CHAPTER VI. Aviation in Dreams

AVIATION IN DREAMS

Dreams of Flying and Falling--Their Peculiar Vividness--Dreams of Flying an Alleged Survival of Primeval Experiences--Best explained as based on Respiratory Sensations combined with Cutaneous Anaesthesia--The Explanation of Dreams of Falling--The Sensation of Levitation sometimes experienced by Ecstatic Saints--Also experienced at the Moment of Death, 129