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In my flying dreams, the more strongly I believe I can fly, the higher I go; the more I doubt I start bumping into the tops of trees. It's very Peter Pan - I know. Without consulting a dream dictionary, I'm pretty sure this must have to do with confidence, self doubt and self esteem. Does anyone else have flight anxiety as a part of their flying dreams?

I know, the dream one's in is so fragile to break into another by a thought of anxiety or thought of reality. Dreams seem like a pure form of a self-fulfilling prophecy, what you believe will happen will happen, and what you fear will happen will happen. What usually breaks a dream is when one doubts it's real. >> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

In my flying dreams, the more strongly I believe I can fly, the higher I go; the more I doubt I start bumping into the tops of trees. It's very Peter Pan - I know. Without consulting a dream dictionary, I'm pretty sure this must have to do with confidence, self doubt and self esteem. Does anyone else have flight anxiety as a part of their flying dreams?

My doubt is definitely 'in dream'. It's pretty rare that I become conscious of my dream in my dreams. I actually dig when that happens, because I feel like that is the first step in being able to lucid dream, which I've never done.

I do have some weird sleep issues where reality and dream bleed into one another. I've got night terrors where I act out my fears in reality while dreaming (but usually can't remember). Usually I'm concerned for the safety of my family. Once I tried to carry Issy out of the room to escape some danger that existed only in my head.

I also occasionally get the opposite, sleep paralysis, where my mind wakes up but my body is still in sleep mode, which means I can only move my eyes. It's a very creepy and fascinating state to be in. To get out of it I have to muster this kind of unexplainable inner power. I've gotten to the point where I try to stay in it a while, because it is such trippy state of being. Still though, no matter how rational I think myself to be in full consciousness, that state is always frightening - because I am not in control.

I kept a dream log for about three months. So, every time you wake up you don't move for five or ten minutes and recall you're dreams. Then rapidly wright down everything. If you do this day after day you remember more and more of your dreams. Then lucid dreaming becomes inevitable for you. But you can't have an alarm clock, you have to throw that shit away.

thats a lot of jumping.

one of the reasons I got a doctorate in psychology was my fascination with dreams.

one of the best professors I had throughout all of my schooling, was my graduate school professor on dreams.

His books are pretty good, as is his website, but the classes were just amazing.