Swimming in the Sky

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Posted on the internet by klynslis

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According to my sample of flying dreams collected from interviews and by reviewing cases in the scientific and popular literature on dreams, it is not uncommon to experience one’s self airborne in a dream while moving the body in a swimming motion…
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The German astronaut Ulrich Walter (1007) noted that the waking reality of weightlessness matched exactly the flying dreams of his adolescence. He asks how the body is able to imagine something it never experienced….
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The sleeping body seems to provide the feeling of weightlessness which the dreaming mind illustrates in different ways.
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FLYING (HUMAN) BODIES IN THE FINE ARTS - DREAMS AND DAYDREAMS
OF FLYING
Rainer Schönhammer
School of Art and Design, Halle/Saale, Germany
Paper presented at the 16th Congress of the international Association of Empirical Aesthetics, August 9-12, 2000, New York

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Schonhamner article

http://psydok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2005/550/pdf/Schoenhammer_FlyingBodies_NewYorkPaper_2000.pdf