Thread: Trouble Flying

That's an idea but it just seems a little more to it. As I said, it's as if gravity still exists in the dreams. Though I think very logically and analytically so it won't be easy to convince myself gravity can not exist in the dream.

Err to rephrase what I said: It won't be easy to convince myself that it is perfectly fine for gravity to be absent in dreams

I always grow wings or use a jetpack to give my mind a perfectly reasonable explanation to not plummeting into the ground.

I just imagine myself lifting up, slowly at first. It feels like someones lifting me up by my belt from behind.

Originally Posted by Thornweaver

I always grow wings or use a jetpack to give my mind a perfectly reasonable explanation to not plummeting into the ground.

That makes sense. Wings would be pretty cool. I'll try that out. Thanks.

Good idea. Another way is to think of dreams as more analogous to some actual situation where physics does not apply. For instance, most video game engines have a "noclip" cheat where gravity gets turned off -- you just move where you are pointing regardless of physics. Try floating around in one of those to get a feel for it. (almost any FPS should have it, I know it worked for me in Quake back in the day: the command was "+noclip," but look up cheats online for some game that you have.). This would be a kind of virtual reality training for dream flying.

I like the idea that our minds need some kind of structure in order to make these things happen in dreams. We can't just say "there are no rules" because then there is nothing positive for our minds to work with, to gain traction. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes in philosophy, which incidentally uses the metaphor of flight:

"The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would still be easier in empty space. It was thus that Plato left the world of the senses, as setting too narrow limits to the understanding, and ventured out beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of the pure understanding. He did not observe that with all his efforts he made no advance - meeting no resistance that might, as it were, serve as a support upon which he could take a stand, to which he could apply his powers, and so set his understanding in motion."

-Immanuel Kant

My point is -- don't concentrate on a lack of gravity, concentrate on some experience (even virtual) you have had with something like flying. This will help ste your understanding in motion.