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What does it mean to dream about flying?
Flying dreams can feel like the best dreams there are. Miller and Freud both wrote about them, and their words are quoted here exactly, with links to the full entries.
What Miller wrote (1901)
To dream of flying high through a space, denotes marital calamities. To fly low, almost to the ground, indicates sickness and uneasy states from which the dreamer will recover. … To dream of seeing the sun while flying, signifies useless worries, as your affairs will succeed despite your fears of evil. … For a young man to dream that he is flying with white wings above green foliage, foretells advancement in business, and he will also be successful in love.
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What Freud wrote
Dreams of flying, for the most part characterised by delight, require the most widely different interpretations—altogether special interpretations in the case of some persons, and even interpretations of a typical nature in that of others. … In the case of other female dreamers the dream of flying had the significance of a longing: If I were a little bird; others thus become angels at night because they have missed being called that by day. … We shall also not be surprised to hear that this or that dreamer is always very proud of his ability to fly.
Your dream is not a dictionary entry
A dream about flying comes with a place, other people and a feeling, and the old books read the same image very differently depending on those details. Dreamlore takes your whole dream, spoken or typed, finds the passages that fit it in Miller and Freud, quotes them word for word, and leaves you one question to reflect on. The journal stays on your phone.
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What does it mean to dream about flying?
Miller's 1901 dictionary reads flying differently depending on the details: high or low, over what, and with what wings. Freud wrote that dreams of flying are mostly characterised by delight and need very different interpretations for different people. Dreamlore uses these passages as prompts for reflection on your own dream.
Where do these quotes come from?
They are quoted verbatim from public-domain books: Gustavus Hindman Miller's Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted (1901) and Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (translated by A. A. Brill, 1913). Each quote on this page is checked word for word against the source text before the page is served, the same check the Dreamlore app runs on every quote it shows.
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Dreamlore and these pages are for reflection and curiosity. The books quoted here are old — Miller wrote in 1901 and his entries read as omens, and many of Freud's ideas are disputed today. Take them as a starting point for thinking about your own dream, not as prediction or advice.