The You're listening to Nachter. I'm Vanessa Lowe.

Our dreams can allow us to experience things that are impossible.

Yeah, some dreams take us where we'd rather not go, but others invite us into a world filled with joy and ease and wonder.

They connect us to a forgotten part of ourselves.

It feels realer than real, this realm we can only inhabit when we're sleeping, this place where so many go back again and again,

to feel ourselves lighten and rise as we lift off and take flight.

I can fly, I can rise above it all.

I can fly over the tops of trees. I was flying.

Sometimes in my dreams I realize I can fly.

Wow I can do this. Life's never going to be the same. I can fly now.

It's almost like my body has a memory of being able to fly.

When I was a kid, yeah I dream of flying. I dream of all sorts of flying. My favorite dream of flying was actually not flapping, not straight ahead,

Superman style, not like a plane.

I never fly like Superman or like a bird.

Running. I have to get a really good running start. Superman or like a bird. Running?

I have to get a really good running start.

Along a concrete path.

And I generally bend my knees and sort of launch myself up into the air a bit.

Watching the ground fly. I'm watching

watching the ground fly beneath me.

I'm running along the street at speed

and all of a sudden this power surges through my body and then I take that one step

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