As a child, did you fly?

I think there must be a universal human desire to fly. I don't actually remember flying as a child but I have dreamt of flying from an early age and always had a sense that it was possible. I recall the story of Icarus from school and it somehow confirmed that conviction.

I now tend to dream of either hovering/floating above the ground or jumping from a height and slowly floating down to earth. I have never flapped my arms as far as I remember.

I am sure I once read that it might stem from being thrown up in the air as babies. I know my Dad did that to my brothers and sisters and so probably did it to me too.

One of my real life dreams is to do a parachute jump which I guess is as close to flying as I am ever likely to get in reality.

I have vivid and clear memories of being able to fly as a chld- not down the stairs, but in open fields- running and flapping my arms and taking off softly. I wish I could still- wonderful.

Oooh er ! How strange.

I might have done once when I went in my bedroom and there was a blackbird in there. Got down the stairs really quickly, one way or another. Lifelong bird phobia.

We had a very steep narrow staircase in our terraced house, and as a child, on occasions, I would start out at the top and end up at the bottom but with no recollection of how I got there, like a sort of blackout experience but I obviously didn't fall, because I never hurt myself, just ended up sitting at the bottom of the stairs!

I remember jumping off the kitchen table a few times and flapping my arms madly, trying to fly - didn't work.

Yes! We had the same type of stairs and banister, and where it curved I could hold on and sort of float in a semi-circular fashion down three or four stairs without my feet touching - I didn't jump or leap.

It's so long ago now that I'm never sure whether that actually happened or not, as I have dreamed the same thing about steps and stairs often since.

I had dreams all the time as a child about flying down the stairs, it was lovely, but not in reality, just a dream.