I seem to have a reoccurring dream that I can just lift myself off the ground and fly high above everyone. It is magical and feels spectacular in my dreams. It is so real!I hate it when I awken from this dream. I see myself looking down into my old neighborhood and house, almost as if I am in another time after my family is long gone. I have had it over and over! Does anyone have any idea what this could mean??

Thanks!

Annabel Lee

Hi Annabel Lee! Is there anymore details you can remember from you dream?? I looked up "flying" in my dream dictionary and this is what it says:

Flying. This is one dream symbol on which practically every source from Artemidorus on down agrees. It represents the dreamer's basic amibition, but the interpretation of flying (like a bird) is modified by details of the flight and it's conditions, so the surroundings, weather, ect., must be correlated with the action, but as a general guide: If you successfully maintained your flight at a low meduim height, you can expect to achieve your goal without much difficulty. If you were trying (or straining) to reach a high altitude, the dream is telling you that your grasp is greater than your reach and you would be wise to alter your course.

I hear of a lot of people dreaming that they're flying... I think it's one of the most common dreams! I have dreamt of flying before but I always crash lol! Then I'm jolted awake and it's no good haha...

Was your dream vivid, and did you ever realize you where dreaming?

It always seems vivid, and I can actually FEEL myself lifting off the ground. Sometimes in the Dream, I have to really work at lifting off, but the times I lift off with ease, it is so exhilerating, once I am in the air. I always remember hating to come down.

Annabel Lee

From what I've learned flying in dreams is symbolic of wanting to escape from something in your life. Being on the ground you are basically stuck in whatever situation exists. Being able to fly away you can get away from what bothers or hurts you.
Of course each type of dream isn't pat in its meaning. That is not all flying dreams mean one thing in particular.
Like flying only at low hights often means that even though you try you feel you are trapped and cannot escape. A sense of powerlessness against the forces that beset you.
The ones that you fly high and free very often are symbolic of you just needing to break free of the problems in life for at least a little while. Take a break.
They all tie into the basic theme but have different meanings as to why you have them and what they indicate you need.

I've had them all. =) From dragging on the ground to flying inter-dimensionally. I once flew from France to New York via ME airlines in under a minute. (no inflight movie or peanuts ).

If you don't mind me saying so, from what you describe you have an issue with your family and family life. Often the dreams where you are in the future are very similar to the flying dreams. You have escaped not in space but in time. The thing that bothered you now belongs to the past and doesn't exist. Same as being in the air, the problem exists on the ground.

Hi nakis!
I am open to any opinions and advice anyone wishes to give! That is why I am here, and may I say how insightful you are! I fear that I do have some deep seated family issues. My mom married my dad at 15 Y.O.,to get away from an abusive environment. He was 21 Y.O., and had a chronic illness called Hemaphelia, where you can have massive or minor internal bleeding and you require transfusions to help clot your blood.He wasn't supposed to live passed 25. My mom, over the years, grew to resent my dad's illness, because, she, being outgoing, much of the time ended up staying at home caring for my sick dad. I can remember all the hundreds of hospital trips to get my dad stabilized. I spent many nights in the ER waiting for dad to get blood.I even learned to give my dad his transfusions at home. Many of our vacations were cut short or cancelled altogether because he got sick and his pain was agonizing to watch! My mom reminded me often, how I'd better be good to dad, because he may not be around much longer! I would sit in class as a child worrying myself sick that my dad would die before I could get home. Then I found that I was, and am, a "carrier" of this disease.I could actually have a son with this disease. (which is why I have no children today.) Between my mom's bitterness with her life with my dad, her lack of affection due to her abusive childhood, and my feeling almost A PART of my dad's illness, AND the constant worry-I ended up having a very stressful and unhappy childhood. Not to mention, I inherited OCD(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and anxiety) It wasn't til only about 10 years ago that I got on Paxil, and thank God I am living a fairly happy and peaceful life. My dad passed on about 5 years ago, and mom married his best friend. She doesn't like to talk about my dad, so I keep my memories to myself. I guess when I am flying, I don't have to deal with, or remember the hurt. Much as I try not to-I think I find myself feeling angry toward my mom for her negative feelings toward my dad. She must have been miserable, but that was MY dad. Why didn't she keep it to herself or tell a friend? Also mom was very controlling, since she had little in her own life. I think flying gives me and my bad memories a break. I love my mom-but not sure I have always liked her.Though this is all in the past, I am not sure I have rid myself of the deep-seated resentments,and the trauma. My flying dreams may have other meanings as well-but I think you hit it right on target nakis! Thanks for the response and I apologize for this long explanation, but I suddenly felt compelled to talk about it.

Annabel Lee

=) Don't worry about being long winded. You'll notice we all pretty much make a long post at least once in a while.

Thanks for sharing that with us.

Sorry about your Dad. Sounds like he had a tough life.
Have you seen a doctor about your chances of passing on hemophelia?

Just one more thing about flying dreams. Even though they may be about issues from the past usually they are about things that are happening now. Just something to think about.
They could just be about emotions rising in you about the past so they are effecting you in the now.

Nakis,
When I was in my teens (I am 45 now) I went to a doctor and a genetic councelor about my being a carrier. Hemaphelia is a genetic disease which means the daughters of a hemaphiliac will more than likely have a son with the disease. My daughters if I had any might also be carriers. I decided early on not to have children so I can stop the chain. Sons of a hemaphiliac don't have the disese nor do they pass it on. Therefore it skips a generation. Anyway-hope that explains a little.

Thank you again on your views about dreaming of flying. You are very gifted and perceptive! take care!

Annabel Lee

Just a couple of comments before I add to the thoughts of others regarding dreams where you fly.

Annabel Lee as Nakis has said no worries on being long winded as we all have some longer posts. I think I am in the running for Queen of long posts. I just believe sometimes it is those extra little details that can give others a true idea of what the situation is etc.

I too am sorry about your Dad and to hear of the difficulties you faced in your childhood. Although at times it does not seem like it but the challenges we face in life do make us stronger so hold on to that.

I agree with Nakis that not all flying dreams are the same and they can be symbolic in that we are flying free of our troubles. However I will add an extended thought to that. If we believe that there is life on the otherside, that this is our learning ground for when we return home then we know our souls can journey. With that said I believe most flying dreams (especialy very real ones) are actualy OBE's. I think we all journey more often than we realize. Flying about, away from that which concerns or ails us in our waking life while we sleep makes perfect sense to me. Our souls fly free on the other side and when we need to be close to our true home and away from the zoo of life here we fly. That is why flying dreams can feel so great.

On flying low and high and what they are symbolic of: well perhaps the low ones even though they feel like you can't escape are the ones that we are close to conquering in waking life and when we fly high we are flying above that which we cannot change or re-live from the past? And, it may just simply be we can't leave as easily sometimes or when we really need it most we are out of here. =)

I know when I fly in my dreams I love it as well. It feels so free and right. I too have had those that I can run and jump and I am up and away. I find those happen when I am dealing with much in life and by soaring up and away it reminds me this is only for now for me to learn and one day when I return to my true home I will always be free to fly. They give me strength to go on and face what I need to - it is a pressure valve of sorts.

On a seperate topic I noticed your sig with a Jim Morrison quote. I saw the new Doors of the 21st century (with Ian Astbury) this weekend - it was great. They did an amazing job and I'll bet Jim was right there with them.

Thank you Cat! Your flying experiences sound like mine! I appreciate the positive comments on my dad's illness and death, and my childhood! It helps me put things into perspective. I needed that. It's been a long time ago, but some things you can't just cast away from your memory.

And I picked that quote from "JIM" because I think I can relate to him. He always had a curiosity for what's on the other side, and he was very poetic and very misunderstood. And he's right-no one gets out of this world alive. That is another reason I am so interested in life after death. I need to know that we do somehow go on. (I believe in God, and the bible-but to be able to have proof, would be awesome!)Thanks Cat, for your view on things!

Annabel Lee

I've had dreams of flying several times. Here's some food for thought. I was reading awhile back in Sylvia Browne's book Visits from the Afterlife. In one part she talks about astral projecting. She says that our spirit sometimes leaves our body during sleep, as a way of "rejuvenating." We can travel where ever we want to, and sometimes even go "home" (meaning heaven or where ever our souls originate) for a quick visit. She says, it refreshes our spirits because we get so bogged down in our physical bodies with the stress of this life. Once, I thought about it, I remembered seeing a close friend of mine in his home, and then sitting by a creek we used to play in as kids. (I flew to these places in my dream.) When I woke up, my feet were cold and clammy, like I had been outside in the grass when it has dew on it, or had dabbled them in a creek. It could have been psychosomatic from the dream... or perhaps I astral projected? Who knows? Just something to think about. =)

[ August 08, 2004, 04:13 AM: Message edited by: SavannahSilkie ]

I *love* flying dreams. Every night when I go to bed I hope and pray that I'll have a flying dream, but alas, they are a rare treat for me. Usually I only fly in lucid dreams, since when I'm lucid, I'm aware that I'm dreaming, and then I try flying. And I usually only have lucid dreams if I'm having trouble sleeping.

As for astral travel, I don't know if I ever do that or not. Sure, some of my dreams are more vivid than others, but they all seem to be of the normal type of dream (which I refer to my brain defragmenting its files) =)

When SavannahSilkie mentioned going "home" during dreams, it occurred to me that many of my dreams take place in a location that resembles, but isn't always exactly like, the house I grew up in. It's as if my mind remembers growing up there, but makes creative changes to the location. Maybe it's my future home on the other side? That would be cool.

Savannah I too have read SB's book on the Afterlife (a great read)and had the pleasure of attending her Afterlife seminar not long ago. Other material I have read by other known psychics/mediums have mentioned the same thing (or something similar). As mentioned in my previous comments it makes perfect sense to me. The more I have thought about it the more I believe that flying dreams are OBE's.

What a great dream you had there. Since you were flying in it I'll bet it was an astral travel and the feeling on your feet was a result of that vs. something psychosomatic. =)

Kevin I think we all do it way more then we realize. Some ppl even know how to control it - now that would be cool.

I have to be honest. I don't think I've ever had a dream where I was flying or have ever had an OBE, that I know of or realize anyway. Not that I don't believe that they can happen because I most certainly do.

I do have very vivid dreams, but most of the time they are, as Kevin put it, just your normal run of the mill dreams.

Annabel, what Nakis has said about your dream makes so much sense. And from your response it seems that you do have memories/emotions that you are in wanted need to get away from.(((Hugz))) It sounds like you had a pretty rough childhood. I can semi relate to how your Mother was (my Mother came from an abusive childhood as well) and it's definitely not an easy thing to deal with when your a child. I have to agree with Cat though, it's those life experiences that make us stronger!

I wouldn't rule out completely that you may be having an OBE or some form of astral projection though. Like I said, I've never had an experience like that myself...so it's so hard for me to say.

Your flying dreams sound like they are wonderful ones, A great escape from the day to day. Hmmmm....after all this talk of dreaming of flying....I wish I would have one now. Maybe if I concentrate on it before going to bed.