Do you see chess in your sleep

Ok this is kinda random but I was wondering if this happens to anyone else.

Since I started playing chess more often, whenever I go to bed and close my eyes, a chess game starts going on in my head. And like I'm still awake, so it makes it hard to sleep because my brain is "playing" the game in my head, so I'm thinking about the best moves. It's weird because I can't make it go away and can't stop thinking about it when I close my eyes, it's stressful and keeps me up.

The same thing happened to me when I used to play tetris a lot, whenever I closed my eyes a tetris game was going on and I couldn't get it out of my head, it would keep me up for ages.

Aaaand also when I was studying a lot for exams, when I closed my eyes all I could see and hear was about what I studied. My mind constantly repeated laws in calculus and whatnot and I couldn't sleep.

So... does this happen to anyone else with chess?? Maybe it's not that bad, since it's kinda practicing chess in my brain. :P

haha yea I use to dream of Chess all the time Finding the best moves Etc...Lately I haven't been though

Haha... yes! But my exp is different.. after I started playing too often, I see a game with 3 to 4 moves already made on it.. and thinking about the best move when I am about to sleep.. and when I woke up, I see the same position with the same pending move. AMD it is frustrating too! it may not look like problematic to the listener.. but it really is.

It has become a notable motif in my dreams, yes.

I think it's normal to have real life experiences affecting one's dreams somehow.

My sleep cycle is nothing more than an eventless dip in the black void of nonexistence. There's a chess set there, but it's missing a rook.

Yes! Earlier this year after I cut back heavily on chess, instead of chess challenges going on in my sleep I would instead be faced with some retarded challenge like stacking hexagons. I felt I was losing my brains or maybe going senile unless I had something intellectually stimulating going on in my life that carried over into my dreams. So I went back to my daily chess activities, and the chess dreams are back, so I'm a happy man. I guess.

Only once, but it was a nightmare. I had to defend checkmate in every move. I woke up alot during that night, and it didn't stop. I hope that won't happen again, bcs it was very annoying!

Yes, I have them.

Random patterns will pop into my head, which I will sometimes tweak or calculate into little problems like Huey posted.

Usually they're not refined enough to be very good puzzles lol. Or sometimes the solution may be wrong, etc.

AFAIK it's common when you spend a lot of time thinking about something for it to become images and thoughts before/during/after sleep.

But unwanted thoughts that cause anxiety / sleep loss sound like something else.

Often when studying, I would also repeat information in my head. But after 1 or 2 times, my mind would be quiet, I'd roll over, and fall asleep.

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How about my own question? Once I was getting 3 to 5 hours of sleep a night for about a month. Interestingly, during that last week, 1 hour after falling asleep I'd jerk awake as if I'd just heard a loud noise, and I'd feel like I hadn't rested AT ALL (it felt like I was tense the whole time or something). Then I'd fall asleep "for real" and get some rest for the next few hours.

I wonder what that was about.

Uh oh. You have sleep apnea, no joke. It's an extremely subtle problem because it strikes exactly when you are unconscious, which means you generally have no recollection of yourself waking up as much as you really are, or of what caused you to wake up. Sometimes the event causing the waking incident is believed to be coming from an electronic beep (like from a cell phone or smoke alarm) that never actually occured, or sometimes an event in a dream seems to be what caused the waking incident, but the reality is that is just the unconscious mind being unable to detect the breathing blockage that is what actually woke up the patient. It is caused usually from getting older and the throat getting softer, which blocks the breathing passages and wakes a person up, and it is also more common in overweight people because of the same blockage. It also happens sometimes with a sore throat. A guy at work first told me about it, then at my next job I came across another guy who had it. He had to sleep upright with a CPAP on, every night. Sometimes it can be cured by merely losing weight or sleeping on one's side, but if those don't work then the afflicted person will have to sleep with a CPAP. It sounds like a harmless affliction but it can be debilitating and quite dangerous, especially when driving while too tired to make good, fast judgments.

Hmm, interesting. My dad has sleep apnea and sometimes sleeps with a CPAP (he's supposed to always use it).

I'm not overweight (according to a quick google search at least lol), but I've had other sleeping problem in the past. I'm not waking up like that anymore... but it's definitely something to keep in mind... unfortunately.

Maybe weed will help with that.

pigas... please listen to me... never ever download Candy Crush Saga

I was playing a tournament and I had a winning position with a mate coming but a few minutes on my clock,I cannot figure out the checkmate and my time run out and I lose the game.Later I go to sleep and start to dream about the game,I wake up at 3am jumping in my bed and I see the checkmate in my head dreaming,I went to my kitchen put the position on the board and I can make the moves easily

finally we understand the carlsen strategy.

Play chess less. Sleep deprivation cause health problems. Enjoy other hobby.

I used to have that problem, only there were no edge to the board. It drove me nuts till I did board memorization up to a point. Now it is mostly fixed, though the memorization helps calculation

Nice! After White's first move Black has two alternatives, both resulting in White mating by underpromotion. 

No. I only see important things in my sleep.