# Dream sequences and how they almost always seem wrong to me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 16, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-sequences-and-how-they-almost-always-seem-wrong-to-me/722702 "2015-06-16T21:55:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-sequences-and-how-they-almost-always-seem-wrong-to-me/722702/41 "2015-06-19T13:13:26Z")
I actually have at least four, possibly five different kinds of flying dreams. Most common is “seven-league-boots”: I can run down the street and only touch ground once per block or so, longer if I try to stretch it. This is pretty easy. Then there’s hover-walking: I can walk along as normal, but somewhere between six inches and a foot above the floor. This takes some amount of effort, and feels like trying to keep my balance on a slippery surface. Sometimes, instead of proper hovering, it’s just light-stepping: I can walk on snow without leaving footprints, for instance. Third, there’s levitation: I can control my vertical position more or less freely, but if I want to move horizontally while off the floor, I have to push off of something. Sometimes I start running, levitate a bit, and then coast, but I still have to ground occasionally or I’ll slow and stop. Finally, and most rarely, there’s Superman-style full control flight. Sometimes this requires particular postures, and sometimes it doesn’t require anything at all, and I don’t know whether those are fundamentally different. I think the first type, the seven-league-boots, comes from bike-riding. Pedaling a bicycle is enough like walking that my subconscious can’t distinguish them, and just erases the bicycle itself. The others, I’m not sure of. Interestingly, I do _not_ ever fly by swimming through the air, as some report. This is probably because I don’t swim much when I’m awake, either. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-sequences-and-how-they-almost-always-seem-wrong-to-me/722702/42 "2015-06-19T13:29:40Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > Most of my dreams work like an actor watching a movie in which they played one of the characters. I am usually conscious of a character being “me” even if the character doesn’t look like me. I get that (there’s recurring dreamselves too), as well as “view from me” and “camera-view” (only because the dream is mine doesn’t mean I am in it). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-sequences-and-how-they-almost-always-seem-wrong-to-me/722702/43 "2015-06-19T15:21:21Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Does anyone else have the sad experience of losing this capability, over time, perhaps as a consequence of age? Nope, still fly. However, I have only ever dreamed of flying in the form of a bird, not as myself. > [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Alphonse? Is that you? Hm. I _do_ have a blond older brother… **checks back of head for bloody sigil** I guess not. 😃 Also: This reference is a tiny raft of CS on a growing flood of IMHO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-sequences-and-how-they-almost-always-seem-wrong-to-me/722702.md?page=2)