Many of us had to feel a sense of free flight in our dreams. It is believed that most often children fly in a dream, and this is due to the physiological changes of the growing organism. But the adult, who seems to have nowhere to grow, no, no, and he dreams that he easily breaks off the ground and hovers in the air.
Experts in the field of esoterics explain the origin of night flights by the fact that during sleep, the astral body separates from the physical shell. A person feels in a dream the hovering of his own astral essence. Therefore, among many peoples, a dream is considered a sacred act and it is strictly forbidden to wake a sleeping person, otherwise the astral body will not have time to reconnect with the physical.
The interpreters of dreams interpret flying in a dream quite controversially. Some dream books portend great luck and career growth, others, on the contrary, claim that flying in a dream promises missed opportunities, fleeting love, job loss, fruitless dreams.
Proponents of the theory of the alien origin of mankind suggest that man’s ability to fly was lost during evolution or was blocked by the settlement of almighty immigrants from other star galaxies on Earth. A person flying easily in a dream sees himself as he was originally - able to independently move through air, water, solve any difficult tasks for an earthling.
A different point of view was held by the American writer Jack London. In one of his novels, he explains flying in a dream by the fact that some of the very first ancient people lived mainly on trees, like some species of monkeys. In flights in a dream, the patrimonial memory of our distant ancestors is reflected - during sleep they often fell down from the tree branches on which they were located at night. This was always accompanied by extreme horror for an ancient person, since, having fallen to the ground, one could become a victim of wild animals. According to Jack London, this generic fear has been transmitted to all subsequent generations of people to date, and flying in a dream is just a fall from a height.
As we see, a single answer to the question why people fly in a dream cannot be given. Having diluted the seriousness of this topic with a bit of humor, let’s summarize: if you never had to feel flying while sleeping, you may not be from other planets, but a native earthling, whose ancestors lived on a flat area and did not fall from tall trees.