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Your interpretation of this dream...

Asked by seventeen123 (428points) January 17th, 2010

So I had the same dream three times in a row. It’s that I’m on the ground and something is bothering me. So then I’m like “Hey, I can just fly away from this!” I start flying up and then I think that since I’m flying up, I might as well see what heaven is like. (In the dream, I think I was aware that I was dreaming – and was taking advantage of that fact, that’s why I wanted to see heaven). So there I am, flying up, and all of a sudden it’s like I hit an invisible ceiling and I am back to reality, just at home or somewhere. It’s kinda a weird dream.. What do you think it could mean?

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Nullo's avatar

I wouldn’t give it too much weight. *ba-dum-pish *
Try to enjoy it; those sorts of dreams are fairly rare in my experience.

warribbons's avatar

Being on the ground represents your consciousness, where as in the air, it represents your unconsciousness. You being on the ground represents your waking life, and when you begin to fly, it represents your freedom between the two. I think heaven would represent a new level of thinking, or your hopes of a new level of thinking. the invisible wall is basically saying that you aren’t quite able to reach that consciousness yet, but since this is a recurring theme, i bet that you will eventually reach your heaven. The fall back to reality is probably just you waking up

what this says, imo, is that you have quite high aspirations for yourself, and you are constantly thinking of them. you should be careful though, and keep on going, or else the invisible ceiling will send you right back to where you started.

this dream has very general symbols, and so i dont think this has anything to do with your personal life, unless you can interpret that on your own. no one else can correctly analyse a dream for another, because it’s your dream.

Zen_Again's avatar

Dealing with your problems, perhaps you are the type that does not like confrontation and prefer to “fly away” from them – but alas, ultimately you must face your fears – or you will keep hitting the invisible ceiling until you confront them.

filmfann's avatar

I love lucid dreaming.

If your dream has a meaning, it is that you cannot escape what torments you. You must face it.

wonderingwhy's avatar

the part of me that want’s to believe in the great beyond (not necessarily heaven, but something beyond nothingness) and something greater than all we see and know, is coming up with: maybe that’s something you just can’t see until the time comes or you’re being actively stopped from reaching that higher understand.

the rational part of me says that since you believe in heaven, perhaps it is your subconscious expressing some guilt (the ground you’re trying to escape, the ceiling being you can’t get in) or perhaps it’s saying that you don’t truly “understand” heaven (metaphorically or literally speaking) or how to reach it and therefore when you try to get there it you find yourself unable to.

then again, as is often the case, a dream, frequent or not, may just be a dream. :D regardless, enjoy your wings!

hungertoragejr's avatar

This is kind of like the situation I’ve been in. In a similar dream… I there is a robber or some weird guy or whatever. So I start running around the couch and my leg just goes numb and I wake up. Also, I have fallen off a cliff and woke up just as I was about to hit the ground. Everybody has these experiences. @Nullo You’re exactly right… Cherish these dreams as if it was your own child…

mollypop51797's avatar

Maybe it’s saying that you need to be a little more grounded, and down to earth. Maybe you’re floating up to heaven, and you’re in this new part of life where everything seems rights, and you’re taking advantage of it. Maybe its saying that you should live your life more freely, but the sky is the limit. Maybe it’s talking about reality and how sometimes you just need to get away from it, but not too far away.

john65pennington's avatar

Your guardian angel is taking you for a drivers ed course of how to fly as an angel. you must be a pretty bad flyer if this has occured three time in a row. if you want your wings, you’d better practice a lot more.

ratboy's avatar

It means that a bun in the oven is worth three pigs in the bush. Don’t cross the road without looking up and down.

Nullo's avatar

Remember that a lot of dreams are just your brain’s housekeeping.
You can assign pretty much any meaning that you like to what’s posted. In retaliation to @wonderingwhy‘s rational side, you could be trying to get into Heaven but it’s not your time yet :P

seventeen123's avatar

@Nullo
-The funny thing is, I actually had that thought in the part of my dream where I would get back to reality.. weird..

Bugabear's avatar

The fact you can lucid dream means something. I think you’d like to get away from something but of you do you’ll hit some sort of snag and you’ll cone tumbling down to reality. Maybe you’re stressed and need to get away bit are afraid to. You should take stock of your life and make a desion.

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

People can offer their interpretations of your dreams and it is interesting to read.

The only meaningful interpretation of your dreams will come from you!
The symbolic meaning of aspects of your dreams relies on what issues and influences are important to you. If the dreams have meaning at all, you must do the interpretation or just enjoy them and don’t look for inspirational life-altering truths in your dreams.

That’s my view as a psychologist.

Irishmar's avatar

I’ve read that flying is sexual. I have had dreams of flying too, and suddenly I fall and wakemyself up. I’m not an expert, but how;s your sex life? The Heaven part, I don’t know, but since you were up there you just gpt curious.

denidowi's avatar

Well if I was to do a ‘Joseph’ of the Old Testament, interpreting dreams, I might well say that you haven’t been properly baptized yet or become truly repentant of all your sins. You have, therefore, hit the ‘ceiling’ of your possible progress – of what you could attain – which is short of entering Heaven… and this Frustrates you, because you can’t get where you want to go: you have not taken the right, nor the complete, steps to do it.
Your progress is barred at this point from gemuinely entering Heaven!
There are things you need to do in life to rectify this situation.

stratman37's avatar

It clearly means that you want to have sex with your mother.

seventeen123's avatar

@stratman37
-nah not all of us are born pervs

warribbons's avatar

@seventeen123 i think that was a very freudian thing to say…. thats why i thought it was funny

denidowi's avatar

Oh… Gee… he’s ‘old hat’!!

chamelopotamus's avatar

Maybe it means heaven can wait, or your act of flying, itself, is what is far more important than flying to heaven.

Skaggfacemutt's avatar

Flight dreams represent escaping from problems. I used to have flight dreams often as a child. I was usually flying away from my teacher, with her chasing me and trying to grab my feet to yank me out of the sky. Instead of hitting an invisible ceiling, though, I would start losing altitude until I got low enough that my teacher would catch me.

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