Could you float down the stairs as a child?

[EbbyEbs]

Light hearted

Do you have a memory of floating down the stairs as a child? Someone mentioned it to me earlier and I have the same memory! anyone know what I’m on about?

This lol

I’ve seen people talk about this before and can’t relate.

Dont worry folks, I’m here all night with similar riveting stories

This is SO WEIRD.. Yes I absolutely had this dream as a child, floating down the stairs... as previous posters have said, never up - just down! And it's so odd that so many on here had the same dream.

In fact, I have floated a lot in dreams for many years - not just as a child, but well into adulthood. Even now (at 50-ish) I have the floating dream occasionally, and dream I'm jumping down the road, and I jump up some 6-9 feet, and each 'jump' is around 20-30 feet in length. So I'm doing huge, slow, (but high and long) leaps. Like huge moon walk type steps - if you see what I mean...

I am sometimes flying, (higher than the 6-9 feet, but not usually very far over the houses, around 80-150 feet I would say.) And on other occasions, I am much higher, like 500-1000 feet up. But in all of these dreams I am usually in a familiar place. Not far from home, or somewhere I have visited before and am familiar with.

So unbelievably realistic, and I am always so disappointed when I wake up and realise it's a dream, and in actual fact, I can't fly (or float!)

I am so freaked out that so many people on here have had the same dream (or very similar.)

@EbbyEbs Thanks for posting this! I hope I dream about floating or flying tonight!

Yes I had this too! I read the thread and thought 'this rings a bell'. I used to float down the stairs arms first and go and see my mum and dad downstairs in the lounge then go back up. We had high ceilings with beams and I also remember bouncing around them looking at them close up and seeing the texture of the wood which was painted dark brown. I used to have flying dreams too where I'd run and jump and then fly over fields and fences, like a really big stride or head first horizontal. As an adult I dream I can push really hard, if I really try I can go through the ceiling and float over the houses, sometimes it takes a few goes. Maybe science will one day find it is astral projection!!

YES!! I remember this a few times but was obviously dreaming even though it felt/feels so real.

Yep, me too! It doesn't feel like a dream to me, more like an actual memory, but of course it can't have been.... OR CAN IT, etc.

I can remember running up and down our hallway absolutely convinced I would take off and fly. I must have had some very vivid flying dreams.

Omg yes! I’ve always assumed it was a dream, but v clear memories!

Yes. Only down. Some stairs were so good they were 'asking' to be flown down but not all.
In my head/experience of it, my feet were near the edge of the tread but not very far above the ground, no more than 10cm. Felt like a slow motion bounce, slightly like a pulse on a trampoline.
Have mentioned this once...was thought to be crazy (fair enough)!

I’ve not thought about this for years, but I have this strong memory too. Levitating above the carpet at my Grannies house and also floating downstairs in the same place. I seem to remember having a very strong belief as a young child that I could indeed levitate then it wore off. Very odd it is so common.

Yes but only down my grannies stairs. The ones in my parents house were too steep.

😂😆😂

Yes, I swore blind to everyone at primary school (to much jeering and ridicule) that I had flown down the stairs and I fully believed it. It was very frustrating to me that nobody in the class would take my word for it! 😆

No but since everyone is talking about dreaming of flying, I’ll add that I could fly/float in all of my dreams as a child - and I was a big dreamer so we’re talking LOADS of dreams. But I was also a room.

I can never explain that one or find it in dream books 😂 but I was a moving, floating/flying ‘room’. I could let people in and everything.

Yes when I’d been put to bed I’d float down stairs and I could see the hall lampshade in minute detail. I could also ‘see’ my parents snores - they were little clouds above their mouths.

These are my earliest memories…

can't be for me - I had a childhood bedroom until I was 3, which then was converted into a bathroom and an attic dorma was created on the floor above. My memory/dream is about floating / swimming down from the attic bedroom - so would have been after I was 3 and well able to walk down.

Oh God yes I do have memories of this! I did have a v strong imagination as a child though, I have a clear memory of coming down the stairs and being chased by a huge dog.

I ran to my mum to tell her and she was like 😐

There was no dog in the house!!

Honestly I don’t know! Either it is a dream and there’s some sort of reason why this particular dream seems so realistic to so many people over other dreams... Or there’s more to it, like an out of body experience or something.

Interested in the ideas about astral projection. Definitely wouldn’t want to try and make that happen now though, the thought is terrifying!

Yes. Extremely vivid memory. Had assumed it was just me!

I used to be able to stand at the top of the stairs and reach down the banisters and swing to get to the bottom step without touching and stairs in between. I was so happy when I was tall enough to do it.

Yes I have memories of this too. Obviously I didn't float down the stairs - so don't know whether I dreamed it and remembered the dream. Interesting that so many others have experienced similar.

Another recurring dream I have which is fairly similar is jumping into a swimming pool and swimming through the water to the other side without having to propel myself in anyway, just swimming - and the whole length of the swimming pool underwater without coming up for breath. Odd!

Yes I still have that dream from time to time, it's a lovely feeling!

I have a childhood memory of floating down the street holding an umbrella in the wind.

I know it can't have happened but it's always felt 100% real.

I have this memory too. It’s a very strong memory that I have always had and I can remember what I was wearing and that I was folding towels with my mum to out in the wiring cupboard shortly before I did it. I was somewhere around 2-3. I jumped from the top step and floated gently down the stairs, landed at the bottom and bent my knees to break my fall. I don’t understand why so many people have a similar memory and what it even is - logically I know it can’t have happened, but my brain is convinced it did.

I also used to hallucinate cars going around a racing track in my living room when nobody else was in the room. I was about 2 or 3 then too. I wouldn’t get off the sofa in case they ran me over. Weirdly, I was kind of aware that it was a hallucination. I’d think “oh, I’m seeing the cars that aren’t there again”, but I still wouldn’t get off the sofa just in case this time they were real.

I didn't really go into a house with stairs until I was in my 30's. So no stair floating memories for me.