When a woman dreams of flying under her own power she is usually exhilarated. If such a dream is accompanied by feelings of awe it may be an expression of a transpersonal part of the self, a part that literally rises above the normal constraints of time and space. People often feel, in a flying dream, that they are remembering an innate skill. This reinforces the sense that the dream is an expression of a hidden capacity for transformation. Are there talents or abilities that you need to develop? On the other hand, repeated flying dreams may indicate a need to escape. Look at your waking life. Is there some intractable, stuck situation that you really do need to fly away from?
Questing
Dreams of journeys invoke the archetypal narrative of the quest. All who undertake a quest have the opportunity to to discover the depth of the self. Each dream journey offers a chance to encounter and develop parts of the self that the dreamer did not know existed. This is the basic psychological reality of the archetypal quest, it is
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Women come into these stories as representatives of the eternal feminine, as Campbell portrays it, an encounter with a representative of the Goddesss is crucial to the male hero 's initiation. Although the basic psychological point of the archetypal quest, namely the discovery and development of the authentic self, is the same for men and women, I think that it 's safe to say that the pattern of the woman 's quest is not the same as that of the male hero 's quest, that the paradigmatic quest of the feminine "Heroine with a thousand faces" is not identical to that of the masculine Hero. What sorts of stories might represent the typical woman 's quest in life? Each woman’s dreams hold a part of the answer to that