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Flying dreams

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Anyone recall having vivid dreams during primary training? I've been re-living some of my poorer performances in the middle of the night.
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I've not had tht experience myself, but I'm a firm believer that a lot of learning goes on during REM sleep. Vivid dreams are good, especially if you can wake up having gained some insight.
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I've had similar dreams in the past about work or education, usually about forgetting to do something important. Guess it's just an anxiety thing, and could be age-related! lol

We'll see tonight whether my "reviews" have provided better insights.

Still working on the heel brake technique.
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Horatio wrote:Still working on the heel brake technique.
Been working on that for 52 years. Still don't have it right. :?
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Re: Flying dreams

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drseti wrote:
Horatio wrote:Still working on the heel brake technique.
Been working on that for 52 years. Still don't have it right. :?
That's not very encouraging, Doc!

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Sometimes I think heel brakes were only meant to hold the plane sort of still during run-up and help out on turns. Back in the days of tailskids and tall grass, slowing down probably wasn't much of an issue.

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Heel/Toe brakes just don't make sense to me. I've never felt comfortable with them. It's like those thumbwheel things that some people use instead of a mouse.... 'just can't get proficient with them.
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ct4me wrote:Heel/Toe brakes just don't make sense to me. I've never felt comfortable with them. It's like those thumbwheel things that some people use instead of a mouse.... 'just can't get proficient with them.
I love flying the Champ, but toe brakes would make it so much better.

Had another dream last night, reliving yesterday's bad landings. Sigh...
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First of two posts on this general topic...

I've owned two Citabrias. The first was a mid-70's 7ECA with toe brakes. The second was a late-60's 7GCBC with heel brakes.

Instructing from the back seat, I far preferred the heel brakes on the earlier model. Yes, they were awkward, but the geometry of the toe brakes on my 7ECA was all wrong for the rear seat pilot - as you went to full rudder, the toe brakes articulated away from you, requiring a range of motion in the ankles I just did not have, and making it impossible to get firm braking and full rudder, which in a taildragger one sometimes needs.

Probably peculiar to this one plane model, but worth mentioning.
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Second of two posts...

Its been a long time since I was a primary student, and I don't know what this says about my psychological state, but...

I would say about two out of every three dreams I have about flying have to do with me screwing up.

Like...

...taxiing at a big airport and being unable to find the right frequency, or...

...having just landed and realizing there's a tower and I had no clearance and boy am I in trouble now, or...

...just after takeoff realizing I have no charts and no idea where I'm going...

...that sort of thing.

Sometimes there's even a crash involved. :cry:

This is after 35+ years of accident-free and violation-free flying.

Am I an odd duck or is this sort of paranoid dreaming commonplace?
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Flying dreams are my gateway to lucid dreams. I have to work on dream awareness during the day to have it when i dream. Common technique is to ask yourself "Am I dreaming" a lot and strive for that awareness when you dream.

Lucid flying dreams are the ultimate freedom. I can do spins in my CT and fly thru the big hangar. Better yet I don't even need my CT.
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FastEddieB wrote:Am I an odd duck or is this sort of paranoid dreaming commonplace?
What makes you think the two are mutually exclusive?
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FastEddieB wrote:Second of two posts...

Its been a long time since I was a primary student, and I don't know what this says about my psychological state, but...

I would say about two out of every three dreams I have about flying have to do with me screwing up.

Like...

...taxiing at a big airport and being unable to find the right frequency, or...

...having just landed and realizing there's a tower and I had no clearance and boy am I in trouble now, or...

...just after takeoff realizing I have no charts and no idea where I'm going...

...that sort of thing.

Sometimes there's even a crash involved. :cry:

This is after 35+ years of accident-free and violation-free flying.

Am I an odd duck or is this sort of paranoid dreaming commonplace?
Eddie,

Lucid dreaming is how you turn those stressful dreams into pleasurable dreams.

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Considering that about 80% of my brain seems to be occupied with airplanes and flying, I have only ever had a handful of flying dreams. The first was before I ever flew any light airplane and was a VP1 homebuilt with an open cockpit and no seat harness. Every time I pitched down, I thought it would throw me out of the cockpit. Terrifying!

One was freakily realistic and involved a Corsair over water, chasing Zeros. Could feel everything from the vibration to the g-loads. A zero zoomed up ahead from below, hung there and stalled right in front of me and I let fly with the guns, no need to even use sights. Still the most eerie and realistic dream I ever had.

But other then that, I almost never dream of flying - weird. I feel cheated!
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Aerco wrote:Considering that about 80% of my brain seems to be occupied with airplanes and flying, I have only ever had a handful of flying dreams. The first was before I ever flew any light airplane and was a VP1 homebuilt with an open cockpit and no seat harness. Every time I pitched down, I thought it would throw me out of the cockpit. Terrifying!
I had a similar dream, around age 12-13, but I was in a ragtop car that drove off a cliff (ala Thelma and Louise.) It was incredibly vivid and terrifying, floating out of the seat while holding onto the steering wheel. I awoke just before impact. This was long before that movie scene, BTW. I seem to vaguely recall a couple of others where I was flying without an aircraft. No dogfight dreams, though.
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