At any point and time in my dreams, I can easily choose to fly for various reasons and purposes such as teaching someone else to fly, or getting out of a messy situation. Because there are so many kinds of flying and reasons for flying, there are also many different meanings. These ranged from Freud's idea that it is a reconstruction of the joy of being tossed around as a child by adults to Alan Hobson's theory that it is the result of neuron firings from the brain stem to Walter Bonime's feeling that it represents the person's desire to flee responsibility and limitations of nature. The most self empowering answer seems to be the one that you can choose that will satisfy both the need for the answer to fit and at the same time carry you forward in life. Once you realize that you are flying, it may occur to your that this is not something one can do in waking reality.
Some people like to test their skill, seeing how high or low, how fast or slow they can fly.
Others like to visit far away places or see friends. Best Good Fair Poor Richard Wilkerson is general editor for The Internet Dream E-zine, Electric Dreams, and director of DreamGate, the Internet Communications and Dream Education Center. He writes the Cyberphile column for the Association for the Study of Dreams Newsletter. Although every effort is made to present accurate information, security is imperfect and unintended errors or mischievous material may be present. Please alert the Webmaster to anything that seems wrong.