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 dreams; find yourself floating atop a lake, river, cloud or other buoyant medium; or turn the dream into a flying dream where you can control your direction and speed. A feeling of floating upward is also a common hallmark of a successful astral projection; some people have realized they left their bodies only after they found themselves floating upward into a version of their bedrooms. However, not all dream floating indicates an astral projection: you can have ordinary subconscious or lucid dreams of floating around in your bedroom (or elsewhere), or view a dream scene from a disembodied perspective. Floating in dreams is most commonly associated with feelings of acceptance, content, calm and detachment.
You might be the one floating in your dreams, or you may see other people, animals, or objects floating. In each case, it helps to examine the emotions you felt in the dream: a floating dream can be either positive or negative depending on how it made you feel. If you were the one floating in your dream, it can indicate that you are generally happy and content with your life situation, and have let go of or resolved issues that were previously troubling you. To float you have to relax and let the water support you, so a floating dream could signal that you have come to a place of acceptance in some area of your life. Perhaps you feel able to “rise above” a previously challenging situation.
Dreams about floating can be negative if you felt out of control or like you had nothing to hold onto in the dream. Some people describe dreams in which they spontaneously started to float away from the ground. They felt anxious and scared that they wouldn’t be able to return and instead would float off into space. They might see friends and family members standing on the ground below and be powerless to get back to them. This kind of dream floating is similar to dreams of falling, and can be a subconscious hint that you feel out of control in some aspect of your life. Uncontrolled floating in dreams, especially if the dream environment around you is indistinct, may indicate that you feel aimless in life: you’re just “going with the flow” and have yet to set meaningful goals for your life. A lack of control over your movements in a floating dream could also indicate a lack of confidence in your own waking decisions and actions.
If you feel insecure financially, emotionally, or socially, negative floating dreams can articulate your feelings of insecurity. If you feel like you’re being micromanaged at work, or that your voice is being discounted in your personal or professional life, floating dreams can express your frustration at the lack of input you feel. Perhaps you’ve been observing a conflict or situation between people you know while feeling peripheral to the situation and unable to influence it in a meaningful way. Alternatively, if you feel content in your floating dream it may be a sign that you’ve decided to outwait a negative situation or conflict and have stopped stressing over it.
Other people or animals floating in a dream can have several meanings depending on the tone of your dream. Seeing animals floating on water was traditionally thought to denote happiness and contentment. However, if you see animals or people you know floating away from you, it could be a sign that you feel disconnected from others; perhaps you’re experiencing difficulties that are isolating you from those around you. Likewise, seeing objects floating in dreams can indicate that you feel ungrounded and want to strengthen your connections to the rest of the world.
Finally, if you feel that you floated out of your body while remaining conscious, you may also want to learn more about out of body experiences, including ways to control and induce them. Like floating dreams in general, OBEs tend to be a lot less scary when you understand what may be causing them. Floating dreams can be either calming or distressing depending on the content and tone of the dream. Dreams both positive and negative spring from the thoughts, events and emotions of our waking lives, so if you have scary or upsetting floating dreams, the best way to reduce them or change them into positive dreams is to honestly address the conflicts and stresses in your life that may underlie them. Once you address the underlying causes of negative floating dreams, you may even experience a positive counter-dream of floating that will assure you the issue has been resolved.
through my life , I have had Incredible dreams of flight/Lighter than air. Sometimes, I can float above a crown, merely by #treading# the air. Sometimes, I can take Giant leaps, that can cover a hop all the way to blocks at a time. Sometimes, I fly like a bird, sometimes I am totally weightless, and float.
I seem to have the same dream 3 to 4 nights a week. I am moaning, trying to speak, trying to wake my husband who doesn’t hear or feel me. I am often floating around the bed and desperately trying to hold on to the bed or stay on the bed. Sometimes I feel something is trying to pull me away. Any ideas?
My ex boyfriend said he had a dream of us , he said that in his dream i was lying on his bed , on the side i always use to lay and the way i used to lay on my right hip , he said that i reached my hand out to him and everytime he reached back it seems like i would move further away and he wasnt able to reach me , he said that we were smiling , laughing , and staring at eachother the only thing that was able to touch were our finger tips , he explained it as a mirror effect , please please please can anyone tell me what this means ??
In my dream I had sneaked into an old building site, one that I gave never worked on before.
When I was there I bumped into an old work mate, he had passed away a few years ago and he never crosses my mind.
I said “hi how are you stranger?”
As you would with a close friend you have not seen for a long time.
He said in a stern voice “you should not be here, this place is dangerous for you”
After that all the people with no faces turns and started coming towards me, I started running and slightly floating away. Only floating a few inches mind,I found it funny that I couldn’t be caught until a person of authority somehow summoned me.
He had a face that frightened most but I wasn’t put off by him, I apologised for being there and said that I know I shouldn’t be where I was.
He invited me into a closed area, I did feel safe but there was also a feeling in the back of my mind that this might not be a place that I can come back from.
I made my excuses and found my way out of the dream, I can’t remember the path or route I took to get out.
Any explanation or help on this one please?
I have dreams in which I float/walk mostly just above the ground where I feel that the more I concentrate the longer I will stay above the ground. Sometimes I can go higher than the buildings around me always knowing and commenting that I am dreaming , always feeling safe and happy. I live with mostly terrible violent or adventurous dreams what I call my Bruckheimer’s since he would earn loads off my dreams .
The same to me. I have been dreaming this period, floating and moving just ablve the ground, happy. I had the same feeling, the more i concentrate, the more i would stand that way. I think in my dream “waw, how can i do this????” I am capricorn, 16 january 1984.
Same birthday also. I had a dream where I was floating just above ground in the yard of my childhood home and I was on my back with a soccer ball on my foot while my nephews were watching in disbelief.
Me too! And I show off to my parents that I can do this and I’m the only one who can do this in my house!
I mean show off in my dream
I have a number of dreams which I would like interpretation for.
1) Floating above myself in my dream and just stating at myself sleeping. I’ve always taken this as a good dream but was recently told that it is a bad thing.
2) Being chased by a mob of people who I don’t know who seem to be intent on killing me.
Majority of time I would jump from location to location almost in a game of hide and seek/life or death trying to lose the chasers.
At other times, I would be surrounded and shot at but always either absorbing the bullets or sometimes having a force field stopping the bullets from hitting me.
3) Being asleep then suddenly being held down by a faceless person/entity, during which I am also in a state of paralysis. All I can do is scream ‘Release me, Release me’ or ‘Help’ in a muffled voice.
The weird thing when screaming, it isn’t just in my dream as I can hear myself screaming out and also I been told that I’ve been heard screaming out by others sleeping close to me.
4) Floating and levitating at will in a controlled manner but also gliding just above the ground.
At other times, I would be floating and levitating but uncontrollably, sometimes to almost space before suddenly falling. This would be constantly repeated over and over in a cycle which would last until I jump out of my sleep.
I would like to get some answers as it as now got to the point where I’m almost scared to go to sleep because of the fear of having one of those dreams
Kevin,
Although all of those sound extremely interesting, there’s no way I can interpret the hundreds of dreams visitors ask me to interpret for them. I try to provide a wealth of information here that an help you on your path to self-discovery and dream recall, but as of this writing, I’m not yet interpreting commenters dreams for them, sorry.
Hopefully one of our amazing visitors will be able to help!
Dream On,
Keith
Different dreams so many experts but still, dreams are for sleeping, some dreams are meant to be continued some dreams are the opposite of what an individual just dreamt about. But only you have the mind to control it. Often people are being controlled by or of the dream. It’s up to you to make the best of it. You can turn your dreams into something more like choosing the perfect visage of a happy greater more imaginatively purposeful path. Heaven is not far when your dreams are about death and tragedy. One great way to stop a nightmare is to call out Gods name. Sweet dreams. Based on experiences of one too many different dreams.
I believe having dreams of floating and or flying and especially if your in control of how high & low you go signifies “Creativity”. Not sure how to explain it but, that’s what I’ve read. These are positive dreams. A feeling of freedom peace calmness bliss.
#3 – to me is anxiety or high levels of stress . Are you burdened by debt ? I know when I was financially unstable and in debt I had those types of dreams – I even wrote a short story very similar to what you are describing .
My boyfriend had a dream that he was falling away from me while I was floating. He said all he could see is my big brown eyes staring at him. He said I wasn’t reaching for him but just looking at him with sadness in my eyes. Can you please tell me what this means?!
It means your supportive of him .you are meant to be together.the “floating away from you means”.you guys are meant to be together.And that him looking and only “seeing your brown eyes while floating away from you ” means that he’ll always be their to be your so called “everything that you need I’m right here for you boyfriend”. Do… be happy and spend your life with him.Make the best of it.
I was in a dream, just started levitating. Something was pulling me, I didnt want to go, kept trying to wake up. Almost like a gray force trying to pull me. Never dreamt like this before. I finally woke myself up with a headache afterwards. Any ideas on this one?
Dreams or, more accurately, experiences such as this one indicate evidence of having agreed to be involved in the hybrid child program. Research Hybrid Children and you’ll find individuals such as Bridget who have had similar experiences. What you have described sounds like alot of other peoples abduction experiences. Nothing to be afraid of as your soul knows exactly what is happening and why, but doing some research on the topic will bring your concious mind up to speed with your inner being allowed you to be more accepting of the experience next time it happens. All the best hybrid mummy!! X
I got one or a few answers to that but maybe one will help.levitating I know it can be something more to the person which is you.Don’t you ever want to dig into what or who your ancestors are .I just know that somewhere along your family line,one or two of your Relatives are mediums.considered psychics.from maybe long time ago.check maybe one of them is a meditator.(passed away or living).they all count for something good.
Hey there dreamherbs I was wondering if you could help me with these dreams. They are recurring. In one I am running down this hill that was in the back of a piece of property my stepdad owned. As I get to the bottom I am no longer able to touch the ground and I begin to fly quite uncontrollably. I normally wake up when I finally force myself to land. In the other dreams I am either cooking at the waffle house or back in the army or school and I begin to float away. The only one of those that I actually try to keep myself from floating away is the waffle house dream, it seems to upset me that I cannot finish cooking. This sensation is better described that it feels like I cannot place my feet solidly on the ground at first then I just continue to float away. I guess it would be pertinent info that these dreams are all recurring and that I used to not have the floating sensation or flying sensation. I would either continue running down the hill till I woke up or cooking or soldiering or sitting in class.
Alva,
I’m approving this comment in case someone wants to interpret this dream for you. I wish I had the time to interpret everyone’s dreams for them, but I’ve got my day job, so that’s not possible. If you’re interested, perhaps read Carl Jung; a very famous person who has a lot to say about dreams and dreaming, or look to Amazon for a number of great books on dream interpretations.
Dream On,
Keith
I was sleeping when I first saw a floating bucket and the a floating cup it soon floated out of my room as it floated out my mom woke me up and ask what’s wrong I told her the exact same thing and I saw the floating things two days in a row. Please help me iI don’t know what is wrong
I have dreamed about floating in my bedroom. I float up to the ceiling and I can see my bedroom. When I try to land on the floor, I see a human shaped spirit for a couple of seconds, The spirit vanishes and I wake up. Please tell me if any of you have had similar dream. And what does these floating dreams mean,
I just have this dream, my body involuntarily floats around the ceiling after I ran a lot. The situations seems familiar to me just like some gas reaction. But then some people saw me and so I become a little discomforted, and so I calls them to pull me down. They pulled me down but I can’t find something to hold on to, things just breaks, so I hooked my left foot (stronger foot) to the door frame and pull myself down, this time around I notices these people ain’t so interested in me anymore. When I’m down again I hooked my left foot to a cupboard or something, explain my situation a bit, and they left me. After that I tried to remember why this feeling of floating so familiar but I end up awaken. I’m content and then shame, I’m not in control but then I do, I’m at a University, dirt road and then hospital.
I have a dream lastnight i saw cloud/smoke and suddenly im flooting uncontrolled i try to shout loud the name of my wife beside me in bed but theirs no voice came out and im struggle to catch my breathe and trying to reach my wife in bed but i cant touch her im trying to hold and reach here shoulder until the last breath i touch here and im woke up,
I want to know the meaning of my dream. Sir
I often dream about making myself float up to the ceiling and floating around my house. Last night i was dreaming that i was floating above my bed, having a great time but not in great control hitting my head and back on the ceiling. I realised that i was dreaming, and then woke up next to the bed on the floor. Well i thought i had anyway! My girlfriend woke up and said what are you doing down on the floor. i told her about my dream and she laughed, i then felt like i could still do it so i did! she was amazed saying wow you could make money from this. I was really loving showing off my new skill, still bumping my head though. Then things got really weird and i zoomed out seeing the room as a box in nothingness. there was millions of these same boxes (my bedroom) all of a sudden, that stared to arrange them selfs into place slotting into a giant cross, that was lit up in really vivid colours, until the last one, the room i was in slotted into place. A draw shut behind it and i Really did wake up this time!! This last part happen so quick that i didn’t have time to think weather i was dreaming or not. This is the first time my floating dreams have gone crazy like this!
Thanks,
I have recurring dreams where I am floating off the ground, but I am in control. I can wave my arms up or down, dependent upon if I want to go higher or maintain my “hover.” Would love to hear if anyone has experienced the same.
I can control my direction, height and speed. I find it so relaxing and peaceful. Never understood it, but don’t at all fear it.
I had a dream I was floating over me and my husband sleeping in the bed and the room felt very cold and I couldn’t breath I kept screaming help but no one could hear me
In my dream I am being pulled up towards GOD. I am on my back, so my face is looking up to God. I am very relaxed and I feel good!!
But I am floating upwards.
And when I get in the heavens I see GOD.
Weird actually I watched my body float in my bedroom and I remember what I dressed in before I went to sleep, but in the dream I was in a white gown and saw myself rise I was a little anxious being at the very top of my ceiling watching myself. But I simply said get down and my body lightly floated to bed again and woke up. Strange.
I always have a dream I float around my house..or wherever I sleep I never can control where I’m going.. But it doesn’t scare me.. I kind of just float around all the rooms and then I wake up at my normal time.. But I feel like im awake the whole time..
I’ve had a few sleep paralysis nightmares before which have ranged from unexplained flashing lights (mainly red), loud white noise and me trying to call out for help.
My dream last night was terrifying. All I can remember was in was sleeping in bed, exactly as I was in real life… Then (in first person – I couldn’t see myself) I floated up to the ceiling very quickly. There was a loud, piercing shriek and then I tried to call out for help but nothing would happen.
Personally I’ve had a fear of aliens, mainly abductions and also being possessed by demons and evil spirits.
My life is going great at the moment, I can’t really pick out anything that’s bothering me that might be in my subconscious.
Hi all, namaste,
I now have had a lucid dream twice. The 1rst time I thought it was reality untill I woke up. And I could go to sleep again and start floating again. I was with random friends and people and they where amazed, yet didn’t respond like it was crazy. Hovering over water and land. Not mega high but I could go atleast 50 yards high.
The second time, last night, I recognized I was dreaming and even told the people around me I knew. I could float and was in control. Still a bit to afraid to fly high because I suddenly was in a bedroom on the 21rst floor of som building I don’t know. And I tried to fly out of the window but got terrified of the hight and went back in with a fear of falling.
Amazing stuff!
I have a recurring dream, it’s been coming and going for over 2 decades. I am floating uncontrollably through a room, usually a familiar room like in my house, but not always. I sometimes get uncomfortable in the dream, afraid that I won’t be able to get down, but sometimes I enjoy the floating, pushing myself off of walls. Sometimes I am alone & sometimes other people are present but they’re always on the ground and never offer to help me get down.
I often have these kinds dreams where I feel like I don’t have control over my body and some external force is driving me! It feels like my soul has left my body and some other force/soul is driving it against my wishes! This has been happened a couple of times with me n I don’t know what to do! And this is really scary for me! I have even banged myself in the walls and ceilings in my dreams as I have no control over myself! And one thing I have noticed is that I’m not able to speak when such things happen! Sometimes I’m so scared that I wake up screaming out for my mom and dad sleeping in the other room! And there, I can feel my heart racing and I get all sweaty no matter it is cold outside or not! And even after waking up I wonder if someone invisible is present in my room or not! And I have also seen things flying one or two times in my dreams! These nightmares really get me frightening through my nerves! So if you could help me out of this or even minimize the occurance of such dreams I’ll be really thankful to you!
I’ve had this dream so many times in which I am floating in my home sometimes on the terrace. but it was totally in my control I can control height….it was looking like there was no gravity..i like that feeling to fly ….i wish I could do it for real..
Yes i do dream where am floating or flying in the air, some of them on a free environment, at times where there is violence i will be floating and controlling my movement.
lol a dream
I had a dream last night which scared me to the point i woke my ten year old son up to come sleep with me and his two year old brother it felt like i needed them to be near me. I felt like if i died the dream i had would be exactly how i would feel.
Ok so i went to sleep and in my sleep i woke up and i started floating to the ceiling and couldn’t control it. I kept trying to yell for my son but nothing would come out. Also i kept trying to wake up but it was like the dream wouldn’t let me. So i floated into my sons room and kept trying to call for him and still no words would come out. Then i woke up. Ran to his room and made him come sleep with me and his brother it was so scary i was scared to go back to sleep.
Now i NEED to know what it means PLEASE help me! Thank you!
Hello, I recently had a dream where I was inside of my bedroom, everything was exact and as I was sleeping i could feel something began to lift me straight up but I was lying on my back, I was watching myself get lifted up and it reminded me of the typical scenes from a horror movie where the person gets lifted out of bed, but I started to go up and then the thing put me back down, then started to lift me back up , but it seemed as though the more scared I got the more it was lifting me up higher and higher above my bed , and I could see myself as this was happening and it was specifically in the middle of the room, everything seemed to be exact how my room is in real life..I was so scared and I knew I was dreaming but at the same time I felt like it wasn’t a dream anymore, I kept telling myself to not be scared and just wake up, and finally whatever it was put me down and I woke up… I’ve had sleep paralysis only 2 times in my life prior to this and it was 8 years ago, This felt as If somebody was really lifting me out of bed, I felt when I woke up like somebody had been practicing a spell on me to levitate. . Seriously weird because I don’t believe in any of this
Hi I had a very intence short but shocking dream. Before I was homeless, and one of my muslim mates let me sleep in the Mosque. I’m not Muslim but wanted to find what religion I liked, he told introduced me to people and told me you will fell angels tonight. So I go to sleep and in the dream I’m talking to people in a religious building and then I felt like I had power and then not in my controll I start levitating up and for a second I thought I was good then all of a sudden progressivel, louder and louder demonic or just hellish screaming appears. I wake myself up and realise that its just a dream. But is it? Note this has nothing to do with religion, it was my scary dream or experience I had, can you explain what it could be
I had this weird dream. I happen to be up for the whole day because of my final requirement in class that’s why when I got home at 5 pm, I just ate and go immediate to bed because I’m really tired. At 2 am I woke up and go to the bathroom. When I go back to bed, I really can’t sleep but my eyes really want to. Suddenly I feel like my bed is shaking and my lower body starts to float. I don’t really know if that’s a dream or what? I’m so confuse cause before anything happens I remember I can’t sleep. But then I think it can it can be a dream cause it’s such a weird thing to be possible. So what do u think? I really need someone’s opinion right now. Thank you in advance.
It’s unusual for me to remember dreams but I had this last night and have been searching the net for some time trying to find what it means. If you could help me, that would be great.
Last night I had a dream of a large, brown, closed door. I remember wondering what was in it. Switch to my mother upset, hysterically crying. Switch to me floating through two rooms in a house that is not familiar to me. I was sitting and floating in a perfectly horizontal line and floating through walls. I felt so peaceful just sitting and floating. I don’t recall what was in the rooms and I think I may have floated to the room with the closed door. Switch again to me telling my crying mum that ‘It’s Ok mum, it’s very peaceful’. She stopped crying.
Sorry about the switches.I really wish I could remember the whole thing. If you could shed any light on the meaning i’d really appreciate it. Thank you
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Ive been having that exact dream. Where I show people I can hover, every time pushing myself higher. Its been happening since I can remember. But every time it took a awesome kind of practice to take the sky, but once I gain confidence I go higher and higher, but always to afraid to push it to much because just now I fall. But it feels real, I fear its ‘reality’
I had a dream I was floating and showing off this was my party trick for people
I was really getting into it what does it mean
I dream of floating above my bed at least a few times a month. At first, I used to get scared but not anymore. But now I don’t only float, I also fly high up with a man who holds my head and flies really fast. I just don’t understand what it means, I get a little freaked out because I can’t seem to wake up fast enough. Please let me know what you think.
Last night I had a dream that I was walking somewhere that is not familiar to me then I realized that I was somehow floating and gently moving forward low to the ground then I floated above a group of African kids with same faces that looking at me with amazement. The air was a greenish gray and a little bit creepy but I liked my feeling at that moment.
Last thing I can remember that I was floating inside a room, I kept floating and moving around the room but this time I could feel un unknown force on my body that enable me to float and move but I did not had that much of control on my speed that made me really uncomfortable and a little bit scared.
I wonder what it meant?!
Thanks
PS- sorry for my bad english as it is my second language 😉
I literally just woke up. I’m my dream I felt numerous shadows and spirit presence, I believe? I was getting annoyed because even though I was asleep I didn’t think I was. I felt a good energy and good spirit come and they had me start to float above my bed. My blankets remained on me, floating with me. I asked to be put back down to bed and I went back down. What was this???
I have this dream, I dreamt of it twice, first I was in a class filled with children and I was about to teach them then suddenly my body started to float uncontrolled and bang the children almost killed them then I woke up, Second I was outside walking with friends then my body started to float again and I was so afraid that I couldnt go back to them then i woke up, and whenever I woke up I still get the feeling of floating uncontrollably
well would really like to heat from someone that has experience that feeling of bad
I have these dreams where I just float away and I have to struggle to get back in my body my body turns numb and the only thing I can do is breath to wake up and its the only thing I can do to wake up is breathe hard. anybody like that
has anybody felt the numbness of your body and you cant move but just breathe
Hi I don’t know if you can help me tp understand this dream.
I was floating above my body face down watching it, while a massive spider was sitting on my face. I was just watching then I heard a noise then I woke up.
I have continually been having dreams where I force myself to float and hover. I am usually in unfamiliar places around a mix of unfamiliar people and people I constantly interact with. Generally I exert this force in a display of my presence or just to show those around me I can. EVERY SINGLE TIME this happens I make sure to tell everyone what I am doing is not the same as flying. Seldomly in these dreams I temporarily lose control and go too high. Shortly after anxiety sets in I am able to regain control and float back to the ground or just hover at a comfortable height. If I do touch the ground again I generally take to hovering again. Sometimes with a shaky start. Since it has been happening more frequently I am curious what this may mean.
I have the same dreams. Exact. That’s why I’m here.
DUDE DUDE, I’m having a near EXACT replication of what you described! Except, not to come across as a self-righteous asshole, I dont get anxious and lose control at all, I use it 100% to show off to these people I have no recollection of their identities (though I am familiar with the concept that random people you by-pass on the streets and in your day to day life DO get remembered by the brain, and because the brain has to have a use for every memory within itself, it can often display them as people in scenarios in our dreams). What I would say is most different between our similar dreams of levitation/floating/hovering, is that these observers dont seem to give a single shred of a shit that I can display these god-like abilities. Most of the time anyways, SOMETIMES I get the reaction I’m expecting… but something I’ve noticed about my dream levitation that no-one else online seems to mention… is that I have a little difficulty with turning, but everytime I have the dream another time, I kind of master it a little better each time, its so perculiar.
As ridiculous as this may sound, I just recently learnt this swift- figure 8 kind of motion to turn a little better. I have ZERO difficulty going up and down, but left and right is only a new little trick my dream alter-ego learnt. To actually begin the levitation, I have to make some kind of forward motion, step or lunge but its successful every time I want it to be, and no-one else in my dreams is capable of this ability… I wonder what it could mean!
I recall a priest made famous in medieval times (in the past, not a dream) by his ability to levitate during lectures. Ever since I learnt this fact, if it even is accurate, I believe is when these dreams started… perhaps my mind views its own intellect so highly, that it believes its some kind of godly figure, better than anything on earth… I dunno, theres a lesson there but I’m looking for different answers!
I’ve been searching all over the internet for this specific response. I have been having this dream for many years. Every time I have the dream I become better at taking off. Its as almost if its second nature. I wake up just knowing that I could achieve such power of flight in reality. I get shaky starts at times but as the dream continues I become extremely confident in my “takeoffs”, “hoverings” and my “landings”. I often can repelle myself from gravity at Will. The ability doesn’t bother me as much as the actual “heights” that I know could be achieved while demonstrating it. Like If I really wanted to I know that going “higher” wouldn’t be an issue but I usually find myself “levitating” to a comfortable height with, sometimes, the help of extended arms & vertical motions (similar to the way a bird takes off) and and begen my practice. Its never in an unusual setting but the plots are somtimes questionable. This ability has never called for me to specifically rescue anyone or anything in my dream but only seems for me to embrace and study it. This dream doesn’t scare me but it does give me a very strong sense of confidence after awakening from it. These dreams feel so surreal to the point where I feel as though this ability can actually exist and be achieved in reality.
I have the exact same dreams as you describe to the point I got chills.If you find out please let me know….
i cannot help but almost the same dream but then i take control and fly as if i had it in me the whole time but sometimes it is a shaky start and i do it sometime just to show that i have te power and it feels GOOD…………..SO GOOD THAT I BELIEVE it could be bad ….. but its gives me a tingling sensation
I have constant dreams where I am float walking. These have never made me feel out of control. It’s actually the opposite. I feel in control, powerful even.
Twenty minutes ago, I have been having trouble going to sleep. Thinking about my troubles at school with my friendships and relationship. I felt like i knew i wasn’t going to sleep. Then something told me lets try and fall asleep again. I dont remember laying my head on the pillow. But the dream was not much vivid but i was still laying on my belly, the position i was laying on before i went to sleep. My friends were talking and it felt like a party was downstairs . Then all of a sudden i heard everyone’s voice at once. Then i started slowly floating. I couldnt control it. Then i woke and checked the time. It lasted for like between five to ten minutes.
So last night i had this dream where i was laying in bed and i couldnt move but when i closed my eyes i saw colors and i felt like i was floating but when i opened my eyes the feeling was gone then i woke up from that dream and my heart was racing o.O any ideas?
I have had sleep paralysis a couple of times now, but not as much as I get dreams of floating. I usually get these dreams when I’m sleeping with my belly on the bed, and in my dreams (I think it’s a dream) I am exactly how I am sleeping. It’s dark and everything and I am still asleep but I am aware of everything in my room. Then suddenly the top half of my body just seems to arch upwards as if I am possessed or something. I get this dream a lot but it’s either that experience or just a little experience of my whole body levitating. Everytime I get this dream, I always force myself to wake up because it freaks me out. It wasn’t until last night that I let myself keep floating. I had the same dream where I was still sleeping on my bed face down. Suddenly, I started to float and then slowly moved to the side of my bed to get out of it (I’m on the bottom of a bunk bed). Then, I quickly floated out of the room like I was being pulled or dragged away. It freaked me out the whole time and my body felt like it was tryig to escape. So I was trying to wake up, but it wasnt until I got out of my bedroom door that I did. Once I wake up, I turn on the tv and then sleep on either my left or right side to avoid getting these floating dreams or sleep paralysis.
Hey guys. Somehow being able to float in my dream is a common thing. I have it in about 3/5 dreams. I can decide when i want to float, and i can change direction! But when i want to increase altitude, i can do it, but sometimes im unable to stop the rise and i remember being scared of floating too high. I then cling onto something to halt the rise. Then i can freely float around again! I mainly decide to float to escape danger or go to the roof or just watch the things down below. And this site is helpful! Thanks!
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I have had many paranormal activity a happen around me. I just had a dream that my son was in the living room and floating. In the drea. I knew it was a ghost. His body was stiff and didn’t more. I walked up and grabbed him. While grabbing him I said “you never touch him again” then I said ” Jesus protect me”. I woke up and again asked for jesus’s protection. In the dream I felt scared and angry that this spirit was touching my son. I could see the spirit but knew it was caused by one. Any understanding of this? I can remember this so clearly .
I had a dream that I was changing schools and in order to do that I had to float up to the ceiling of this room with a group of people only some I knew, and to the right I could see a light I the ceiling because I had to apparate there (like in Harry Potter) and some people from pointed out that that light was heaven in a sarcastic tone and I laughed but I didn’t enter the light.Next thing i knew i was in another location which looked like a school, with some of my friends. I’m just confused about the weird floating to the ceiling ..Please help
I had a dream that I walked into a beautiful magical scencery of green grass and bright colors and I passed up mad hatter on a horse and I said hey I remember you and he smiled and there ws a gold book with a rabit floating toward me. Then I woke up, I was not scared, more in an awe state. Also I have not watched alice in wonderland any time recently for this dream to occur.
I had this dream 3 times over the past week. Its always inside a large mall like office building. I can slightly push my-self off the floor with my toes. I am in full control of the direction up/down or foreword/back. It is a very pleasant feeling. In fact I’m showing off to unfamiliar people watching me, but they seem unimpressed. I can slide down a stairway railing while standing up. Float up through elevator shafts with just a light push. At times there is someone or something chasing me, but I’m never afraid, as I know I can float over them and comely float away. Never once has it been scary, I wake feeling good looking forward to having it again. Since it just began and I cant remember most of my dreams, I had to Google it this morning because it must mean something. I’m in my mid 50’s. I consider myself to have a pretty good since of reality, I have had some difficult times over the last few years, as most have by the time they reach my age. I have been unemployed for a while. But recently decided to go back to school to try a different trade Thank you. And I apologize I didn’t intend to write a book.
My nephew saw me in his dream ridind a horse and going high to the sky then he SSW me floating up high
I always have dreams about floating away from people especially if I’m trying to get away from somebody who is after me in my dreams. I start floating above them. Sometimes their trying to jump up and grab me but I start floating higher and higher so they won’t reach me. Its scary because I been having that type of dream repeatedly for years.
I had a very weird dream when I was 12 years old. I dreamed about flying through the clouds during the day.. My body felt light as a feather. All of a sudden I try to wake myself up by moving my arm.. My entire body dropped onto the bed and i can hear a loud thump. I think my entire body was floating a couple inches above the bed. It was so weird, but i never experienced it again.
Hi, I had an amazing dream of floating, well not quite floating as it feels completely under my control. So when I decide to rise up I focus and use a type of energy build up through me which is the force that propels me. I rose to the ceiling in the dream and consciously suspended myself there which takes focus. When the others in the room saw me up there I then let myself down to fly and flip around the room in a figure eight movement from one side to the other over and over, so exhilarating.
It was a dream but the energy feeling I can still feel as though I can do it when awake lol! I wish!
I had a really strange dream last night. I will probably struggle to explain it, I dont remember actually going to sleep, but I remember switching from one environment, which seemed perfectly earth-like and normal, to being transported to a floating environment where there was nothing. It was like an abyss of Darkness, however there were distant outlines and objects that were slowly moving towards me, and now matter what I tried to do I could not move, the objects would simply pass straight through me. The easiest analogy of what I can compare it to would being earth and a comet hitting it. Instead of the object actually hitting me in my dream though it simply passed straight through me, and there was a sense of relief. However, I could then see further objects moving towards me they start off small, as they are soo far away but end up very large as they pass through you… It was very strange. I used to have this dream when I was a child aswell, and I cannot understand it.
Hi!
Well last night, I had this strange dream of me floating on top of my bed. I felt dead. I think I woke myself up.
But any thoughts on what had happened and why?
Thanks! Just curious. 🙂
I have dreamed several times that I levitate as a way for me to escape some sort of danger. I cannot levitate too high, just enough for me to get out of danger. Levitation is hard for me, it requires me to be focused but I can control it and I do enjoy it a lot. The highest I have levitated is right over trees. I feel empowered when I levitate but it has only happened when I feel threatened. I also feel I get better at it, or more familiar with how to control it the more I dream about it.
Hi, dr3amh3rbs I was wondering if you could help me interpret a dream that my roommate had.
My roommate was having trouble sleeping so she asked to sleep in my room next to me. Around the time we both went back to sleep, she said the door in my room opened. And everything outside was pitch black and the darkness started to enter the room and settle in front of the bed. The only light in the room was the moonlight from the window. She said that the darkness in front of us got me to float up so she grabbed me and got herself to scream in her dream.
What could this mean? We are so freaked out.
I had a dream that I was slowly floating forward by small galaxies in space. It was as if i was floating by people lined up to my left and right. They didn’t appear to be people though, they looked like small galaxies of different colors but their presence was that of a person. I recognized some of them as my friends and others strangers. The mood was calm and everyone enjoying their time, the vibe felt like a small social gathering/party in space. I was calm and welcoming to the experience as well. As I floated by about 6 or 7 “people” their was another “person” the end of the group who greeted me and told me he wanted to introduce me to someone. We then returned into physical form and that is a much as i remember.
The person at the end of the group, who wanted to introduce me to someone, is a musician from a well known music group. The very next day the photographer/videographer from that group followed me on Instagram. I am a freelance photographer/videographer so this can potentially lead to a great opportunity. Anyhow, It could be a complete coincidence but I found it interesting that i dreamt with one of the artists wanting to introduce me to someone and the next day his friend/associate follows me. They have hundreds of thousands of followers and follow very little people. I have no idea how he found me.
I would like to know what you think of this dream and if you think their is any correlation between the dream and the follow. Thanks.
I had a dream last september 19 2014. That was the strangest dream i ever had in my life. I had a dream i was floating above the dark clouds but not really dark, light is enough to see everthing around me. Above me was like the universe its dark and at the end of the parallel Clouds is ver bright. It feels like cold and warm hair flowing through me. I feel so light and relax. Then i descended everything turned black except a small light i see while i was descending down then i woke up in a place inside of full of dark clouds. But tiny lights is flickering like stars and its light is enough for me to witness all arounds me..while floating a force pushed me forward to an island a cloud like island. While approaching i hear a voice a mans voice and its getting louder and louder. Then i just woked up already landed in the island faced down on a cloud sand like its soft And warm.. I raised my head seeing only light above me. Hearing a mans voice uttering a language i do not know and i just felt so sorry and need to ask for forgiveness and i said “sorry, please forgive me” as i raised my head again everthing turned white and found myslef inside like a cave. Inside is dark. above it was a small dots of light like stars. And outside a scenery i cant imagine it existed. A cloud like floating island. Full of trees with flying birds like(im not sure) landscapes is unimaginable… The question is why i do rememball all my dreams. Common dreams forgets easily but this doesnt. It feels like so much real.. The feeling calm and relax. So holy and i dont know what word to describe it.. Please if you know this kind of dreams please reach me in my facebook or leave a comment here. Thank to the admin. Ilook forward for your answer.thanks
Please help me, I was terrified last night. I felt as though I was struggling to get to sleep when I started getting a ‘falling’ feeling I thought oh good I’m dropping off. But then I started to float up to my bedroom ceiling, it felt scary and I tried to kick and scream to wake myself up but it didn’t work. Then I started spinning round and round out of control. When I stopped this creepy dark figure in the corner of my room started pulling me towards him with his mouth open. I was so scared..I woke up with a start feeling as though my hand was touching the demon things mouth and that something or someone was sat on me. It took me a few mins to come round properly and has left me frightened to go back to sleep!
Hello, all.
I will first preface this by stating that I’ve have had a long history of reoccurring dreams with tactile sensation components, as well as other oddities since I was a kid. I have never written on a forum like this or really talked about my dreams with anyone other than my mother on very rare occasion.
My mother told me I had what she called sleep paralyzing night terrors when I was young.
Now, I have no memory of the dreams she describes but as an adult, I’ve had an endless number of dreams where I’m in in a crowded place such as a school or a fairground, out in the open.
In these situations, for some odd ball reason I know I have the ability to ‘levitate’ at will and in my dream, and I do so for fun.
What I do is actually lock my legs and I can feel my quadriceps stiffen and experience a kind of self-initiated knee lock. I also place my arms down at my sides and lock at the elbows while tightening all of my muscles. Even my breath is controlled. In the dream, I focus on the sensation of floating and/or imagining that by doing so I can channel a gentle force on the ground beneath my heath can rise up into the air.
When I float, it starts slow and steady but can ultimately reach a height of about 20-30 feet or so off the ground.
So long as I am locked and focused in the dream, I can maintain this effect at a set height and survey everything from above.
Bear in mind, I am in complete control of this effect and can terminate it at will, which results in me very relaxingly reversing back to the ground to gently land on my feet. I can ascend from the ground or descend to the ground repeatedly in this manor.
I experience no panic or trepidation during these episodes.
Bystanders who observe this in my dream are not overly concerned that I’m doing something that is obviously impossible in the waking world, but they do respond to the act as if it’s a pretty entertaining spectacle to watch.
In addition, their faces are clear though I imagine their identities are constructed from random imagery in my mind. I do not know any of the persons who see me do this. They are strangers.
After several displays of this floating trick, I wake up and find myself wondering whether it actually happened as I can feel the effects in my arms and legs still. After waking up, the feeling fades.
It feels so real and is so intense that after waking, I have attempted to duplicate what I was doing in the dream just for giggles to see if I can make it happen while awake.
The feeling of being able to do this in my dreams is truly incredible and it carries no negative feelings.
I have tried to manipulate my ascension over the years so that I can turn levitation into flying but for some reason, I have never met with any success.
My ability to levitate in dreams is purely a vertical sensation. I can rise and fall at will, with focus and muscle control, as if this ability were as natural to me in the waking world as standing stiff as a board.
I have read about people levitating in dreams before but the way I do it seems to be a unique thing. There has to be people out there who have done this, using a similar technique. Am I simply lucid dreaming? And if so, is it possible to control elements of dreams to a greater degree when some kind of mental exercise?
Has anyone experienced a dream like this, and if so, what does it mean?
The reason I wrote here today is because it’s been about 6 months since I’ve had a dream like this and it woke me up. Since the details were so clear in my mind, I immediately got online and started writing about it here so I could explain it as clear as possible without losing the details with the passing of time.
I had a dream last night I was in my parents home, but new owners occupied the house. I entered a doorway in the house I have never encountered. Upon opening the door, a gorgeous brightly colored beige spiral stairway appeared, similar in Greek architecture. I descended the staircase with curiosity and started floating down the staircase. On the side of the wall were 50+ white candles. With my mind, I was able to light the candles. I could see the stairs spiraling downward, but I decided to turnaround and float back up the staircase. A feeling of peacefulness was around me at all times. I have had other dreams where I’m in a world similar to ancient Greece with milky white Greek staircases and columns and huge rooms with very high ceilings. People approach me and guide me into rooms but no one speaks to me in these dreams. The other night I was in one of these rooms and woman stood over me holding her hand over my head and spoke but I could not hear her voice. An older man in a long robe was standing next to me during this dream. He guided me to the room. He reminded me of Moses. Yellowish hazy lights float through the windows into the rooms during these dreams. There is a feeling of contentment and peace but I don’t understand my role/or place in these dreams. I feel as though I have a role and I’m being reminded of my duty but it’s not coming through to me. There is no fear in these dreams.
i had a dream i was running down stairs ,getting away from someone that now lives in the house i grew up in, i was with a freind or someone and i said look at this statue,then it became real and annoyed and told on us for being in the yard,it felt like i have done it a million times running down these stairs ,just started floating instead,fealt more naturual than walking,like skateboarding big fronstide airs weightlessness
It has now become a daily experience for me since I float in at least one dream every night. Now my speed has increased and I’m able to jump as high as a building in a single kick. I am not exactly sure what I’m capable of and I also dreamt of using my telekinetic powers once on a small scale. So could you explain to me in your words what exactly do you interpret from this and I will tell you what’s my interpretation.
I wish I could float/levitate in all my dreams. I get about 1 or 2 of them per year
So i had a dream i was in a car and the car lifted off the ground with myself and my girlfriend in it the car was rotating slowly towards the clouds. i then noticed all other cars were doing the same thing and next thing i knew i was out of the car reaching up (not rotating anymore going straight up) and there was a water like substance all level across the sky my hands went in first then my whole body went above it and i was not floating any more my feet touched down on the watery surface now underneath me. some people were funneling to a cave type structure so we went in and it had people doing basic things like planting seeds and using batterys for lighting the inside making what looked like a new council. basically looked like people was starting over. any chance you could break this down for me? was a weird night i dont usually dream that vivid.
Dream I lift my self up and went floating in the air because I was block from getting home and I make them see they cannot block me from getting were I want to go
Early this morning I woke to the sound of my own voice in distress. It was as though somehow my mind had awoken from my dream a nanosecond before my body managed to as I was aware of my own mumbling (or vice versa). The dream I was waking from started out seemingly normal but as it progressed took a turn in which really frightened me. I was lying in bed, in my own room, and I felt pressure coming through the mattress from under the bed. Almost as if someone was under it pushing upward into my back. It started as an annoyance but got stronger and stronger. I remember thinking a child (I have none) or family member was under it and for whatever reason I wasn’t bothered except they were disrupting my sleep. When I finally said stop and gently hit the mattress with my hand there was suddenly a constant pressure akin to a knee in the back. I remember levitating, and it took me a few seconds to realize I was being lifted, or pushed rather, up from my bed. I was flat as a board, floating with my comforter and pillow exactly as I had been lying in bed, only I was having difficulty moving to see what was underneath me. ALl the while I could feel I was being pushed. As I neared the ceiling and the ceiling fan I started to panic and I felt I would be crushed between the force of whatever was under me and the ceiling. It was when my hands touched the ceiling and I turned my face sideways so as not to hit my nose that I started really struggling and calling out. This is when I woke to my own calls. My heart was pounding and I had a sort of pit in my stomach that took a good 15-20 minutes to subside.
I’ve never had a dream like this before. Any insight?
I dreamed my late Mom was levitated/floating a couple of feet above ground. She wore a solid red long robe and held two large red sacks (say like large burlap potatoes sacks), one in each hand. Please help me understand my dream, I NEED to know. Thank you.
My dreams are always different…but in most of them I can float at anytime I please. I’m not sure how..? And not very high..just enough that I can breeze down stairs and move very quickly. BUT when things in my life are upsetting such as my job, a dear friend killing themselves, being lied to…etc I have to control of the floating and struggle to even touch my fingers to anything solid. Sometimes I’ll fall into water only to finally crawl out of it, to only start floating again. Once these dreams start it takes a LONG time to stop and I never sleep for more than a hour or two at a time. It happening again..help…I’m so tired…and sleeping pills don’t work for this
For 15 years I’ve been a paraplegic (paralyzed to my chest) and I “float” in nearly every dream I have. Often, if I am indoors in my dream, I float to the ceiling above my wheelchair and require others to pull me down to leave the building or go into different rooms. This is particularly interesting in large structures like malls or schools. But many times, I am not above my wheelchair, and I am somewhat able to control my direction by bouncing gently, like a half-filled helium balloon. Before being paralyzed, I often was able to fly fast near to the ground in my dreams, but I am no longer able to fly in my dreams since my paralysis — only to float. I love having floating dreams!
Hello,
I had a dream last night which made me wake up in the middle of the night with a horrible feeling for some reason. i dreamt that I was in a car with my boyfriend driving past, and on the road my friend (which I have not spoken to for years) was just floating of the ground in a still position in a crucifix shape a few meters of the road, she was not speak and her eyes were open just staring into the open, as soon as I saw this I woke, feeling rather uncomfortable with a wierd feeling. Will you be able to tell me if this has any meaning? Thanks.
Hi,
I’ve had three dreams, and in each I am with family and/or friends. I feel myself lifted up as I approaching my friends and I’m aware that it’s a spirit lifting me. I feel calm and as though the spirit is helping me, however the people around me are alarmed and therefore it makes me frustrated that the spirit is lifting me.
Is there a meaning to these dreams?
Thanks!
I saved my 2-year old from drowning in our pool yesterday. When I picked him up, he wasn’t breathing but when I put him on the side of the pool, he was breathing.
Last night, I had a weird dream. There was a group of us outside and there was this 6-year old boy…I was using my hands to have him float up and down while we were all going in circles. The more I waved my hands, the longer he was floating in the air. When we finished, I went to pee in the men’s bathroom and three combs came out of my pocket (I am bald). Then a woman next to me said that I really shouldn’t have made that kid float in the air. I said that I agree and then all of a sudden I was floating up as if someone was in control of my body. I was screaming and my wife woke me up saying that I was screaming in real life and that I might wake up our baby.
Why did I dream that?
SO I have this dream that I am at this idk amusement park with my friends I am on a ride (a parachute ride)when the ride I am on takes off into the sky and into the clouds. I feel panicked and fearful that I am gonna float away forever. I get the idea to pull my chute and then like collapse the edges to make me fall. As I am falling I am relieved to be falling but still fearful that something is going to hit me and kill me on my way down and then I woke up.
Hi!
I was wondering if you could explain these dreams I’ve had. I’ve only had them or two or three times, but its always the same scenario:
I can never remember how it starts, but I seem to be floating in my room, almost like zero gravity. It’s dark and I can feel that I have some sort of pins and needles all over my body, almost like a shell. I don’t move because there’s something looking for me. I feel scared and protected (by the shell), at the same time, and the position I was floating in was the same as my sleeping position. Other details are that its in first person, and I don’t recall seeing my body, and I close my eyes during the dream when the dark entity approaches.
I hope you can explain these events to me.
Thanks a lot!!
i dream that i was in bed suddeny my body rised to the top of the room i try wakeing up but i couldntbthen when i did i feel back down ????
I’ve had these dreams since I was a wee lad. Anytime I dream that I’m running, whether away from something or toward something, I start out running on my hands and feet. When my speed increases, I give a small jump and float from there on. I have slight control of my movements, but I’m not flying. Sometimes I’ll only float a few inches from the ground, others I’ll soar to great heights. I always know that I am dreaming when this happens and never feel anxious about it. In fact, I get disappointed when I have to wake up. It’s been happening more frequently of late. I’m remembering them more vividly and I don’t recognise the people or the places in many instances.
some times when I’m dreaming I’m uncontrollably floating and I’m in my room and I am being thrown across the room and I keep hitting a wall and I feel as if it will never end.
Just ten minutes ago, I was having a weird floating dream, which also lead me here to find out what it was about.
I remember being lay on my back and all of a sudden I was dreaming. First, I was in the back of my own car, and I started to get cramp in one foot, next thing I know I was in my Uni accommodation, I was leaving the house when I felt faint and fell into two doorways before hitting the ground, I had no control over this.. As soon as I hit the ground I started to bounce on the ground slowly like a balloon and started to float ever so slightly, the weird thing was, I could tell I was in my dream and was deciding whether to wake myself up or not, which I did eventually. When I woke, my whole body was paralysed for a few moments as well as feeling numb/tingly..
Any ideas what this could be?
So I had this dream where I was at work, but then my work turned into another location of ours but it was super fancy. In the dream I was very confused how I got to another location with basically using a doorway. I ran into someone who I used to work with before years ago who I believe have passed away and I was crying. She was trying to calm me and then I tried walking out the door and the second I did I began to float for a shorttime and then people were calling me by a different name. I kept telling them my name is Jami. They refused to believe me to the point I was being halled to a hospital. I woke up still with the feeling of floating and couldn’t tell if I was still dreaming or not. What does this mean?
I had a dream that i felt in love with this girl that i don’t but ever time im near her i will start flaoting but wen she holds my hand i can control it.
I heard we were waiting for a bad storm, but instead clouds were slow and looking up nothing but trees floating above my head
So last night I had this dream that I was sitting with my family in the living room, and everything was great until I noticed that the remote control for the TV had floated out of my room and was headed towards the living room where I was with my family. I felt scared and I screamed in the dream, but when I woke up I discovered I had been screaming in my sleep too. It was really scary and I honestly don’t know why it scared me so much.
Thank you for such a fascinating article. I have had several floating dreams where I felt out of control. The first was a dream where I was pulled up out of bed by a typical (white sheet, black eyes) ghost. The ghost pulled me to the top of the ceiling and then dragged me around the 4 corners of the ceiling. The second time he went around, there was a different ghost at each corner of the ceiling. They kept passing me around until my ex-husband woke me up. The second dream was that I was brushing my teeth in the bathroom when suddenly my legs started floating up in the air. I had to hold on to the sink to avoid flying away. My current boyfriend woke me up before I could see what happened next. I wonder if stressful relationships can cause such dreams. I never saw the correlation before I read this article. Thank you so very much.
It was so real I still don’t know if it was a dream or not but I was laying in bed with my newborn son and in what I think may have been a dream I woke up very suddenly and my son was floating away from me as though a spirit were trying to steal him from me..I reached out my arm and pulled him back to me…I can’t remember if I was awake already or if that was the point I really woke up at. It scared the crap out of me and I layed awake for hours trying to figure out if it was real or not.
I keep having dreams of floating or being able to jump extremely high with ease. I went to jump in the pool and tried to jump high and floated over to the other side without getting wet. Also playing basketball (which I don’t play) and being able to just jump up high float and put the ball in. Its a ongoing dream of just being able to jump high, far and float in a variety of situations.
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The dream I had was big balloons tied to a wooden model home under construction. A couple and a salesman go in to see it, then it slowly starts floating away as we all watch in horror from the ground another couple also inside slides to the front porch as the house tilts they all slide off as they can no longer hold on. There all hugging each other as they are falling and everyone below is in shock…
I searched but could not find anything in dream dictionaries about this. I keep on dreaming over and over that I am floating just a few feet off the ground and cannot get back on the ground. Almost as if I am hovering. I am always unnerved and trying to touch the ground. It is always in unfamiliar settings and sometimes with family members I have not seen in a long time or even sometimes I am holding my baby nephew who is not a baby now. He is 15. But anyways, the house is always different with many rooms and I always float around trying like hell to grab handrails on stair cases or anything to get back on the ground and in this dream my family always think I am making it up that I could walk normally if I wanted to but I am choosing to “fake” this floating thing. As if it could be faked. haha Anyway, it gets unnerving because I always fear I am going to float away and in the dream I am always trying to grasp something inside some unfamiliar place that we always are and pull myself to the ground and occasionally I can but right when I am able I wake up. What do you make of that?
Last night I went to sleep very early as I was exhausted. I woke up in the middle of the night as I usually do when I go to sleep so early, and to get back to sleep I began meditating. When I meditate I very much concentrate on my body, and the internal systems it has, such as feeling my pulse throughout my body, and envisioning the oxygen that I am breathing being diffused throughout it. After a while I began to drift off into a half dream half awake state, and in that state I began to float. I’m not sure if it was an out of body experience or not because I don’t recall seeing my body still laying on the bed as I was floating, but it felt very realistic and I had the physical feeling that I was floating and defying gravity in general. If it was an out of body experience that resulted from my meditation I would like to embrace it and try to have that experience again, but I don’t know whether it was or not.
I had two floating/levitation dreams 2 days in a row. The first one was awkward, I fell asleep on lunch at work and woke up in a dream of me floating but slightly spinning/swinging in a small room. Kind of like if you would spin a rope, it was sort of relaxing suprisingly and didnt last long; probly a total of 4 full swing-hover rotations.
The 2nd day dream was the same setting, I feel asleep at work on lunch but this time woke up slowly hoverig up from where I was sitting. I felt heavy but light at the same time. It wasnt out of body but felt very real since I was dreaming of where I fell asleep at. Dream lasted about 10 minutes but I woke up in a good mood kind of felt like laughing.
Not sure what it means but I am very curious to find out since both dreams felt very real.
last night i had this awkward dream where i was having a laugh and talking to people upstairs in a 4 story house then i felt this thing forcing me toward the window but everyone had seen what was coming for me and ran to the door.
i tried grabbing things to hold myself back but it kept pushing me then i started getting lifted off the ground a bit and asked it to leave me alone but it kept going.
I finally got to the window and held on to the frames then then i felt this force from behind me break the window i kept telling it to leave me alone but it kept pushing so i started praying in my dream saying all this stuff then it just got too scarey i had to wake up
Last night i dreamed dat i was on a beach with friend i knew..it was some type of party we were having fun..then all of a sudden the sky turned dark..i then grabbed a metal bar to hold myself down…then all of a sudden look like the ocean came up n over our head never touching us…my friend then told me to open my eyes i was afraid at first but then i opened them n it was so beautiful…i then heard a voice telling me 2 let go of the bar i did n i started floating around da water never touched me…..then the water went bac n place n i bac on the ground…wat does this mean?
I recently had a dream where I was on the roof of my house and was able to jump from one roof to another. This was because on the ground level someone was trying to shoot at me and I was trying to get away. I remember that with each leap I took I was nervous about whether this person was going to hit me with a bullet or not.
I cant remember the last time I had dream where I was floating. Also this past weekend my boyfriend and I had been fighting over some issues I have with him and honesty. I tried to give him a chance to open up to me and tell me what is going on but he chose to act as if he had nothing to hide. This bothers me and I feel like he is betraying me, our relationship and trust by doing that. There has been times in the past where truthfulness/honesty have been a source of conflict before hand. Lately my emotions have been of distance, frustration, confusing and anger.
What could have my dream meant, considering the past couple days I’ve had ?
Hi, I keep having dreams about me walking either inside a building or outside. I start off walking casually, then all of a sudden my legs get tighter and tighter and I can’t move them and I start to float upward….as if gravity has been turned off. I can’t control my movement so all I can do is hold on to the top of a door or a railing or anything I can grab. I then have to feel my way through hallways and etc. while I find a room to pull myself into. I wake up so frustrated, can you help me understand what is happening in these dreams?
It was 2 days ago i think.Ive had dreams like this before…. Okay. I knew or think i was dreaming, I was floating almost upside down facing our living room, i knew it was very dark and no lights were turned on but i could see the whole living room clearly. I tried to control floating and kind of got scared but not really scared kind of excited feeling and unfortunately i told myself to wake up.
Another dream before this is i was sleeping at a hotel room, then i think i was dreaming . The “dream” was i could go pass by a wall and go through the elevator and electrical wires, then something told me to get back so i woke up.
EDIT:::It was 2 days ago i think.Ive had dreams like this before…. Okay. I knew or think i was dreaming, I was floating almost upside down facing our living room, i knew it was very dark and no lights were turned on but i could see the whole living room clearly. I tried to control floating and kind of got scared but not really scared kind of excited feeling and unfortunately i told myself to wake up. Right after the second i woke up, i left my bed and went to see out living room lights were turned on and my lil bro was there playing.
Another was ….When i was sleeping at a hotel. I think i was dreaming …. The “dream” was i could go pass by a wall and go through the elevator and electrical wires,atleast i KNEW i was dreaming but then something told me to get back, like a feeling of danger, so i woke up.
Hi! I seem to have a recurring dream of being able to propel myself above everyone and float. The floating is somewhat like how a mylar balloon floats. I can push off on things and gain height and keep myself up. In these dreams, while floating, there is someone (I don’t know who) always trying to grab me and bring my back down to earth. I am always trying to get away to try to continue to float. In my dream, the floating doesn’t stress me out, it’s trying to stay up and the fact the someone is always trying to grab me and get me down. Not sure what to make of this.
I alway have this dream where I am outside at night and I start to float. I can control how high I go by pumping my feet. I always end up bouncing off the top of really huge trees. Sometimes I go really high above the trees and watch the moon light shine off the tree tops. Even when I am really high above the trees the height doesn’t frighten me and the whole dream is very peaceful and therapeutic. Any idea what this dream means?
I always have dreams where I will be standing or doing something in my dream and my feet will start lifting off the ground I get real agitated in my dream and stress that I am going to dissappear into space.
I have to usually swim my way back to the ground and whoever is in my dream will catch me and place my feet back on the floor.
Please explain what these dreams mean
thankyou.
I went to sleep at 3 am. Suddenly it was like i woke up & i was simply felt uncontrolled. It was like my bed room was without gravitational force of the world & i was going upward from my bed slowly, very slowly, exactly like the scenes of an astronaut floating. And it was too much realistic. First i got scared, then i calm down because the feelings were great. soon i got down in a same way slowly, like in a non gravitational place. Then i woke up. The feelings of the dream was too realistic. i was conscious where i was, what was around me except i had no control over the gravitational force. I have experienced some one pulling me from back in dream earlier many times. But floating was the first time.
I often have dreams that I’m floating and can’t get back on the ground. I feel very anxious in my dream. I have people in many dream trying to pull me back to the ground but they can’t. What does thi mean
Hi I have been having dreams about floating a number of different times. In my dream I just begin to float in the air, wither it inside or outside and no matter how hard I try I cant get my self back to the floor/ground. These dreams fell so real.
I had a dream a couple of days ago where I saw a couple walking in a street fighting off a elderly women who was threatening them. I then saw a bright green light. All of a sudden I felt a pleasant cold breeze. I felt so peaceful. I was flying or floating through the clouds. The clouds were a mix of orange,yellow, and pink. I then saw a male hand touching my head telling me to”go to sleep” his voice was beautiful. I’m not sure if my dream was just a dream or if a angel was speaking to me. Either way it was the most beautiful dream I have ever had. I only wish I could have it again.
I’ve had a few dreams.. well I think they was dreams haha. Well the first time I had it I was floating from my bed but I had my eyes closed because I was scared, I didn’t feel like it was a dream and it felt like I had floated at a fairly fast pace heading towards space and I felt I could tilt my body side to side but I was heading in one direction which was up! Anyway I tried my best to wake up and I guess I did.. the next time it happened yet again my eyes were closed because I was scared but I can still remember thinking which is weird because do you think when you are dreaming? I remember thinking to myself open my eyes and just go with it and see what happens and I remember just for a split second seeing space I guess but I panicked and closed my eyes. I’ve never told anyone because I just put it to having a weird dream. But I decided to check Google out and bit seems I’m not the only one
I dreamt that I fell out of a large cardboard box in outter space. At first I was frightened but the the view of millions of sparkling stars, falling stars, and nebulas was so beautiful I felt calm and content. It was lucid. I could control my body to an extent but the motions were perpetual… Floating forward, cart wheeling… How should I interpret this?
Hi, I’m hoping you can shed some light for me please. Last night I was in bed playing solitaire on my phone (I was having problems falling asleep). Anyway, as I turned over to more comfortable position on my other side, a huge gust of wind blew outside (it was breezy out
Hi, it’s me again, sent last one accidently! …) while turning I felt my bed raise slightly off the floor and waver a little for a few second before lowering back onto the floor. As soon as it landed back on the floor I quickly turned on my light and leapt out of the bed to check underneath and around, which of course there was nothing. I was afraid to switch my light back off and continued relatively calmly to play on my phone until I fell asleep after 7am. I really don’t feel that I was sleeping but could I be wrong?
P.s. I will burn some sage tonight in my bedroom and try a quick meditation before sleep.
I have this recurring dream that I am running track, but running so fast that I am floating. But I’m only floating like a couple inches off of the ground. I try telling people around me that I can runso fast that I float-literally. But then I just wake up.
i have floating/flying dreams regularly and find them empowering and wonderfully liberating. Have gone through some tough times recently – heroin/crack addiction, break up of long term relationship (his new girlfriend is a junky too and lives just down the road from me), I am now clean but have to deal with seeing the love of my life with her!! I am hoping that my control in my floating/flying dreams means that I am close to astral projection – I also have some crazy “evil” dreams but always feel able to control what goes on by floating/flying! I look forward to sleeping and feel that I am able to bring these beautiful dreams on with my own mind!
I was walking to my car in a parking lot. As I was walking, I realized that my feet were not touching the ground. I just kept one foot in front of the other without moving them but was still moving forward. Then I began to rise higher and higher. I looked down trying to come back down but kept going higher and higher. I consciously thought and closed my eyes focusing on coming back down then I stopped rising higher. I slowly began to com back down, really slowly. I was almost on the ground then I woke up. What does this mean?
I had a dream that people came to my back door and asked me to show them how to fly. I showed them how to just leviate and then a somersault and just flying around.what do you think this dream means.
So, I had this dream that I was in a feild with a bunch of people I didn’t know. It was dark outside and all of a sudden the sky parted and there was a bright light, almost as if had suddenly turned to daylight. Then lightnening bolts began to strike in the sky but never touched the ground. The people I was with, very calmly, started repeating “its the end of the world, its the end of the world”. I then closed my eyes (as if I were excepting that the end had came) and I could feel myseld floating upward. Then, I opened my eyes and saw that I had floated about 10 feet above everyone. I then felt as if something was wanting me to floating upward and I felt as if I was no longer in control and panicked. I slowly floated back to the ground bit I could still bounce around like there were no gravity. The people I was with seemed very impressed with the fact that I could float. I have practiced lucid dreaming and astral projection, but I have only lucid dreamed twice amd astral projected once but only for a minute it felt like. Could I be on the verge of astral projection or is it just my subconscious trying to warn me of something?
Dear Courtland,
Given that the people in your dream were calm, I imagine that you are on the verge of astral projection. Relax and enjoy! 🙂
Happy Dreaming!
I have a recurring dream where I’m running and will jump and start floating. I can control the horizontal direction of my travel but I cannot descend. I keep floating higher and higher. After a while I will start to decend slowly but will never touch the ground.
I am glad I read your post and I am sure there are many similar descriptions of floating dreams that I have not read. As in your floating dreams, I am around people I don’t know trying to impress them with my ability. I levitate instead of float most of the time. I don’t automatically levitate. Rather, I have to make it happen by having 100% fearless self confidence and faith that I can. Then I lay back and levitate. The more confident I am the easier to levitate. If I should break the concentration, then I just gain a little gravity and kind of bounce around on the ground, exactly how you mentioned in your post. I appears that a floating or flying dream requires lucid dreaming; that is, you know you are dreaming. I have read many interpretations of floating dreams and think this site’s post puts a refreshing light on it. Ultimately you have to interpret the meaning yourself. However, it seems to be better proof too read others experiences than accept the wisdom of experts. I interpret my levitating dreams like this: It is an exercise in mind control to help build confidence and faith in self. Sometimes when I am if fear in a dream, I levitate to impress my adversary.
hi, i seem to have these consistent dreams regularly. In these dreams i go about like usual, but then i tend to remember that i could do this floating thing. For me its very controlled, the act of initiating the floating is fine-tuned for me, like a natural ability. I kind of exercise this internal muscle and can float for extended periods, then i come back down.I never float very high except on occasion. Also it seems to draw attention to myself, and I’m usually the one pointing out, or others in the dream, that I’m not touching the ground. Any comments from you would be wonderful.
I just had a similar dream. In my dream I was in this large room and there I was floating. I could float close to the ground and then make my way up, slowly, I could control it. There was a trapdoor in the roof and I saw some work mates going up through it, they were floating too. I didn’t make through it. However, I am not sure going up through it was good or bad. I can’t really remember but I have a slight memory it was not good to go through that trap door. It was like a decoy. If you are experiencing some sort of “mid life depression” or just have a lot on your plate and it looks like everyone is accomplishing something and you feel you’re not, this is how I feel now. Like things are on hold. I have a good job but I have been doing what I do for quite a while. My wife just invested money in her own business and she does not look like she is very excited about it. We just moved back from overseas and we are going through a reversal cultural shock. So, I tend to think this means things are on hold but I shouldn’t look at those people who I deem to be successful because they look like they are but they will eventually be career-bound.
thats crazy i have exactly the same dreams over and over maybe 3 times a month in mine i kind of ‘think’ or concentrate then i just accelerate up but in a standing position and sometimes i lose control a bit which makes me anxious to but in my dreams i use this skill to get away from people (i dont have a clue who they are i just feel that its a negative people) then i just hover up, and also i go up and down to get over walls and fences, sometimes when i have these dreams it does freak me out a bit because im scared im going to fall and also i do to high quite a lot. I am glad someone else shares this weirdness to and i would love to have answers to this, i almost feel like its so real to almost to the point that this could be a reality currently as we speak now in a parallel universe, theres some food for thought, also on the other hand i could be completely bonkers!
Last night I fell into a dream… I was lay in bed and felt as though I woke up. My legs started to slowly float, and lift into the air, leaving my body on the bed. They started to uncontrollably shake and rise higher and higher until eventually, I was hanging almost upside down.
I fell as though I was wide awake but unable to speak or pull my legs back down to the bed or stop them shaking. I eventually realised I was in a dream but it panicked me a little as I thought if I didn’t wake up, I was going to rise out of the house and be unable to get back. I’ve experienced sleep paralysis before but never levitation. It was as though something was trying to pull me up by my legs but another thing was holding my body to the bed. It felt as though I was half in and half out of my body.
Anyway, I slowly managed to bring myself out of it. I would have loved to have carried the dream on but it seemed quite negative as I was hanging upside down..
What do you make of this dream? If this negative experience happens again, would you recommend trying to wake up or see where it takes me?
Dear Kimberly,
If you feel terribly uncomfortable in a dream, it is generally best to wake up. If it doesn’t feel too intense, though, you might try going with it and see what happens. Perhaps focusing on the feeling of floating in water will be of benefit in evening out your body if such an experience happens again.
Happy Dreaming!
Hey i had this exact same dream i was lay on my bed falling asleep then all of a sudden my legs floated up to wot felt like the ceiling but my head remained on my pillow i done the same as you i snapped out of it but kind of got a fright and hav never managed to get bak into it again since 2012 when it happened. Since then through a little research i feel it could possibly have been some sort of awakening or astral projectionas i was off work with really bad dizzy spells sickness and feeling run down and depressed at the time this all now makes some sence as at the time i was doing relaxation cd every day i feel my self ask now what is my purpose in life and the thirst i have for knowlege now is unreal
Having similar dreams. My legs start floating up almost as if something is forcing them up. I feel completely uncomfortable and almost like I’m awake. Freaks me out. I always wake myself!
I’ve had dreams where I’m mostly outside and I can float or levitate in front of friends I can’t make anyones face out, but I can float at will and where ever I want, sometimes in the dreams I open up my eyes and im already really high in the sky and I steadily float down and I can feel my feet hit the ground and the shock of the landing.
Its always crazy and I always haves these dreams
I have a similar reoccurring dream. I can be running through a field and if I jump, I can float for a long time, before I come down again. The other one is I can show my friends that I can jump and if I hold my breath, I can float for a long time until I have to take another breath….nice feeling!!!
I have this same dream often. I can control how high I go by turning my palms up or down. Some times, I just start rising, in front of people in my dream and they’re shocked but I always show them how I come back down. It used to scare me but now it’s cool. Now idea what this dream means….
I have these like levitation dreams on my back like i can levitate myself & i am speeding around on my back like i am on a hover board! So life like! I can’t understand why other people cannot fly? Lately if i am not levitating than i am in a flying balloon. All of my dreams are so life-like. I also just read that people with levitation dreams usually have narcolepsy. i started to check my 02 levels also when these happen to wake me and my 02 levels are very low
I had a dream where I floated above my bed & then suddenly I was at work floating there. I remember feeling extremely tired & had a feeling that this is why I was floating. I felt very safe & comfortable like I could sleep like this all night. The only fear I had was at those times when I was floating at work I had a small thought that the ceiling fans would hurt me, yet In the back of my mind I seemed to know that i would not go that high so there was no real fear of this.
I am curious about this. Do you have any idea what this could mean?
Thanks
DJ
Dear DJ,
Perhaps you were thinking about work before falling asleep, and so your consciousness moved to that space when you fell into dream. You felt secure and confident enough in that space to know you were safe. 🙂
Happy dreaming!
levitation dreams are usually very good feelings with me. I also have sleep apnea. As far as what they mean and if you feel content, think they mean you are very secure in your surroundings & very well liked or succesful!
I have some insane dreams. Last night I was playing some type of game where I had to get ll kinds of objects to write into a diary or book. But eveything I would have to go find, I would be wearing this parachute and I’d have to jump off a second story balcony and float, but I had to work real hard, like treading water to keep a float. This site said:
If you feel insecure financially, emotionally, or socially, negative floating dreams can articulate your feelings of insecurity. If you feel like you’re being micromanaged at work, or that your voice is being discounted in your personal or professional life, floating dreams can express your frustration at the lack of input you feel. Perhaps you’ve been observing a conflict or situation between people you know while feeling peripheral to the situation and unable to influence it in a meaningful way.
Which actually makes a lot of sense. One other weird thing was the last item I had to get was something at an old drug store and there was a dog that came with me in his own floating device. When we got to the drugstore, there were three of him inside this plasitic and I had to open up the plastic before he would suffocate. Then a girl helped me find the item which was a fake tatoo that you had to choose which part of a womans body it went on by putting change ito the machine, but I had already bought the tattoo and could not put the money into the machine because I had already paid for the tattoos. Gotta be something sexual there;.
I dream ALL the time that I am trying to get somewhere and my legs are being held down, like in mud and the harder I try to run, the worse I am being held down. That is almost nightly. That and being in jail… I’m sure that’s gotta mean some pretty messed up stuff.
Opinions? Thankjs
Hi Ruk!
It does sound like there are things in your life that are making you feel trapped, and perhaps experiences, such as work, that have you running around doing things that you know to be meaningless and arbitrary but feel forced to do anyway. By relieving these pressures in real life, the dreams may improve. Alternately, by working to become lucid and change the situation in dreams (refusing to do the tasks, for example, or breaking out of prison using dream tricks), you may find the situations in your life begin to improve as well.
Happy dreaming!
Ok, so I’ve had this dream before , just experienced it again last night. In my dream , I was walking to my kitchen to get a bottle of water, and I felt awake like I was really doing it,the house looked exactly the same, (all of the lights out, exactly the way it looks over night when everybody is asleep. All of the sudden upon entering the kitchen. dining area, I felt like i had total control of levitating and floating at ceiling level,and it felt amazing, like I was in god-mode , I floated down stairs to my porch area(dark hallway leading to furnace room), to most people this dream would seem creepy and dark, but I felt like god, and when I woke up I almost felt the urge to start levitating around the house, what can this dream be telling me ?
Thank you for sharing your dream, Kyle!
It sounds like you are in the beginning processes of astral projection. I would read more about that. Enjoy the experience!
Happy dreaming!
Weird…….i had this floating dream too. I actual had it twice at the same month when i was six. I was scared and curious and all that. I also remember having a night mare someone in my family was murdered. I didnt do it…..but i feel i abandon them in my dream. I think i know what this means but im not sure. Please respond..-tylord
Can someone tell me what this means…Im in a dark room suddenly.. I feel my body start to float off my bed I start going around the room slowly and calm Then I start going faster and faster hitting my whole body up on all four walls.. Im feeling pain and hurting but have trouble waking myelf up..Finelly I wake up and im so scared to go back to sleep..Has happend twice
I had a dream last night that led me to this website after I woke. I was riding a bike it seemed like or looking for something along a highway I used to live near by growing up as a kid. I can’t remember what I was looking for but I was distressed about it. I where the highway normally has an overpass, there were two men on mountain bikes resting and the overpass suddenly turned into a rocky hill. As I reached the peak, I spontaneously started floating the bike I had suddenly disappeared and I could see myself getting higher and higher from the ground. I had absolute no control over this. I began fearing that I should “let go” before I plummet to the ground.. I remember thinking to myself “you will die if you let go right now”. I panicked and took the risk of trying to survive the “fall” than to continue floating upward.
So then I fell, I hit the ground and I remember feeling like my body was destroyed so I didn’t even look. One of the men picked me up and didn’t know what to do with me. I screamed at them to pick me up and take me to a hospital and as he carried me I tried to call my mother, brother and sister to tell them I loved them (using my cell phone) before I drew my last breath. I kept telling myself to stay awake; don’t fall asleep.
My eyes closed in my dream as I could still fell the man carrying me as I could feel myself dying… and then I woke up.
I wonder what it means to choose to “fall”… ?
Dear Nic,
Thank you for sharing your dream! Perhaps choosing to fall indicates a desire to let go and move on from a situation in which you have no control. Or perhaps you are facing a fear of death.
Happy dreaming!
Do you have an email i can reach you at. i have quite a few crazy dreams for you?
Just send them here 🙂
Quite interesting. For years and years I could make myself float in nearly every dream I had. Why I was able to float was never made clear but I just know I can do it in any dream. I take a deep deep breath and fill my lungs full of air, turn my hands so that my palms face away from me and I float into the sky. Sometimes I float to get away from someone/danger and other times I do it to show off to either my friends or to random people. I absolutely love being able to do this in every dream as I feel so free and great in the morning but I just don’t understand why I can, and how I have had this recurring feature for years, almost every single night. Recurring dreams are normal for me, I could have a boring easily forgotten dream… then 16 years down the line I could have the sequel haha but this confuses me.
I’ve had very similar recurring dreams since my adolescence (if not younger) that include floating / levitation–btw, I’m in my 30s now.
These dreams almost always include the ability for me to control the float / levitation at will, after first ‘accidentally’ discovering my in-dream ability through a chance experience of simply lifting off the ground. Additionally, these dreams almost always include the group or social aspect, with a strong need or desire to display my ability to others I know (perhaps to impress?).
Does anyone have any insight (particularly w/ the common trend of being in front of a group of people, whom often are very familiar to me)?
I have the same recurring dreams aswel iv had the same dreams with different outcomes and exact same dreams. Im guessing your an easy going person and very acceptable. I am able to fly in my dreams aswel, Its a good indication, I cant quite control it completely tho, I get the feeling right that raising feeling very slowly then the more u relax and give in the easier it is. But sometimes my mind switches and i fall down slowly. maybe it not about controlling yourself in a dream but more or less accepting to let it take you to places rather then doing your own thing. hmmm
My girl friend dreamed that she was floating out the window and couldnt move are talk. She thought she was going to die and she saw me sleeping in the bed and couldn’t tell me she love me
She woke up scared and crying. It happend 3 times the same nite.
Hello! I wake up very early in the morning to prepare my husband for work, then usually go back to sleep for an hour or so before I have to wake again. This morning, that is what I did and had a very weird, creepy “dream” that really spooked me. I was in a house that I felt was mine (but wasn’t) and was walking up to a large bird cage. I felt as though I had a lot of animals present in the house. For whatever reason, I started walking backwards, away from the cage. Something then made me fall to the ground. I layed there on my back, unable to move, like something was forcing me down. I felt my body then lift from the ground, like levitating, and I had no control of it at all but remember feeling very scared. I also felt as though my entire body had the “chills” or was tingling. I was telling myself to wake up, but couldnt really yell or talk…and I remember telling myself not to panic, because my alarm clock would go off any minute to wake me up for work. It felt so very real and was an uneasy experience for me. Any thoughts?
Sounds like a challenging dream…perhaps there is something in your life that is making you feel trapped and pressured?
Happy Dreaming!
In my dream, I was exactly in my room with the same clothes at the same moment. I was aware that I was dreaming. Then I heard someone snickered evilly. I started to run to the door. When I was about to turn the door knob I started to float towards the ceiling. Then I woke up in the dream. It’s like I was dreaming in my dream. That scenario happened 2-3more times. I tried to wake myself but I can’t move my body and I can’t speak. It felt so real and when I finally woke up my heart beat was racing.
This sounds like sleep paralysis – it’s common when you are trying to wake up out of Delta wave sleep. Thank you for sharing your experience. 🙂
If it happens again the best thing to do is to remember that it is just a dream, if possible (if you are concious enough) say to yourself “on the count of three, I am going to cough” ….inside count 1, 2, 3 *COUGH* ..LOUDLY!!! You will be awake and have some wits about you. Sleep paralysis is one of the scariest experiences I know, fortunately they get easier and less scary as you get used to them. But seriously, make yourself cough. Also, avoid lying on your back with your hands down by your sides….this is the sleep paralysis position (or so I’ve been told) learn to sleep on your side
I had a dreaming I was floating in my boxers outside with no control. I was a little nervous but felet like it happen before. Finally I landed and walked into a house party where my brother was and told him I could float. I tried to show him but was only to when I close my eyes and let go!
Interesting detail… when I have dreams where I’m floating away outside in mid air, I usually notice I’m floating above the street in my underwear, also with no control. I wondered if that’s because it’s how I go to bed or if there’s some kind of helplessness thing.
Sometimes the floating is so vivid I wake up from it remembering a real sensation, not just visual, but a sense of perfect boyancy that makes me float helplessly, even rising slowly away from the ground. It feels exactly how I imagine weightlessness. Sometimes it’s just me while people watch, sometimes other people are floating around too, but no one is ever surprised and the underwear thing isn’t really embarrassing. Usually I’m floating outdoors but one dream that stuck with me was that I was in a large structure or building with no gravity and a lot of people I didn’t know, we were all weightless and floating. The dream seemed to go on all night.
Hi I had the most weirdest dream,I was floating above my front room to the top of the ceiling and tried to grab on to the end of my sofa to stop myself floating away,I looked down and saw myself asleep on the sofa,I tried to speak and nothing was coming out,also tried to get back into my body and my body was stuck and felt pinned down,what does this mean?
Hi Natasha!
It sounds like you started to astral project – your essence leaving your body. This is probably why it was difficult to connect with your physical body again. Next time, try exploring! 🙂
Happy Dreaming!
My dream involves being in a room with people and I’m standing up. I am able to levitate or float up at will from room to room. I feel in total control in the dream. The floating doesn’t even feel unusual. I’ve also had dreams where I am thin; I am obese in real life.
Thank you for sharing, Suzanne – it sounds as if you are experiencing freedom in your dream that you don’t necessarily feel in your day to day life.
Happy dreaming!
I had the scariest most vivid dream last night. I was floating above my husband and son sleeping in our bedroom. I was unable to get to them and could not scream for help. Finally my husband woke and pulled me down but he wasn’t taking it seriously. Then our baby flew up in to the air. As I tried to grab him this small female ghoul grabbed him. I managed to grab her and started to fold her up in my hands and my baby ran up to us. The whole time I was thinking if I could just make noise it would stop. While I was folding her up I managed to scream, which actually woke my husband who in turn woke me. I was terrified the whole time. It was as if our house was haunted. We are moving at the end of this month and I just kept thinking in the back of my head we needed to get out now!
I’m scared to go to slee tonight! Any thoughts?
Hi Liz!
Wow, that sounds terrifying! I’m glad to hear you’re moving out of your house. In the meantime, I would recommend creating a safe space in your bedroom before going to sleep. You can do this by meditating and visualizing your bedroom and your child’s bedroom protected by a diamond shield of protection that will not allow any negative entities inside. Many ancient traditions also believe that sprinkling salt across the entry-way of a room will prevent negative energies from entering.
All the best!
I had a dreamed floating under water in a swimming pool. However, I don’t understand why because I don’tt know how to swim as I notice that I was relaxed and calm then to realize that my Ex-boyfriend was reaching for me at the other end of the pool. This dream came a night after my ex contacted me months later from a bad breakup with my reply to him through a farewell text that same night.
On the eve of 12-21-12 I had a dream in which I saw both the sun and the moon sitting in space. I thought I was looking at it from the earth but I realized, the sun was not shining, only glowing in space and the moon was huuuuge in comparison to the sun. Also the moon was not reflecting the sun the way it would from the earth but rather I could see the moons pores and it was greyish purple as the sun hit it. I was fascinated by and drawn to the moon but I felt it was mutual. The moon was alive and I could feel that it was drawn to me as well. It became so overwhelming that I then got scared and looked down to realize I was one small existence sitting on the ceiling in the back seat of my own car, only there was a childs car seat in there and I heard a voice inside say”thats your body, grab it” then I grabbed the seat belt and wrapped it around the car seat then held onto it so that I would not be sucked up to where the moon was. Then I woke up in my room where it was dark and I closed my eyes again and there was a white light shinning into my forehead so bright so I stretched my hand out before me to block out whatever this light was and I opened my eyes to see what it was and saw that my room was pitch black and I closed my eyes again to go to bed and saw the light dimming until I could no longer see it. any ideas?
Ideas? Yes.
Well, for one, kudos. Sounds like you had quite an amazing OBE! Secondly, next time let the Moon take you 🙂 It is your dream and you control it. When you realized how high you had flown, it was naturally scary and your reaction was understandable. I remember the first time I moved between dimensions-didn’t know what to do. When you move beyond your own life experience/comprehension of what is happening, it can rattle you. That said, get back out there.
As far as the white light, it sounds like you woke in your dreams a couple times before you actually woke up. I would guess it was part of that process, maybe the Moon saying good-bye. Or you could have been traveling between dimensions. In my experience, there is usually a little gap or hole through which I will travel. Might be a correlation there?
Happy Dreaming!!
I tend to end up floating in the majority of my dreams (although my dreams are all different this one thing always seems to happen) It’s more like hovering above the ground and then not being able to get my feet back on the ground no matter how much I struggle. In the dreams I always have to get somebody to pull be back down onto my feet and if i’m not firmly on the ground i’ll just float back up again.
I tend to feel pretty unsettled about this but I’m not entirely sure if this means anything.
Hi Izzy!
It sounds perhaps as if you feel ungrounded in your waking life, and that you have to rely on others to pull you back down. That is definitely an unsettling feeling. I have found that doing physical exercise, such as yoga or hiking, increases my sense of being firmly grounded. This may help decrease these sorts of dreams for you.
Happy dreaming!
I usually have dreams where i’m floating around trees and I can’t stop myself from from floating above them. I try grabbing branches but always miss. I get terrified and try to get back the ground. Sometimes it works . Sometimes it doesn’t, and then I wake up in a cold sweat.
Hey Bill,
Next time you have this dream, see what happens if you just embrace your inability to get back to the ground. Let go and see what heights you fly too!
Happy Dreaming 🙂
Bill,
I have the SAME dreams! Most of the time, I have just crashed a car or something that threatens my life…and then i can’t stop floating and it’s very nerve-wrecking. I try to grab branches and miss and miss and miss and sometimes grab one and feel the pulling up getting worse /: let me know if you find any solutions!
SO recently I finally got the courage to confront some family members who I have been having terrible difficulty…since then, I have dreams that I am with them and I float up upright and I feel a sense of freedom and lightness of being. They don’t seem to think that this is abnormal for me and they don’t acknowledge it. I feel I am getting further away from them…I like the feeling. The one dream I had I floated down my street and in the driveway of a house 8 houses down…I turned and floated back home by the white Christmas lights in their driveway…funny tho…when I looked down the street..it was the EXACT house and lights I had not noticed closely before. Little children were running under me and laughing…I liked the feeling, didn’t feel scared. Powerful almost. Any ideas what my dream means?
Hi Colinda!
It sounds like you are finally feeling some freedom and space from family members who you have been entwined with for some time. Now you are experiencing lightness and freedom, still able to in their presence and near their home, but no longer attached to the suffering you formerly felt there. Congratulations on your courage in confronting these difficulties. 🙂 That feeling of freedom will certainly translate to your waking life, as well.
Happy Dreaming!
I had a dream last night I was in a large room filled with tables of food and people. I saw familiar faces ecerywhere I looked . There was a line I get food and as I saw this my body took the form of Jesus on the cross and I floated a few feet off the ground towards the lineup. People started yelling at me in anger but I continued to float in the shape of a cross smiling . This is the second time I’ve had this dream in two weeks.
I have this dream all the time, or at least… this theme, it seems to pop up in other “normal” dreams. I will be at work or at home or anywhere really dreaming about something, and suddenly my feet will begin to float out from underneath me and I will begin to float away. Invariably I then struggle to find something to grab and then pull myself down and fight my feet back to the ground, while the other people in the dream seem to not even notice it is happening, or it is as if, seeing that is so normal to them they take no note of it. Usually when I finally struggle back down to earth and get my feet planted firmly I wake up.
Very interesting, Seraph! Have you ever tried letting go and just floating?
No. But I did have 1 alternate variation on this dream… where I walked outside of one building to go towards another, but this time instead of just… floating like normal. This time there was the distinct feeling that an invisible force took hold of my leg and pulled me up into the air sharply. I then heard a heavy voice come from nowhere scream “Shut up!” and then the force hurled me towards the ground. I feel so fast I barely had time to register the idea that this fall would kill me before I sprung up from the dream.
I have this dream all the time, I will just float up. I cant control how high or how far I float, but I can control the descent.
Mine is kind of in the middle of everything you were saying. Its not a specific dream, just somthing that happens in almost all of my dreams. I am floating, or just cannot keep my feet on the ground, i’m not scared, but i’m not in control either. No matter how hard i try i cant keep my feet on the ground. sometimes i’m holding onto something and my feet are up at my level, sometimes going higher then me. I never have any control of it, sometimes, funny enough, characters in the dream have to hold my hand to pull me down enough or pull me along cause i cant get my feet to get underneath me.
oh and no one else is floating with me, I’m the only one in the dream that is floating, no one else seems to notice, they all act as if its a normal thing for me to be up in the air unable to get my feet down, and them not.
Very interesting, Jessica. Have you looked into exercises that you can do in every day life to increase your sense of physical grounding? Tai chi or Qi Gong, for example? It sounds to me like your dreams are indicating a feeling of lack of control and grounding which is not unmanageable but not that fun, either. Perhaps by increasing your grounding in every day life, you will be able to both put your feet on the ground and learn to fly in dreams! 🙂
So I just had this crazy dream where i was walking eown my hallway and the next thing i know, im being lifted up, something was grabbing my back, i couldn’t scream, and when i looked back, it was something white with green eyes just screaming and roaring and i startes banging on the walls but no one came to help.
Please tell me what this means, im really scared ..
Dear Niv,
That sounds really scary! It sounds like you don’t feel very safe in your dream space. I would recommend taking some time to meditate every night before bed. I have a feeling that even just five minutes of focusing on your breath and clearing your mind will help. You can also place a protective stone, such as hematite or tigers eye, under your pillow to protect you as you sleep.
Happy Dreaming!
I had a dream last night that I was slightly levitated off my bed and some unknown force was pushing me around and forcing me to ”float” through my bedroom. I remember distinctly being constantly pushed under the bed and I kept fighting it. I managed to make my way back into bed and I couldn’t lay down. I fought my way to my light switch but the lights wouldn’t go on. I woke up a few seconds later in my bed and my heart was racing. I know it was a dream but it felt so real. I was really scared and couldn’t fall askeep after that Because I felt as if it would happen again. It was such a terrible feeling. Any help on what I can do to make this go away??
Dear NSM,
I’m sorry to hear that you had such a difficult experience. That sounds awful! It sounds a lot like a night terror, delta wave dreams in which one is physically affected or experiences dark energy pressing on them from an unknown, unfriendly source. I would recommend taking some time to meditate every night before bed – just five or ten minutes. Sit up in bed and visualise yourself surrounded by guardians – angels, goddesses, kind spirits, whatever speaks to you most – and ask them to guide and protect you during dreams. Then go to sleep trying to maintain awareness of these guardians. I hope this technique helps you! It has certainly assisted me in dealing with nightmares.
I had dreams that I could fly but when I landed and tried to fly again I would just fall, I was usually trying to get away from trouble. Now I have constant dreams that I am walking and I float and
I can’t stop going, I try to stop because I see people and
Things I like but I just keep going. I always think about it. It kind of makes me over think how I walk in real life and now I feel akward when I walk around others in real life. Any help?
Hi Rick!
Are you aware that you are dreaming during these experiences? If so, try to break the pattern – remind yourself that you are dreaming and that you have the power to do whatever you like, then stop yourself and make a point of talking to people. This may even benefit your real life. If you aren’t aware that you are dreaming in your dreams, perhaps start trying to do reality checks during the day – this will allow you to become more aware in dreams as well!
Last night I had a dream that I was floating slowly inside a building. It was an orange building. I remember looking down at the ground and seeing my feet rise off the ground. I kept going up and I remember being inside a classroom filled with students. I didn’t recognize any of them. I could see mysef touching the walls as I floated up until I reached the ceiling. I was able to float 1 more time after that. The third time, I couldn’t float anymore. I just couldn’t get my self to rise off the ground. I wonder what it meant… /:
I had this dream when I was a kid:
I was relaxing by the window when I saw fire from outside the house. The next thing I know, I was floating up continuously. When I looked down, I saw a black hooded figure burning everything it passes by using a torch. It kinda looked like it was burning the Earth. I think it was a nightmare because I had to struggle to move when I woke up. It still gives me the creeps whenever I remember it. What does that dream mean?
That sounds like a pretty typical nightmare involving fear of the destruction of all that is familiar and known. Many people experience dreams like this. The fact that you were floating rather than being involved directly in the chaos may indicate that you are aware of chaos taking place around you but do not feel personally threatened by it.
Three nights ago I had a dream that I was in my school with my friends. We were standing in the hall when I realized my feet weren’t touching the ground, and that I was somehow floating. Then I started laughing, I showed my friends and they got excited and started trying to jump in the air to float too, but they weren’t successful. They kept asking me how I did it and I had no idea. The next night I had another dream where I floated the same way. Last night though my dream got a little weirder, because I referred back to my other dreams. So in last nights dream I remember telling myself that this would be a good time to try to float again like I did in my other dreams. I was in my back yard, holding onto the door handle of my house for some stability (like a little kid holding onto railing while learning to skate). I then tried to float, and succeed. I remember being proud of myself, and then figuring out how to turn my floating off and on.
Hey MacKenna,
That is GREAT! You are learning how to harness your powers within the waking dream state. Keep pushing the boundaries of your abilities and they will continue to grow. Please let us know how you progress 🙂
Happy Dreaming!!
I literally have been having dreams almost identical to yours. I will be walking down the hall way at my school and all of sudden i start to fly around the hallways and no one really notices, they think its normal. It almost feels like i am jumping on trampolines. It feels like i can control my flying. It feels awesome now that i can actually think about it clearly.
Hi Alex!
Those sound like great dreams! Keep it up – practice makes perfect! Have you ever tried going outside and really taking off?
I often have a dream in which I am with people at a party,someone asks me to do my trick., this is to levitate , just a little at first then I go up to the ceiling, each time getting higher. After the dream I always feel fantastic.
That sounds like a wonderful dream-and you should feel fantastic. Next time you are there, see if you can fly outside the room. Let’s just see how far you can take this! Happy dreaming and thanks for sharing your esperience.
I am often dreaming of levitating of late. I dreamt we had new neighbours & I was talking to them in my garden. All of a sudden, I flew up in the air, to the height of the house. (I am always in an upright position.) I can remember feeling embarrassed! However, the other night I dreamt spirits were talking to me. I felt very scared, rapid heart beat etc. I shouted out to my husband- to alert him I felt in danger. He didn’t hear me, so to protect myself & hopefully scare off the spirits, I flew up to the ceiling.. I mentioned these dreams to a someone- she thought it was a form of astral projection. I really don’t know what they mean..
Hey Louise,
It sounds like you are beginning to cross over in to a state of Lucid Dreaming. This is a very exciting dream. Next time you are in flight, instead being afraid of the spirits or embaressed by your gift of flight, direct your travel outside your house. Have faith in your new found ability and take that dream out for a test drive! And please, let us know where you land.
Best
I had dream more then 10 times, that I am flying in the skies and I am very happy talking to myslef that i can fly, turning side by side, Increasing and decreasing my fly speed, and I used to be very happy, what does it mean, please tell me about my dream
Dear Ali,
That sounds like a very positive dream – as if you are able to feel very free and uninhibited. Perhaps the dream is encouraging you to bring the same free, open feeling in to your everyday experience!
My friend E-dogg had a frightening experience and is not sure if he was asleep or close to death. He was asleep in bed and felt his spirit floating out of his body. He said at first it waa cool and then he realized he was floating above his bed torward the ceiling and could see himself asleep below. He then got scared because he felt as though some force was pulling him out of the room past the ceiling. He said he then fought it and somehow made it back to his body. When he woke up he was very cold and sweating and his heart was racing. He’s wondering if he actually might have almost died and that’s why he came out of his body.
This sounds like an Out-of-Body Experince or OBE. Often times this can happen right before entering a lucid dream state. Of course, I can’t speak to E-dogg’s health, not being a doctor and never having met him. Next time something like this happens tell him to try and relax and direct his path of flight. See where this can take him 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-body_experience
Ok so last night i had a dream that i closed my eyes and i started to floar away into darkness and i couldnt move. I was trapped in an imaginary bo or something. And then i started to hear voices talking at once. Iwas very scared. I was aware i was dreaming but i would wake up annd as soon as i would close my eyes i would get sucked into this darkness again. I tried screaming but no one could hear me. And when i got up to turn on the lights(i thought this would stop me dreaming) the light didnt turn on as much as i moved the switch. I came to a conclusion that i was still asleep. I felt scared throught my dream and helpless. And im scared of going back to sleep.
can u tell me what dis means…i dreamt a woman told me ill have a great fall but ill rise even higher…
Hi ,my nephew dreamt that he saw me going up to the sky riding a horse ,then saw me flying and floating also
My boyfriend died 3 months ago. He was my one and only , my world revolved around him , he was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with . About 2 weeks after he died in n bike accident , I dreamed that he was holding my hands but he looked the same way he looked when he was dead , pail white and ice cold and scars on his one hand . We were siting on the couch and I looked at him and he was biginging to com alive , them we both started to float up out of our bodies , while we were floating up I vould see our bodies stil siting the same way on the couch . When we came against the roof I was scared so I woke myself up and started toe crie ! What does the dream tel me ?
I had a dream like that, except I did not see my body in my bed, just the bed sheets and covers and I was up by the ceiling but still in a laying position and when I freaked out I got dropped back on the bed, it happened once more the same night and that time I was dropped on the floor, and I could feel the carpet fibers so I knew it was real, I was really on the floor not just dreaming it but I couldn’t move much. Then I snapped awake and involuntarily ran out of my room and down the hall to the living room before I was fully awake and aware of what had happened. That’s the only time this has ever happened to me, altho I do have bouts of nightmares andwake up flailing my arms or running from the room orwill be clicking my fingers,something I did when I was scared as a child.