Does anyone have any reoccuring dreams about flying?

[Clear-&aMillion]

It's always a large jet. I'm sitting up front in the cockpit. I can't tell you if I'm in the right or left seat, but I'm up in the cockpit as part of the crew. We are making a takeoff, but this is nothing ordinary. We are attempting to get this large jet in the air off a small street. Houses, trees, and wires all around. The takeoff roll is downright frightening. Pushed back in the seat with trees, cars houses fly past the windows at over 100kts. We lift off, and there is complete panic. There is nowhere to go. After being airborne for only a few seconds, there are wires approaching and they are unavoidable. We hit the wires. There is a loud sound then I wake up.

It all seems so real. It really is kind of scary.

 

[Flight_Line]

My flying dreams are never good ones. Usually I end up getting busted (airspace, regs, etc...). I'll agree with you on the real feeling. Some times I have to think about it for a minute or two after I wake up just to make sure I didn't really do something stupid.

 

[mcjohn]

Sh!t man that sucks. I had a dream once where I was on a non-precision mountain instrument approach in a Piper Warrior with no autopilot and much turbulence past minimums.........I only have 12 hrs actual.

 

[NW_Pilot]

IFR!! in a Venturi Tube Equiped 172 withn Min. Radios & Equipment!!! Wait that was Real!!!

 

[RunUp]

When I was younger, I used to dream that I was flying and kept getting tangled up in power lines. I had this dream at least once a week for years. Funny thing though...once I started taking flying lessons, the dream went away. I haven't had it in over 15 years.

 

[Gorilla]

All the time, and very close to yours, except it's usually landing instead of T/O. The jet is slow, and I'm flying around and through a big city (this all started pre-9/11, no weird associations there.) Dodging buildings, people, all sorts of city objects. Then upon landing, I have to use my feet like Fred Flintstone to bring the jet to a stop.

 

[G21Agoose]

More of a nightmare really-

I dream I am a GIV/V pilot (I know, it's horrible already) and every morning I get dressed, remembering to put a sock or two in my underwear, and go out to the airport where I stand around looking down on everyone else (but make sure they know I fly Gulfstreams). I haven't hand flown for years, mainly because I'm too important to bother with it but also because my large belly doesn't allow me to hold the yoke properly........

I then wake up and thank the good Lord I'm really a Falcon pilot, I don't need to pad my underwear, and people actually like me. Phew!

 

[RefugePilot]

Yes but there is no plane involved.


Or clothes.

 

[aussiefly]

I watched the air disaster episode of one of the major plane crashes (lockerbie maybe??) Anyway during the explosion the cockpit detached from the fuselage and I fall from 34,0000 whilst trying to still control the decent using the controls.

The controls have absolutely no feeling but i'm still fighting them like its no tommorow.

Man that dream had me sweating bullets Glad I only had it once.

 

[DrewBlows]

It's always a large jet. I'm sitting up front in the cockpit. I can't tell you if I'm in the right or left seat, but I'm up in the cockpit as part of the crew. We are making a takeoff, but this is nothing ordinary. We are attempting to get this large jet in the air off a small street. Houses, trees, and wires all around. The takeoff roll is downright frightening. Pushed back in the seat with trees, cars houses fly past the windows at over 100kts. We lift off, and there is complete panic. There is nowhere to go. After being airborne for only a few seconds, there are wires approaching and they are unavoidable. We hit the wires. There is a loud sound then I wake up.

It all seems so real. It really is kind of scary.

I often had (haven't had it in a while) the exact same dream as yours. The airplane varies from dream to dream, but the street is always the one I grew up on, which you would be hard pressed to take any airplane off from.

Some other recurring dreams I have is one where I'm playing basketball and I have my hands in my pockets (it must be cold or something), someone throws me the ball, I can't remove my hands from my pockets, and the ball hits me in the chest. The other one takes place in college near the end of the semester. I have apparently forgot about a class I was enrolled (usually math), and have to take a test that I know absolutely nothing about. I think these dreams are all pretty much the same dream, just a different setting. Truck drivers probably have dreams about jack-knifeng an 80' rig into an impossibly small area.

 

[FN FAL]

I had a dream that I would fly an airplane and get paid for it and it came true.

 

[earhart]

More of a nightmare really-

I dream I am a GIV/V pilot (I know, it's horrible already) and every morning I get dressed, remembering to put a sock or two in my underwear, and go out to the airport where I stand around looking down on everyone else (but make sure they know I fly Gulfstreams). I haven't hand flown for years, mainly because I'm too important to bother with it but also because my large belly doesn't allow me to hold the yoke properly........

I then wake up and thank the good Lord I'm really a Falcon pilot, I don't need to pad my underwear, and people actually like me. Phew!

Waking up and realising I flew a Falcon would be my nightmare!

 

[Lear Wanna Be]

Waking up and realising I flew a Falcon would be my nightmare!

Uh oh, here we go. This is how it all starts.

Mine is flying along at night in perfectly clear weather. All the sudden I do something stupid, not sure what, and the plane starts to spin. I know I am too low to recover. Then I wake up.

I SCUBA dive a lot. Often have dreams of diving with no SCUBA or I take the regulator out of my mouth and start breathing with no problem. Anybody else?

 

[CFIcare]

flying in a blue dream

I have lots of flying dreams, but rarely to they involve an airplane. Usually when I "fly" it is more like swimming through the air like the kids in this awesome video:

http://www.emichrysalis.co.uk/quicktime/sigur_ros/glosoli/index.php?version=7.030&bandwidth=100000

 

[tracearabians]

It's always a large jet. I'm sitting up front in the cockpit. I can't tell you if I'm in the right or left seat, but I'm up in the cockpit as part of the crew. We are making a takeoff, but this is nothing ordinary. We are attempting to get this large jet in the air off a small street. Houses, trees, and wires all around. The takeoff roll is downright frightening. Pushed back in the seat with trees, cars houses fly past the windows at over 100kts. We lift off, and there is complete panic. There is nowhere to go. After being airborne for only a few seconds, there are wires approaching and they are unavoidable. We hit the wires. There is a loud sound then I wake up.

It all seems so real. It really is kind of scary.

I have a recurring dream about flying with JanaBJana !

 

[tracearabians]

Yes but there is no plane involved.


Or clothes.

I can relate !

 

[Murdoughnut]

That's so strange - I've had the same dream where I was taking off from the street of my childhood home ... I have a super steep climbout and end up getting caught in wires before falling backwards to the ground. What is it about the wires? Freud would have a field day with this one.

 

[Piper877]

The other one takes place in college near the end of the semester. I have apparently forgot about a class I was enrolled (usually math), and have to take a test that I know absolutely nothing about. I think these dreams are all pretty much the same dream, just a different setting. Truck drivers probably have dreams about jack-knifeng an 80' rig into an impossibly small area.

I have this one a lot too. Usually I get the feeling that I'm back in school and won't graduate unless I make this test/class. Also it seems like I haven't been to the class for awhile and have no idea how to pass the test.

My airplane dreams usually include a TBM700 or something like that and I'm flying it for the first time. I'm kind of wary but excited at the same time. Oh, and I'm completely crazy in the head too.

 

[81Horse]

Wires. Always the wires. One set after another, and the terrain below is rising.

I think the wire thing is the most common pilot anxiety dream.

 

[91100 100 set]

I remember a weird dream I had a few years ago.

I was sitting in the Dash at one of the TWA spots next to the hanger in LGA, getting ready to push back. As we pushed back, I looked back over my right shoulder just to check if it was clear in that direction. But the taxiway was under some kind of construction, with big backhoes and bulldozers and stuff. We got pushed right back into a backhoe, hitting it with the right wing. I saw fuel pouring out of the wing and said to the captain, "hey man, we are dumping fuel all over the place, I think we better bail". He said okay, but first he wanted to find a good place, so we start taxing all over the airport. He taxied into a hanger and said, "right here's good". So I start my evacuation stuff, but now the inside of the hanger is set up like a lobby for an FBO. As I jump out, the secretary at the FBO starts yelling at me "you can't do that here!". I ignore her, or she goes away (it was a pretty disjointed dream) and our people start coming out of the airplane. The plane was packed with all kinds of senior citizens, every one of them had a walker or wheelchair.

Pretty weird, but it seemed so crystal clear at the time. Even more weird, I can still remember every detail, years later. Usually my dreams are gone before I can get out of bed in the morning.