Jumping High – recurring dream
Caballitos de Totora. Huanchaco, Perú
Ever since I started skating, when I was an adolescent, I always had this dream that I could make the craziest tricks when I would jump using my skates. It felt as if my jumps lasted so long that I would gain consciousness of those instants and would allow me enough freedom to move as I pleased. So being conscious of this ability, I jumped, spinned, did flips without the fear of falling in the ground and hurting myself. During the dreams I would perform several jumps consciously in locations that I frequent in the real world.
Now I am older and have stopped skating. But in one than more occasion I have had this dream where I can perform jumps similar to those I had during my skating days, this time, without my skates. One day I dreamed that I was in a highway, in a section that looks a lot like the section between Divisa and Penonome, with long straight roads dissected by rivers and with green trees on the sides of the road. This dream took place in a highway section nearby a river, and in the middle of the road, there were long vessels made out of woven straws, just like the peruvian “caballitos de totora” except that these where really long and very flexible. As the bow of these was burried in the ground, they where able to stand like bamboo trees. In my elated sensation of my endless jumps, I tried to reach the top of these and I was able to stand in one foot on top of them, or grab the tip and stand on the side of them, without disturbing their natural movement. In this dream I conciously jumped from top to top without even thinking of gravity. It felt a lot like the jumps performed in Chinese Kung-fu movies such as Hero or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Last night however, I dreamed I was running and while I was doing so, I attempted to jump, and every time I bounced in the ground I would be able to jump higher. The ground was black and kind of soft with yellowish straw splinters. In the dream I remembered my dreams as an adolescent and I would try to perform the same tricks flipping, misty flipping and spinning. In one of the jumps I was so conscious and aware of what I was doing that I realized it was a dream. I immediately woke up.
In all these dreams I am alone. Nobody is watching.
P.S. If you would like to comment on this dream, please avoid any references using or comments based on Freud’s free association process.
I occasionally have a recurring dream that is similar. I am able to jump, and bounce higher and higher, to the point that I am almost flying or gliding across the sky. It is an amazing feeling.
I have this dream as well. Like the last comment I really enjoy these dreams. It is amazing. Nobody seems to notice or its like they are ambivalent to me jumping amazing heights. There is no acknowledgement by anyone. Its not like I get upset about no one noticing, but on some level I notice they don’t notice. I think it just becomes so much fun I stop noticing them as well or something. I wouldn’t call it floating its more like less gravity. Everything else is rather normal in the dream. These are not scary, and I never seem to feel any fear of falling.
I have the same re-occurring dream about being able to jump really high and far. I get butterflies in my stomach as I decend and I get scared that I’ve jumped so far up.. Coming back down I feel great and wanna keep doing it. However, I try to show ppl that I have this ability but nobody seems to notice or pay attention. They always look the other way.
I’ve tried to rationalize this dream: maybe I’m trying to show ppl that I have in me the ability to do something that nobody seems to think I can do. I’m trying to prove I’m really talented or skilled at something but nobody seems to pay any attention to me. Dunno but I’ve had this dream on and off for bout 15/20yrs now
Lately I have been having very lucid dreams about being able to displace myself a few inches over the floor at will. The dreams are so real that sometimes I am convinced that I can just float around “a la” David Blane…
I often have dreams where i can jump high, as if there’s hardly any gravity, sometimes i do it to show off & spin round 5 or 6 times before i land & other times i do it to escape a situation and sometimes it’s just a quicker way to get from A to B. I love having these dreams.