Do you ever wish you could fly? Where would you go? To the top of the tallest mountain? Or would you fly until you found the perfect sunset? Would you travel around the globe to see all the beautiful places of nature or the amazing structures mankind has erected? Palaces, bridges, unique buildings, towns built into mountainsides? Would you try to fly as high as you could and try to reach the sun? How far would you get? Not very far – imagination killer! – you’d burn up before leaving the earth’s atmosphere, and you’d starve long before you got through our solar system. There are things we just can’t do. But that’s okay, because we get to imagine, and imagining is a wonderful thing. Great things have come out of imagining.
Have you ever wondered if birds’ wing or pectoral muscles get sore after a long commute in the skies? Can you imagine how sore our arms would be after a long flapping flight? Fortunately, birds are built a little different than humans. And have you ever stood in a strong wind, opened your arms wide, closed your eyes, and wished the wind could pick you up and carry you across town? My husband, Dave, used to dream he was flying. It was a wondrous, breathtaking dream. The unpleasant part was that it was always difficult to land, and he’d tumble head over heels and get hurt. (Perhaps we shouldn't stand in strong winds and hope they carry us across town...) He loved the flying and soaring up and down in the dreams…but then there was the landing. Dreams about flying are supposed to be good indicators of the person feeling positive, or that they are seeing a positive change in their life. Perhaps Dave's crash landings indicated a fear that the real-life positive changes might also crash. Fortunately, Dave doesn’t have the flying dreams anymore, so maybe he’s more solidly on the daytime ground now, or more confident in himself and what’s going on in his life.
One of my brother’s did an oil painting on a huge canvas with a man flying over the ground. It was a multi-media painting, which means he used different types of materials: paint, plaster, etc. The man’s hands were carved out of plaster and attached to the sides of the canvas where the wrists met the edge of the painting. They made it look like the man was about to come out of the painting, swoop across the room and fly out a window. It’s an awesome painting, but when Dave saw it, he instantly felt like he did when he was flying in his dreams and said, “It’s perfect!”. [A wee “tangent alert” on art:] Oh, to get art right!! It doesn’t always matter how it looks, so much as how it makes us feel. Painting, gardening, singing in the shower, visiting the housebound – it’s all a form of art to me.
Back to the point – if I have one: the fact that Dave landed in a crash and got hurt is an interesting addition. My understanding has always been that you woke up before you were injured in a dream. Although, now as I’m typing it, I think it was when one was falling in a dream that they woke up before they hit the ground, which apparently (the falling in a dream) shows stress in your life. Maybe waking up before potentially dying in your dream might mean you are striving to stay above water in real life. I’ve had falling dreams in the past, and I always woke up before landing. Whew. I’m still alive. In my head and outside it. I think...
I’m not sure what the “important” point of today’s blog is, but I’m hoping you all find something to take with you (if nothing more than a laugh at my meanderings!). Maybe just knowing our dreams don’t necessarily mean anything; or, on the other hand, maybe they can indicate when things in our life are getting a bit overwhelming and thus help us to consider making some changes in our life or in the way we handle it. Happy dreaming!! And happy imagining!!
* Sources:
www.dreamdictionarynow.com/what-do-flying-dreams-mean/
Berit Brogaard D.M.Sci., Ph.D; The Superhuman Mind
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