I've had hooping dreams in which I'm performing a move that I really can't do in real life... and it's all in slow motion and totally clear to me and smooth and beautiful. Sometimes I'll wake up so excited, thinking "of course I can do that!" and I'll jump out of bed and grab my hoop and try.... and still can't do it in real life. Hehe.
Never had the melting hoop dream though. Sounds awful!

Funny you mention this... I have ridiculously vivid dreams and remember a lot of them. I rarely have dreams where it's a blissful hooping session - it's only been in the past 6 months that I have been dreaming about hooping at all (normally my dreams are all about competitive swimming or rock climbing, if I am active in them).

I have been having the same hoop dream over and over for a few months: I am at a school with children and with my boyfriend, organizing some sort of performance or just casual hooping with the kids. We are always outside and near a swingset. I have no more than 3-5 hoops with me, and as I go to pick them up I see that they are all bent or somehow not useable. I am trying to use them and they either melt to a lopsided shape or look like a pentagon or triangle - no roundness, no support, whatsoever. I can feel the weight of the kid's anticipation around me and know I will let them all down with my broken hoops/inability to play. The dream always ends just before I have to announce we can't play with the broken hoops.

Do you notice any pattern to when you are having your good dreams verses this melting one? In terms of what external events in your life are going on? I have noticed that my dream seems to come into my sleep more when in my conscious life things are GREAT with the hoop. I am very aware of my fear of "screwing up" or letting people down...as well as my body's reisistance to being comfortable. I will often have dreams very opposite of how I am feeling when awake, almost like my subconscious is looking for a way to be comfortable in being uncomfortable....if that makes sense. It's taking time to convince all of my body and mind that being happy and healthy is not threatening and actually a very good thing.

Side note - last night I had another dream that i was hooping blindfolded, but when I took off the blindfold at the end of my dance I realized I had forgotten my hoop. Strange...

hooping is always in my dreams. sometimes it's the main thing the dream is about, or it just randomly pops into otherwise non-hooping related dreams

Funny that you mention this subject...

My hoop dreams have been evolving. The first one I ever had, I dreamed that I was seeing Sound Tribe Sector Nine, and then one of my favorite songs came on and a lightbulb went on that said, "go get your hoops! now!" So I rushed home and magically made it back in 2 or 3 seconds with hoops, but as soon as I started hooping with them, they turned into ovals, triangles, squares, and other weird shapes. I couldn't hoop, and then my favorite song was over.

Then, I started being able to hoop in dreams. And now, I have visions that my hoops is made of pure white light while hoop-dreaming (I often get this image while blindfolded hooping too).

So keep at it! You'll get it!! Just like in real life.

I've dreamed about hooping a few times - almost every night at the Hoop Convergence - but I just had my most amazing hoop dream last night! I was climbing Mount Everest with a bunch of people (including sweet little Sierra, Rebecca's 5-year old hooping daughter that was on the Ellen show) and I realized that i hadn't brought my hoop along. Just then my husband, Kevin, pulls up in a car (on top of Mount Everest!!!) and offers everyone who is trekking a ride. Someone tells him there's no parking at the top and that he should get out and walk like the rest of us, and he starts looking for a place to park the car. I realize that we are right next to a fenced in area where someone has stashed a bunch of hoops! I squeeze through the fence and grab three of them for the people I'm hiking with. We start making our way to the top again, overjoyed at the thought of hooping on the top of Mount Everest! Unfortunately, I wake up before we actually get there, but I wake up feeling exhilarated.
Maybe next time, I'll actually make to the top and hoop!

In the early months of my hooping, my husband told me I hoop in my sleep: one night he saw me shift my weight back and forth around my hips and mid-section, and he just *knew* I wasn't dreaming about him. ; }

I've enjoyed many wonderful dreams since I began hooping, but this is by far my most memorable and funniest dream related experience!