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So I come from a family that sleep talks/walks/flies. I dream nightly, always talk in my sleep and often leave my body to fly. ( those of you who do this will understand ) . My H has become accustomed to this but it still creeps him out sometimes.

DD is beginning to have a lot more dreams now . ( she is almost 4 ) . Last night she woke up in the middle of the night crying ....Came in our room still asleep and was upset because she ran out of " food to feed the people and they were hungry." I know how vivid the dreams are and the nightmares .......Well , shit.

So I fell asleep & then dreamed that the painters who are working on the house stole my two kids .....

All in all a terrible night at my household except for H who rarely dreams ....

Any other sleep talkers/walkers/fliers out there ???

Always knew I was a tad strange ...

I have not had a flying dream since before dday I started flying when I was about 10 -- I would jump from rooftop to rooftop in my neighborhood.

I still have very vivid dreams. I sometimes confuse dreams I have had with actual memories. How embarrassing to reminiscence about an an event with someone that never actually occurred - "You remember when we went to___?" "We have never even been in that state? WTH are you talking about??"

Dreamboat ,

Thats so funny you said that because I stopped flying for a while too after Dday....But it came back about a year ago ....Its symbolic huh , like our wings got clipped ?

walker, talker and lucid dreamer here . dream flying rocks!

[This message edited by unfound at 3:58 PM, September 7th (Tuesday)]

Not sure I totally understand... Just dreaming about flying?

I do that some. My kind of flying is like swimming through the air, it requires a lot of physical exertion, just like swimming in water. It is graceful and safe, but slow (not like how Superman flies) and I really, really wish I could do it in real life!

[This message edited by aLadypilot at 6:34 PM, September 7th (Tuesday)]

I have had some pretty vivid dreams of places where I SWEAR I was actually there. My son sleep talks/walks all the time and ocasionally sleep pees in weird paces (the corner, bathroom cabinet, laundry basket, even the sink and he had to use a stool to get up there!). He also used to talk to someone named Sarah in his sleep all the time- no clue who she is, and he insists that this isn't the "first time you've been my mom". Its strange. I'm pretty openminded, but I got a little freaked out by that!

I haven't had a flying dreams in years, but back in the day, those dreams rock!

I have very vivid dreams with reoccurring themes. I've researched lucid dreaming and although I have yet to experience one, I am practicing. I've read that if you can ever reach the point of "lucid dreaming" you can confront and ask questions about (in my case) the reoccurring theme.

My difficulty so far is recognizing when I'm dreaming without waking myself up. But I'm working on it!

Well I don't think that you can easily describe it. Its beyond dreaming. I mean, Yes I have flying dreams and those require effort ....But dream flying is more than that. It feels more like leaving your body. You are aware , you know that you are asleep, you tell yourself that you are dreaming and you go places. Now this sounds crazy but you travel.

Ok, bring the paddy wagon ...

Do you feel like the bed is shaking when you're "flying"? You feel you're leaving your body but paralyzed? If so, "yes" I've experienced that. If not, bring on two paddy wagons.

P4D

I'm not blessed with that ability but I know a kid well he is 21 now that used to say that his favorite place to go when he was flying was with the dinosaurs. Oh and once when they were playing outside a swarm of africanized bees flew where they were playing and he stood still until they left. Afterward his mom ask him how did he managed and he said it was easy he just left his body and flew.

Wow. My uncle came over two nights ago and we had a HUGE discussion about lucid dreaming with all of the kids.

I love having waking (lucid) dreams. I am still dreaming and when I realize it, I do what I want. Flying has always been the first thing I do.

I have also been know to wake up during a nightmare and then change the outcome to my desire. I make things move with my mind.

My kids are able to do it also, and it was such a fun topic around the dinner table.

Before we moved (from another state) to our current house, I would have dreams of another house here in the town (we own it but don't live in it, and it was build in 1876).

I would wake up in my dream and literally feel myself sliding down the sheets, I could feel the coldness of the sheets sliding across my skin and hear that high pitched friction as I was being dragged toward that house. We lived on the pacific coast at that time....now on the east. I could not wake up from those dreams and fly. They were downright creepy.

Since we moved here, I have never had another dream like that.

I don't know why and don't care....I quite prefer flying.

[This message edited by refuz2bavictim at 7:50 PM, September 7th (Tuesday)]

I love having waking (lucid) dreams. I am still dreaming and when I realize it, I do what I want. Flying has always been the first thing I do.

I have also been know to wake up during a nightmare and then change the outcome to my desire. I make things move with my mind.

Thats it !!!

Are you talking about oobing? Out of body travel?

If so, then yes. My whole family and a lot of our friends oob at night.

*raising hand*

I'm glad I'm in good company.

just like swimming in water

That is how I fly in my dreams when I am not hopping across buildings.

My dreams of flying and lucid dreams intersect but are not the same. What I mean is that (when I used to fly) I did not always know I was dreaming while I was in my dream. I was just having fun! I few times I DID realize I was dreaming and I REALLY had fun!! In the "I can do anything I want and not get hurt" kind of fun.

I often have "story" dreams where at some point I realize I am dreaming. Then I can go where the dream takes me, if it is fun, or I can redirect because the dream is not fun or too serious or scary or whatever.

And then there are the dreams where deceased family members visit me. I don't talk much about those because it freaks people out.

And then there are the dreams where I seem to move forward or backward in the space-time continuum. I don't talk much about those either.

Mainly, I wander.

I wander through interesting old Victorian houses going from room to room in my dreams.

There are so many interesting rooms to explore, rich red musty dusty velvet drapes to touch, pocket doors to slide open.

I also was a sleep walker as a child as was my DD.

And I used to be able to go right back to sleep and re-dream a different "ending" if I did not like how the original dream ended.

Any one familiar with changing the endings of dreams?

I do the same thing, dream! I've always wandered old places with countless rooms with all kinds of interesting nooks and crannies.

I have a handful of dreams I've had repeatedly over the years but I can't say the content of them has changed much. I can't purposefully redream something and change it but in lucid dreaming, I can sort of direct things.

OOO! Houses and rooms are supposed to symbolize yourself and your subconscious and how you see yourself. The hidden rooms are parts of yourself that you want to explore and/or would like to exert more control over.

Any one familiar with changing the endings of dreams?

I have done this. I have gotten quite good at ti in recent years because I usually realize when I am dreaming. Not always, but usually. If I like the way the dream is going, then I just go with it (last week, hot guy rescuing me...well maybe I twisted the outcome in a good way...) If it is a bad dream with awful things happening, I sometimes just wake myself up.

If it is a bad dream with awful things happening, I sometimes just wake myself up.

I taught myself to do that at a pretty young age. I'd tell the bad guys in my dream I was going to count to three then leave the dream... and I would.

I just taught that trick to one of the bananas who also is quite a dreamer.