Insane flying

[FN FAL]

that's the dream i have!! and i think i figured out what i hold onto when i'm flying. it's my small R/C airplane, except it get's a bit bigger. i hold onto the leading edge of the wings and it just goes. such an incredible dream and feeling.

Hahaha...that's cool! At least it's a positive dream!

 

[NCGAPilot]

My dreams consist of me flying through green rolling hills and bright sunny blue skies, and I'm just flying along in a C-152. Fun fun. I never had the wire dream.

 

[FN FAL]

My most vivid airplane dream:

I just went to bed after having too many beers. I was flying a Cessna 172 IFR in IMC in normal cruise and had vertigo. I lost control of the aircraft and entered a steep spiral. I could not recover and could feel the intense g-forces. All I could think about was that I'm going down for the last time... I woke up before impact.

Of course after I woke up, I had the real life bed spins... Not fun...

After a couple of bad run ins with pitot heat failures on piston twin 135 pax flights, I had a dream that I was in a Seneca IMC during cold weather operations. The dream turned nightmare when the back sides of all the instruments frosted over. Naturally, I lose control of the plane and it starts spinning out of the sky.

It got even spookier when I came out of the bottom of the cloud with my windshield all iced over, but I could see the horizon rotating around me out the side windows.

 

[Photoflight]

This is crazy. I've had the wire dream a couple of times. Flying over the mts in a 152 and I'm having to dodge all these high tension power lines that keep popping up and forcing me lower until I end up waking up in a cold sweat. Its probably the most intense dream I've ever had.

 

[JimNtexas]

Y..., can't find the gate, can't get into ops because the door code changed and many times I'm all decked out in uniform but barefoot. <g> Also trying to figure out how to tell the company I'm well over 60 and should not be flying anymore...but I have been and I'm in violation.
These are all rather common I found out in conversation with friends.

~DC

I'm retired Air Force, and have very similar dreams. I'm back in a squadron, late for the briefing, can't pass the boldface, and not wearing shoes.

 

[Snakum]

i have this recurring dream (well, i've had it twice) where i'm holding something in my hand, i cannot remember right now what it is

I could hazard a guess or two!

I'll IM you next time I get a trip to Daytona and I'll let you take me and the boss to dinner.

Fly safe ... study hard ... and keep your hand off that thing if you wanna graduate on time and make friends in the dorm.

Minhberg

 

[jneil78]

Sorry to get off the topic, but....Ill Mitch....that website is so good I have no idea if you are for real or just f-ing around. Seriously, it is like an infomercial inside of a movie.

 

[wrxpilot]

The wire dream...

That really is weird so many people have it. There's gotta be some kind of psychological reason for this. I've also had it... I was low and over a bridge trying to look for a place to get out. Bunch of horizontal wires forward and above making it impossible. It's not like I have an immense fear of tangling with some wires either, and this is the only flying dream I've had. Strange...

 

[bluesky421]

I'm not a psychologist or anything, but the wires in the dream may be a metaphor for the constant hurdles that we have to face in the aviation industry(medicals, checkrides, layoffs, furloghs, etc.) The one with the bridges might be the hurdles forcing you down. i had a dream where I was working line at the FBO and one of the fractional customers plane broke down. So, i "borrowed" a 414 from the hanger(which i have flown a bit) loaded the fractional customers up and started the engines. As I began to taxi out, I realize that I am not on the insurance for this thing, and i shouldn't be doing this. So pull the mixtures, but nothing happens, the engines are still running. Thats when i wake up. My friend interpreted this quite i think as that I want to do anything to fly, but i'm worried that if i get caught up in it too much, i won't be able to get out of it.

 

[SuperFLUF]

......... Being assigned airplanes not qualified in, can't find the gate, can't get into ops because the door code changed and many times I'm all decked out in uniform but barefoot...........~DC

Its strange to hear that others have these dreams too. I have the can't find the gate to go fly aircraft I'm not qualified in dream all the time.

Kooky

 

[Singlecoil]

I've had the wire dream as well. One variation was that I was still a student with my retired fighter pilot instructor in the right seat. I try to pull up to start a climb, but he barks at me to dive and build up my "Q" before climbing. He was right, of course.

Another dream; I'm taxiing my Dash-8 in super close quarters. Down an alley in fact. Don't ask me how the wings fit through the alley, but I can vividly see the props hitting the side walls and shattering into millions of pieces as the pit of my stomach shrinks with that, "I am SO fired" feeling.

Best flying dreams have been lucid dreams. That's when you are dreaming and are fully aware that you are in a dream and can do whatever you want. Most memorable was standing on a skyscraper that looked absolutely real telling myself, "This is just a dream, you should be able to jump off and fly." First you have to convince yourself, "I don't recognize this city, why am I standing on a tall building, etc, this must be a dream." Very intense. I jump and fall quite a ways before pulling up and flying. I've only had a coulple of those.