How would you know that is what falling from high altitude feels like to be able to declare that your body successfully replicated the feeling to start? You know that it “feels like falling” because you have fallen at some point, in some way. Otherwise you wouldn’t say it felt like falling, you’d say you felt an odd sensation. If you’d never fallen, woke up, told a friend, then they said: “that’s a falling dream” then you realized that is what falling felt like, then finally had your first fall, felt that, and said “wow- that was what fallin felt like. I wonder how I knew?” Well... you’ve very likely had a sudden change in elevation at some point that you didn’t remember concuously, such as being bounced or “flown around” as a baby or some such, or, recall that the senasation of falling is one that is generated by certain stimuli telling the brain you are falling. You don’t have to be cognizant as it is an automatic response. Your brain knows what that feeling is. You’re pre wired.
Sometimes I daydream about flying and I can feel it, the wind on my skin, the town 10 meters under me, it's like I know which muscles to pull... So according to this, it could be a reminiscence of when my dad held me up high as a baby and ran across the room? Like the "muscles" spots could be where he placed his hands? This is about as awesome as flying for real!
Nah it was different and in the middle of a dream and I even experienced a few minutes directkly after my death. Curiously enough I recently talked to a woman who died and was revived after 30 minutes, and her “afterlife experience“ was similar to my dream experience.
If there is anything that encourages a healthy fear of heights it is from falling off a building in a dream and waking up in your bed hitting it as if you were falling.
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