Candice Bergen | 10/16/2009 12:00 am

Candice Bergen's Liftoff

In response to: What is your recurring dream? Why do you think you keep having it?

Now, the recurring dream … is, in my case, flying. And I love this dream. Because it’s not in the least flashy when I do it. It’s very casual and I don’t fly terribly high. Two to four stories usually. And it’s easy peasy. I just start flapping my arms and … presto, I have liftoff and it is a perfect moment. I hate waking up from that one.

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I have a recurring dream that I am floating lazily around a very shallow bay of sparkling azure waters surrounded by sunfish. It is so peaceful. But near the end of the dream I spot a little island in the distance and decide to swim to it. I try but the island never seems to get any closer to me. That’s when I wake up wishing I were still floating blissfully around! One of my friends believes that the dream is prophetic of my life…. the floating part is when my life is calmest, the never getting closer to the island when I am setting unreachable goals.

By Sharon McBride on 10/16/2009 8:16 am

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Seeing limitations on how far you can take off, but yet setting them far enough away the adventure is worth some risk. An adventurer that keeps an eye on your core and where you care to return to, free but safe and secure in knowing you are grounded.

By Linda Myers on 10/16/2009 10:10 am

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I don’t dream as much as I used to as a youngster. You don’t want to know those dreams, lol.

By Beth Cornell on 10/16/2009 10:18 am

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Some dreams are get aways others are visions of things yet to come. My latest dream seems to be unfolding before my eyes. The dream is going to happen with time and patience. Plus a little bit of hard work, but I am floating along with it and very excited at what will unfold next.

By Bonnie Schuster on 10/16/2009 2:09 pm

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Me too! I just fly over my old DC neighborhood and wave at my neighbors. And when I start to come down, i go over a subway grate for a lift.

By Susan Shankle on 10/16/2009 4:27 pm

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I have a reacurring dream of going into a large Dept Store that has several exits…I always exit the wrong one and find that I am lost in a large City.

Does anyone know what a dream like that means…kind of spooky.

By Patricia McFadden on 10/16/2009 11:38 pm

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You are faced with many choices and are unsure of what to choose. You feel lost. Talk to a trusted friend or counsellor. It helps to talk it through.

By Carol Shance on 10/18/2009 8:24 pm

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Thanks Carol , you hit the nail right on the head. Life is very complicated at the monent.

By Patricia McFadden on 10/18/2009 10:20 pm

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My dreams are often tied to my job. One was that I was on a bus going to the airport and it never got there and the bus driver seemed to be lost and I was on the damn bus all night and never got to the damn airport and no one seemed to know why. I finally jumped off in a snow field and started walking and never got anywhere with that either. And finally I woke up. I was at a new job in a new career, working for someone who had no clue how to manage, just kept chatting about the weather. LOL

By V B on 10/17/2009 11:23 pm

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By the way, a Sleep Doctor told me that if you can’t move your arms and legs in your dream, don’t panic, you are in REM sleep and thats a good thing.

By V B on 10/17/2009 11:25 pm

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Candace

I will see your flying dream and raise you a flying/swimming dream. I lean back and fly effortlessly, often skimming the ocean like a gull and dipping down and flying through the water and then up and away. Sometimes the water is pink, the sky is bright yellow with sun. Perhaps thats heaven.

On another note-I thought of you while noshing on parmesan cheese & olive oil tonight. Its good to have a calcium rich guilty pleasure.

By V B on 10/17/2009 11:31 pm

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I dream of flying often. Many times it is to rescue myself from danger or something unpleasant. Lately, I just do it to show others how easy it is, but no one else can do it. I think one thing it means is that you are capable of rising above problems.

By Carol Shance on 10/18/2009 8:19 pm

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I have those dreams, too, and absolutely love them, gliding up and down stairs, rising above the crowds, skimming the trees and wildflowered pastures … I’ve read that flying/gliding dreams are distant memories of being held as babies. That makes so much sense to me.

By rocky rocky on 10/18/2009 8:31 pm

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Unfortunately, I don’t have any memories of being held as a baby, certainly not by my father. So having recurring past dreams of flying high above the ground somewhere in the upper stratosphere, I don’t know that I can compare that to being held as a baby or a toddler or at any age before coming to Canada in 1958

By Carol Harrison on 11/02/2009 11:27 pm

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My recurring dreams are either being abandoned by my sister and mother or my spouse. I used to dream, similar to you Candace, that I would be flying high, high in the sky, just sort of flapping my arms and I could change whether I flew fast or slower and how high I could go. Maybe it symbolizes, like the butterfly, freedom that I feel I’ve lost or the family I’ve lost…in a way.

By Carol Harrison on 11/02/2009 11:25 pm