Further dreams

[larryhammer]

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.

Comments

[jankenstein.livejournal.com]

I never had too many dreams about falling, but much like Twilight, I had lots of dreams where I could hover and move myself while hovering.
I didn't know lucid dreaming was unsusual until I got older. I've also had monochromatic dreams in red, blue, and sepia tones.

[larryhammer]

The startling dreams are the ones in monochrome but for one thing. Which for me usually turn out to be irrelevant random objects, without any significance. Mostly they're black-and-white for me, though there was the one sepia dream with a blue marble displayed in a cupboard.

My flying is usually a directed hover, though I used to have the occassional swooping transport.

---L.