Recurring and lucid dreaming on flights
Mar 1, 2018, 11:56 am
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Recurring and lucid dreaming on flights
Does anyone else get recurring lucid dreams while flying?
I generally don’t sleep very well on planes, even when I have a lay-flat seat. But I can reliably sleep on early morning flights after at least a partial night’s sleep. A few years into traveling weekly for work, I started to get a variant of the same recurring dream every week. In my dream I’d “wake up” with the flight making it’s final approach for landing. I’d look out the window and see some very vivid scenery (always different), the plane would land and taxi to the gate, and I’d get off the plane and exit the airport. That’s when I would actually wake up, usually about halfway through the flight.
The other unique element of this reoccurring dream is that it’s a lucid dream – I’m aware that I’m dreaming and could choose to wake myself up if I wanted.
Now that I don’t travel regularly for work, I still get this dream without fail when I’m flying early in the morning. Has anyone else here experienced anything like this?
I generally don’t sleep very well on planes, even when I have a lay-flat seat. But I can reliably sleep on early morning flights after at least a partial night’s sleep. A few years into traveling weekly for work, I started to get a variant of the same recurring dream every week. In my dream I’d “wake up” with the flight making it’s final approach for landing. I’d look out the window and see some very vivid scenery (always different), the plane would land and taxi to the gate, and I’d get off the plane and exit the airport. That’s when I would actually wake up, usually about halfway through the flight.
The other unique element of this reoccurring dream is that it’s a lucid dream – I’m aware that I’m dreaming and could choose to wake myself up if I wanted.
Now that I don’t travel regularly for work, I still get this dream without fail when I’m flying early in the morning. Has anyone else here experienced anything like this?
Mar 1, 2018, 12:10 pm
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Does anyone else get recurring lucid dreams while flying?
I generally don’t sleep very well on planes, even when I have a lay-flat seat. But I can reliably sleep on early morning flights after at least a partial night’s sleep. A few years into traveling weekly for work, I started to get a variant of the same recurring dream every week. In my dream I’d “wake up” with the flight making it’s final approach for landing. I’d look out the window and see some very vivid scenery (always different), the plane would land and taxi to the gate, and I’d get off the plane and exit the airport. That’s when I would actually wake up, usually about halfway through the flight.
The other unique element of this reoccurring dream is that it’s a lucid dream – I’m aware that I’m dreaming and could choose to wake myself up if I wanted.
Now that I don’t travel regularly for work, I still get this dream without fail when I’m flying early in the morning. Has anyone else here experienced anything like this?
I generally don’t sleep very well on planes, even when I have a lay-flat seat. But I can reliably sleep on early morning flights after at least a partial night’s sleep. A few years into traveling weekly for work, I started to get a variant of the same recurring dream every week. In my dream I’d “wake up” with the flight making it’s final approach for landing. I’d look out the window and see some very vivid scenery (always different), the plane would land and taxi to the gate, and I’d get off the plane and exit the airport. That’s when I would actually wake up, usually about halfway through the flight.
The other unique element of this reoccurring dream is that it’s a lucid dream – I’m aware that I’m dreaming and could choose to wake myself up if I wanted.
Now that I don’t travel regularly for work, I still get this dream without fail when I’m flying early in the morning. Has anyone else here experienced anything like this?
Mar 1, 2018, 1:27 pm
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Mar 2, 2018, 4:08 pm
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Yeah I get tons of dreams of the landing sequence , and , less often, just dreams of the cruise portion of the flight itself, while onboard.
I think it's due to the partial sleep and being influenced by exterior environment
I think it's due to the partial sleep and being influenced by exterior environment