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. I remember having this thought a fee times as a child and telling my mum.

Yes, I have a memory of floating down the stairs! Or maybe a dream.

I've heard it might be a memory of being carried downstairs while half asleep as a young child.

Not floating down the stairs, but I could “swim” through the air. I have vivid “memories”of this, but in reality it must be mixing up the sensation of being carried with a floaty sensation.

I used to do the swimming! Never inside the house though, just in the streets around my childhood home.

I have vivid memories of floating down the stairs from age three; In my 70s, I can still feel the sensation and see the staircase and door at the bottom. I used to sleepwalk, so I assume that's what it was?

I had a very vivid flying dram probably 50 years ago now. I was flying but moving through the air using breaststroke. Bloody hard work but I've never forgotten the feeling of flying

Yes I had this too - I’d forgotten until now! But more unpleasantly I also often used to dream that I was running away from something and my arms and legs feeling like they were stuck in treacle.

I do recall this. But I also recall waking up to the shouts of ‘supper‘ after falling asleep after school. I got to the top of the stairs and thought ‘ah I’ll just fly down this time’. Crash landed at the bottom of the stairs with a broken collar bone.

I have a similar memory - running down the stairs really fast, taking several steps at the time and it felt almost like flying.

No memory whatsoever and never heard of it. Do you think it's because I grew up in a bungalow?

OMG YES!! All the time. And my sister did too!

I remember my Dad swinging me (playfully) from one side of the landing to the other. He missed and I flew down the stairs and into the fuse board at the bottom. No harm done.

Does that count?

I used to get AIWS - I'd feel like my teeth were really big and disembodied like those wind up ones, it was really upsetting and I'd cry for my mum. Once I had a fever and I got it so badly I thought that my arms were too big and making my duvet into a big ball and were going to unbalance the Earth's orbit I can recall the sensation of the too-big body parts, it's really horrible, like squeaky cotton woll kind of feeling. Or when you have your legs perfectly still but touching each other, and you tell yourself you can't tell if they are crossed or not and then you literally can't. I'm doing it now and it's weirding me out! Is that just a me thing? I have some prioperception issues so it might well be.

Also for years and years I thought if I heard a loud noise at night I would "see" it as a flash of light. But I now think I was probably experiencing exploding head syndrome and the noises weren't real either.

Exactly this!

Something similar. A very vivid memory. My earliest from age 2 or 3, was being held by the hand and helped down the stairs by a 'ghost' person but I also 'knew' this person was the little boy in the painting at the top of our stairs. (a popular cheap painting of the time of a crying boy)

Yes!! Strong memory of it aged about 3/4

Yes! I'm seeing a lot of people talking about this on social media lately.

I actually had a cousin who did attempt to jump down the stairs to fly, she was assumingly unhurt, she was much older than me but I had heard about it.

i used to have very vivid dreams as a child, floating down stairs was just one of them - but it seemed so real. I remember a lot of weird dreams from when I was a kid, I can still recall some of them now. I was also prone to nightmares.

also, this doesn't seem like a dream but I have a memory of feeling like I was lifted & floated slightly in my bed and turned around to face other way, I mean physically lifted up from the surface of my bed. I still can't explain that one. I was on a bunk bed too so closer to the ceiling.

This really made me laugh imagining her face

Glad it's not just me who did this 😂

I was going to say that! 😂

😂😂😂

We can send to slide down the stairs in sleeping bags. Not that floating nonsense

Oh my god!!!! I used to do this! Is it an actual thing?!!!! I'm so shocked I just had to reply straight away but will now go back and read the full thread.

I used to fly down the stairs regularly as a child. I'm pretty sure I did actually do it 😂. I can't believe it's a thing! I thought I had weird powers that I outgrew!!!

I used to have reoccurring dreams of flying down the stairs and then out the front door at the bottom... it happened so often I convinced myself I could fly and so tried jumping from the top of the stairs... didn't go to plan and then never had the dream again!
I always though it was linked to watching The Snowman and the boy flying with his snowman in the air..
Did you all dream you were flying superman style or more upright floating above the stairs instead of walking down?

I distinctly remember deciding to jump down the whole flight of stairs one day, and I just flew gently to the bottom and it felt incredible. I must have been about 7. i can’t express how certain I was (am?!) that it happened.
However, I also used to believe that I had been somehow chosen by God, and that He spoke to me, but I felt too self conscious to tell anyone as I knew they’d be jealous. Being able to fly was part of that.
Who knows, maybe it’s true. I should probably go do something useful with my chosenness 😇