can do ANYthing in your dreams!  I mean dreams literally, the ones you see while you're sleeping at night.  Last night I had my second memorable dream about figure skating.  I never blogged about the first one yet, so here's both:

I had this dream shortly after I started taking lessons, about 5 months ago.  I dreamt that I was in the parking lot at work, and that I was out there practicing skating.  Now the funny thing is, I didn't have skates on!  But I was moving along as though I did, just gliding easily over the pavement!  I remember it being effortless, and the most memorable thing was that I was going backwards, and whenever I hit a speed bump, I would just glide easily over it.  Never lost my balance at all.  In my dream I was thinking how easy this was, even backwards, even with obstacles like speed bumps!  When I woke up, I felt like I could actually do that on the ice....although I hadn't yet learned to skate backwards at that point.

The second dream, the one I had last night, was more realistic.  At least I had skates on in this dream, and I was at the rink, on the ice.  One thing I've been working on in real life are clockwise crossovers.  I have some kind of mental block against putting my left foot over my right.  In my dream, I was practicing these and doing them well.  Actually, I was doing an exercise where I would do a counter-clockwise crossover (which I can do in real life), and then immediately doing a clockwise crossover (which I can't do in real life).  The effect was like cross..glide...cross the other way...glide...cross...glide...and continue the pattern.  In my dream, it was great fun and I could do it easily.  I think I will try this exercise in real life and see how far I get.  The other magnificent thing I could do in my dream, was that I could glide forward on my left foot while bringing my right foot all the way up in the air, holding it with my right arm.  I can do this in real life, standing on the ground, and I've actually been thinking I can do this on the ice some day, when I get more balanced and talented.  So it was nice to actually see myself doing this in a dream.  I think that means it will one day be possible.

I love these kinds of dreams.  I wake up feeling invigorated and ready to accomplish things.  The dreams encourage me to try keep trying.  I hope I have more dreams like this soon!