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Figure this one out... every once in a while, I have this dream where I can fly... However, I seem to not have very good control of it. I can navigate left and right, but it seems very hard to decend, almost impossible. Finally, I end up being able to come down.......

I dont know what this relates to..... and I dont think I have had one of these in a while...


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I used to  have those dreams a few years ago, unfortunately I think I put on too much weight to dare to fly now lol.  d'oh!

You remember how you got into the air in the first place? I do. I used to run like mad then slowly lifted still using my legs as if I was running, I get down  Question   Question    Question   while I was up there I had to let my legs do the running otherwise I'd plummet down.( I was diagnosed with restless legs on my sleepstudy). Laughing

The worst I ever dreamed is standing on top of a high building and the only way down was by jumping.  I keep falling and falling, scared to be hurt, then I wake up.  Confused


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Actually, I am trying to jump or something, and I end up just taking off..... Sometimes power lines are involved, and I have to try to avoid them...

I've had the free falling thing.... I usually jump out of bed when I wake up from those......

Once while free falling, I kept saying in my "mind" that I was an airplane..... I ended up "landing" safely, like a plane, in some tall grass.


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Actually, Sigmund Frued said that dreams of flying were fears of sexual failures. Laughing   Of course he was a coke addict and probably didn't sleep anyways. Razz


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I am NOT A failure sexually or otherwise except not being a bird, I never managed that.
And that is my reason for dreaming I can fly. Shame on you  Freud didn't know everything,so there. Boo hoo!  
 
When my hubby died in 2000 he came to me in my dream. I was pushing him in a wheelchair to where he directed me to go,which was a serene grassed area all but hidden away from everywhere by surrounding lush trees, he told me then that it was the place where he stayed now. I woke up and felt very peaceful.

He still comes to the house and switches my bedside lamps on. My partner gets quite spooked by it. Especially when it happened one night at 3.10am. The lights come on quite often since he's  gone. We also get cigarette smoke smells. That's what killed him and he insists on keeping on smoking in my bathroom. Mad

I am not mad believe me. My daughter experienced the bathroom episodes with me. But this
is getting off the subject,and I am sure has nothing to do with flying in ones dream. Rolling Eyes

Maybe I don't fly in my dreams anymore because I now suffer with VERTIGO


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From what I understand, most dreams aren't overly difficult to discern a meaning from.  
[Freud and others put perhaps a little too much thought into it - besides, most of their subjects were studied because they already had underlying problems.]

Your brain tries to rationalize things like "mood", so the dream where you're naked and people are laughing is often considered a feeling of being vulnerability and fear.

Flying could be a feeling of freedom and domination (like how you can look at the ground, and everything else looks smaller than you).  Or else it could just be your way of rationalizing the turbine-like whirring of the CPAP.

But that's just my take on it.  :)


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I like to say the fraud of Freud.  As Midnight Rider says he was a coke addict.  I will add as a psych major I have found most of his theories had more to do with his problems than any one elses....but I digress.
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Flight Dreams

Flying dreams are usually lucid dreams.

If you are flying with ease and enjoying the scene and landscape below, then it suggests that you are on top of a situation. You have risen above something. It may also mean that you have gained a different perspective on things. Flying dreams and the ability to control your flight is representative of your own personal sense of power.

Having difficulties staying in flight indicates a lack of power in controlling your own circumstances. You may be struggling to stay aloft and stay on course. Things like power lines, trees, or mountains may further obstruct your flight. These barriers represent a particular obstacle or person who is standing in your way in your waking life. You need to identify who or what is hindering you from moving forward.

If you are feeling fear when you are flying or that you feel that you are flying too high, then it suggests that you are afraid of challenges and of success.

In reality, we do not have the ability to fly. Thus such dreams may represent that which is beyond our physical limitations. In your mind, you can be anybody and do anything. Another way of interpreting flying dreams is that these dreams symbolize your strong mind and will. You feel undefeatable and nobody can tell you what you cannot do and accomplish. Undoubtedly these dreams leave you a great sense of freedom.
  

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Jean,

Your quote is so close to what I was going to say...  but I'm going to say it anyway!  Wink

When I've had dreams where I can fly, it's usually not something I'm good at controlling, which is exactly what I'm feeling in my life at that time.  Often I've had dreams where I'm trying to fly, I know I can, but I can only get a couple feet off the ground and mostly I have to work really hard to lift my feet up so I don't touch the ground while I "fly."  I wish I could have one of those dreams where I fly around like a superhero and enjoy it, but it's more like trying to control and handle something that feels much bigger than I can.

Power and control in my life are big issues for me, unfortunately.

My four cents.

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I have exactly the same dreams where I run along and then try to lift my feet up and stay in the air.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.


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I have flying dreams as well and I am way to heavy to fly.  Mine usually have me actually flying using my arms more like wings and I am staying just above something perilous, staying just out of reach of some danger (this seems self explanatory) at other times I am kind of showing off to others that I can actually FLY!!! I am not sure of the meaning of that one.  I think that one is more of a dream on my part! LOL

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