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When I was very young, I had repeated nightmares of falling. Usually, I fell off things, from at least second-story height, but sometimes I fell from mid-air. Sometimes this came out of the dreamstory, others it just happened. Either way, a nightmare. I always woke on impact -- except this one dream. It was one of the from mid-air ones, over our back patio. This time, when I hit the ground, I teleported twenty feet above the ground and fell again. And again. And again. Total major freak-out material here -- but not, apparently, major enough to wake me up. Finally, one repeat, as I plummeted at the ground, out of sheer panicked desperation, I ... missed.

Instead, I floated a couple feet off the ground. Which surprised me so much, I woke up. Finally.

That was my last falling nightmare -- and my first flying dream.

When I first read Douglas Adams's description of flying, I went, "Yes! Exactly!"

---L.

Date: 18 September 2006 05:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coyoty.livejournal.com
So, you're really a drop bear.

I always recommend at least 450 mg. of the herb "gotu kola" before bed to enhance dreaming. You'll have more lucid dreams and greater control of your dreams. In my case, I find I have a lot of original story dreams with plots that resolve themselves brilliantly just before I have to wake up.

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