I could fly when I was a child, my imagination was incredible.
Whenever I felt the urge to I could left myself from the ground and soar around, it was fantastic and I did it all the time.
I just let the feeling take over me, I suppose it could be called a sort of out-of-body experience. I could feel myself leaving the ground and then I would feel the wind whoosh by my face as I flew around.
My god, I wish I could still do it…imagination is so important, there is something in you as a child that leaves you when you get older.
Is it because we are discouraged from day-dreaming and fantasy?
Is it because we grow up and decide that imagining is useless and stupid?
Or is it just because we simply lose this part of ourselves, whether we like it or not?
I don’t know, but I know that I want it back and I don’t think I can ever get it back.
I used to dream-walk too…it happened every night almost.
I would dream that I was floating to my parents bedroom and then I would wake up in there and walk back to bed…even that was fantastic though.
Yeah, I used to fly too. What happened was I would let myself rise up and a cloud would wrap itself around my waist and all I would do is soar, soar. I remember flying through a palace in the clouds (made of clouds), but what I remember most about it was the humongous cumulous columns.
As a child I was always frustrated and bewildered that I couldn’t fly. Somehow the idea had gotten into me that you could do anything if your will was powerful enough- literally. I honestly thought one could actually fly if hey concentrated hard enough.
When I was younger my mind could do a few really interesting things. Like you, Phaedrus, I had that mindset. I was never able to fly though. Oh how I wish I could go back to that mental purity.
I’ve spent the last year or so trying to reverse these lies I’ve accumulated between that time and now. The battle within my mind is proving to be tougher than I originally thought.
Give me some time… if I can’t actually fly I’ll at least get some telekinesis like Dan~ the demigod.
Pretend = Pre-tend into existence. Imagination is key for creation. You can still fly Mr Kebop. Only your flight is not what you think it is, you have to drop everything to allow it to happen, your knowledge, your name, everything that has been given to you by others and you have to allow yourself to be perfectly pure and perfectly innocent again. Only not like a child. Children are beatuiful but their innocence changes into mistrust as they learn that the world can be a dangerous and threatening place. But the innocence that comes from a life that is lived fully (experience) brings a quality of innocence of the soul.
i used to be able to fly in outbody experiences dreams and daydreams where i couldnt tell wether i was day dreaming or not i experienced some strange things when i was a child, i used to jump down whole flights of stairs on odd ocasion glide down them, once when i was at church i came out of the little session the children have and i felt like i was hovering, i just kept running around the church grounds, it was great…
I still feel innocent…you know, childlike, curious.
But my imagination is lacking…I feel like mabye I need to learn meditation methods to achieve that same feeling.
Of course like you said, my flight might be different than as it was so many years ago.
