only answer I know here is... yes, I had... many times... basically the same you had... also, sometimes about some opening traps... or just playing with someone but unable to remember what was on board properly...
Chess dreams?
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Maybe a little.
The game the took my dreams was portal.
Played through it in one night, the physics of the game invaded my dreams
Yep, I've had them, but their always a little too vague. It's not like I'm waking up saying, 'oh, that's how I could have won that game.' Also, interestingly, I can't see the whole board. It usually seems to be just a quadrant or so of the board that I'm trying to operate on. Maybe as I get better at the game the board will get bigger.
I once had a chess dream. Very strange. I don't remember exactly but it was either Komodo or Houdini playing against me. It was a very long game and I won! I was really happy for the rest of the day that I played so strongly. No joke man!
I dreamt I was playing a friendly game against Garry Kasparov (in a bay window in an Amsterdam apartment - it was a sunny day). He played the KID as black, we were still in the opening and I ventured d5 (but not as part of a four pawns attack because my bishop was already on d3). He looked up at me and I asked "What's the matter?". He said "Okay, black is still winning, but that is a really interesting move". I asked him why and he started laughing in that way he does, and then suddenly stopped and looked dead serious. Then it gets a bit fuzzy, and the only other thing I remember is having a weird mix of emotions - pleased and honoured that the great man was playing chess with me so informally, anxious that he or someone else would find out that I was really a total patzer, jazzed about the possibility that I had stumbled on something that wasn't just a novelty but a completely new idea in chess. Crazy, huh?!
The game didn't get much further because he walked out of the room - he had something else scheduled I think.
Yup, I've had several. Some even related to current correspondance games. Guess I went to sleep thinking about them... 
i had such dreams too.. when I started playing chess ( sept 2013) that time I was using other app ( chess time ) .. I used to play 20+ games that time.. so every morning I wakes up.. I got like 10 moves to do..my every morning was like one hour on moving chess pieces there. that time I was too much in chess. n those time I had dreams of playing chess ..I don't exactly remember them. but they were nice... I had a lovely period of chess than now . because I was jobless that time n my most of time was in chess :) since I broke up ( April 2014) with the girl who actually was the reason for my chess to b started.. I didn't play chess for like 3-4 months straight.. ( u know that time.. I was the part of achja tourney between our own group n lost 2 games by time ) after I over come the pain..I came back again ..here. stronger than ever been. deeper than before.. but to be honest. I can't go crazy like I was before.. No more dreams of chess r the real sign :)
oh and one dream I remember was with vishy Anand who is my fav player :) it was the time when WCC was going on in Nov 2013 ( right after I started playing chess) which I followed by watching 6-7 hours straight. that time I had a dream of him. don't remember exactly but he was playing with me or something.. that was the best dream of chess so far :)
I don't, but I'd like to give an advice wich is somewhat related to this topic: in correspondence games, never decide a move just before going to bed, better to wait until you've had a good sleep.
I've had several chess dreams. The last I remember was about 9 months ago after a 4 day, 7 round tournament. I was analyzing positions (or a position). In the dream the position seemed very clear as if I was lucid but upon waking it quickly became fuzzy.
Boogalicious wrote:
Have you had chess dreams before? What were they?
I've had a lot of them. Had one last night where I was at a local business (well, in the dream it was -- the location wasn't one I recognize as being local) and some people were playing chess. Come to find out it was another club in our town that I didn't know about. They called themselves the Silent Knights Chess Club 
Wow. Thanks for the great replies, folks! 
Very interesting how our social contexts and environments influence our dreams.
I often wake up in the middle of the night thinking about one or more of my current games, usually one that I'm having trouble with.
Sometimes I wake up with the solution to one of those problems. unfortunately not as often as I would like.LOL
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Boogalicious wrote:
Have you had chess dreams before? What were they?
I've had a lot of them. Had one last night where I was at a local business (well, in the dream it was -- the location wasn't one I recognize as being local) and some people were playing chess. Come to find out it was another club in our town that I didn't know about. They called themselves the Silent Knights Chess Club
You forgot to pay me $20 in club dues.
Does a dream about a younger Judit Polgar wearing a bathing suit count as a "chess dream"?
SilentKnighte5 wrote:
Does a dream about a younger Judit Polgar wearing a bathing suit count as a "chess dream"?
Definitely!
Once I dreamed of odd shapes, some overlapping, but each represented a chess piece, and although there was no board, their interactions were the same as chess pieces on a board, and I was looking at actual lines of logic (analyzing a position) although the imagery was nothing like a chess board.
Of course I've also dreamed of positions. Not full 64 squares and all that it entails, but smaller groups of pieces and their interactions.
Usually when I would move a piece to resolve one problem, another piece would appear on a different square to pose a new problem, and I'd have to re-maneuver and reposition endlessly. In the same topic (chess and dreams) chess.com member Etragon said it well once, IIRC: "the ever increasing thicket"
Once I had a dream like this while I had a fever. The bishops kept being repositioned, and then trapped, and needing more maneuvers. As I slowly rose to consciousness I realized I was moving my arms and legs, and I woke up to find myself tangled in the blankets
Haven't had one in a while though. This was back when I was doing tactical puzzles 1-2 hours a day for a few months.
I had several, the last one just barely one week ago. It was a 960 game and I noticed my opponent had just hung his Queen, so I was overflowing with joy. Then I saw that, while I could just take his piece the next move, I also had the option to force-mate him/her in many different ways, so I began calculating and more and more mate sequences popped up, so that I had to decide which one to go for. I couldn't believe my opponent was playing so bad! Shortly before the dream ended and I slipped into unconciousness again, I thought to myself: "I missed that chance! If only I had taken his queen!"
Before waking this morning, I was dreaming of a tactical middlegame position and my dream (however long it was) was basically the process of threat checking and calculating different forcing lines.
Have you had chess dreams before? What were they?
I know from when I have learned foreign languages that usually it is a good sign to start dreaming in the language, as it's a sure indication of subconscious absorption. Is this similar with chess? Thanks.