Travel
YOU WANT TO FLY AWAY
You want to escape and y away by your own
magical eorts to the great blue yonder. You
have a wonderful time, ying higher and
higher. You then dive down and see your
home far below you. Suddenly the ying has
lost its fun factor.
Action Ask yourself why you want to leave
home and escape from a more grounded life.
Can you not stay the course and wait for
change? Fleeing from responsibilities or
emotional problems may not be the
answer that best serves
your development.
YOU’RE FLYING TOO
CLOSE TO THE SUN
The dream is taking you so high, you begin to
feel the sun’s warmth a little too ercely. You are
ying all by yourself, strongly and completely
condent in your own powers to y without an
engine. You are possibly in danger, but you
believe you are immortal.
Action Remember Icarus, whose father
Daedalus warned him not to y too close to
the sun for fear that his wax wings would melt.
Full of hubris, Icarus ignored the warning and
perished. Can you acknowledge some
ination in a subpersonality you may have?
Work on it or suer the consequences.
FLYING
Dreams about ying are usually
enjoyable—soaring through the
sky or skimming over the earth’s
surface can mean a longing for
freedom and self-empowerment.
Alternatively, you may feel terried.
Reecting on the emotions felt in
your dream will help you better
understand its message.
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YOU’RE FLYING UP, UP,
AND AWAY
Eortlessly you take o in the dream to y up, up,
and away. You rejoice to be able to do this—your
waking dream come true. In perfect ying
conditions, you’re in a cloudless sky, celebrating
having achieved something hugely satisfying in life.
Action You’re giving yourself a rewarding “high
ve” with this dream. This is a time when you don’t
have to take any action—but remember to come
down to earth psychologically once you’re back
in bed with a full day ahead of you.
CASE STUDY: TOM
Tom taught himself to y in his dreams as a
child. By sheer willpower, he imagined taking
to the air without wings. Even when he grew
up, he ew without engines during his vivid
dreams, either helping rescue people or
eeing from danger. He understood why he
found this escape route (dicult childhood, an
alcoholic mother) but sensed anyway that his
dream ability was signicant.
This insight echoes ancient civilizations’
belief in astral traveling, where the spirit
leaves the sleeping body and goes where it
wants. Perhaps Tom had some ancestral
memory in his DNA; it certainly proved useful
during his unhappy home life. He remembers
countless dreams of ying. In one, unable to
answer his teacher’s question, he dreamed of
shouting to her “But I can y!”, as if this
trumped any schoolwork.
Tom’s psychological journey has been
fascinating. Instead of ying to escape, he
dreams nowadays of helping people. That
usually involves ying to release prisoners in
castles or ying desperate people to safety.
In real life, he has become a doctor.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
THE JOURNALS AND NOTEBOOKS
DON’T BE PUSHED BY
YOUR PROBLEMS; BE LED
BY YOUR DREAMS.
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