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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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SorryDidISayThatOutLoud · 05/02/2020 00:58

Okay, you need to google Astral Travel. That might be what you've been experiencing.......

FoxRedBitch · 05/02/2020 07:20

I don't ever feel that I have flown but sometimes I get this feeling that something is just about to explode next to me. Always from the right side.

I wonder if I was in some kind of explosion in my former life and that is how I died.

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LilyPinkNoah · 05/02/2020 07:20

Wow! Sadly I didn’t fly last night - I haven’t ‘flown’ since I was a childhood.

I think I had a good childhood - from the age of 0-10 certainly I was loved. After that age my father became a heavy drinker and my brother and I grew up pretty quick.

I totally convinced myself I had simply grown out of being able to fly. Looks like we all good as children (in our dreams anyway).

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Bluerussian · 05/02/2020 07:22

I have had dreams in which I'm flying, they seemed real enough at the time but I know I can't fly.

Megan2018 · 05/02/2020 07:26

I have flown a lot in dreams, its a marvellous feeling. I can feel it now.
My flying is like swimming though, a sort of slow breaststroke!

Peapod29 · 05/02/2020 07:27

I have a ‘memory’ that I saw a miniature mermaid in a tank at an aquarium and also that I drove past the Eiffel tower in a taxi with my parents. I know as an adult that neither of these things ever happened but they feel so real like memories not dreams. I think this is a phenomenon, I remember a teacher of mine saying he had one that a cow bit his hand badly but it never happened. They must be very vivid dreams that stay with you.

needmoresleep1 · 05/02/2020 07:27

Omg I've had this!!! I think mine must have been a daydream as I'd actually be in the living room! I must have been around 4 years old!

Inforthelonghaul · 05/02/2020 07:27

When I was a child a lot of my dreams were about flying but they were never pleasurable dreams. I was always trying to get away from someone or something and the fear I wouldn’t escape was awful.
I didn’t have a particularly happy childhood though and I’m very happy that as I’ve got older my feet stay firmly planted in my dreams. Life is so different now to how I imagined it would be as a child that I’ve no desire to escape or get away any more.
All that said, I was also convinced that I could cartwheel down any staircase and that was so vivid that many a time I’ve stood at the top of the staircase pondering the actual physics. Thankfully I’ve never actually tried it because I suspect my cartwheeling days are long gone in any case.

Aulwan · 05/02/2020 07:34

You should read this book! Gravity Is the Thing www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0062883739/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_M-MoEbA5F4HE1

Thetellyisjelly · 05/02/2020 07:36

Omg SAME! And in all my dreams, every single night.

Baboomtsk · 05/02/2020 07:42

Interesting.

I didn't steal of flying as a child but did later as a young adult. I also had very living dreams of running at high speeds on all fours like a cheetah.

As a child I often dreamt of falling from the top of the stairs though.

Baboomtsk · 05/02/2020 07:43

*dream not steal, lucid not living

Minibea · 05/02/2020 07:46

Another one who also had this exact feeling. I still get it sometimes in dreams and have that moment when I wake that makes me think it was real. Had no idea it was so common- I’ve mentioned it to DH before and he’s looked at me like I’m mad!

DisasterMagnet · 05/02/2020 07:47

I can fly in my dreams. So real. The swooping feeling, shifting on air currents, it’s almost as if I could do it if only I could remember how to start...

MaxPanic · 05/02/2020 07:51

I have had the flying dreams, but more common for me is being able to swim and breathe underwater! Love those dreams, it's so cool being able to move so easily and quickly and see stuff. It's a great relaxation technique as well, when I can't sleep.

flowersun2 · 05/02/2020 07:52

Wow! Same here - I would stand at the top of the stairs and either fly down ( funny feeling in tummy too!) or a huge swing would appear and would swing me down. I am still convinced it was real - 50 odd years later! Had to write an essay at school once about childhood memories and I used this one. The teacher was intrigued.

sluj · 05/02/2020 07:53

Megan2018, the only dream I ever had about flying was the breaststroke method. Unfortunately for me it was bloody hard work, none of this swooping and diving Wink

Branleuse · 05/02/2020 07:54

Heckin astral projection

starglass · 05/02/2020 08:19

I can't believe that other people have this! I have such a clear 'memory ' of being able to glide down the stairs when I was about 4 or 5, its stayed with me my whole life! And the sensation of springing up from the ground and floating along a few feet above it. I like the theory above that we're remembering being carried around as very little children (but not as much as I like to believe that we could secretly actually fly as kids, and the adults never noticed Grin )

littledarkage · 05/02/2020 08:27

Wow, this is fascinating!! I had this dream too as a child, in which I glided with ease down the stairs, and for a long time I had to stop myself trying to reenact it in real life.

This really has amazed me how common it is.

Spied · 05/02/2020 08:35

My mum has told me many times that one day she flew down the stairs in her childhood home. Apparently she just took flight, was very shocked at what had happened and it only happened once.
I've never experienced anything like this personally.

x2boys · 05/02/2020 08:35

I have similar memories when I was very little we used to live in a terrace house that had very steep ( well to me anyway) and have have memories of floating/ flying down the stairs and out of the front door ,I assumed it was a dream.

RapidRainbow · 05/02/2020 08:39

I have the same type of memory, can picture it now, I'm at the bottom of the stairs in my childhood home and off the bottom step I can just float at that same level across the floor. I've always thought logically it was a dream but if I removed logic then it's definitely a 'memory'!!

OhYouBadBadKitten · 05/02/2020 08:45

oh gosh, I have this too. I feel as though if I can just get the feeling right,
I could float off.

I do remember lots of flying dreams. I got less good at flying as I got older - would fly to get away from danger, but gravity would start to win. You had to feel good to fly safely.

I had an utterly hideous nightmare last night. Woke up and even though I was awake I could still see zillions of clowns with sharp teeth , instead of those dots you see when you wake up. Ugh. Had to wake dh up and get him to reassure me over and over that there were no bitey clowns, that I didn't need to contact dd instantly to make sure he hadn't got her. I've still got echo memories of pain in my hand now where the clown bit me.

TeddyIsaHe · 05/02/2020 08:46

My only lucid dreams when I was a child was when flying. I still remember vividly flying around my primary playground.

I lucid dream a lot now, especially if I have an afternoon nap. But I also have quite severe sleep paralysis that started around the same time as the lucid dreaming, so I don’t know if that’s connected.