Dear Anonymous\u2014<\/p>\n
I think your last sentence holds a kernel of insight into your dream.<\/p>\n
Golf is a game of precision and control. We want to get a very small ball to behave with almost impossible response: to reach a target that is far off in the distance with the greatest economy of attempts. A few poorly executed swings, a momentary or sustained lapse of concentration, and chances are we have blown our efforts to shoot a great game. One reason why golf (and other sports) appeals to so many high achievers is because it’s a great metaphor for high achievement in the rest of our lives. You have to be consistently “on your game” to shoot a really good round, be it on the back nine or in the board room.<\/p>\n
Your instincts regarding the meaning of the dream — “I hope it’s not my ‘biological clock’ ticking” — are sound. Something’s tugging at your desire to control your current game (career) plan, and when you go to investigate, lo and behold, you find a baby attached to that fishing line!<\/p>\n
Your dream also contains an interesting phallic allusion. The whiffle balls are larger than regular golf balls, which makes them anatomically correct (or at least better proportioned) when placed alongside a golf club. But of course, it is the baby attached to the whiffle ball that reveals the ball’s symbolic association.<\/p>\n
I think the inclusion of your friend from college in the dream also is significant. You two shared a highly defined “stage” of your life together — college — and now you are preparing to live together again, at a time when many of your contemporaries are moving in with their lovers or husbands — and beginning families. It would be normal to feel the “tugs” of peer and family pressure to settle down and start a family as you embark upon your current path.<\/p>\n
You are not alone among your female peers in having mixed feelings about the next stage of life. On the other hand, I think your dream also is giving you a vivid foreshadowing of the great joy and profound bond that you will share with your future children (perhaps a boy and a girl?). Having children may wreak havoc with your golf game, but it also may give you a whole new perspective on the sport.<\/p>\n
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