Why do we think flying is normal when dreaming?

[beavis]

Of all the strange things that happen in my dreams, the ability to fly is one of the strangest.

Maybe we think the ability to fly in some dreams is normal because that's how reality works in the astral and other nonphyisical places.

Many of us have flown up into space, in physical reality, but while out of body. It's why I think its funny when people talk about wanting to be an astronaut and taking years to get to some planet. That's the slow way to get there.

The first and only time my body flew in any way other than an airplane, was a hang glider. They pulled it up with a small flying vehicle on a long rope. They asked if I had any training and I said no, so they required I go up with one of their people in case something goes wrong. I argued against it. I wanted to go up alone, but they didn't go for it. When far enough up and the rope unhooked, they let me take control of the hangglider. I learned to fly on the way down and could have landed it easily (if they hadn't required they land it).

Why do we think its normal in dreams when it happens?

Also, we can't be sure which are dreams and which have some reality to them and are only interpreted as dreams.

[astraladdict]

First off, while i was reading what you posted, my mouse curer started moving on it's own D: it moved to the Facebook tab. Second, flying is actually normal. Not in the physical because the physical has it's own set of "rules" As in, gravity. In the realm, these rules do not apply

~astraladdict

[Summerlander]

Last night I had a dream in which I was in a place that looked like a factory.  Inside, it was like a maze of corridors and there were circular holes in the walls which acted as guillotines.  Many people were sticking their heads in those holes and losing them.  Then, guards came and forced the people who were scared to do the same.  Despite being shocked and horrified, I accepted the absurdity of it all and never questioned its reality.  Why did I think it was normal?

[astraladdict]

Why did I think it was normal?

You were part of the dream. While dreaming/LD you cut off part of the consciousness, so it's like what your dreaming is really happening. Last night while i was dreaming, i was with a close friend of mine, she's like a sister to me. It was night time, and we were laying in my car looking at the sky. She leaned over and kissed me, she wanted to kiss more but i was thinking " no, i'm with valeri "

~astraladdict

[Summerlander]

Hmmm...Instead of 'cutting off' consciousness...can't you just readjust it to match whatever reality or storyline you are experiencing.  Like a reconfiguration of data.  I think consciousness allows you to become and accept whatever it wants whilst temporarily discarding what is not required at the time which you take for granted in other states (such as the waking state).  I've had experiences where I was in the hypnagogic state and I could literally choose to know something one minute and not know the next.  This is how powerful the mind can be.  It also made me realise more than ever that the Tibetan Book of the Dead is right when it says that, intrinsically, we are empty.  We choose to become ideas...these ideas are manifest in the great and potentially infinite consciousness system (it may even be digital as Campbell says) but we are the void where all things happen and focuses or individual awarenesses are born.  But there really is no observer nor observed.  More and more I am drawn to the conclusion that there really is no self...it's an illusion...an illusion that pristine cognition tends to hold on to.