I honestly don't think dreams actually mean anything, no matter what happens in them. I think they are just your brain's way of defragging all the input you have received that went unprocessed that day/week/month/year/decade/lifetime. Sort of like an impromptu interactive screensaver while you recharge and heal from the wounds of the previous day. A place to explore the emotions that you've repressed for one reason or another because we live in a polite society where we can rarely freely express ourselves fully without repercussions.

Yeah, I've flown in many dreams - I wish I could do it whenever I wanted. I've learned to be cautious when I start looking for a restroom in a dream. LOL

"There is more gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are. Humbug, I tell you, humbug!"

I never bought Scrooge's transformation after he finally wakes up at the end of the book. That kind of man simply would have shrugged off a weird dream and gone back to sleep. And Tiny Tim would die!

I have read that flying dreams are associated with feelings of success, and that’s consistent with my experience. The period in my life when I was feeling most successful was the period when I had the most flying dreams. No religious connection that I can discern.

Plenty of flying dreams. I messed around with lucid dreaming for awhile and the event that sticks most in my mind was when I couldn’t fly. I could jump really high, like up to a second story balcony but that was all. It Was very frustrating. I was just thinking wtf! I SHOULD be able to fly god damnit!

As for meanings, I don’t think there’s any. Really the idea that your sub conscience mind is trying to tell your conscience mind something is kinda silly. They are after all the same brain.
After reading quite a bit of science literature about dreaming the thing that makes the most sense to me is this idea. Dreams are a side effect of your mind moving new information into long term storage. Also possibly a side effect of ‘thinking’ in the sub conscience mind. Like when you go to sleep with a problem and wake up with a solution.

Easy to understand how dreams have been mistaken for divinity of some sort though.

If only I could put down in words the things my brain have built in my dreams..... Uuuuffff

Yeah do remember some trained myself to control some especially flying ones. It is possible

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I don’t think dreams have any objective meaning. Lately I’ve been of the opinion that dreams have no evolutionary purpose, but are an inevitable consequence of having a brain that cannot shut down completely for rest.

Also in some dreams I know that I am dreaming and can stop and wake up at will. That's great feeling

Flying, it's been a while but I used to be able to put my self into a flying or great leaping . had lots of fum with them, gliding and soaring around the sky.

Nothing religious, unless you believe your brain cells sparking is god.

Darn, in my dreams I'm only falling or finding new rooms in a house.

I fly all the time in my dreams, sometimes with the help of artificial wings, sometimes in small airplanes. Also sometimes I can jump up to amazing heights. When running I can leap forward and skim along the ground for a hundred feet or so.

Maybe it’s just collective memory from man’s early stages of development when we lived in trees. I see no religious overtones.

I occasionally have flying dreams. I just had a dream a few nights ago that I was kind of floating about 5 or 6 feet off the ground. I could control where I was going but needed help getting my feet back on the ground.

My dreams often reflect how I’m feeling in life, especially if I’m stressed out. I regularly have the dream that I’m in high school and can’t remember where my locker is. Once I finally find it I can’t remember my next class, etc. Pretty easy to figure that one out.

I’ve been prone to nightmares since I was a little kid. Those tend to be very vivid and I usually remember them. I’ve woken myself up screaming before. My stupid ex husband wouldn’t wake me up even though he could tell I was having one. I have somewhat trained myself to wake up out of them but it only works maybe a quarter of the time. Once in a while I’ll get stuck in a loop of thinking I’ve woken up but then it keeps going and so I think it’s really happening.

Digress,with respect,our brain is more complex than any old computer,and our dreams are a way of sorting out with all the sounds and visions,what come our way,everyday.call it configeration.

When asleep , not only can I fly , I can also breath under water .

I know I must dream....we all do, but I can never remember any.

As far as dream interpretation goes, the adjectives matter more than the nouns or verbs. The nouns and verbs are symbolism usually; how they make you feel, and the way you’d describe them are hints to what they symbolize in real life. I’ve only ever had one or two flying dreams but this approach generally gives me a pretty good insight to my dreams.

Dreams are simply the results from REM sleep as the subconscious mind tries to sort through and 'categorise' the events/information. etc, accumulated by the conscious mind the day/times when the conscious minds was active.
Numerous other animal species, such as dogs and cats for example, dream whilst they sleep but only humans spend precious time seeking meanings from dreams where there are no real meanings to be found.

"is all we see or seem but a dream within a dream". E. A. Poe.