Symbols / Flying

Dreaming about flying

A reading for meaning, not prophecy

Flight is a rising — in the East an elevation of station (升), in the West the psyche reaching for a wider vantage, in Ibn Sirin's tradition travel and rising circumstance. The fear of looking down is the part not yet ready to believe the lift is real.

Three readings

Chinese · 周公解梦 · 升

Flight is read as 升 — rising station, an unbinding from the ground of old obligations. The fear of looking down is the part of you not yet ready to believe the lift is real. Steady flight is read as fortune ascending; struggling to stay aloft, as ambition outpacing footing.

Western · archetypal

Flight is the transcendent function — the psyche's reach toward a wider vantage. The fear of looking down is the ego's vertigo as it glimpses how much larger the Self is than it believed. To fly with ease is the dream of integration arriving.

Islamic · Ibn Sirin

Flight is travel and a rising in station in Ibn Sirin's reading — to ascend with ease, a lifting of circumstance; to struggle aloft, ambition outpacing means. The insight is directional: where are you trying to rise, and is your footing ready?

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