Flying dreams are my all-time favorite dreams!!
I've been having them as long as I can remember. However, back then, they were more like falling dreams. I would be on the ground and get swooped up in a huge gust, be taken up to what seemed like a few thousand feet in the air. I remember seeing the minuteness of life below me. The lights, buildings, features looked like dots from that height. Then out of nowhere I would begin plummeting to Earth at incredible speeds. The same gut feeling you get when going down a massive hill on a rollercoaster times 10 is what I would feel. Usually, I would swoop back up within a few feet of the ground. Most of the time I would just be taken back to the sky to fall again, but sometimes I would be lucky enough to dig myself into the ground to save my ass.
For many years, that's how my flying dreams went. I would hate them so much.
As I started into my teenage years I started to develop more dream-balls. I started to gain control of my falling but I was still unable to liftoff whenever I wanted; babysteps. It was kind of like a dolphin swimming, flopping around in the direction I wanted to go and letting momentum take me. I was still having problems landing safely; there were plenty of times where I would smack the ground at 1000mph. I would never feel any pain though.
Then, more recently, I have become completely lucid in my flying dreams (only in my flying dreams though).
Now, with a running start, all I have to do is dive into the air and generate the necessary lift with my sky swimming to go even higher than I would go as a kid. The only difference now is that I have complete control. I go up as high as I can go and dive to the Earth to gain incredible speed. I can feel the drag, the wind ripping at my face, the old gut feeling; but I love it now. I perform insane maneuvers to see how extreme I can push things.
Usually in these dreams, I am trying to escape something. Security gaurds, people I don't like, parents, etc.; never anything serious like a guy with a knife or something. I usually laugh and throw insults as I get away.
I love that sense of freedom...