Dreaming of Tenpins
tenpins, bowling, bowling alley, skittles · mostly negative
Tenpins warn against frivolous pleasures that cost you reputation and friendships.
What happens in the dream
- You play tenpins: an affair that damages your name, your money and your friendships
- Others play: you enjoy frivolous company and risk your job
- You win a game: light pleasures, followed by sorrow
How you felt
- A wish for lightness: needing to unwind
- Guilt: fear of neglecting what matters
Ask yourself
- Do my pastimes recharge me or scatter me?
- What risk am I downplaying?
See also Ten-Pins · Quoits · Billiards
Source: G. H. Miller, Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or What's in a Dream (1901). Also searched as: bowling, bowling alley, skittles.