Skydiving Dreams

[Doasfu 0]

Ok, so I'm at the dropzone, except its on the beach. Tons of my friends are there with me, including some I haven't seen in years. One of my friends is lying on the ground sleeping, and I'm shouting at him, "Wake up, dude, we need to manifest."
I'm wearing a student rig, which is odd because I haven't even taken the retrain class, and I keep worrying that I'm going to get sand in it and jam up the ripcord casing or that it'll get into the closing loop and cause it to fray.
Eventually I go to manifest to ask about retaking the FJC, and they tell me that it's getting really cloudy and windy and that I should just jump now while I can. I ask if I even have time for a gear check, but she just tells me to go right over to the plane. Then I wake up.
Any budding psychoanalyts want to take a stab at it? :)
Dan

[cyberskydive 0]

Your paranoid and you are uncomfortable with your gear-LOL (JK man)
Your very safety oriented and you dont like it when people take it lightly. (better?)
I had a cool one for the first time in a while last week.
I was a tour guide orr instructor or something showing folks this pier, I thought we were at the ocean and we walked up to the edge of the pier, cept instead of water it was about 15 grand AGL, so i got to do a base jump from 15 grand. I woke up in freefall feeling really awesome.
Can someone tell me why I get teased like this?
D.Chisolm C-28534
webmaster@sunraydesigns.com
http://www.sunraydesigns.com

[froggie 0]

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i think this is a skydivers form of a wet dream :)
froggie

[gus 1]

I seem to have quite alot of skydiving dreams. Almost all of them involve me having a mal of some kind but I never get injured - weird. Either the canopy opens about 6 feet off the ground or I simply land on my feet, heart beating slightly faster than normal!
We must have some psych students/professionals out there, what do they make of all this?
Gus

[Stacy 0]

Unfortunately I haven't sat my board exams yet, so I can't give any therapeutic advice. =c) Ask again in 6 months when I can legally advise you. =c)
Stacy
http://astro.temple.edu/~sweeks

[FreeflyPlaymate 0]

Gus,
You know I'm not a psych student at all, but I would like to think I was in tune with all of that type of stuff. I think your dream is like someone else's dream of getting shot and still being the hero. Everyone wants to be a superhuman-hero. I have skydiving dreams all of the time except I've never had one where I land in yet, still haven't had one to date. It's like a bunch of freefalls after another, the jumps even change too sometimes I'm by myself or sometimes I am with a group but they're all interlinked. So basically your superGUS so go with it nothing wrong with that
**BLUE ONES**

BITE ME.... :P

[Zennie 0]

I had a really cool dream just the other night.
Basically I'm making a trip.... under canopy. I know the place is a long way off, but I just keep going and going over this road. The road would dip down & I'd just fly straight and meet up at the other side. At one point I say, OK let's see if I can swoop down one of these dips. So I just follow the road down and then go back up the other side holding it about 10 feet off the ground the whole time. Cars would go under me and I'd just fly along. Felt like I could go forever.
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Blue Skies!
Zennie

[Zennie 0]

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Any budding psychoanalyts want to take a stab at it?

Sex
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Blue Skies!
Zennie

[gus 1]

Hehehehe, superGus - I like the sound of that :-)
I can't make head nor tail of your dreams: you either love the freefall so much that you never want it to end, or you've been watching too much MTV!
Seriously though, maybe you just don't think/worry about hitting the ground?
Gus (psych qualifications pending)

[miked10270 0]

Hey Stacey, When were us "Death defying Devil Divers" ever bothered by legalitiesOK...(& this one is WITHOUT MEDS). I'm under water, in "box" position but wearing scuba gear. Floating, motionless. Fish are swimming up to me, like angel fish & stuff, then swimming away & around me. Next thing, this shark (think Great White - Jaws type, but the same size as me) swims straight up to my face!... So we pin. Then the shark does a side-in & transitions to a stairstep. I remain motionless. The shark keeps building different points with me but in really slow motion, you know, like water speed, not flying speed. I'm totally relaxed - not scared or anything, just motionless yet I know I'm also moving to build the points. It seems to last for ever & recollection is Soooooo.... clear when I awake????????????????????????????????????????????????
Mike D10270.

[miked10270 0]

Oh Yeah... Forgot the sounds... Pink Floyd, "Echoes" or "Shine On"
Mike D10270.

[FreeflyPlaymate 0]

MTV what? lol I am one of the very rare who does NOT have cable...lol sorry. Although I really do miss my espn sportscenter....damn oh well lol
And response to what you thought about my dream, sounds like a perfect fit...I'm not afraid of the ground....I hop in my car without being afraid of being in an accident, and the same with skydiving...the only things in life I am afraid of are spiders and the fear of drowning..lol go figure
**BLUE ONES**

BITE ME.... :P

[Stacy 0]

hmm good point mike. why start worrying about legality now? =c)
Stacy
http://astro.temple.edu/~sweeks

[freaksister 0]

Well we are supposed to be doing a psychological study on thrill-seeking behavior but I haven't done much yet 'cause I'm lazy...so if we ever get it done I will let ya'll know. Actually some of you could even participate.
PS - I think psychoanalysis is 80% worthless...but that is just my opinion (I think Freud was a fruitloop)...I don't believe our dreams are manifestations of our "unconscious desires" or fears...I think its just our brain being active and playing with different scenarios.

[Grogs 0]

I've had a few pretty cool ones. In one, I'm standing on the ground near a large opening (i.e., at the edge of the Grand Canyon). People will come tracking over me about 50' above the lip, come out of the track over the canyon, and open. In another dream, I'm jumping with a friend of mine and we're racing each other to see who can land on a cloud first. When we land on the clouds, we actually stop there, just like they're made of cotton

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[Danhole 0]

You obviously want to have sex with your mother.
or is a cigar just a cigar as Freud would say.

[Hellian 0]

I have this dream that i'm starting AFF, and that i've finished my exams. Then i wake up and cruel reailty takes over!
Ed

[skreamer 1]

hahahahaha
Nice one, Ed!
Patience, young Skywalker, patience...
/s
[drop till you party!]

[Slowfaller 0]

I've had this dream like 3 times and every time the jump is awesome but when i dump the lines are like 60feet long and i end up waking up before i hit the ground. I dont know?
blue skies, cold beer
chris

[Geoff 0]

I dream about waiting around at drop zones - buying tickets, dirtdiving, planning the jump, but virtually never about actually jumping.
I think it's just an expression of the frustration of being a skydiver in the British weather, at slow British drop zones.
Geoff

[SpeedRacer 1]

I saw an SNL sketch a long time ago, where they said that they now realize that Freud was wrong: Women don't have penis envy, actually, men have penis shame. Which is why they're always looking to hide their penises in small dark places over and over again....
Speed Racer
"Blue Skies, Red eyes, Sore thighs!"

[wildblue 7]

Stop trying to figure it out, it's a free jump! Enjoy it!
I had a spinning mal the other night. One time, my arm wouldn't work to reach the hackey... that was scary. I think it might have been because I was sleeping on my side - the bed was in the way!
A friend of mine had a funny one - he was jumping out of strange.. uhh... vehicles. A flying mini-van (Skyvan?) then there was a flying log cabin (Casa?) then a school bus on a big piston (haven't figured that one out yet)