h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

In *The Salmon of Doubt* I was gratified to see Douglas Adams, too, experienced flying dreams. (He wrote: "I’m one of those people who has been tantalised by the flying dream for years, and scuba diving is the closest thing I know to flying.")

I used to have flying dreams all the time when I was a youngster - I'd rise up on my toes, spread out my arms, lift up into the air, and glide all over the neighborhood. Those were the coolest dreams. (I tried to force myself to have one a few years ago and could only get three feet off the ground and went crashing into the patio furniture. That was not so cool.)

Anybody else here ever have flying dreams? Did you flap your arms, or glide, or did you do something else entirely?

Adams almost had it worked out.
The trick is to not bump into the ground.

~jwf~

Oh! That's right! The man was a genius!

(He also had the great good sense to name an ocean after me: "...Through it wound the river Dave, which then meandered on through the hills till it met, five hundred miles away, the immense ocean, which, until recently, he had called the Dave Ocean, but which in a fit of modest embarrassment he had now renamed the Karen Ocean. He had always thought that Pacific was a really dumb name." - from *The Salmon of Doubt*)

I have dreams in which I dive down from a height, and manage to fly before I hit the ground. Then I can float around at the same height, although I'm unable to gain any height. It's very useful. The higher I am when the floating kicks in, the more useful it is.

I loved the flying dreams! I should try that again...

Ooh! I like your dream very much! Flying is ever so much more fun than flattening oneself into the ground.

Mila, aren't they the BEST?!
I can't seem to make myself have them, though... they seem to come when I'm not trying...

I think I will try very hard to fly tonight

Am currently relaxing nicely, already in pajamas, and listening to fun music - a facebook friend shared an Ancient Egyptian piece, and then I clicked more links from there... So focusing and programming myself to fly should be a breeze Donchatink?

Ooh - good strategy, Mila!
Let me know how it works for you!

Nope I think I dreamed, but can't remember any flying...

Hi

I tend to fly helicopters, I call them my Airwolf dreams and have the theme tune in my head for the remainder of the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLFqeXm_5X4

Well, dang, Mia - keep trying, okay? Maybe next time. (I can't remember any dreams I had last night, either. The last dream I remember was from maybe a week ago - and I was going from room to room in this house full of hallways and hidden passages - it was kind of cool...)

Peanut - thank you ever so much for the link to the Air Wolf theme! I LOVED it!

I do not believe I have ever before met someone who dreamed about flying helicopters. Do you fly them in real life, too? I've taken a couple of introductory flying lessons - but that was for planes - helicopters look WAY complicated!

>> maybe a week ago - and I was going from room to room
in this house full of hallways and hidden passages <<

Welcome to the spacial mazeway that is h2g2.

~jwf~

It is a pretty cool theme isn't it, I'm glad you liked it.

I have never flown anything and in my dreams when I am faced with levers and a control panel there is always an element of guesswork going on

Flying has always been a feature of my dreams, when I was younger I used to play 'magic carpets' and dream them, although it was usually a magic towel as I was not allowed to take the rugs outside

My Dad was a hang-glider, so it was a normal weekend out in the countryside with people legging it over a cliff edge and taking off so sometimes I'd glide and at some point Airwolf took over...

Did you enjoy your introductory lessons?

jwf - I know, right?!

I very much enjoyed my introductory lessons. I never quite got beyond them, though. For a year I worked at a small airport and did all kinds of airporty stuff. One of the things I did was let the pilots know the direction and speed of the winds, and suggest a runway for them to land on. I had a script: "Right now winds are ___ knots and are out of the (direction). We suggest right (or left, depending) traffic on one-niner (or whatever)." Yeah. Miraculously, no one crashed.

One of the pilots became a good friend and one time he took me up for a ride in a little aerobat - he asked me if I wanted to do a loop - and, after some encouragement from him, I agreed to this. It was AWESOME! The sky became the land, and the land became the sky, and the skin on my face did that thing where it stretched back.

Those were the days.

Oh! That last reply was to Peanut.

Sounds amazing experience and a really interesting job

Last I dreamt about a 'Back to the Future' type car, I parked up, got out saying something to an unknown passenger.

When I woke up I thought that is really cool, you don't have to reverse park, just line it up and float in sideways.

My second thoughts were good grief, I think you need to get out more Peanut, if those are your first thoughts of cool things to do in a futuristic car

Whoah! But wouldn't it be cool to not have to put your car in reverse?! What a great dream, Peanut!

Have you ever had a dream where you were trying to get away from the Bad Guys and you opened your mouth to scream and nothing came out? And you tried to run, but it felt like you were running through water...? Those dreams really stink.