Analysis

Video clip, from art installation: Fly Awake, 2005. This soundtrack contains hemisphere-syncing audio, and is best listened to on headphones.

When we dream we leave our physical body. In wake, this travel is a risk, we abandon our shelter, leaving it open to other energies to squat. In dreamtime, we engage the inner and outer energetic world like a fish released from a plastic bag into the ocean. No longer bound by physical rules, the very nature of dreamtime is flight. At each thought shift we change our reality. We have few restrictions, mainly our lack of awareness, and attachment to physical living.

I became fixated on lucidity to fly in dreamtime and strongly desired to fly in waking time too. There are reports of humans attaining flight. Jesus walked on water. It is believed he mastered the second chakra, associated with the element of water and was no longer bound by its rules. Similarly, saints and spiritual adepts have been observed levitating and flying, unbound by gravity. It is believed they have mastered the fourth chakra, associated with the air element. It is possible.

In a past life, I was held captive inside a barbed wire fence. The most realistic path to freedom was flight. I envied the birds. In dreams since early childhood, I am back in that time. I begin to fly away from my enemies, then feel them grab my ankles. I work through lucid techniques and shift dreams from captors to allies (sometimes), moving from prisons to meditation sanctuaries (it’s not hard in dreamtime, the mind can take us there in a flash), and using prayer to shield me (usually, this instantly wakes me up; it helps in waking time too).

I fly for fun. Through parks, I love it up high, no one should see me. I worry about being seen. (Lucid tip: assume they cannot, or show them something else to look at.) I go through the trees, above buildings, in the browns of night, with friend owls. Quickly crossing continents to meditate in the temple. In waking time I will do it too. I will fly. I will learn to lift up. I will abandon the illusion of gravity.