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To still believe I can actually fly?

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LilyPinkNoah · 04/02/2020 22:59

Ok this is going to sound weird.

I have these memories and I’m convinced they are not dreams - I know maybe they are or it’s just utter madness but what does it mean?

I feel like I have real memories of being a child and physically flying - I would make this feeling in my tummy (this is in my memory) this memory would life me and I would fly down the stairs- I would also fly in our old lounge by once again creating this feeling.

Now I KNOW (or do I know) that of course I didn’t fly - but I genuinely feel like these memories of flying are so real.

Does anyone know what it means? I literally feel like I’ve flown.

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Lifeonmars77 · 04/02/2020 23:21

It could be a real memory from a previous life... maybe you were a bird!

I often dream that I can fly. There is another one too that occurs quite frequently, where I can breathe underwater.

Aquamarine1029 · 04/02/2020 23:22

Jump off the roof. You'll soon have your answer.

fastliving · 04/02/2020 23:24

Everyone has these dreams...most us know they are dreams not memories though! Grin

DuchessMinnie · 04/02/2020 23:25

This is so weird. I remember being so frustrated that I couldn't walk in my dreams. When I was asleep I used to "visit" places- my school, my gran's house, the park etc and I would fly everywhere. I tried putting my feet down but I never could. The dreams were sooo vivid too- I remember flying into my school hall and going to the top of the apparatus and looking out of the windows at the top of the hall. There is no way I'd have done that when awake, I was only 4 or 5. All of a sudden it stopped and I've never flown or had those dreams again. So weird to hear that other people had the same thing.

Rubyupbeat · 04/02/2020 23:30

Could it be out of body experience? It's not happened to me, but maybe it is possible?

Cactuar · 04/02/2020 23:30

Surely these are just lucid dreams. I am very lucky (or not because I think it stems from anxiety and from me not being a great sleeper) but I have a lot of very lucid very vivid dreams (i.e. almost every night) and as soon as I realise I am dreaming I choose to fly because it is awesome Grin

Hugtheduggee · 04/02/2020 23:33

For me, it's not so much flying, but being able to jump really long, and then prrtty much hovering/gliding once up. I hate the sinking feeling I get on my tummy when I come down though.

I know it's not a memory, but it feels so real.

anappleadaykeeps · 04/02/2020 23:40

I have these memories too! Flying in my memories was lovely and so relaxing. Like swimming, but without worrying about coming up for air.

Stinkycatbreath · 04/02/2020 23:44

I did feel like I was lifting off once. I did a long jump in primary school and it was the 1980s so I was wearing my sandles too. Proper little white ones nothing like trainers and as I ran my feet left the floor and without any effort I sailed over the sandpit and across to the grass on the other side. I still held the record eight years after the event beating all the older kids I was only 5.
My mum saw it all and remarked that i flew.

dontgobaconmyheart · 04/02/2020 23:46

I mean...it isn't real OP so I'm not sure it 'means' anything. I had the same thing as a child and remember it vividly but also am a lucid dreamer (which I despise) so assume it's a variation on that. Did you have a nice childhood?

Posters hilariously telling OP to jump down the stairs/off of things- are you always dickheads, or just online?

MoreThanJustANumber · 04/02/2020 23:51

Interesting, didn't realise it was so common. For me I normally have to start by running in slow motion and then sort of clench my stomach and I take off. Most of the time I'm outside and I have to be careful not to go up too high or I feel really sick if I come down too fast. Occasionally I'm indoors and 'swoop' down the stairs.
I know I'm dreaming but it feels so real, the wind in my hair and the sick feeling when I come down to earth too quickly. Often feel a bit sad to wake up and realise I've actually got to walk somewhere rather than fly.

MeOnSea · 04/02/2020 23:53

I was convinced I could float as a child, though never graduated to full-on flying, apart from in dreams. The floating would always happen in a particular room in my house, often with the sun streaming in and those little dust floaters whizzing around. I would half close my eyes, really concentrate and I’d be slightly above the ground, not very high at all. All it would take would be for someone to walk in the room and I’d ‘snap’ back to the ground. Felt so wonderful, whatever it was!

LayAllYourLoveOnMe · 04/02/2020 23:56

I think my flying dreams were the highlight of my life. They beat both hang gliding and reality hands down...

Stressheadme123 · 04/02/2020 23:58

Can’t believe what I mean reading.
I thought I was a weirdo. I had one of these memories as a child , of standing at the top of the stairs, bending my knees, wobbles in my tummy and just jump floating to the bottom, and being so satisfied that I landed it.
USed to always remember it and think, did we pad the bottom landing out and actually practice jumping as kids.. or is it a dream?
But it doesn’t feel like a dream!

So surprised other people have this. I’m away to read that link

lalafafa · 05/02/2020 00:00

My best dreams are when I’m flying, just jumping up and flying about 6ft from the ground.

Roodledoodlenoodle · 05/02/2020 00:01

Yes I have a ‘memory’ of flying across the landing into my parents bedroom then back out across it again to my bed when I was very little. It felt very real.

I’m sure there’s a thing where people believe they have ‘out of body’ experiences and can even train their mind to ‘leave’ their body and move around freely. I remember reading in a dodgy true life magazine some people who claimed to go ‘flying’ most nights, outside their home etc.

namechangingtime · 05/02/2020 00:03

You've all now made me question my flying experience 😂 when I was about four or five I dressed up as a superhero who could fly, became obsessed and one day jumped from my top bunk to the windowsill, only a few feet but I was always amazed at how I'd managed to not hit my head on the wall above the window or simply go flying through the window and meet my end. I've always been certain I completed this jump, I remember shutting my eyes and being shocked when I landed on the sill, in a crouching position. Quite sad to consider it probably didn't happen

usernames · 05/02/2020 00:07

My mother, sister and myself all have the same feeling. I know I flew down the stairs a lot when I was younger and so do my family for themselves!

Chickydoo · 05/02/2020 00:07

How strange
I thought I was special and it was just me. I remember on a windy day, opening my arms wide and just floating. It was glorious! I landed gently, I kind of knew it was special. I was probably 6 or 7.
I tried flying a few years later, fell off a wall and broke my arm.

Dillydallyontheway · 05/02/2020 00:21

Fascinating reading this! I also have very vivid memories of floating down stairs. Obviously know it couldn’t have been real but it really felt like it was. Nothing like a typical dream. I never realised this was so common!

theflushedzebra · 05/02/2020 00:29

I'm jealous - lots of people I know talk about flying dreams, but I never had them.

I have vivid dreams - falling, running in treacle, drowning, back at school, oversleeping/late dreams Confused wonder what that says about my brain!

I do have bloody weird lucid dreams though, where I'm somewhere else, but can't see properly, but I'm across the room, or walked downstairs or something. I;ve heard it said that these are astral projection. I'd love to be able to fly in my dreams.

JunkshopLil · 05/02/2020 00:29

I used to have such vivid flying dreams, but I haven't had one for years. Is that telling me something?

With mine there was no swooping downstairs, it was always vertical take off. I'd flap my arms and slowly climb straight up. Then I could stay up just a few feet off the ground but I had to keep the arms going - sort of hovering.

But I also had dreams of soaring through the skies and seeing my hometown all laid out below me like a patchwork. Incredibly detailed and accurate.

Dreams like these were a regular occurrence, but alas, not any more.

NetballHoop · 05/02/2020 00:31

I don't fly in my dreams.

I bounce.

The bounces can be small or can leap oceans but no matter the distance they always have a feeling that they are building up to some special purpose or destiny.

I am always in a good mood after this dream.

TW2013 · 05/02/2020 00:36

I often had this feeling when the children were little and I was sleep deprived. It was great being able to push up off the ground and swoop around the sitting room. The dc all have had such dreams too. Dh is firmly grounded though! Hope I can fly in my sleep tonight.

BlythesEyes · 05/02/2020 00:36

@Hugtheduggee omg I also jump looooong steps and almost hover like I'm on that board from back to the future.
It's so real..I'm convinced that I can actually do it if I tried.
I thought was just me Shock