Earning My Wings

[poliphilo]

In one of my dreams last night I was learning to fly- not in an aeroplane but as the next step in human evolution.

It's really easy. You just stand up straight, do a sort of doggy paddle with your forearms and before you know it your head's bumping against the ceiling. Once you've got yourself airborne you can dispense with the arm movements and start swooping around like a bird.

Comments

[oakmouse]

I used to have dreams where I could fly by standing on tiptoe and sort of pushing off, then dropping one foot down to repeat the pushoff if I drifted down too low. Would it were really so easy!

[poliphilo]

In dreams it always is easy- and you think, "How could I possibly have forgotten how to do this?"

[oakmouse]

Yup. Also, I used to dream that I had a pocket hot air balloon, which could shrink down to the size of a walnut or expand to be large enough to carry me to school. I used to lie in bed in the morning of a weekend and wonder how to invent such a thing in the waking world.