In RL I've only ever had Flying Dreams after reading about other people having Flying Dreams. My subconscious tends to substitute the ability to run at incredible speeds by going to all fours, instead. But the few times I've had Flying Dreams the mechanism's been either:
1. Throw yourself at the ground and get very distracted right before you hit (I had just read So Long And Thanks For All The Fish when I first read about other people's flying dreams), or
2. Start running, and then push off the air.
Ray's flying dreams include the extra element of the machine because, well, I read Yeager when I was in sixth grade. From age 11 up through about when I started applying to college, one of the characters in the back of my head that I never wrote about, but kept around for self-entertainment, had the ability to turn into military aircraft and do everything the real machines could do, only obviously without a pilot. Throw in the fact that last Halloween at milliways_bar I had Milliways impose a very, very complicated sort of Halloween magic on him, and I figure that probably left a big ol' impression on his psyche, no matter how long he lived in another universe after that.
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Date: 2008-04-26 03:23 pm (UTC)1. Throw yourself at the ground and get very distracted right before you hit (I had just read So Long And Thanks For All The Fish when I first read about other people's flying dreams), or
2. Start running, and then push off the air.
Ray's flying dreams include the extra element of the machine because, well, I read Yeager when I was in sixth grade. From age 11 up through about when I started applying to college, one of the characters in the back of my head that I never wrote about, but kept around for self-entertainment, had the ability to turn into military aircraft and do everything the real machines could do, only obviously without a pilot. Throw in the fact that last Halloween at