Falling during a dream

[clandestino]

I'm sure this topic has come up before, but I couldn't find any relevant threads using "search". Apologies !

Over the past few days I have been considering the falling sensation that we often experience during dreams and I noticed something strange (to me anyway!).

My earliest memory of a "falling dream" would be somewhere between the ages of 6 & 8 years old. In my family's old house in Dalkeith, Scotland, I dreamt that my bed (with me on it) rose from the floor & floated out of the room. It floated along the landing as I remained tired and sleepy. The bed soon got to the top of the stairs, tipped itself upright, and fell.

I awoke very quickly, adrenalin pumping through my body. The sensation of falling was so "real" and "lifelike". I've had similar falling dreams on many occasions...Another dream saw me in Edinburgh, peering over a stone wall to look at the top of a lamp-post a couple of feet out of my reach, rising from the street below. I looked down and saw it was no ordinary lamp-post .... It was at least 50 metres tall, & as I looked down at the street way below I slipped and fell..... !!

Now, here's the strange part. At no point in my life (before the time of my 1st falling dream) have I ever fallen from a great height. Or even just a tumble of a few feet. I know I've slipped down a few stairs as a child, but that didn't provoke the same falling sensation. So, how did I come to experience these falling dreams without experiencing a similar sensation during my waking life ?

This is beginning to puzzle me. I'm 95% certain that the falling sensation I experience during a dream is accurate & lifelike. Yet, I cannot know for sure, as I have never fallen from a great height. I guess that the only way to ascertain the accuracy of the sensation, would be to go skydiving !

So, to re-cap.....Where did my mind learn this falling sensation from ? I haven't experienced it during my physical life. Where did I learn it ?

Kind regards,
Mark

[Leannain]

well got the same problem here sometimes when i'm asleep i get this feeling of me falling down and i get scared lol .

[RocketMan007]

Its hard to say if what you are feeling is the sensation of feeling your body accelerating, or just the "oh my god I'm falling to my death" feeling. The two are quite different and distinct because you can fall from great heights and not feel afraid, but you will feel the acceleration. Other times you might be dozing off and fall to the arm of your sofa and be totally startled by the feeling, but not really being affected by the acceleration.

It is something I am quite used to, I used to play a lot of sports, and back in my highschool/college days I could slam dunk on a 10' NBA regulation basket. I used to be able to vertical leap close to 40", which would allow a good amount of time to feel the going up, weightlessness, and then the falling sensation. Going up for a dunk or a layup would be a good example of me feeling the physical forces without any fear or the falling dream feeling. One game in college however, I went up for a layup and since I wasnt properly hydrated my calf muscle locked and I knew it in mid air. I immediately felt the emotional feeling of falling and being helplessly unable to retract my foot and eventually landed on top of it breaking it, tearing ligiments, and basically turning my entire foot yellow and purple. So I guess the moral of the story is to not be afraid of falling, just the eventual splatting that happens afterward, or just drink gatoraide to prevent it when possible.

[clandestino]

just drink gatoraide to prevent it when possible.

Ha ha !! good tip there.  

I see what you're saying....when you know there is no element of danger involved in a fall, you don't get that same buzz warning you of iminent danger or injury. Perhaps in my original post, I'm just thinking about this involuntary reflex and over-analysing it.

So you used to be able to dunk at high school, eh ? Pretty impressive ! I remember being able to jump up and touch the net, which I was quite proud of !

kind regards,
Mark

[wisp]

clandestino,
Don't forget ( ), there is an unconscious aspect to yourself.

A falling feeling upon awakening is related to the astral body (or correct term if this isn't) returning to the physical body.

Another discovery I have found. Have you ever sat upright in bed from a dream? I discovered this too is a return from the astral.

It is my opinion that all dreams are of an astral nature. Air travel or flying/falling are similar.

[Adkha]

Hi,

The point that's requires attention here is the fact of what the feeling of falling is. How do you know it is the feeling that corresponds with falling? You just made that up in your mind.  So you don't need the real life experience of falling,  to have a "falling like" feeling....

I think the mind correspondents this feeling to a feeling of fear because your mind returns (falls?) in your head, and your thinking-brains connects  it to falling, because you guess this would be like falling.

I'm wondering now....if you are a professional sky diver, you do it every day and you are so good at it that you don't even feel the "fear-ruch" of it anymore.
Will you have a feeling of fear when you have this same "falling" feeling?
Or will you have another feeling, not falling, but maybe a feeling like you're getting pushed or something... hmmm


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