Dreams about flying: a Jungian reading

Flying tends to be about distance — all at once you see from above what is impossible to read from below. It is often a relief, but just as often a detour: nothing can be solved up there, you can only not be down there.

It depends on how it looked

• easy, under controla perspective you have and know how to use
• laboured, low above the groundyou want out, but something keeps you near the ground
• afraid of fallinga freedom you do not quite trust yet
• you cannot landdistance that has turned into avoiding

A question for you

What do you have perspective on — and where would it be better to stand with both feet on the ground?

And yours is read symbol by symbol

This is what a dream dictionary cannot do: it reads the dream you actually had. You write it in your own words — a house you had never lived in, a small door under the stairs, a key that did not fit — and each of those images is taken separately, with what it may be carrying for you.

Then comes the archetype the dream is standing in — the Threshold, say — a reflection that ties it to your own chart, and at the end a question to sit with. Not an answer. A question.

A dream reading needs an account, because the dream is stored — that is the point: the meaning shows up when the same image comes back a third time. The account is free and the first readings are free too.