Many people have described floating in dreams. Unlike flying dreams, where you can often control the direction and height of your flight above the dream landscape, you often have minimal control in floating dreams. You may experience only the sensation of floating in...

Sleep and lucid dream researcher Stephen LaBerge has proposed that the sensations of astral projection, or an out of body experience, may be a specific type of lucid dream. These so-called out of body dreams may be related to wake-induced lucid dreams, which occur at...