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Dreams
Written by Sean on Saturday, October 14, 2006
In a recent exchange with someone who wanted to understand a bit more about BIID, I was asked if I saw myself walking or wheeling in my dreams. I mostly see myself wheeling in my dreams (well, those I remember anyway).
In another conversation, someone described her "mental routine" before going to sleep. She wrote:
I would imagine myself as a paraplegic in a wheelchair, pushing the wheels, adjusting my legs with my hands, transferring, interacting with people, and these thoughts helped me to relax so that I could go to sleep.
I do about the same thing when I go to sleep. It is no wonder to me that as a result, when I dream, I see myself as wheeling around most of the time. I sometimes walk, but that’s rare. I also sometimes "float", where I’m not walking, and not pushing a wheelchair, but everything below my waist is in a fog, and I’m "gliding" over the ground. And I also have been known to fly. But it’s been a long time since I last flew in my dreams.
In conversations with paras that got their SCI through trauma, a lot of them report walking in their dreams, for the first few years after their injury, and slowly converting over to wheeling in their dreams.
What does it mean? I don’t know. Perhaps that I’m "trully" a wheeler at heart? Perhaps nothing at all…
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I have the same thing happen with me. Whenever I am in a dream, I never look down to see how I am moving, just that I am. Also, whenever I have dreams in first person, it is always above the waist, like a chase cam. Has that ever happened with you?
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1 On 15 October, 2006, oophodae said:
Dear Sean, this issue with dreaming in the night is highly interesting! From time to time I fly in my dreams, it does not occur too often, but just as in your dreams, my lower part of my body is never visible in a clear way, just as you describe it there is a kind of fog. I could see other people walk in my dreams, but I can virtually never see my own legs. BTW, I am not a wheelchair wannabe.