Cudlo 0 #1 March 18, 2004 Few nights ago i was having a skydiving dream. Everything was nice and pleasant till it came time to pull. I ended up spinning like hell, when i looked up my lines were all twisted up near the risers. I checked my altimeter, 1600', the main was fully inflated but i was spinning like crazy. Kicked out of it and was okay by 500'. Woke up sweating bullets. I wasn't in control of my dream.. i was just watching it happen. And what scares me is that I didn't cut away at that low of an altitude instead of trying to kick out (im still a student so 1600' and not under a good chute scares me). Now everytime i even think about that dream my heart starts racing like crazy and i get scared shitless. Now, part of me is scared to go back up not sure that my mind is gonna react correctly. Have any of you had this sorta problem getting scared from a dream?_________________________________________ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Kierkegaard Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #2 March 18, 2004 The good news is you will not have the falling dreams that everyone else gets ever again. The bad news is now you get malfunction dreams. They are not necessarily skydiving related, just general anxiety related. My very uneducated opinion. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cudlo 0 #3 March 18, 2004 See.. i used to have those falling dreams when i was a kid. Except when most people say they wake up before they hit the ground i didnt. matter of fact i fell out of the sky and landed on the picket fence i had outside my house growin up.... that hurt._________________________________________ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Kierkegaard Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #4 March 18, 2004 I once had a malfunction dream in which I cutaway from five or ten canopies in sucession. I just kept having malfunction after malfunction. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstime 0 #5 March 18, 2004 look at it as a blessing, maybe you were thinking "mals only happen approx 1 in 350 jumps (just an about figure everyboby). Sorry about your nightmare but mals can happen 2 in a row or not even after 1000 jumps (from what I read). Think of your dream as a good buddy who is saying "Stay on top of your game". Use it as tool to your advantage. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Conquest150 0 #6 March 19, 2004 dont let this dream run you away from skydiving. ive got a friend who had a dream that he had a mal and when he went to pull his reserve the sledge ball on his reserve ripcord broke off and by the time he was able to pull the cord he says he remembered looking at teh ground really close and having a sharp pain in his legs then he woke up. needless to say he never jumped again and this was over a year ago and ive tried getting him to jump but he just wont do it. please dont let that dream scare you Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cudlo 0 #7 March 19, 2004 I dont intend to let it run me away from skydiving. Its just got me a little spooked is all._________________________________________ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Kierkegaard Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #8 March 19, 2004 Quote Now everytime i even think about that dream my heart starts racing like crazy and i get scared shitless. Now, part of me is scared to go back up not sure that my mind is gonna react correctly. Have any of you had this sorta problem getting scared from a dream? Yes, that has happened to me. Around 1998-2001 I had a number of dreams that involved being in airliners that crashed. I began to wonder after several of them whether I might actually develop, based on these dreams, a fear of flying. (I had/have never had a fear of flying.) I ended up answering the question by happening to go on some flights. No problems. Then in 2002 I resumed taking flying lessons (which I had done in 1991 but stopped before getting my pilot's license.) Those dreams have not had a bearing on my eagerness to fly. I have also had a good number of dreams about skydiving since I got into it in August 2003. Even last night I had a skydiving dream in which I exited in a sit, stood up to try to get down to the guy I was supposed to be in a 2-way with, and then realized I'd gotten down to about 3,000' and pulled (I usually pull no lower than 4,500). I have fortunately never had a malfunction in real life. I have had several in dreams. In each of these dreams, I have cut-away and always landed safely under a reserve. Weird, since I have never done that in real life. But just as it is reassuring to me that I have acted properly in my dreams, I understand your apprehension about what your dreams mean to you. My proposed solution: TRAIN TRAIN TRAIN. If you fear making mistakes when dealing with a malfunction, maybe your dreams are telling you that you don't really have a solid handle on the subject, and you should get instruction to put your mind and safety at ease. Good luck. --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
testpilot 0 #9 March 19, 2004 Tell you what you should do next time you wake from a malfunction dream without hesitation, Arch, Look, Handles, Right, Left, Arch, it will be good practice. Dave D830 http://www.skydiving.co.za Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cudlo 0 #10 March 19, 2004 Thank you very much for your response Jeff. I've been running over the drills alot after I had that dream. Outside of the safety/danger i've been thinking about with skydiving in relation to this dream. I just find the dream itself rather odd since I rarely if ever remember my dreams. And when I do they fade away pretty quickly. But this one is sticking... like it was a solid orange chute, and it looked more elliptical and smaller than the Sabre2 that i have been jumping. Oh well. Good idea dave. Think I will work on that if i get this dream again._________________________________________ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Kierkegaard Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #11 March 19, 2004 I'm glad to have helped in some small way. Me, I actually do really well remembering my dreams. Sometimes they please or interest me enough that I write them down in a dedicated book. I wouldn't say that all dreams have meaning, but some of them do compel me to think about various subjects. Sometimes they are just good entertainment, and I get to marvel at what my subconscious mind can come up with. In one recent dream, I was on a big tower for a BASE jump (I've never done any BASE jumping), and I was pretty scared. Even more scared when I saw and noticed that my rig was NOT ON ME, but on the platform of this tower, leaning up against a big support girder, on the opposite side of the girder on which I had a death-grip. I realized that I'd have to let go and put the thing on, and the thought of that terrified me. (I'm not real keen on edges, particularly not without a parachute rig on.) In an instant, though, I somehow realized that I could fly and I didn't even need the rig. When everyone else there jumped, I did too, and I freefell for a while, doing some solo maneuvers, and just as I saw the ground-rush, I swung my feet under me into a stand and did this beautiful swan-like feather-touch landing. In the dream I felt great, and then when I woke up I did, too. --Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cudlo 0 #12 March 19, 2004 There we go... now we just gotta figure out how to land without a rig that can malfunction and we'll be set :). That base dream sounds pretty cool. How did you know you could fly? Did it just come to you or you figured it out (noticed some feathers on your arms )? On a side note I'm realizing sitting up at 4am (having not slept) drinking corona when you have to go into a school (k-12) and teach a buncha rugrats is prolly not a hot idea._________________________________________ "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Kierkegaard Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ernokaikkonen 0 #13 March 19, 2004 QuoteThe good news is you will not have the falling dreams that everyone else gets ever again. The bad news is now you get malfunction dreams. You think that's bad? Wait until you start packing reserves for other people... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
