Basketball
To dream of a basketball game represents competitiveness to prove you matter more than someone else. Competition to prove one's superiority or worth over others. A struggle to prove that your ideas are better than other people's ideas. A struggle to prove that one's ideas, skills, insights, or resources are better than others, and to outsmart or embarrass others with better ideas or outcomes. The basketball game symbolizes different aspects of the dreamer's life or personality that are at odds, trying to prove they are the most effective or intelligent. The dream may reflect a conflict between two people who both believe they are more professional, experienced, or knowledgeable than the other, and are trying to prove it. The dream highlights the dreamer's stubbornness in refusing to listen to others who may ignore their ideas. A metaphor for different aspects of your personality or your life that are trying to prove they are the most effective or more intelligent. A conflict of between two people that equally believe their are more professional, experienced, or well read than the other with the ability to prove it.
Negatively, a basketball game may reflect competition that is overdoing trying to matter more than someone else. Overdoing or dishonestly trying to prove your ideas are better than someone else. Cutthroat competition, characterized by a strong desire to prove one's superiority or that you matter more than someone else. Childishness that doesn't think it has to stop trying to embarrass someone else that they matter less. A competitive attitude that is reluctant to listen to others who may question their ideas. The basketball game can also represent a situation where someone is being dishonest, using any means necessary to make themselves look more deserving or smarter than their competition. This may result from fear of being proven inferior by others, or a fear of being exposed as having weaker ideas.
Basketballs symbolizes power dynamics over proving you matter more. The issue being struggled over got for superiority, worthiness, or mattering more than someone else. Thoughts or ideas that are believed to better than someone else's ideas. A mindset that is focused on attaining power or achievement through example. An idea you wish to prove is more attractive than someone else's idea. Using power to prove you are a smarter or stronger person with mattering more with a particular issue.
The basketball net is your goal, desire, or life objective that you want to prove is good idea.
To dream of shooting hoops on your own represents the dreamer's inner struggle to prove their self-worth and competence. The dreamer may feel the need to prove their abilities and ideas without outside validation or interference. It may symbolize the dreamer's confidence in their abilities and the need to test their limits and capabilities. Practicing on your own to embarrass someone else that your ideas are the best. Practicing or training to prove you matter more than someone else. Proving that your ideas are right with nobody to support you. Experimenting with your ideas to make sure they are good ideas.
Missed shots or losing a game symbolizes failure to prove that your ideas are better than someone else's. You may not have the power, status, or resources you need to prove you matter more.
Example: A woman dreamed of playing basketball with her boyfriend and noticed that he wasn't very good. In waking life she felt all her boyfriend was consistently unable to prove himself to be worthy enough to continue dating.
Example 2: A young man dreamed of playing a basketball game with midgets. In waking life he was competing with an internet message forum webmaster who was trying to embarrass him with permanent banning. The dreamer had superior computer skills that enabled him to repeatedly humiliate the webmaster with showing up on the message forum whenever he wanted making it look too easy. The basketball game in this case may have reflected the dreamer's feelings about his advanced computer skills allowing him to repeatedly prove he was superior with technology to the less skilled webmaster.
Example 3: A young girl dreamed of walking down a basketball court. In waking life she decided she didn't like her friends and was considering trying to embarrass them all by getting more popular friends. In this case basketball may have reflected her competitive attitude about thinking she mattered more socially if she got more popular friends.
Example 4: A man dreamed of seeing a basketball hoop. In waking life he was having difficulty deciding if he should try to get a new job when his company got bought out by another company. He was uncertain if he had the right skills to get a new job. The basketball net in this case may have reflected his lingering untested idea to attempt proving to himself that he was good enough to get a new job. He may been thinking of testing his skills to see if mattered in the job market than other applicants.
