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?

Yes
and you can recreate this feeling as an adult by holding the wall either side or the banister and jumping down 4-5 stairs at once.
I frequently have dreams about running away from dangerous things and this is the only thing that helps me get away.
maybe I need to dig back into my childhood to stop the dangerous things

@Twawmyarse I love that explanation you posted 🙂

I also have other floating/flying dreams which involve propelling myself off walls/furniture etc. I hope I have one tonight after reading this thread!

Yes!

Don;t have a scooby what you're on about but now I'm picturing the girl in The Exorcist doing that spider walk thing down the stairs 😂

What if it is a skill we all have before it is unintentionally squashed by telling us to be careful etc
maybe base jumpers and skydivers are chasing that feeling

I don't remember floating down the stairs as a child but I do remember sitting still on chairs or lying in bed at night and feeing like I was floating or even flying.
I also have memories of sometimes hearing angelic sounding choir music/ violin.
Another weird one is a brief memory of being a baby , then suddenly sitting up in my bed and being a four year old. I remember thinking 'I'm four now'. It is strange how our minds works...

I once dreamt that I came on Mumsnet and everyone claimed they used to be able to float up and down the stairs and on the ceiling above their family - and no one seemed think it was weird.

I know it must have been dream because it was too ridiculous to actually be true.

(Off to work out what everyone's been smoking...)

Not quite. I stood at the top of the stairs and looked down. I clearly remember thinking “ that doesn’t look far, I can definitely jump to the floor at the bottom”.

No spoiler alert needed - it obviously didn’t end well (though I’m surprised that my injuries were not as bad as they should have been!)

This thread is making me feel weird 🙈like I’m reaching back into myself and remembering doing it

Both me and my sister have really strong memories of this as a child! Hers was the stairs, mine was flying around my house! I think it's a very common dream young children have - I work in a primary school and have had the children say the same to me! So strange, and interesting - I wonder where it comes from!?

Yes!!!

Yes I remember this feeling vividly. For me it was my school stair cases, they you could jump the flights just about but you'd sort of catch the air and float down.

I've never had a floating or a flying dream but once has scuba diving/ swimming in the air dream.

It felt like wooshing for anyone who's read The Twiligjt Barking

Yes, I floated downstairs regularly. I really believed at the time it was real. When I reached the bottom I would go into the kitchen where I could always smell jelly. I would open the fridge to look for it but there was never any in there . Make of that what you will!

It wouldn’t surprise me if some kids could jump down their stairs and not get hurt, it’s probably different to those who felt they floated. I had a friend who really did jump out of her landing window with her brothers. Like the poster here who jumped down the stairs copying her older brothers and got 7 stitches. I wouldn’t assume ALL the ones who remembering jumping down the stairs are remembering incorrectly

Yes! Although I remember trying when I was about 7/8 and falling but being so confused because I was certain I could.

Could it be from when you were carried down b your parents - so very early memories?

Yes. I have a vivid memory of standing at the top and somehow floating to the bottom. Anyone i have ever told about this thinks i'm loopy 😂

Yes definitely in my dreams! When I was very little I confused it with reality for sure.
When I was a bit older, old enough to read Peter Pan, I had lots of flying dreams but I knew they were only dreams.
Have had lots as an adult, always in the same vein of oh yeah, I remember how to do it now, you lift up and push off on one foot 😂

I love that it's such a common thing, small children really believing they can fly.

I always got Alice in Wonderland Syndrome whenever I was ill as a child and still sometimes do now. As you say giant teeth, massive limbs which felt like they were too soft. Also a strange dream of things constantly changing perspective, getting close and then fading away. I hate it.

I don't remember any floating, to answer the OP's question. But I do remember that the two boys next door could jump the entire flight of stairs. Maybe they were actually floating.

Yep, me too....vivid memory & I'm 55 now.....thought it was just me!

I used an umbrella. And it was super cool. Then my brothers joined in...

I can so remember floating down the stairs, vividly remember the stairs and the curve of stairs at the top. I always seemed to float after the curved bit! Maybe I couldn’t navigate round bends! I also remember being quite disheartened by jumping as if I was launching to float, and landing on the next stair! I remembrances thinking that I’d lost my floating ability!

I’d forgotten about this. As a child, probably up until 9 or 10, I used to get this a lot. I’d be in bed and it was like the walls were on castors - they’d elegantly glide outwards, making the room bigger and bigger as I got smaller and smaller. I’d screw my eyes shut, but when I opened them it was still happening.

As an adult, for many years, sleep has been interesting. I frequently (at least twice a week) have flying dreams. I’ll be wherever and all of a sudden I’ll feel my feet slowly lifting off the floor. I always think to myself “not again, I really don’t want to be flying again”. And then I’ll start soaring quite high and trying to control things so that I get a bit lower.

Around 6 times a year, I get sleep paralysis - I hate this with a vengeance. It’s such a frightening and frustrating feeling.

I sometimes have lucid dreams. Though, in reality, they are always nightmares. I’m aware in my dream that I need to wake up, so I “shout/yell” in my dream to facilitate this. I am bellowing at the top of my lungs in my dream. I’ve been reliably informed by family and friends that, in real life, I sound like a ghost trying to sing opera 🤣

The worst, though, is double dreams. Only have them a couple of times a year, but they’re blooming terrifying. It’s a horrible feeling to feel that you’ve woken up in your own bed from a horrible nightmare, only to find that you haven’t and so go through the horror again.

I have heard about this before, not a memory I share. I did like it when a roll of carpet was stored on the stairs, used to slide down it lol.