For some reason, every now and then I have dreams about those two things, rivers and competitions. They’re pretty much synonymous with each other but haven’t happened often enough for me to figure out more about them. Do you have any ideas on their significance? Sometimes I win the competitions, sometimes the dream changes before there is a winner.
Thanks. 
Maybe your mind is like a fish trying to go back to his ancestral birth place. Maybe you want to go back to something you did that you realised was wrong. Something so terrible that you need to win to forget about it. Trying to avoid the problem… by wining imaginary competitions.
Now that would be my guess. But a guess is just a guess. Hope it helped ! 
Ame! you are in one of the most competitive activities there is!
You are competing for good grades at college. Perhaps that is spilling over into your dream life some?
That’s possible, Seeker. It’s interesting because I’m used to being, for the most part, at the top of the class, and in at least one of my classes I’m currently trying to catch up with everyone else.
Thanks And Inverted (I’m not big on l337 
), I’ll consider that, too.