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ABSTRACT
Give Your Inner Child A Lift
Linda Lane Magallón, M.B.A.
San Jose, California
e-mail: CaseyFlyer@aol.com
Linda Lane Magallón, M.B.A., is a founder of ASD, Bay Area
Dreamworkers Group (with Fred Olsen) and the Fly-By-Night Club research
group. She is the author of *Mutual Dreaming* and has been studying dream
flight for 20 years. Her web site is devoted to that passion. (http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html
(Dream Flights);
Linda Lane Magallón
1083 Harvest Meadow Court
San Jose, CA 95136
(408) 266-5397
CaseyFlyer@aol.com
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html (Dream Flights)
Summary of Presentation
Incubation of flying dreams provides nourishment for your Inner Child. In
the spirit of fair play, why not take a recess from dreamwork and bring back
your sense of wonder? Find the imagery and energy to launch your uplifting
dreams and give your Inner Child an opportunity for expression.
Learning Objectives.
1. To demonstrate the variety of flying imagery using graphic means.
2. To invoke the sensations and feelings of flight via poetic narrative to
match with imagery as an incubation of flying dreams.
3. To encourage a healthy recess from work with playful approaches to dreams.
Evaluation questions:
1. What are the benefits of flying for my Inner Child of Dreams?
2. Where does the sensation of motion come from? What emotions raise me into
the night sky?
3. Where might I find appropriate imagery to match with the movement of my
consciousness?
Abstract
Give Your Inner Child A Lift
© 2002 Linda Lane Magallón
Plato found the model of play in children’s need to leap, to transcend the
limits of gravity, of the grave and the serious. Flying dreams are definitely
a leap of the imagination. Flying provides an opportunity for the Child Within
to take a vacation, come out to play and express herself creatively. When we
soar beyond the mundane, we are capable of dreams of great poetic power.
Flying is healthy. It provides opportunity for flexibility and freedom,
expanded perception and exploration of dream space. An Inner Child who knows
how to fly is stronger and more confident in the face of danger. She can
escape the problem situation, view the situation from a distance with
detachment, confront fear, withstand the trouble or recreate a new, safer
environment. Flying is a vehicle for positive self transformation as well as a
passport to wonderland.
Because flying can make our hearts pound, our spirits sing, the right
selection of chant or music may help induce a flying dream. The dream of
flight can provide buoyant energy upon awakening; a positive attitude that
affects the way we feel about ourselves and the world long after we leave
behind the realms of sleep.
Thus, flying is not so much a lullaby as it is a wake-up call. It is an
"Ah ha!" experience just by itself. It’s also closely related to
the "Ha ha!" experience. After all, flying is "levity." To
become a flyer, we nurture the Inner Child with humor, surprise and vibrant
energy.
If our sleeping minds attain the sense of motion, emotion or concept that
causes our hearts to leap and soar, they might match energy with images drawn
from waking experience. Since most of us are not pilots or astronauts, those
inner pictures tend to be of the grounded variety. Though we feel our spirits
in motion, we are likely to dream up a physical body walking down a road or
riding in a car. To fly, we must substitute mundane imagery for its magical
counterpart. Where do we get that sort of imagery?
We can take on the Child’s perspective, go outside and look upwards during
the day to see butterflies, helicopters and leaves drifting in the wind. The
clouds, driven along the blue sky, may tempt us to travel with them. The
seasonal smells can make us feel joyful, too.
Inside our homes, the imagery to invoke flying dreams might come from
paintings, photos, collages and animated figures, especially in the videos we
see or the books we read. We incubate flight when we immerse ourselves in an
adult novel or a children’s book.
While we wander the back roads of myth and folklore, let us not forget that
legend is not limited to the past. We’ll not find it in dusty tomes, though.
We will encounter current myths in comic books, movies and video games. There,
we are most likely to find the archetypal images of flight that will fly us
into the future.
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