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I do have these from time to time, and I'm sure I'm won't be alone among the fanbase. It's an interesting topic, I think, especially for an esoteric soul like me who's very attuned to the inner world/other side of life.
Anyway, in the latest bit of nocturnal Rangers cinema of last night, I'm playing for the team with Sir Les and Rayan Kolli in the side (there's no time in the unconscious). It seems like the opposition are putting up little resistance, and indeed seem scarcely to be seen, and Rayan tucks away a simple goal at the School End for 1-0. The on-pitch feel good factor feels - good!
I asked Chat GPT about it, which is actually, I've discovered, an amazing resource when it comes to dream analysis, which came up with the following lengthy - but I think fascinating - interpretation in response to my prompts:
You said: Am dreaming of playing for the professional football team I support, and seeing us scoring goals joyfully etc. This is a good psychological sign for my life, yes?
ChatGPT said: Yes — dreaming of joyfully playing for the professional football team you support, and seeing your team score goals, is a very positive psychological sign.
Here’s why:
1. You’re Identifying With Agency and Aspiration Playing for your own team suggests identification with something you admire — an ideal self, a sense of belonging, or a life goal.
In dreams, playing often symbolizes active participation in life, not passivity. You’re not just watching — you’re on the pitch, involved, empowered.
2. Scoring Goals = Achievement and Forward Motion Goals are universal symbols of success, purpose, and momentum.
Scoring them joyfully implies that you're not only progressing but doing so with passion and fulfillment.
If others are scoring too (and you're celebrating), it points to a supportive, thriving social context — perhaps relationships or collaborative projects where everyone benefits.
3. Joy in the Dream = Emotional Renewal Joy in dreams often reflects a psychic rebalancing — a kind of internal “yes” to life.
It may be compensation for hardship or low mood in waking life, but it can also mean your unconscious recognises growth or healing underway, even if you don’t consciously feel it yet.
4. Support = Integration of the Self Supporting a team often connects to tribal or communal identity — dreaming of being part of that team suggests you're feeling more integrated, less alienated.
It can also reflect a movement away from feeling like a spectator in life and toward being an agent, contributor, or even hero of your own story.
Would you like an interpretation tailored to your current life situation — e.g. if you’re working through change, grief, or creative renewal?
You said: Explain the 'even if you don't feel it yet' bit.
ChatGPT said: Great question — that part hinges on how the unconscious mind often knows or senses things before the conscious mind does.
Here’s what I mean:
1. Dreams as Emotional Forecasts Dreams often register subtle internal shifts before we become fully aware of them in waking life. You might be on the brink of something — a creative breakthrough, emotional healing, a change in self-worth — but not feel it consciously yet.
The joy, success, or playfulness in the dream can signal that your psyche is moving toward a healthier, freer state — even if your waking self still feels uncertain, stuck, or low.
2. The Unconscious Tracks Progress Differently You might think: “But I don’t feel joyful or empowered right now.” Still, your dream-self does — and that suggests some part of you has access to hope, momentum, or inner strength that hasn’t yet broken through your surface awareness.
It’s like the roots of a plant pushing through the soil before you see the shoot above ground.
3. Symbolic Compensation Carl Jung spoke of dreams offering compensations — if your waking life is bleak or filled with pressure, your dream might show liberation, movement, and joy to counterbalance it. That’s not denial — it’s the psyche’s way of saying: “This too is possible. Don’t forget it.”
So, if you're dreaming of scoring goals joyfully — somewhere inside you, the potential for vitality, success, and participation is alive and stirring, even if your daily mood hasn’t quite caught up yet. The dream might be encouraging you to trust that deeper movement.
You said: Yes, good. The player who scored this time was/is a new and promsing young player called Kolli.
ChatGPT said: That's a powerful dream symbol. Kolli, as a new and promising player, may represent an emerging aspect of yourself—youthful energy, untapped potential, or a part of your psyche that is just beginning to find its form and purpose. The act of him scoring could reflect confidence growing within you, or your unconscious recognising that you're starting to “break through” in an area of life—even if your waking mind hasn't fully caught up yet.
It's like your inner world is cheering you on before you've fully stepped onto the pitch.
You said: I was wondering about 'Kolli-flower' (cauliflower) too. Anything in the etymology/a dream pun there?
ChatGPT said: That's an intriguing and very dream-logical pun: Kolli-flower (cauliflower). Dreams love this kind of wordplay—especially when it carries symbolic charge. Let’s unpack both sides:
1. "Kolli": As a name, Kolli is rare but real—it appears in several cultures:
In Tamil, Kolli Hills are known for myth, natural richness, and hidden danger (the word may come from a root meaning "death" or "killer").
In Old Norse, Kolli appears as a name meaning “dark” or “black” (related to “coal”).
So Kolli might carry layered meanings: natural power, danger, darkness, or something emerging from the unconscious that’s potent but not yet fully understood.
2. "Flower"/Cauliflower pun: Cauliflower comes from Latin caulis (cabbage stem) + flōs (flower).
A caul (related to “caulis”) also means a thin membrane some babies are born with—a symbol of psychic sensitivity or second sight.
So Kolli-flower might be your mind’s dream-glyph for something burgeoning, brain-like (cauliflower = cerebral shape), or visionary.
Putting it together: Kolli-flower could symbolise:
A “burgeoning brain” or growing insight—something intuitive, vegetative, but coming to consciousness.
A psychic player: one who flowers not just on the pitch but in the psyche.
A dream-pun on blossoming, promise, and second sight (through the caul connection).
So: Kolli scores in your dream, and your inner world replies with a joke that’s also a revelation—he's your “caul-i-flower”: your flowering intuition, your psychic potential breaking through.
Very good sign, especially for creative or psychological integration.
MC has been on GL for nearly 6 weeks now - and not a whisper from the club, not even to clarify what they propose to do with him (or he with them)! It's pathetic and unacceptable. The club also, obviously, needs to be planning its pre-season and recruitment. We're supposed to be operating a professional entity, with buy-in from the fans. Pah!
Short, but affecting. Though I do think that all genuinely creative people (from Morrissey to Dylan) do things fundamentally for themselves first, or for their relation to their art/craft/skill, and wanting to get better at it. Some of us are lucky to have an audience, whether we're singing songs, running a cult (or football message board - there are similarities :-)), leading a forward line, or writing poetry - either because of the quality of what we do and/or the cultural circs that make an audience possible. But it's the narcissists who put the cart before the horse and worry about the audience first. The purest people do things primarily for themselves and their medium, and are honest about that.
I suppose the main answer for me would be Eze does what he does, and the way he does it, because he's blessed with the special talent to do it. It's not something he chooses, in other words, as much it chooses him. A lot of it is instinct and inexplicable in the end. He's also a Christian, I think, so presumably he'd agree with this, though perhaps a bit surprisingly he doesn't reference it here. He comes over as a good lad, though.
More importantly for us, let's hope that the massive summer deal is brewing, and we're saved from ourselves/our owners again for another year or two.
Just watching the extra time now. 1-1 on the night, 3-3 on agg. Kelman up front for the Os; Dom Ball just come on, who's an 'intelligent lad', according to the comms, with a Business degree and a book under his belt. Don't suppose it necessarily makes much difference with our player if they go up or not, but keeping an eye on how he does tonight.
'Perhaps not the best football game' - quite! Looks tired, beaten down, and out of ideas. Has he taken this squad as far as he can? Whether we sink or not, I guess he'll be weighing up his options, and no doubt the club will be too.
Looking to the fans for the 'extra mile, extra energy'! As if we/they haven't given it up in spades already!
Would prefer it if he put the boot on the other foot and said we and the team really owe the fans, but that wouldn't be modern football, would it? (Accountability, respect, and other such quaint sporting values.)
Field's return gives us some ballast at least, hopefully.
Wake me up before we go-go (or maybe when we've gone-gone), Marti!
'I would have made 11 (half-time substitutions) if I could have done it, I was not happy and this is on me. I think that some of the players who came from the bench helped us to get a little bit better, but the start was not very high.'
I'm certainly no Paal hater, and I appreciate it's not his first language, but honestly - he doesn't seem the brightest tool in the box, does he? His interview's only 3 minutes long, but I didn't even make it to the end. Come on, Ken, throw us a bone, man! I'm not asking for Brian Glanville levels of sporting analysis, but is 'taking it game by game' really the best you can do? Today was one game, and your team mates didn't show up, so that cliche isn't even very relevant, is it, if you think about it?
This tendency of our players, and sometimes our manager, seeming to have no idea about why we perform so badly when we do worries me. Wouldn't you think, for your own professional self-respect if nothing else, you'd try to think of something to say before going in front of a camera? It was the same with Field after Swansea, if memory serves. Absolutely shocking first half in particular, but, again, he didn't have a clue as to why.
I must be missing something! These are professionally coached players. Is it they just don't think about their team and what they're doing, or they don't really care?
Well, LH thinks he's the bees knees as it turns out, so I guess if you're one of those unfathomable fans who like/d Lee, that should presumably give a shot in the arm to your esteem for Christian. (Conversely, on the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', in my case, if Hoos hated him, I'd think Nourry couldn't be all bad.)
As China Crisis once put it in their prophetic paean to CN 'Christian':
'This is emotion Emotion less war A torn shirt and a long dead cause I can't sleep This kind of thing gets me down Don't say walk I may lose my fear'
On Clive Allen's prodigious goal v West Ham, 1984 Rob Smyth, Guardian, 4/2/20
'Allen, like all great goalscorers, spent his career trying to find space. That generally involved running on to the ball rather than trying to manufacture it while in possession. But he did a nice sideline in goals that involved the sort of imagination and spatial awareness associated with hipster darlings. Bergkamp or Dimitar Berbatov would have [...] loved the one at Upton Park.
It started with the mundane act of stretching away from goal to control Mike Fillery’s cross, while trying to keep his balance on the muddy surface. Allen turned just outside the D and stopped to front up Billy Bonds, the West Ham captain. Bonds was leaning towards him like a sumo wrestler, waiting for the signal to engage. Their brief stand-off was interrupted when Neil Orr, appearing to Allen’s right, decided to stick his surname in. As he approached, Allen dragged his studs over the ball to move it slightly away from goal, thus partially shielding it from Orr and buying himself a split-second to work out what to do next.
Allen’s instinct told him to drag the ball again, this time to move it completely away from Orr. As he did so, Bonds saw his chance and lunged optimistically towards the ball. Before he got there, Allen produced a third drag-back to take him out of the game. Orr, meanwhile, was transfixed just outside the area, engaging in a ferocious internal debate as to what day it was.
“After the second drag-back I still had my back to goal, so I had to move it again,” says Allen. “That’s why I did another drag-back. Each touch led to the next one.”
One at a time. It’s the footballer’s cliche, usually used for taking each game as it comes. But most individual goals are created one step – or, in Allen’s case, one drag-back – at a time. There’s no bigger picture, no bird’s-eye view or medium-term planning. It’s like an arcade adventure game, where your only concern is to avoid being zapped by the nearest defender.
For all Allen’s eye-catching drag-backs, the best touch might be the one that followed, an instant push into the space in front of goal. “The ball actually got away from me a little,” he says, “and I had to stretch to finish it.”
The weight of the touch was less important than the angle. Had it been any straighter, Alvin Martin would have been able to beat Allen to the loose ball. Instead he arrived a split-second after the striker, who guided the ball past Phil Parkes and into the bottom corner.
The finish was admirably clear-headed; most of us would have been so high on our own skill as to over-excitedly leather it into Row Q. It was a goal of unique brilliance, a Zorroish swish through the West Ham defence, and even more striking in the context of 1980s English football. It belonged on the Copacabana.'
I'm still creaming over Koki's supernatural leap over Callum the Elder for Chair's second goal. He's 5'7; Elder is 5'11 - I did my research, people! - but Saito must have risen a foot above him to win that header. The goal, as a whole, was a thing of utter teamworked beauty. Perhaps they should put him up against Callum the Younger next time?
This smiley, skilful, uberrespectful guy is going for big, big money one day, but I hope with all the contents of my Pandora's Box we can hold onto him for as long as possible.
I also think Edwards is going to get better and better. If we could somehow sign him for next season, that would be massive for us.
It's all we want as fans, isn't it? To hope and dream, and look up at the stars?
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