Many of us have had to experience the feeling of free flight in our dreams. It is believed that most often children fly in their sleep, and this is due to physiological changes in the growing organism. But even an adult who seems to have nowhere to grow, no, no, and even dream that he easily breaks off the ground and soars in the air.
Specialists in the field of esotericism explain the origin of night flights by the fact that during sleep the astral body is separated from the physical shell. In a dream, a person feels the soaring of his own astral essence. Therefore, for many peoples, sleep is considered a sacred act and it is strictly forbidden to wake up a sleeping person sharply, otherwise the astral body will not have time to reunite with the physical.
Dream interpreters interpret flights in a dream rather controversially. Some dream books portend great luck and career growth, others, on the contrary, claim that flying in a dream promises missed opportunities, fleeting love, job loss, fruitless dreams.
Supporters of the theory of the extraterrestrial origin of mankind suggest that the human ability to fly was lost in the course of evolution or blocked when the omnipotent immigrants from other stellar galaxies settled on Earth. A person who easily flies in a dream sees himself as he was initially - able to independently move through the air, water, to solve any tasks that are difficult for an earthling.
American writer Jack London adhered to a different point of view. In one of his novels, he explains flying in a dream by the fact that some of the very first ancient people lived mainly in trees, like some species of monkeys. In flights in a dream, the ancestral memory of our distant ancestors is reflected - during sleep they often fell from the branches of a tree on which they were located at night. This was always accompanied by extreme horror for the ancient man, since, having fallen to the ground, one could become a victim of wild animals. According to Jack London, this ancestral fear has been passed on to all subsequent generations of people to this day, and flying in a dream is just a fall from a height.
As you can see, there is no single answer to the question of why people fly in a dream. Diluting the seriousness of this topic with a bit of humor, let's summarize: if you have never had to feel like flying during sleep, perhaps you are not a native of other planets, but an indigenous earthling whose ancestors lived on flat terrain and did not fall from tall trees.
