Yes, you were so fortunate to have a creative mother who chose to spend quality time reading adventurous stories before tucking you into bed. That is a priceless, but extremely valuable gift that your mother provided, which I am sure will always bring you fond memories.

All of my life, even in my childhood, I have always had many vivid dreams, while sleeping. As a child, I had repeated dreams, too, which I found disturbing because it was usually bad dreams or nightmares of being abducted. (My parents divorced when I was 2 years old and my mother always had different babysitters caring for me and my four sisters so I think that I had serious issues with feeling insecure.)

As an adult, I still have the most incredible and wild dreams, which some are actually very entertaining and extremely hysterical. Usually, if I am driving a car in my dream, I am speeding recklessly. Hmmm….Could this just be the ADDer need to continue high stimulation during the unconscious sleep?

As far as flying dreams, yes, I have had those, too. I just love those dreams because they are exciting! There is something fabulous about being free to fly high up in the sky, soaring confidently without a care in the world. If nothing else, I consider this type of dream the best “escape!”

Seriously, I do find dreams very intriguing and insightful to what is actually going on subconsciously. The bible actually considered dreams very relevant to the future and many biblical dreams gave insight to what was yet to come.

Does anyone take their dreams seriously or do you just brush it off as no big deal?

Actually, the only problems with Commander Mart were problems I already had with distraction and day dreaming. Commander Mart just gave me something more interesting and fun to day dream about when I couldn’t keep my mind on whatever else was going on. Ultimately, Commander Mart was an incredible benefit to me and my self-esteem.

Riri,

I am researching more about these dreams and I am finding that agreement on the interpretation varies; however, for the most part they start through some kind of challenge going on in real life and flying is a way to ‘rise above’ the challenge. Then the dreams get broken down by the type of flight etc… etc… I am no longer surprised that these dreams are quite common and am happy they are. Sometimes they kind of spooked me, as a kid. I was actually, and still am, frightened of heights – heck, I don’t even like driving over bridges, especially when I can see over the edge!

Someone did write me an email saying that she had undiagnosed ADD (as you and I did) as a child and wondered if there is some kind of correlation. The only correlation I can think of is that anyone with undiagnosed ADHD or diagnosed, for that matter, has challenges (or they wouldn’t have ADHD –right?).

I hope more people comment, especially folks with more experience and knowledge about flying dreams! Cool! ‘Trauma’ may have been too strong a word.

Thanks!!

Bryan

Agree about Roald Dahl. I’m a fan of his works, too.

Neat posting & I am delighted, even though Commander Mart may have brought you some difficulties, that he was part of your life (and what doesn’t have duality?). I’m not a fan of theorists who decide what someone’s personal symbolism might mean.

From working with many people about their dream life, I know that what one person finds in a dream behavior (such as flying) may be totally different from another and similar OVERT symbols can emerge from many kinds of history.

Thanks!