Frontierflyer From United States, joined Aug 2007, 180 posts, RR: 1 Posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 11246 times:
Anyone else here have continuous airliner crash nightmares? I have them all the time but last night was very detailed. Usually I don't recall airline or aircraft but last night I dreamt of a Delta MD88 crashing.
PanAm788 From United States, joined Sep 2008, 125 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 11235 times:
This happens to me on occasion too! It's always an NW DC-9 or an AA MD-82, and I'm always watching, never insie the plane. So frightening in the dream, but then it's kind of cool when you wake up and realize it was all fake. It's cool that happens to other people. I thought I was weird.
Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score.
Sf3SCE From United States, joined Apr 2008, 81 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 12 hours ago) and read 11207 times:
I've got to experience it during flying lesson. I was in a Grumman AA1B doing a lesson and my walk around and run-up went perfectly fine but right off the departure leg at 300 feet the engine started losing power so we had to ditch in a field, nosed over and came to a rest. God had everything in line for this crash because we nosed over at the perfect time to avoid the rocks, it rained the day before so kinda wet dirt, as well as stopping us right before an enbankment. I am 16 years old and not many can say they were in a plane crash. I will never go near a grumman again it was a scary plane from the get go but I needed to fly and thats all that was avalible. There are some pictures below and the details were I was in a Grumman T-Cat, accident happened in State College, PA, On April 6th, 2008 at 1600...
It means you spend too much time on A.net. Unless you've been in one, at the scene of one, know someone that has died in one or you have been directly impacted by one you have no reason what so ever to be having them
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
I can answer yes to a few of my points.....This is a business were people can die. You can get killed on the ramp, you can get killed in the hangar and you can get killed in the plane. We deal with it everyday. One quick moment of loss of concentration can be fatal. I deal with it by not dwelling on it and just doing my best to be safe.
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"
My uncle died in a small Cessna accident about 8 years back , he was my reason to get into aviation. I actually just found out about A.net about 3 weeks ago, and became a member like 2 days ago, so I don't think too much time on A.net is the problem.
[Edited 2008-09-16 19:06:52]
Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score.
SXDFC From United States, joined Dec 2007, 1364 posts, RR: 19 Reply 8, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 10940 times:
I had a dream last may that I was looking at my window, and I saw Southwest Shamu ( 334) sitting a top the trees outside of my apartment! It was very real as I remember seeing the engine with the fin decal on it on fire, as well as the people evacuating through the slides, and everyone survived, the captain even had a conversation with me! Turns out I would end up flying N334SW on August 1,2007 from BWI-TPA, and I always would think I would feel excited to fly on Shamu but I was keeping my fingers crossed that my dream wasn't going to happen in real life, especially with me on the plane!
YZFOO7F From Canada, joined May 2005, 142 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 10939 times:
The only time I've ever had a dream about a plane crash was the night after Zoom went bankrupt. I was in a house that just happened to be right at the threshold of a runway (don't know where this dream took place) and a Zoom 763 landed but sort of skid off the side of the runway and burst into flames. Scary until you wake up and realize its a dream.
StuckInCA From United States, joined Oct 2005, 1191 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 10911 times:
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 3): Unless you've been in one, at the scene of one, know someone that has died in one
Does anyone NOT know someone who's died in a plane crash? I've known several who have died and several who have survived crashes.
Moreover, why is that a requirement to have such a thing as a nightmare? I have a recurring nightmare that I smash my own front teeth with pliers despite not wanting it to happen as I do it. I've never met anyone who did that. I'd never do that.
Scramjetter From United States, joined Sep 2006, 63 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 10853 times:
When I was a child I lived under the base-leg approach for the local airport's southern runway. I loved watching Eastern's 727s making their approaches (I'm old). But I had recurring dreams that one of the jets crashed in my neighborhood. The weird thing was that it was always overcast and the jet would descend out of the overcast in a slow, absolutely silent flat spin and simply crack open on the ground. Weird!
Every now and then I have a dream my plane doesn't climb out and I'm flying Vmc down the street avoiding trees and power lines.
Then there are the dreams where she has a LOT more horsepower then usual heh heh. Those are awesome!
Ptugarin From United States, joined Sep 2006, 289 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 10820 times:
I live in an approach path, and I frequently have nigthmares about witnessing a crash near my house, they are not very scary, but quite realistic. I haven´t had one recently, so I can´t really give examples, but I usually remember the airline and aircraft type when I wake up.
JOEYCAPPS From Italy, joined Jul 2008, 186 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 10761 times:
I lost a relative in the WTC, and I had a dream immediately afterwards that I was working at a conference table high up in a building. I was alone; turned around to look out the window and the last thing I saw was the nose of a plane, flash, and I woke up sweating.
Kinda weird if you ask me; but one things for certain, something like that you just never forget.
And I agree with NWADC9; although it is my favorite show, it did leave me wondering... lol
Halophila From United States, joined Aug 2005, 574 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 10752 times:
Frequent one I have had is one involving 3 a/c. Two - an AA 772 and AF 744 had collided somewhere above a city (in the dream I pick up a safety card for an AA777 from the wreckage); then somewhere else, perhaps unrelated, I see the semi-burnt out shell of a DL M88 on a barren field.
Actually just before 9/11 by pure coincidence I had the following: Intense interest in the Connie/DC-8 collision over Brooklyn (I think?); curiosity about an apartment building in Miami with a giant gap in it (I saw it on some show I think); and a repeating nightmare in which I see the tail section of a UA 744 sitting in the midst of building wreckage. Weird huh?
Cumulus From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2006, 1390 posts, RR: 2 Reply 19, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 10555 times:
Quoting EMBQA (Reply 3): It means you spend too much time on A.net. Unless you've been in one, at the scene of one, know someone that has died in one or you have been directly impacted by one you have no reason what so ever to be having them
I do believe you are talking complete sh*t..............
What Goes Up Must Come Down, Hopefully In One Piece!
B707forever From United States, joined Dec 2007, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 10213 times:
I have had them my whole life, and I'm 52. I grew up 6 miles from JFK and aside from having a prophetic dream about and Eastern 727 crashing at JFK 2 weeks before it actually happened (I told my brother about the dream and he freaked when it happened), I notice I have plane crash dreams when I'm feeling emotional about something.
I've come to believe that because I obviously love commercial aviation my mind chooses to use plane crash dreams to help me understand where I'm at emotionally.
I have them on occasion, but certainly not continuously. Mostly I dream that I'm watching a plane go down, usually in slow motion. I don't recall ever having a dream where I was on a plane that was crashing.
Living close to DCA I'm seeing planes all the time, and in some of my dreams I've been outside my apartment and looking to the north when I see one crash during departure. Funny, I never see them crashing on approach.
I've tried to understand why I have these dreams, and I've concluded that in spite of the fact that I've flown a half-million miles (at least) I still don't completely trust the technology. It just doesn't seem completely natural to be lifted off the ground and transported through the sky at high speed. But I don't worry about it.
Quoting B707forever (Reply 20): I've come to believe that because I obviously love commercial aviation my mind chooses to use plane crash dreams to help me understand where I'm at emotionally.
Very interesting. You love aviation, and that's why you dream about planes crashing? I'd like to hear more about this, but unfortunately this is the wrong forum. This sounds fascinating.
Actually, any thread about the U.S. legacy carriers' freefall into mediocrity is depressing to me.
As for this topic, I just had one 3 days ago - witnessed a 737 repeatedly stall and then crash. I attributed the dream to three combined factors: 1) I am flying to MSP in a United 737 today; 3) I am from Pittsburgh, and the US 737 crash (rudder servo valve defect) 10 or 15 years ago still lingers with me; and 3) my girlfriend and I had just talked about how John Madden fears flying and so drives to every football game. There you go. Otherwise, I bet I have a plane crash dream 2-3 times a year.
YooYoo From Canada, joined Nov 2003, 5797 posts, RR: 56 Reply 23, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 9495 times:
I've had several dreams, nothing too specific, just seeing a plane and somehow knowing it's in trouble and then i see smoke or fire in the distance. I run to the scene and see some charred wreckage but never any bodies. I guess i dream of only Remote Controlled aircraft.
I've also had dreams where aircraft fly over me, sort of like at an air show and i can't help feeling that they are going to crash on me. A very odd feeling (actually had a dream like this last night!!) The planes do maneuvers that can't be done in "real life" and they fly in between houses and over my head by 20' and there are so many of them they should collide into each other, but never do and they never crash on me, i'm just terrified... a real odd feeling after waking up from one of those.
I am so smart, i am so smart... S-M-R-T... i mean S-M-A-R-T
Isitsafenow From United States, joined Feb 2004, 4145 posts, RR: 31 Reply 24, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 9388 times:
About once a year for over 15 years I have dreamed of a United 737 going down...
Its ALWAYS a UA 737 in the dark gray colors....usually on take off or just after take off..
The nice thing is after a few short months from now, we all know that, in reality, CANNOT happen, can it?
Spooky I know but thats my answer to the lead Q.
safe
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If two people agree on EVERYTHING, then one isn't necessary.
Ogre727 From Switzerland, joined Feb 2005, 430 posts, RR: 1 Reply 25, posted (1 year 3 months 2 days ago) and read 9181 times:
This is actually a recurring dream for me (average 2-3 times a year). It is never the same plane, or backgroun or time of the deay. It always looks and feels very real. Sometimes I am very close, sometimes I am far, but I am never on the plane, just watching it. Sometimes I smell the jet fuel, sometimes even feel the heat of the fire. I once asked a phsycologist about this and he said it might be my frustration of not becoming a commercial pilot (which was my life long dream, mind you I work at AIG).
I have two other recurring dreams that I guess back up the shrink's theory. In the first I am trying to get to the airport, but never seem to find it, or the car breaks down and I never reach the airport. The other is that I board a plane, and in the take off run, the airplane fails to reach enough speed and starts to lose altitude... very scary stuff.
Favorite planes: 727,747,A380
26 MSNfan: I have had them from time to time (including one about an AA 767 shortly before 9/11, which is why I probably remember it), but they are never very de
27 Tarheel: Back in the 1960's I went through a period of frequent airplane crash dreams. I mentioned one especially vivid one to my secretary and she suggested t
28 Jalapeno: Guess there are others like me.... While I do have many plane crash dreams (I'm never in the plane, just watching them) only 2 have been accurate: 1.
29 Bristolflyer: Oh really? Some kind of psychologist are you? Your thread is worded as if to say that you're allowed to have them but no-one else is. I regularly wak
30 Parton87: Karin Gustavsson, one of the passenger onboard Scandinavian Airlines flight SK751 told the media after the crash that she has dreamt about the crash f
31 AIR MALTA: Well I had several crash naightmares and they were all involving my at that time local airport, Tunis. Most of the times, I would dream of an LX Fokke
32 Spacecadet: I have two recurring plane crash nightmares. In both, I sense no danger at all in the first part of the dream, they are just like normal flights. In t
33 F9Animal: I will never forget my dream I had a few days before 9/11/01. I was dreaming we were on our roof top. Suddenly a 747 came right at us. That was it. Wh
34 Cyberflyer: Dreams reflect thoughts in the subconscious state. Airplane dreams usually have one of two meanings: 1.) Dreaming about a crash or being in a crash is
35 Spacecadet: As Freud himself said, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". Don't read too much into these things. I sometimes think people who make these kinds of a
36 Dc10bhx: I have read this thread with interest. I have not had night mares about aircraft crashing (either before the event nor thankfully afterwards). Nor do
37 ArcrftLvr: You can't be serious??? I'll let my subconscious know that EMBQA told me I have no reason to have airliner crash nightmares. Thanks for clearing that
38 RaginMav: I had one just the other night. I am walking down a street, and other people start pointing toward the sky. I look up, and see a Challenger, on fire,
39 Vikkyvik: Who said you need a reason? I would wager that the majority of people alive do not know someone who's died or survived a plane crash. Course, I don't
40 Rampart: I used to have a frequent dream about being in an out of control hot air balloon. Just as the utlimate catastrophe was about to occur (basket detatche
41 Dubliftment: It is very interesting to see this topic discussed here. Thank you for bringing it up. I have plane crash dreams (no nightmares, though) quite frequen
42 413X3: usually we dream about what different things are on our minds. being fans of aviation, and especially looking at specific airplanes a lot, I would not
43 YULWinterSkies: Scary planes indeed... In today's world of wing mounted twin jets, the MD-80 looks a little outdated and awkward. I, for some reason, hate sitting in
44 Hp2us: Random I know, but I had nightmares of crashing all the time, and my astrologer says a dream that involves death usually means a re-birth. Just my
45 Denverdanny: I don't have them very often, maybe once a year, or less. I started having them around the time of PA 103 and UA 232. I think that so much coverage in
46 Xero9: Well I can back that up.. I don't know ANYONE personally who has ever been in a plane crash and survived, let alone died. This guy makes it seem like
47 Evan767: My most recent nightmare was in a Delta Connection CR7. As the female pilot flew the plane, we kept weaving in and out of other planes at cruise altit
48 C5LOAD: I sometimes have the same dream of a DC10 taking off and watching it go nose up and stall. Speaking of plane crashes, depending on the nature and size
49 Jalapeno: but don't we have bad dreams for just about anything? for those of us who have waited tables, how many "waiter" nightmares did you have? I had plenty.
50 Af773atmsp: When I was young a fell off a tall slide and landed on my back really hard. Now I have random dreams that I'm falling out of the sky and right when I
51 NWA320: I had a dream once that I was on some kind of a school playground, then I looked up and saw a cathay pacific A340 diving right towards me. Next thing
52 Rampart: I have that dream, too! For me, it's supposed to be Los Angeles, and we taxi forever to then take off on I-10, between cars. I lived in LA for all of
53 Flyvabb: I had one too... a few months back... It was an Indigo A320 in the Ganges.... the plane did break up but some how very few were injured... I for some
54 Airbuster: I dream of really hot girls pampering me all night...........no seriously i spend a lot of time in the cockpit and around planes but most of the time
55 SKYYBLUE: I've had several. My most memorable was last year.... I was a working flight attendant on a TWA 747-100. It was a bright, sunny, and hot day. I was wo
56 Richierich: What a bizarre thread! I can't say I have ever had dreams or nightmares about a plane crash but I sure have thought about it. Morbidly I have wondered
57 Bbinn333: I was flying from SFB-PFN in a Beach Barron 58, before takeoff we had to switch a battery out and we were delayed 1 1/2 hours. (I was nessery F/A abor
58 ABQopsHP: On the night of 12Nov87, I had a dream that a UA DC-8 would flip on takeoff during a snow storm at DEN Stapleton airport. 3 days later CO1713, with my
59 TUNisia: I had a dream that I was on a BA / GB Airways A320 and that all the doors were open on the ground and we kept taxing in circles.. round and round. Don
60 JOEYCAPPS: With all due respect, I know seasoned travellers (every month or more) that are scared to death of flying. A fear of heights contributes highly; flyi
61 Pdxcessna206: About nine years ago I had a dream I was at a gas station and an airliner crashed into a warehouse next door, then another one crashed into other buil
62 TN757Flyer: I flew on the Valujet DC9 that crashed near MIA about a week prior. I'm not one to remember tail numbers, but that was my first time flying them, out
63 OTOPS: When you are an aviation enthusiast and you think about planes alot your going to dream about planes. If you dream about planes they're probably gonna
64 NorthstarBoy: I've had a couple of airplane related dreams that actually freaked me out so bad, i canceled trips, thinking they were omens. the one i remember most
65 MHTripple7: I've also had this dream multiple times! I've had several dreams of plane crashes and I am always a passenger on the aircraft. For some odd reason, I
66 UltimateDelta: One time I had a dream (not really a nightmare) where I was standing outside in my backyard and a AA F100 randomly exploded overhead and various piece
67 AzoresLover: While stationed at Lajes Field, Azores, a C-130 crashed with 68 people on board. I spent some time as part of the first team at the crash site...first
68 WESTERN737800: I've had the occasional nightmare. Usually different planes and different locations. Some I can remember some I cant. My nightmares are usually smalle
69 Fbgdavidson: I had one just last night. Can't remember much about it but I was on my second flight of the day, the first one had crashed and I'd walked away, gone
70 Airbuster: On another note, my parents were once flying LAX-SYD on UA and for a period starting about 2 weeks before they made the trip i had this gut feeling so
71 TN757Flyer: I was thinking the same thing as I read through these posts. I guess the ultimate nightmare for some a.netters would be stuck in the middle seat in t
72 B6MoneyGuyJFK: Of all the threads I've read I think I may appreciate this one the most, because I always thought I was a bit strange for having these kinds of dreams
73 Avalon2862: I've been having them ever since I was a kid! I grew up as the child of an Air Force (and subsequently airline) pilot and always used to love watching
74 Af773atmsp: I also have many dreams about taking trips on a plane. I'm usually at an unknown airport. But a few times according to people and signs in the dream I
75 Infodesk: I have these dreams too, although less frequently than I used too. I'm in the house I grew up in, which backs onto fields. I see a low flying aircraft
76 Jhooper: Never really thought about posting that here, but yes I've had that dream a few times before. It's usually a crash right after takeoff, and it's usual
77 Frontierflyer: I had that one quite often. Is 8" small?
78 Af773atmsp: I remember that thread. About a 707 hitting the WTC. And the thread starter said "anyone want to bet that the WTC could survive a 767?" Sadly it didn
79 EYFlyer88: I remember dreaming of a US Airways B747 (figure that one out) and an BA B747 collided in mid-air over the Atlantic - and to make matters worse I had
81 UAL757: Omg, okay so I read this and last night whadda ya know! I had a plane crash nightmare last night! Overrun of the runway, fuselage breaks, metal in my
82 EMAman: I have loads, most of them make little sense and dont turn out to be any premonition of anything that actually happens except for I dreamt I was in a
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