Anyone flew in a dream before flying in real life?

[Queen Zukin]

I was in a plane a while back and started to wonder what flying in a lucid dream might look like if you have never flown in a plane before. The first time I flew in a plane I was about 8 years old and I started lucid dreaming a few years after that, so the images were already "seeded" in my brain. When I fly over the clouds in a dream now, it is hyper-realistic. If you hadn't had that real-life experience, I wonder if it would look more like what you would see on TV? Or cartoonish even? Anyone out there who can give some perspective?

[dolphin]

People imagine things differently, so the experience during a dream of doing something never done before in waking life most likely varies in accuracy of what it is like in reality. This accuracy depends on the prior knowledge of the dreamer being accessed and the state of the dreamers mind at the time. A dreamer who has a better idea of what an experience is like in reality is going to have better chance of having a realistic experience than one who doesn't have as good of an idea. For example, last night, I had a dream about riding a horse high up on the construction of a skyscraper, jumping through the air from one steel beam to another, when I missed a beam and fell into a free-fall. As soon as I fell, I felt butterflies in my stomach as if I was dropping on a roller coaster. In real life, I have never had the experience of falling from high up on an unfinished skyscraper while riding a horse, but the dream did feel realistic to me because but I have experienced what I would think would be a similar experience: riding a steel roller coaster and going down a drop. I usually do not feel butterflies in my stomach while freefalling in a dream, but my mind likely associated things on my mind during the dream such as "riding" "steel" and "dropping" with riding a steel roller coaster and going down a drop, which I associate with the butterfly feeling in my stomach, resulting in my feeling that during the dream.

[Methos]

I've free flown in dreams before flying in a plane. I can say that being up amongst the clouds was exactly as I dreamed the experience would look like. Was even lucky enough to have an early morning flight that took up up through sunrise tinted clouds, which were exactly as I'd seen them in dreams. I've flown on a plane in dreams before I ever did in waking life. The real life experience was far different. In reality flying on a plane was like being on a bumpy, kind of crowded bus. In dreams the flights were smooth and spacious.

[DarkestDarkness]

I thought I would add to this discussion something on a similar level. A friend of mine is trans, and before she had an operation to change the relevant organ, she had an idea of what it would feel like; after the operation and all that, she said it felt exactly as she imagined it would. I always found this to be very interesting, as I personally wouldn't have known what to expect exactly, even though I could imagine roughly what it might be like. So like dolphin says, I think people have different imaginations of things. Of course I haven't gone through the procedure to confirm whether my imagined sensations would be accurate or not...

[Methos]

I don't want to throw this topic entirely off track but after reading DarkestDarkness's post it occured to me that I experienced a sensation in dreams before I ever experienced it in waking life. I can remember being a kid and having dreams where this overwhelming feeling of pleausre would overtake me, sometimes to the point that I'd wake up. The feeling often came from jumping or falling in dreams. When I got older and experienced an orgasm for the first time I realized the sensation wasn't new to me at all. It felt just like the overpowering pleasure sensation I'd had in my childhood dreams. Makes me wonder stuff and things.

[Fantasma]

I don't remember if I have had a dream about flying before I actually flew with an airplane... but whenever that happens in a dream I'm just kind of floating around like, you know, like Peter Pan. But never so far up in the sky, just above the tree tops and I can easily say that I have never been in a plane that flies on such a low height.