Recurring Plane Crash Dreams
I have these recurring dreams of planes crashing. They don’t happen that often, but often enough to disturb me, and cause me to do a quick search on the internet about it.
I am never inside the plane, always on the ground watching. And the plane always tries to pull out of the crash using some strange physics that is only available in dreams, but then ends up plowing into the earth and basically disintegrating. I am never aware of knowing any of the passengers, just that there are passengers.
I always realize that the plane is going to crash before it actually does, and all I do is stand there and watch it (what more could anyone do in that circumstance?). It usually crashes quite close to me, no more than a few hundred feet away. Sometimes it crashes into a building (part of the airport in one dream) and other times into the ground (my next-door-neighbor’s yard in another dream).
In the airport dream, the plane was about to crash down onto me, but somehow put on the “brakes” and slowed to a stop right above my head, then sort of swung like a pendulum for a moment before being shot off to the side, but not at a high enough angle to pull out of the crash. The plane crashed into a building just past the building I was standing near.
In the neighbor’s yard dream, I saw the plane (a HUGE passenger plane, bigger than exists in reality) up in the sky flying normal except for the fact that there was a small cloud hovering around it and staying with it. I thought to myself what a bummer for the pilot to have that cloud following his plane, when all of a sudden, the plane did a barrell roll to try and get out of the cloud. I was thinking about whether or not the passengers were rolling around in the plane, when the plane suddenly made an abrupt u-turn and began flying toward my direction. I think at this point I realized that for the plane to do a barrell roll was not normal and meant the plane was in trouble. The plane then proceeded to dramatically lose altitude as it flew, and crashed into my neighbor’s yard. There was lots of schrapnel after that, and I pulled a blanket over myself for protection, but was never hit by anything anyway.
From what I have read on the internet, I may have anxiety issues about something over which I have no control. Like I didn’t already know that. Being a stay-at-home-mom = two anxiety issues: more difficult finances (over which you haven’t much control because you aren’t working a full-time job), and being a mom (worrying about your kids).
So where does all this lead me? I don’t know. I’m not going to go back to working outside the home, and my kids are (knock on wood) here to stay.
So how do I lower my anxiety?
I don’t have family nearby, and we don’t have daycare or babysitters, so my little ones are almost always with me. I have no practical means of “escaping” motherhood. And I don’t think that being away from them would help my anxiety – in fact, it would probably increase at least twofold. More loss of control.
I know I can’t keep them safe from everything. But I still want to. I still feel responsible. I can’t make that go away.
As for the finances, I’m already doing everything I can to make some side money from home. I have websites, I have accounting clients, and I have web design clients. Not much more I can do there either.
So how do you relieve anxiety??? Give me some suggestions, please!
UPDATE 01-17-11: Wow, everyone! It’s amazing how many people have these dreams and end up trying to figure out what they mean! Oddly enough, after writing this blog a few years ago, I have not had another one of these dreams, thank goodness. I have had a few other stressful anxiety dreams, but none that are recurring. I attribute time to relieving a little of my anxiety over being a mom and dealing with staying at home. My youngest starts kindergarten this fall, and I am currently taking my CSET and CBEST tests so that I can work as an elementary school teacher within the next year and a half, so the stay at home thing will still be true (I’ll be here when my kids aren’t at school) but I will be earning some money which will be such a relief!
Thanks so much to everyone for their comments here, I love reading them all… it’s amazing the things we have in common! 
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May 9th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Hi – I have the same dream you have. Night mare.
I dream of huge passenger/cargo planes – almost army/navy types with pieces of the plane dark and grey hanging from the left side of the plane. Flying without much control downward toward the air mat. I for some strange reason am sitting on a bench near a building and viewing this whole thing. I see other planes landing fine one after the other, then this huge one shows up and I observe it crashing very near me. I yell, scream and feel very agitated in the dream that I even hear myself getting upset. I am really writing to tell you that I have the same (and consistently repetitive dreams) as you do.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Wow, I have the same recurring dreams, enough that I googled it and found your site. I have for years had recurring dreams of watching plane crashes. I used to be a paratrooper in the army but have never had any dreams of a parchute not opening, just large passenger jets crashing. The most recent dream (a few months ago) was of watching a passenger jet crashing, at night, into a neighbor’s house. So terrifingly real that I woke up and looked out the window. In the scariest dream, by far, I was actually in the plane. It bounced violently a few times, then slowly rolled over onto its back and flew into the ground. Scared me so badly that I (again) woke up. I have about 1 plane-crash dream a year, and they are very vivid and frightening.
May 29th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Thanks for the comments! I wanted to let you both know that you are definitely not alone. I don’t get a whole lot of traffic to this blog; it’s more for my personal enjoyment. But I have had more people find this post by searching on “dreaming about plane crashes” than all of my other posts combined!
I’m pretty sure we all have a lot on our plates, and these dreams just show that we care about our responsibilities. (At least that’s what I’m going to keep telling myself!)
;o)
Lori
June 19th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
this same type of dream is my most recurrent one. basically in the same ways you describe yours. its freiking me out. i was finally compelled to research when i had my most recent one, where for the first time, i was a passenger. in all the others, it was just like you said yours were. watching the crashes happen close to you, the plane trying to recover from whatever was going to cause the crash. i just searched now and this was the 1st contact/info i went too
June 20th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I also have these kind of dreams. They are not a specific airliner, but have watched planes come down around me. The last dream I had was only a couple of nights ago about an aircraft without wings but more like the width of thunderbird 2. The bottom of the craft hit large containers, like those large containers on the back of trucks, boats and trains. The craft caught fire underneath it before swinging up and round to the right and eventually hitting a building. Got to mention this part, I dive a computer bus as my job, but when the craft hit the building I ran round to it to the site to help, leaving my IT bus behind. Next thing I was looting the plane as were other poeple of the public, then I was hiding the things I took at the back of my IT bus, which was at the crash site area. But I had not diven this bus the the site??. I am under a lot of financial pressure with almost losing my house to my mortgage company, not knowing what to do anymore I wondered if this what is causing me to have these dreams about airplanes crashing, although I have never been a passenger on the plane at the time, only saw it from the ground.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
The interesting thing that I have noticed from the comments left so far is that everyone remembers the odd details of their dreams very well!
The following is a video that my mom sent me. I don’t think it’s real, but it’s eerie and it seems like it could easily be part of one of my dreams.
Check it out and tell me if it gives you the creeps too!
Plane landing video
Lori
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June 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 am
It don’t look real to me. Got this from my father a couple of days agao, look at the position of the plane as it flies past over head, then the camera drops, when the camrea points back up to the plane, its only just going past their heads. By the time the camera would have regained its position to watch the plane, the plane would have gone into the buildings or past them, not just going over their heads.
Besides I don’t see what this video has got to do with the original conversations about dreams of plane crashes?????
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 am
Hi Julie!
Like I said, I don’t think it’s real either.
But for some reason it just has this creepy feeling to it that reminded me of my dreams the first time I saw it.
I think the fact that it’s not real is part of the reason why it seems sort of “dream-like”. It’s just a little too bizarre.
That’s all!
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Lori
July 10th, 2008 at 7:00 am
I had a plane crash dream last night. I was on a country road in the mountains- and i saw the plane fly past me, then go straight up- and stall out. I thought i better get out of the way– missed me and the car by a few hundred feet- i remember a house nearby about a few feet away– i saw children in the windows of the house– i told the gentleman{ i figure it was the dad},to get the kids and himself out of the house. i know that the plane came down and landed on it’s roof{weird thing – no shrapnel} it just landed– i remember a few cars ont he other side , we all ran up the road to a country store{ it must’ve been in a very very small town-} as when i called 9-1-1 from the payphone. It said the call could not be made. I then hit”0″ and the operator said that they don’t have police- i asked about a nearby State trooper barracks– she said she didn’t know of any numbers.. I called my mom, and she came within a few minutes– {which is weird as it would’ve taken her at least 4-5 hours by plane..} and we looked down the valley where the plane was -and saw it blow up.. i don’t know if the family made it out or not- but i remember thinking”darn i forgot my purse and all the stuff in my car” and what about the poor passengers{ i didn’t see them either}- as they were both engulfed into flames. I’m not sure where state troopers came from – but i remember seeing cops all over dragging body bags by us.. also note this is not a reoccuring dream– but hopefully it will be the last.
July 17th, 2008 at 12:02 am
i am 41 yrs. old and i have been having the plane crashing dreams since i was 18 yrs. old. I am always watching from the ground saying “this plane is going to crash” and then it does and usually pretty close to me. They are disturbing and they are hard to shake out of your head for a few days.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
Well, I had another one of these dreams last night and came to the computer to get some kind of answers if I could. I’ve had these dreams my whole life-since I was a little girl. I’m 36 now. I haven’t had one in awhile. The planes never crash in my dreams. I usually don’t wait long enough to see what happens or they land peacefully but in a weird place. As soon as they land or right before I always wake up. When 9/11 happened, I saw it on the news as the 2nd plane crashed into the WTC and I remember thinking “this is just like my dreams”. How awful. And, like Ang, I’ve also had recurring dreams of trying to call 9-1-1 but not being able to get any help. These are separate dreams though, but similarly creepy.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Wow, after reading the first couple of paragraphs I thought you were describing my dreams.
I have on a regular basis about 1 every 2 months sometimes back to back nights dreams of a large jumbo jet crashing into the ground about 100 yards away, nose first. Very loud explosions and bright lights with the ground shaking. Usually I see the whole thing happen and the plane flips at the last second to its underside as it crashes. Last night however I looked away and felt the crash and remember saying that I am too close to this and will prob. die. Next I saw very bright light and woke up. These dreams are all pretty much the same, they must mean something as I have been having them for about a year now. I do remember 911… how could anyone forget that, but these dreams are not like that albeit no reason is given in the dreams it just happens. I usually wake up after the crash on edge but have no problem going back to sleep.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
Hi I found this website through researching as to why Im having recurring plane crash dreams. Like most others on her Im standing watching as the plane crashes closeby. Last night I was watching atleast 3 different planes crash!! This time it didnt wake me, must be used to it! Thanks for the plane crash video Lori, that is just how it is in my dreams.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Lori
I also have recurring dreams of planes crashing. I just had one yesterday. In such dreams, planes are circling around me and they slowly start descending until they crash just a few hundred feet from me. I’m never inside the planes and I never die in the dreams however I seem to be the only person who’s concerned that the planes are crashing and exploding in the vicinity.
Last night’s dream however was the most disconcerning one I had. In this dream, I was at home and I was looking out the backyard when I saw a huge plane approaching, flying just a few feet above my roof. The plane was missing huge chunks of its wings. The plane crashed just past my house. After the crash, other planes began approaching, flying the same path as the first plane, each one flying closer and closer to my house. I was screaming, telling my wife and kids to get in the car so that we can leave but they were just staring at me as if I was crazy.
Finally, one of the planes flew around my backyard (as if it was circling it) I saw it disappearing from one corner of the backyard, I then got my wife and kids and moved them to the guest room upstairs and told them to take cover because a plane was going to crash. I ran to the front of the house just in time to see the plane approaching the front of my house (from the backyard) in the same eeriely fashion as the plane in the video you posted. The plane was going to crash right in from of my house! My neighbors though were outside, going about their business completely oblivious to their iminent death. The last thing I remember was the plane crashing into my neighbor’s house and my windows and doors being destroyed by the force of the explosion.
I’m also under a lot of stress (more like distress) and anxiety. We have a baby on the way, I just graduated from a master’s program and yet I am underemployed and as of yet I have not being successful in finding a better job. Plus, the bills continue on pilling up. I have never made this connection before (plane crashing dreams & stress/anxiety) so I cannot relate these dreams with past stressful situations.
Sorry for the long post. It’s just nice to know that I am not alone.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hi everyone. I had my first plane crash dream a couple of nights ago and it freaked me out so much I thought I’d google it.
In my dream I was watching a plane from my bedroom window, the runway being right outside it in what is usually a field infront of my house. The plane went in to land and did but second later lifted off again really slowly and forcefully. It lifts off into the sky and struggles, eventually doing a 360 degree flip and then slowly, tail first, sinking towards the ground into one of my neighbours houses. In my dreams I can hear the people screaming and I feel as though I’m the only witness. I even phone 999 and everything and when I go outside the air is warm and sticky and most of my surroundings are charred. Weird.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Yes, I am having the recurring airplane crash dreams too.
Started having them years before 9/11 and they continue. I had one last night.
In fact, the only dreams I have, or remember having, always relate to an airplane crash.
What does it mean?
I am never a passenger on the planes but I always know atleast one person who was on the plane that crashed. The crashes are in different but in familiar locations and I always come upon the crash site with emergency personel already on the scene.
Weird.
Anyone know what it means?
September 15th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
omg!i hve the same dream!hw weird!i have had it around ten times, in my dreams i am watching planes take off but know that they are going to crash and sometimes ppl i know are in the planes and sometimes thr not.but alot of the time in my dreams the plane crashes and sets things around it on fire too ie i had a dream where i was overlooking a huge city then i saw a plane take off and crash and it blew the whole city up and then bits of the flames where crashing towards this house which set the house on fire(and my bro was in the house). what do these dreams mean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
Wow, thankfully I am not alone. I live in very close proximity to a major international airport and seeing/hearing planes dozens of times daily is as normal as seeing a car driving down the street. But the past two nights I had the exact same dream where I watch a passenger jet taking off overhead and it strikes a landing passenger jet, losing it’s tail section and proceeds into multiple barrel roll’s and disintegrates upon impact into a fireball. I woke up both nights in complete horror. And there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it and the thought of watching such a huge amount of life lost in only seconds scares me silly. A quick google search helped me relax me though, and I do understand that it relates to control issues in my life.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi everyone. I have them too for ten years. I always see the plane crashes near me and is always a huge plane with a lot of passengers. Sometimes after the crash, the turbina flies towards me. I am always afraid of flying but I fly anyway because I love to travel. Dont worry everyone and be happy. Why dont we try to run toward the plane so the plane can fall on our heads? Maybe is a way to face the situation and make it go away…
October 10th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
My dreams about planes crashing are a bit different. In one dream i am standing in a big field and i see the plane coming towards me, then it half crashes/ half lands probably 20 metres away from me. I know that the plane is going to explode at any moment and i have to get away fast before it does. I turn around and start running and when im 100 metres away i stop and hide behind a large rock waiting for it to blow up. In my dreams it either explodes and shrapnel comes flying in every direction but i never get hit, or the dream ends while im still running away. Ive had this same dream but with different planes in different places a number of times :S
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 am
I have had these dreams for about last 4 years, most of my planes crash into the sea. I had another last night, its was a Virgin Atlantic flight from Cuba that brashed into the water and then came back out but with no one on it. They were all floating dead in the water. I was watching from the beach and like the other dreams, it was only a few hundred metres away from me. VERY WEIRD!
November 6th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Wow, funny to see so many people have this same dream…
I’ve had it for years with many of the same elements – I see the plane and I know its going to crash before it does and it always ends up crashing really close to me.
The past 3 nights I’ve had ‘transportation’ dreams. Two of them involved a commuter rail line or trolley line. In one dream I was on a train and the conductor was warning us to be buckled in for a pending crash. The other one involved me climbing down on a set of tracks from a platform in an underground station and then having to avoid an oncoming train.
One of my dreams in the last 3 nights involved a bus driving over a cliff and landing on its roof. The drive and 3 passengers emerge but the rest are dead and I must investigate.
Then last night I had a twist on the plane crash dream but its another one I’ve had regularly – that is, I’m on a plane and its flying low and is going to land on a highway or roadway and I’m worried about it hitting power lines. In last night’s dream my dad was flying it (he is not a pilot). I’ve had this dream a lot in the past.
I’ve also had repeated dreams about space shuttles crashing, before both the Challenger and Columbia accident. Last week I dreamt I was at NASA at one of the launchpads and there was some sort of crisis with a shuttle.
Very strange that I’m having all these transportation themed dreams lately.
In my personal life I’m engaged to be remarried next year to an amazing woman. I was divorced after a horrible marriage of 12 years last year and a month ago I found out my ex-wife had just died… I’m sure the transition and tragic end of my last relationship may be at play here…
Good site.
November 8th, 2008 at 1:21 am
i try to find any solution to find my situation but did not find anybody like me. i don’t know why its happening with me..it does sound like a joke..it’s been almost 7 years that i’m dreaming of airplane crashes which becomes real. like the last airplane crash in mexico 3 days ago also like in spain in the summer time. it happens like that; i dream of the airplane crash and i say it to the people who knows me that it will happen very soon and it happens in 2 days. it was happening in a week years before but since may it happens in 2 days. the last crash in mexico happened just one day after my dream. i see the place (to sea, city or mountain) and also see if any passengers survive…any advice?
November 26th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I also have these very disturbing dreams. I have had them for at least 10 years. I won’t go into detail, but I have observed something interesting about ALL of the stories that have been shared on this site: Every author spells and uses grammar quite well. I know this sounds petty, but think about it…..Most people I know suck at spelling and grammar. It drives me nuts. PERHAPS, our literary perfectionism has something to do with these dreams. It definitely seems to be a common factor–at least here on this particular site. You must admit…..having so many posts that are well-written IS unusual in this day & age, wouldn’t you agree??
November 29th, 2008 at 5:47 am
I too have had these frightening dreams for about a decade. I had one last night! I am always on the airplane while it’s crashing. Does anyone experience this? I was already noticing my own “signs” on this website (such as several names of posters are names of people close to me, and posting dates are birthdays of people close to me), so when I read Kris’s post I was taken aback. I am an English Professional Writing major. I am not saying there is a correlation, but in addition to the subject matter of this blog (reoccurring plane crash dreams), I felt a familiar feeling among the people posting here.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I had a plane crash dream last night,
Ive had them before but never as wierd as this!
i was in my nans house in my bedroom and i looked out the window and saw a shooting star, then the whole sky was full of shooting stars and they went behind the clouds and it looked all wierd. My brothers jay and connor where in jays room so i shouted “jay look out the window im not imagining this am i?” so he looked out and i went to his window and we wer watching it and then there was this random black thing that looked like a twig and it went across the sky and landed in my nans next door but one neightbours garden but it was like a full size plane and it crashed and there was a huge like “kaboom” and like fire
But then there was nothing!
and then we ran downstairs and i was like NAN NAN NAN!!! And she rung the fire brigade and i was scared that the plain was gonna explode again and i was gonne die so i went with the fire man to put out the fire but all he had was a water pistol and we found theplain but it wasnt the garden as it is it was all a bit wierd and then the fire man said oh i think i might need the 14 ive only got the 12
and he put out the fire things and he had to spray these wierd canaster things cos they would vblow up and i was like so you take them away and dispise of them? and he said no you can just go put them in the wheely bin
December 13th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Hi everyone,I too have been experiencing recurring dreams about plane crashes.The dream always goes through a similar pattern. Like many of you,I’m never a passenger on the plane,but am always a witness. I’m always in my house or at a relatives house,just going about my business when I hear a plane engine getting louder and louder.We all run to the window and see a large passenger plane hurtling towards the ground,spinning(like the pilot has lost control).While this is happening,people around me are shouting things like ‘Oh my god,it’s going to crash!’ or else calling for other people to get up(many of my family seem to be asleep while this is happening). I’m absolutely terrified,but cant move or take my eyes away!The plane then crashes and explodes a few hundred feet away from where I’m standing.
Immediately after this happens,were all in a state of shock.We then begin running around the house waking people up and telling them what happened.Like Ang said in her post,I too tried calling 999 emergency services and getting no help whatsoever.One of the things that really sticks in my mind is returning to the window and feeling despair when I see nothing more than a crater where the plane had crashed.
The dreams are sometimes so vivid that I can’t shake it out of my head for the rest of the day! I was worried at first in case it was some kind of premonition(you never know!),but after reading everyone’s post it makes sense,as I’ve been very anxious and stressed recently.I also work in an aircraft manufacturing company,so that might have something to do with it too!
Sorry about the long post!
December 14th, 2008 at 1:44 am
@Kris & @Angie,
I think you’re onto something with the grammar and spelling point. This humorous craigslist post on the subject is very well written: http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/371623786.html
Failing to meet the high goals we set ourselves is a common explanation of the airplane crash dream. If you are fussy about grammar, chances are you pay a lot of attention to everything you do. Getting stuff done right is important. Other people bug you, and the worst scenario of all is when your projects fail because of other people’s failings.
Could it be that witnessing the airplane crash, in a dream, is our subconscious horror at our own, or other people’s lack of attention to detail and accuracy? Standards are falling and there is nothing we can do about it.
Standards aren’t falling. They are just re-calibrating very, very rapidly to the lowest common denominator as everyone becomes a writer. I read posts above that had no capital letters, no full stops and awful spelling, but I understood exactly what the author was saying, so what’s the big deal?
I have to use a lot of US English at work since moving to the USA so I gave up caring about correct spelling. Correct according to whom exactly? English is ever changing. I have to work to multiple standards. This is a website accessible to the whole world where nobody cares how you spell, and I love it.
Actually, I am a software engineer and self confessed grammar snob. Success at what I do depends on accurate communication in English and bug free coding precision in several computer languages. My plane crash dreams always occur when I have major deadline looming. The thing is, I always deliver my work on time and within budget, but I still find something to worry about – will the software crash on delivery, or will it be so successful the servers crash under heavy demand. Either way I can’t win. The airplane crash dream does not go away. I now consider them a good thing even though they are very frightening. It means we have high aspirations.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I’ve looked at many sites about this subject, but several posts on this one have caught me eye.
I’m having these dreams all of the time. Quite seriously, it’s getting to the point of being several times per week.
I have a mixture of dreams, often watching the crashes from the ground, or being on the plane when it happens. Most of those on the ground are near the sea, usually on a beach in a hot country. I always survive the ones where I’m on the plane, although I woke myself from a 747 nose dive once as it was just too scary!! Somehow, my conscious mind is aware of what’s going on and maintains a little bit of control. Each time I first encounter the plane, I know what’s going to happen, and brace myself. In the meantime, nobody else seems to care.
I’m convinced there’s meaning. In fact, so many sites mention jobs and career crossroads, which is so relevant to me. The first time I had these dreams was a couple of jobs back, just before I went on holiday, and also just before I quit for bigger things. I’m a good flyer (even had lessons and considered being a pilot in the RAF), but at the time I thought I was just worried about that holiday. I never thought it had to do with my job. Anyway, new job came and the dreams stopped. Two years went by, then six months ago I changed jobs, and I’m really unsettled. I’m travelling a lot and I’m unhappy with the job itself. For the first time, I feel like I can’t progress as quickly as I’m used to. I keep telling myself I should go contracting and make mega bucks but don’t have the balls to go and do it (global credit crisis just isn’t helping). I also regret not buying property in Florida (yep a hot country with beaches) and taking a job there before this one came up (I live in the UK). Guess what? I’m having the dreams again; this time more than ever.
One other post on this site was not directly about jobs, but was about how bright people posting on this site seem to be. I’m a grammar school boy and hate seeing things written badly (better double check my post – lol). I’m also really ambitious. I’m 27 but in a senior and well paid position for a blue chip, working in IT. I won’t stop until I’m either earning serious money contracting, or earning £100K plus as a permanent employee. For now though, I feel restricted. I feel I’ve made the wrong choice and need to fix it, and the only way I can think of doing that is finding something bigger and better. However, the global credit crisis is getting me down as the job market is just stale.
Can you see why I believe the career link? Can you see why I also believe the ambition and intelligence link? It’s all very weird but somehow makes such sense.
December 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
By the way… Lori, the plane video is indeed fake. If you watch the full video on You Tube, it’s quite an amusing TV advertisement.
However, the nature of the ‘crash’ resembles some of the crashes I watch from the ground in my dreams. The plane just looks like it’s defying physics, and then crashes into the sea as happens so many times in my dreams. This is probably a nice way to give people a picture of what some of my dreams look like.
Sorry for the follow-up post. I should have put this in my previous post but forgot
December 15th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I have been having this dream since i was maybe in the 2nd grade and kept having it til my freshmen year in college.. Then last night i had another one.. I am always on the ground and i hear a loud noise in the sky. When i look up i see a plane and it starts making loud engine noises.. When that happens it drops right infront of me.. Sometimes i have to run from it. But it never seems to hit me. But the weird part about that dream is i hadn’t had if for about 5 years. and i had it again last night.. To be honest it kindof made me happy to have it. I never see anyone die, just a plane crashes.. now tell me that isn’t weird.. but i really want to know why all of us keep having this dream cause they do sound a lot a like..
December 24th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
In my first plane crash dream, I was actually on the plane and felt the weightlessness as the plane began to plummet. It was very scarey.
Now every time I see a plane in a dream, it gets into trouble. I watch as the pilot struggles to control it and it eventually goes down head first and I see plumes of smoke in the distance.
There is a sense of relief that I am not on the plane and a comprehension of what the passengers must be going through as I watch from a distance.
Many web sites discuss plane crash dreams as a disatisfaction with one’s career and I certainly am but I don’t actually feel there is any connection to this.
My overwhelming emotion is relief at not being on the plane. I connect with the pilot as I see his attempts to control the plane from a distance but know I can not help. There is also a sense of the inevitable happening as the plane finally crashes.
I work in IT. Is this a common thread?
December 25th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Nice site!…I’ve been having these plane crashing dreams for the past 7 years or so, and they are all equally troublesome. In all of them I’m always standing near them as I watch them plumber to the ground in horror. Last night was kind of different because the plane was hanging in the night sky upside down, then a few moments later it came crashing down and exploded into flames, it didn’t wake me up, but thinking about it again really terrifies me…Oh, and thank you for the video Lori, even though it seems like it seems not to be legit, it brings back some horrific memories.
December 30th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Wow, I thought I was alone on this… I had plane crash dreams every night for years. It was until Sept 9th 2001 that they stopped. 2 days later 9/11 happened. I thought that I was recieving something waring me about 9/11. Well they started back up in Jan. 2006. 6 months later my Girlfriends dad crash his warbird. The crazy thing is, is that I drew a picture of his plane back in 2000. I never saw it before, and my Girlfriend and I wasn’t even together then. These dreams got to me so bad, that I was scared to be around planes. I would speed past the airport, and duck if I saw one. I’ve dreamed about more plane crashes than I can count. Well they stopped after his crash. About 4 months ago they started back. I’ve woke up several times sweating and crying because of these dreams. I don’t know what to do. Sometimes I’m in the crash, sometimes I’m watching it, but no matter what the planes always crash. I really have nothing going on in my life to cause these. I’m single, I’m enjoying life. I don’t understand why I have these dreams every night. I always remember the details, and sometimes they involved people I know. I may not even be close to them, but I still know them. It’s enough to drive someone crazy. People said maybe it’s lucid dreaming, but I don’t know. I’ve tried researching it, and I always come across anxiety, but I don’t think I have anxiety. No kids, nothing. Not sure what is going on…..If anyone has any insite besides anxiety please let me know.
January 5th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Wow. I really didn’t think so many people had these dreams. They are very similar to mine. Except for the planes that crash in my dreams are usually big prop planes. Ones with 4 or even 6 engines. They are always taking off from the neighborhood where my dream is taking place. The second they take off I just know that the plane isn’t going to make it. It usually crashes in water or just kind of crashes softly. Never a horrible sight. It is interesting because I am changing jobs soon. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Or if I just think it would be cool to see something like that.
January 7th, 2009 at 2:40 am
So all we need now is for some psychologist to tell us exactly what is going on in our heads. Financial anxiety seems to play a large part, but i’m sure it must be a number of things.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:15 am
I agree with kris on the subject of spelling and grammar. I can’t stand it when i’m reading a friend’s school essay for example, and it’s full of bad grammar and mixed up sentences! I really think that how bright someone is may correlate with reoccurring plane crash dreams…
Marc: “Failing to meet the high goals we set ourselves is a common explanation of the airplane crash dream. If you are fussy about grammar, chances are you pay a lot of attention to everything you do. Getting stuff done right is important. Other people bug you, and the worst scenario of all is when your projects fail because of other people’s failings.”
^^ What Marc said above relates alot to my life and way of thought. I get annoyed when people get things wrong, and i’m fussy about grammar and spelling.
About the connection relating to career and anxiety though, im still in highschool so i don’t have a job yet. I don’t have anxiety and i’m pretty pleased with the way my life is going, but still i have these dreams.
I really don’t know to tell you all the truth.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I also thought that having recurring dreams of this kind were kind of unusual. I have them occasionally and they are just awful. I had another one earlier today during my nap…
I was at work and my co-worker and students were hanging around. The clouds outside became pitch dark and swirled in an unnatural way, people even stopped to film this occurrence on the street. All of the sudden a plane comes out of sky seemingly towards the school but then looped then looped again and landed upside down somewhere near-by. There was a huge mushroom cloud and I had to hide from the debris that flew towards the school, almost as if an A-bomb was dropped. I wasn’t harmed but in the dream I know that the people in the plane are gone.
I have had others where again, I am not harmed but I know that others are. They are so very troubling. I have been anxious and nervous about my job (economy) and I have a feeling that is the reason behind the dream.
It is nice knowing I am not the only one having these disturbing dreams.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:12 am
having the same dreams.. so whats the answer
January 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Saw the news this evening 15/01/09 and it’s happened again. Never the same dream, a differant aircraft, a differant crash. For years my dreams of aircraft crashing have come true. I dreamed about this airline going down in NY 4 nights ago. It’s not the first time I’ve had dreams come true. All of them have involved aircraft. My wife could not believe what we were seeing on Sky TV tonight, (I had told her about the dream Monday morning. I am sometimes frightened by these ‘visions’. I don’t think this ‘dream’ has ended yet!
January 16th, 2009 at 8:52 am
What a great blog, I am a life long plane crash dreamer as well. In my case, I never view them with fear in my dream, but with wonder.
I think my favorite is when the jet I am on takes off (and my POV, somehow, is from the cockpit) but never gains much altitude, in fact, it flies under the first freeway overpass, and then follows the freeway, flying very fast, and just clearing cars and the underside overpasses by inches. It’s thrilling. The crew is nervous, but the pilot is professional, and flies on. There is no crash.
Last night, I dreamt I was in a warehouse by an airport and looked out to see a jet taking off but the jet was missing it’s back half… just past the wing. Just an open hole in the back, but the seperation was smooth, almost like it was intentional. I watched it carefully as it took- the sun glinting on the wings, a smooth normal takeoff… I am thinking “I’ve never seen a plane like that… He will have to use engines to steer”. I ran outside, and around to the back of the warehouse, noticing how green the grass was, how blue the sky, how puffy the clouds. A gorgeous day. Then I see the half jet above me, on it’s side, gaining altitude very quickly, it’s very high, and then it comes slicing down and I’m wondering if it will hit near me- but it causes me no concern. I turn to look at the metal building behind the warehouse as the jet slices right into it, followed by a big chunk of smoking engine that arcs from behind me just feet above my head (makes no sense, but it doesn’t need to). In the dream, I always get a thrilling feeling, the thrill of seeing big things go boom. Note that in this dream, there is no death, no carnage.
This dream was accompanied by another occurring dream. I am preparing for a trip to Japan, not just a trip, but I am moving to Japan. I am in a friends car, hours before I need to get to the airport, but every little thing goes wrong- have to go back home to get my ticket… realize I haven’t packed my clothes… realize I’ve lost my passport. I’ve already quit my job in the states, I know I won’t make the trip… but… in the dream, i am not worried about it. Just stuck going through these odd motions and wondering why.
Myself- no kids, great job, good money, no worries like that at all. I build airplanes for a living, but I don’t thing that has anything to do with my airplane dreams. I’m fatalistic enough about things that even the news doesn’t bother me- I view it from the same detached perspective I view those plane crashes. My friends all jealously accuse me of a stress free existence. Of course, no one knows what we really feel. I have a tremendous lifelong inner demon that I will be engaged in battle with this year. Hmm.. the plane crash dreams always seem significant… and now I am trying to change something that I know will be very difficult to do. Do they coincide or is it just a coincidence? Who knows. Interesting, though, to see in this blog, the various reactions to these dreams… I’m an overly objective person and my reactions to the crashes are aloof.. to the point of wonderment, for what must be a loss of life event. Others react in fear and discomfort. I bet our reactions mirror how we might first react to significant scary events in real life.
January 17th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Hi all,
I’ve been having plane crash dreams for about 3 years now. Last night I had two separate plane dreams which has prompted me to do a google search and here I am. Usually I’m observing the plane crash and like the majority, am never injured. The crashes are always in close proximity to myself. Last night was the most vivid and detailed. I was standing outside (what looked like a school or campus of some sort) and my family were sitting down at white plastic chairs and tables (the kind you see at markets or fairs) when all of a sudden I hear the engines of a plane and that screeching sound they make just before they crash. The plane crashes and the debris starts flying. I begin to yell out to my family sitting at the table to run so they won’t get hit by the flying debris but they don’t seem to care. I run for cover as the debris (metal, wheels, plane parts) are flying towards me but seem to just miss me by inches. I am then taken inside the campus by an authority figure of some sort and we look outside a second floor window only for the scene to be replayed again through the window like watching a TV screen. The next thing I know is that I’m sitting at a table with a man who has just cooked a meal from one of the dead people from the crash and I’m lecturing him on why he shouldn’t be making meals from dead people and that its disrespectful (Sounds funny I know).
After reading other people’s recollections of their dreams its become apparent that we all share a common theme in that we are all observers in our dreams. So does this mean we all share a common personality trait? In that we are all very observant and self aware individuals in life. Do we all have similar external factors influencing our lives which is being brought out in our dreams? Furthermore, is there something going on in our lives that we are afraid of, or think of, but feel helpless to change or don’t know where to start. I’m a very details focussed person in that I’m very analytical and always strive to do the best I can. I’m very critical of myself and always think that I haven’t done a good enough job and I can always do better. As result I find it very hard to make small decisions because I want my decision to the be the best possible decision which in turn means I’m a procrastinator. Are these dreams a manifestation of not being able to reach the heights we set ourselves and therefore represent the constant feeling of failure (falling, crashing, out of control, fear, anxiety?) I think what we all need to do is look at what is going on in our physical lives and the way we think about things and ourselves and relate them back to our dreams and see if we can make a connection to the imagery and emotions that accompany these dreams. Pick out the major images and emotions you remember from your dream and try and relate them back to something major that is happening in your life or has happened. Although our dreams are cryptic in nature I’m sure they are a direct result of something we need to address or change in our lives. I’ve been doing research on recurring dreams and this is the minds way of trying to bring to our attention to an issue that we need to address. It’s like when you talk to someone and they don’t listen or understand the message you’re trying to convey so you repeat the sentence or alter it slightly so they pay attention and understand. So I think our subconscious is trying to achieve the same result to tell us something to make us pay attention to understand. Anyway, that’s my take on things and hope this helps someone else.
January 18th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Like everyone else on here, I am also relieved to see that I am not alone. In fact, a little hesitant to even post because I feel like I’m jinxing myself by talking about it. I’ve had crash dreams since I was a child and I have known 6 people who were either killed or involved in a plane crash – way after I first started having the dreams. In the dreams I am always watching them crash and saying “Oh my gosh. This actually isn’t a dream. It’s really happening”. I have a fear of flying and work for an airline. Go figure. My question… when are dreams just “dreams” and when are they precognitive?
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I have had these dreams since I was a teenager. I have been on the plane as well as a witness. It is really scary. Whenever I see a plane in the sky I panick. I have an extremely stressful job and have been told that I am a perfectionist and extremely demanding. The last dream I had about a week ago involved a huge jetliner that crashed and actually went underground. As the passengers were exiting the plane from underground they were all speaking French.
February 4th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
I have weird dreams very similar to your alls. My most recent flying related dream happened two nights ago. I was actually inside of the plane (747) sitting in a seat when all of the sudden the plane rolls to the right just a little and then starts to plummet toward the ground..Very violently..I can remember feeling the G-foces pinning me to my seat. I couldnt even pull my head off of the headrest.
The other flying dreams that I have is not really related to a plane but of the space shuttle complete with it’s booster rockets and orange external tank. It’s a reccurent dream and I’m usually standing in my grandparent’s yard looking up. The space shuttle is kind of ‘washed out’, meaning that it’s kind of faded like its to far up in the sky to see clearly.
Kind of like how the Death Star looks in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucir-9kOYzk&feature=channel_page
Then I see fighter jets flying overhead…There’s laser beams being fired..All of this at the same time produces a scary situation!
February 13th, 2009 at 5:40 am
I am glad I found this collection of essays, as I have similar dreams and have been having them for years. They always involve air travel and usually (but not always) a crash, but most definitely something unusual happening with the plane or flight. About 1/2 the time I am a passenger on a the plane, and the other 1/2 I am an observer on the ground watching a plane in trouble and about to crash. I always come out okay and never end up in what I feel is a seriouslsy dangerous situation.
One common theme of my dreams is being on the plane and being worried that it will not get up in the air upon takeoff. Many times the plane ends up on highways or mountains acting like a car instead of plane a bit out of control and going too fast, but never crashing.
Last night I dreamt that I looked up in the sky and saw a plane in trouble. Large clouds of black smoke were coming out of the plane and it was out of control. I stood there watching it, helpless to do anything. It did crash in a parking lot, but it was more of an emergency landing than an all out crash.
I am comforted to see so many others with similar recurring dreams.
February 13th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Today a commuter plane crashed near Buffalo NY. No this wasn’t a dream this is real! But I too like all others have been having these dreams since I was about 10. I am now 24. While watching the coverage of this plane crash my girlfriend asked me if I have had one of my dreams recently. I only have 2 maybe 3 a year. All mine are usually in a wooded area and I am the only one around. They are usually passenger or military planes and are always in a nose dive and try to pull out of it but of course its too late. I always run to the site to try and help any survivors.
Now one thing we all seem to have in common is financial stress. I myself work 40 hours a week for $9/hr go to college 3 days a week and my girlfriend is not employed and having a hard time finding a job. So needless to say I’m stressed. SO as horrible as this sounds I kinda enjoy these dreams. Yes they are stressful and I wake up with my heart beating out of my chest! But they are very exciting. I wake up and think about them for days. Another thing is that I have always been fascinated with airplanes and the sky. When I was little I always was starring at the sky. Before I started taking the courses that I am taking now I had contemplated taking flying lessons and becoming a pilot.
So does anyone else have these two things in common with me? Or am I just wierd?
February 13th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Hello,
I googled “Dreams of watching planes crash to the ground” because that is a dream I just had. I have them all the time.
The way you worded it is exact. That the planes are trying to pull out of the crash, the engines struggling to get it to start flying. But then, gravity wins, and down it comes, and you just watch it. Today’s one, I was close enough to see people in the windows looking out.
Then boom. flames.
It’s terrible. I have no idea what it means, but I have at least one every month, for the las 15 years.
February 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Hi everyone…I’ll add to the list – I also have the same dream and have done for as long as I could remember.
In fact, I have just woken up from one this morning in which I had the dream twice, the second time with three planes crashing as I stood on the group watching. They always come down really close to me, but never injure me and there is always total destruction. Where I am and how I am watching them varies from dream to dream.
The whole thing is very disturbing but its ‘good’ to see the experience is being shared.
I have no doubt they are due to turmoil in my private life – well, not necessary turmoil but a perceived lack of direction or clarity on my future.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:48 am
I found this discussion the way everyone else did. . .I’m 38 years old and have had jet liner crash dreams since before 9/11/01. The last one was a couple of days ago. I watched from the ground and knew that the plane was in trouble and going to crash. This one was different in that I made it to the scene shortly after the crash. It was roped off, and there was an official of some sort who tried to stop me, but then waved me through. Even though there should have been no survivors, there were people stumbling out. I knew that there were others inside who didn’t make it though.
Years ago I had a dream where I found myself as the only passenger on a jet which was still on the runway. The cabin lights were off and somehow I realized that the plane was scheduled to fly unmanned back to some airport. I was scared because I knew (how??) that the planes weight was calibrated to be empty and my presence would cause it to crash if we tried to take off.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Wow. I too have had recurring plane crash dreams for the last 5 years or so. After each dream I wake up disturbed and frightened, but really do not feel as though it is a premonition.
Like some of the others who have posted before me, I see the plane in trouble, know that it is going to crash, and watch as it does. The “warehouse dream” posted by Mike F seriously freaked me out. I have had that dream. Like Mike, the shrapnel and fire always come my way, but for whatever reason, I am always fortunate enough to have a large concrete pillar, etc. to hide behind and thus save me from being hit by anything.
The primary emotion I can recall while actually dreaming is frustration- because I am absolutely certain that the plane is going to crash, but no one else seems to notice. When it does ultimately crash, I have the feeling of ” I told you so” followed by the need to “save” anyone who may be nearby. Perhaps I have a god complex?
As well as the dream of having a flight and not being prepared (having to go home for my ticket and then home again shortly thereafter because I realize I have no suitcase)
February 25th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I too have been having dreams of plane crashes. The only difference is, I have them on the eve of an actual plane crash somewhere in the world. This has happened twice this month and it is really creeping me out.
Last night I dreamt of a fighter jet crashing outside my work and I ran out to save the pilot. He was lying under the canopy missing the bottom half of his torso. I told him to just look into the light and pray to whatever god he believed in. After a while of talking to him, he started to feel better and just got up on his stumped legs and we walked with him to a nearby medivac helicopter. Anyways, the crash was fiery and very vivid. When I woke up this morning it was fresh in my head. I sat down at the PC with my bowl of cereal and saw the headline of 9 people killed in a Turkish Airlines crash. This did not surprise me too much as this sort of coincident has happened before.
The night before the Buffalo NY plane crash I dreamt of a 757 crashing into the building next to me. Again, same sinario, I get my bowl of cereal, sit at the computer and see the headlines. This was the first time it happened and to say the least it was quite creepy. The plane crashed into a neighborhood and in my dream it crashed into an apartment building.
I too have been undergoing some anxiety with trying to buy a house. I do believe that this has something to do with the plane crash dream coincidences. But, at the same time I believe that the human mind is evolving and can pick up brain activity from other people. Call me crazy, but these dreams I have are not to be ignored and just passed off as a coincidence. It means something. Something I can’t explain right now, but if I keep connecting the dots something will come of it.
I have coincidences and déjà vu almost every day of my life. I try not to just ignore them. I spend allot of time trying to decipher them.
Anyways, I could write forever about this topic and other related coincidences but this is about plane crashes and I thought I would share mine is this a great outlet for people to connect about these anomalies. I will keep writing here anytime something like this happens again, and who knows, perhaps there is another connection to be had somewhere.
February 25th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
WOW.. IVE BEEN READIN THRU ALOT OF THE STORIES ON HERE AND THEY ALL SOUND SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO MINE..MINE ARE A LIL DIFFERENT THO.. IVE BEEN HAVIN RECURRING DREAMS OF PLANES “ALMOST” CRASHING.. AND IM ALWAYS SOMEWHERE VERY VERY CLOSE TO IT… I JUS HAD ANOTHER DREAM LAST NITE WHERE I WAS STANDN THERE AND THIS HUUGE RED AND WHITE PASSENGER PLANE WAS LOSIN CONTROL AND WAS LITERALLY RITE BEHIND ME.. I DIDNT SEE IT CRASH I JUS REMEMBER SEEIN IT LOSE CONTROL AND ALMOST CRASH AND THEN I WOKE UP… THIS HAPPENS IN ALL OF MY DREAMS WHERE I ALWAYS SEE THE PLANES LOSE CONTROL AND FOR SOME REASON ARE ALWAYS WITH IN A FEW FEET OF ME BUT NEVER CRASH.. I HAD ONE DREAM WHERE IM SITTN IN MY APARTMENT THAT IM IN NOW AND LOOK OUT MY SLIDING DOOR AND I SEE A PLANE JUS BASICALLY FLOATIN THERE INCHES AWAY FROM IT…AS IF IT WERE GONNA CRASH INTO MY APARTMENT BUT SOMEBODY PUSHED PAUSE AND IT JUS STOPPED..( WEIRD I KNO) AND ANOTHER DREAM I HAD I WAS IN A TOTALLY DIFFERENT STATE IN SOMEBODYS YARD AND A PLANE FLEW LIKE INCHES AWAY FROM MY HEAD AS IT LANDED.. (AGAIN NOT CRASHING) IM SURE YOU ALL HEARD OF THE PLANE THAT WENT DOWN IN NY NOT TO LONG AGO.. WHERE THEY LANDED IN WATER..(AND EVERYONE WAS OK THANKS TO THAT WONDERFUL PILOT!) FREAKY THING IS I HAD THAT DREAM THE NITE BEFORE IT HAPPENED.. I DIDNT SEE IT GOIN DOWN.. BUT IN MY DREAM IM WATCHIN IT GETTIN PULLED OUT OF THE WATER.. AND THE PLANE LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE THE ONE THAT WENT DOWN IN NY.. SO WHEN IM WATCHN THIS ON THE NEWS I REMEMBER SEEIN THE PART WHERE THERE PULLIN THE PLANE OUT OF THE WATER AND I WAS LIKE OMG! THATS THE DREAM I HAD LAS NITE! COINCIDENCE? PROBABLY.. BUT THATS NEVER HAPPENED B4.. I LIVE LIKE 5 MINS AWAY FROM THE AIRPORT SO IM CONSTANTLY SEEIN AND HEARIN PLANES GO BY.. AND ONE OF MY FEARS IS A PLANE CRASHING INTO MY BUILDING..(17 FLOORS) SO I DUNNO.. BUT ALL I KNO IS THESE DREAMS ARE ALWAYS HAPPENING.. I NEVER GET HURT IN ANY OF THEM I JUS GET SCARED.. PRETTY WEIRD..
February 26th, 2009 at 1:49 am
hi everybody,oh my god, i thought i am the only one who had that terrible dream..this morning when i woke up ,i actually had a bigest fear of my life.
lastnight in my dream, i was walking with my mum in my old neighbourhood. and there was a airport next to my house (which does not axist in a real)so we were walking there for me to get on the plane. while we were walking towards airport,one passenger plane crushed 100 feet in front of us and you can see ,everybody s death. and we got so panic wiith my mum and right after that,different plane crushed our right side 100 feet away and it was so scary. and i woke up with a big fear and i realizee that i had a big cold sore on my lip.and i got my cellphone foor check any alls or text mesegges.and my one of friend texted me saying “ wake up selva, turkish airplanne just crushed in amestardem“ (2/25/2009) i got shocked. (by the way, i am turkish and i am going to fly to turkey in 5 days)
so i got so scared, i have been having panic attacks all day. is that mean , my plane s going to crush??? i dont know what to do??? i wantt to be wrong
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after your dreams, was there any plane crushes?
pls share your experinece with me . thank u
February 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
As i read everyone’s dream i see i am not alone. Last night I had this horrible nightmare i was walking to work at an airport and all these people were staring up at two passenger jumbo jets filled with people, and at first the planes were flying into one another but at the last minute they diverted and then started doing loops and sharp turns in the air and then one of the planes got really close and was right above my head and stared crashing and the other one was on a spiral dive to the ground about a hundred feet from my face. and they both crashed into the ground and the wreckage exploded everywhere but never actually hit it me. very scary, i think i’ve been watching too much Lost.
also I do have a big fear of flying, but i flew about 2 weeks ago and am not going on another flight for a while, so i dont know why i would have this dream. very scary.
March 11th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I have been having these same dreams for years. Way before 9/11, so you can imagine how much worse that made it. I have never been in the plane, just watching it or a chopper crash close to me. And I am always trying to judge if it will land on me. It has really kinda screwed me up. I can be going down the road and see a low flying plane and just flip out. I hate watching a medic chopper land. That is the worse. Today i was dropping my husband off at work and the medical center is right next to it. Well early this morning i had been having a really bad dream of a helicopter losing control and crashing. I was dropping him off and the medic chopper was just above about to land on to of the building. I froze ( he was driving, but it has happened while i was driving and i flipped out) My heart was running away and I felt sweaty and sick to my stomach and i was even crying. I don’t think my husband realized that my phobia was that bad. It’s crazy and It was a big joke to ppl at first, but now I think they get that I’m really terrified! And like a lot of you, I am usually almost never on the plane, it’s just going to crash near me. I honestly feel like one of these days i will see this happen and when I do, they may have to but me in the physiciatric ward!! I hope that someone can relate to my dreams as well. I just wonder if anyone is as terrified of them out of the dream world as I am. Thanks!
March 13th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Lori,
When I read your description of why you think you’re having the dreams, I felt like you were describing me…SAHM not planning to go back to work outside the home, having financial anxiety. It just occurred to me I need to start taking note of when I have my aircraft crashing dreams – if they’re tied to particular points of added anxiety. I’ve been racking my brains for months trying to figure out something I could do from home to make some money without any luch and then yesterday I had lunch with a friend whose company closed up last week and she took the opportunity to start her own company from home where she’s already got 40 reps and $9k/mo lined up. Then last night I have another of my aircraft crashing dreams, this time it’s like the space shuttle. I say “aircraft” crashing dreams because the flying object changes – sometimes a passenger plane, sometimes a space craft, sometimes a little two seater plane. Sometimes I witness them crashing off in the distance, sometimes it’s right next to me, sometimes they narrowly miss me (as in last night’s dream). I never get injured, I just witness it. I think only once I dreamed I was on the craft…one minute I’m in a car, the next I’m in some sort of flying craft and then it’s hurtling through the air toward the ground and I wake up right before impact. These dreams are disturbing. I guess, somehow, it makes me feel “better” (?) to know others have the same type of dreams.
March 15th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Wow! glad to hear I’m not alone, just had one of those aircraft dreams where I am on the ground watching… Last night about 2am I woke up from another one of those dreams I get about twice a year. It’s been awhile though since I had one, I was in town with my mom and I could hear the plane coming in very close and it just did not sound right and I knew it was going to crash, so I listened for the direction in which it was going and I remember yelling to my mom “run for your life” and I grabbed her hand and we ran in the opposite direction and I turned around and saw the big passanger plane come through the clouds and crash a few yards away close to a railroad bridge in my town on Harrisburg, PA. woke up right away because the noise was so loud of metal breaking… I think my boyfriends snoring was extra loud! LOL…
March 19th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
So, like everyone else on the blog, I also have recurring dreams of planes crashing. Have had them for as long as I can remember. Same details as everyone else. Viewing from a distance, looking up in the sky and seeing a plane overcorrecting and spinning towards the ground. I am never injured and never see any injuries. Oddly enough, I never see the plane actually hit the ground. The plane always crashes behind a building, hill, etc. that obstructs my view. I thought I was alone with this. Glad to know I am not!!
March 25th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Ok. One more with the same dream.
I have to say I have an enormous fear of airplanes. Actually I think you could call it a phobia.
In my dreams I’m also on the ground watching planes crashing down, but it is usually more than one plane. It is like an invasion of crashing planes! One plane crashes near me (so near that if it happened in real life it would kill me, but in the dream it doesn’t), then I have to run away because I know it is about to explode, and then I see other planes coming and crashing all around.
It is horrible, and even more horrible considering I am so afraid of flying (when I was 6 I was on a plane that had some technical problems, I don’t think we were ever really in danger but it scared me for life).
I can’t help but to think this is some kind of a premonition. I’m not American, so I don’t think it has anything to do with 9/11. I mean, of course it had an impact in me, but I didn’t experience it as close as most Americans did.
I don’t know what to do. My dream is to go to New York but I’m terrified of ever getting in a plane again. Have you guys been in flights since the dreams started?
March 30th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Need not to say why i landed on this page…
but unlike everyone i had this dream only once i.e. last night but i’m really very scared.
Next week I’m going for business trip … wants to cancel it as I already have fear of flying in Airplane…
So many posts are here but not sure what this dream means ???
Should I consider it just as another dream ???
Still that dream is so real in front of my eyes …
i’m very scared right now …
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:08 am
Dear Lori, hope all is well, just want to share similar experiences in regards
to “crashes’ I seem to have at least one a month where I “witness” a huge
massive plane crash, where it seems
the plane is not too far away from where you stand!!! At least one thing
i am not on the plane!! If this also makes sense my initial reaction is oh my god you’re kidding, a huge ball of flames arise from the short distance you are from the crash site.
As suggested it “looks” very close!!!
April 4th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Like most other people I too have these dreams where I watch a plane crash fairly close to me. Just had another a couple of hours ago. I was that upset it lead me to do some research The info below is from a website called bellaonline.com It helped me so hope it may help others…………………
AIRPLANE CRASHES
Given my intense fear of flying it would seem appropriate that right about now I should be experiencing many dreams of plane crashes. That this is not the case demonstrates how dreams speak in symbols, not in literal language, to clue us in to what is occuring in our psyche.
So what do airplane crash dreams symbolize? Part of the clue to interpreting these dreams can be found in the word ‘airplane’ itself. Separating the word into ‘air plane’ may reveal that the dream has something to do with our thoughts. In the Zodiac, the Air Signs are those that deal with thinking and all manner of mental activity. If you dream of an airplane crash this may symbolize an overactive mind, one that needs a rest from thinking. It may also symbolize a need to get out of your head and bring your ideas down to earth. An airplane crash may also symbolize spending a lot of time worrying and fretting about things over which you have no control.
Control is one of the basic differences between a car and plane crash dreams. Cars are vehicles over which we typically have control or at least know how to operate. Unless one has studied to be a pilot, the same is rarely true of airplanes. When we take a trip by plane, we are relying on the skill and expertise of someone else–we are completely out of control of the situation.
This lack of control may be another concept a plane crash dream symbolizes. Do you feel like you are in a situation where not only are you not in control but there is absolutely nothing you can do to rectify what is occuring? When planes crash there are also devastating consequences, not to a singular person but to everyone aboard the plane. Do you feel a situation is occuring in which not only you but many people could be injured? Do you feel that the person in charge of the situation is ill-equipped to handle it?
Most plane crash dreams involve the dreamer as a passenger, however, there may be times when you dream that you are, in fact piloting a plane which is crashing. Piloting a plane means being responsible for a massive vehicle and the welfare and lives of many other people. If you are dreaming that you are piloting a plane that is going down, it may be an anxiety dream. You may be experiencing some fear of responsibility or a fear that you have undertaken a project which is too big for you to handle. Remember though that these dreams are telling you how you are feeling–not what is going to happen. What is important is that you look at the situation and honestly evaluate it to decide if the fear is a warning or just an anxiety about doing something completely different.
Plane crash dreams can also be seen as the Tower card in the tarot. In the Tower card, the typical image seen is that of a tower being struck by lightning sending its inhabitants plummeting toward the earth. The Tower card is typically thought of as extremely negative, and usually its appearance does indicate an intense, abrupt, completely life-altering experience. However, despite the pain which may accompany this change, the ultimate result is usually one of the person’s life being completely cleared out which results in liberation from a stagnant life.
The same may be true of airplane crash dreams. They may represent a necessary change, usually in your thinking that allows you to enter another ‘plane’ of existence–the current ‘plane’ must crash to allow new freedom of existence. Should this be the case, remember that what always survives the crash is the black box–that part of you that keeps your memories, your dreams, and your soul alive!
A final note about plane crash dreams. Planes involve soaring, of reaching unbelieveable heights and traveling at amazing speed. Your dream may simply be telling you that you have the ability to accomplish more than you ever thought humanly possible but the fear of taking flight and going into a place you’ve never been is overwhelming you. If this is the case, I encourage you to step on the plane, get in that seat, and prepare for the adventure ahead…even if you need a friend to help you do it!
Until next time, sleep well and dream out loud!
*~Aisling Ireland~* is an ordained Spiritual Counselor providing dream interpretation and Tarot readings. To make an appointment check out her website at:
April 6th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Good Lord! I am having the same dreams too! They have been going on every few days for about a week now. It started with the first one where a large plane crashed into my favorite bar! The one i had last night involved a huge airliner taking off and all of a sudden going around and around before tumbling to the ground in front of me…and i was the only one watching! its driving me crazy to the point where i am afraid to go to bed! I already need to take tranquilizers in order to fly as it is! what am i to do?????
April 11th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Hi, im so glad to have found this site. I too had a dream last night of a plane crash and found it so disturbing i had to google it as soon as i woke up. The dream started with me sat in a country house, i don’t know who this belongs to or where i was but i think it may of been Ireland. I then heard a loud noise and could see a large passenger plane coming towards the house. At the last second it pulled up slightly and changed direction in a kind of upward corkscrew, directions that planes could only go in a dream. It then turned and started to come towards me and was extremely frightening. As it got close to me it pulled up and started to fly straight up above me, which as i am typing this is still giving me an awful gut wrenching feeling, the plane was so big and knowing it would be coming down any second and yet i couldnt seem to move, everything seemed to be so silent for a few seconds until it started to drop.
When i woke with a start i dont’t know if the plane crashed or not but i know it was incredibly unnerving.
I am having financial problems at the moment and have a definate lack of control over the relationship area of my life. From what i have read of your experiences this maybe a reason for this dream.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:00 am
As like everyone else, had a bad re-occouring dream again last night and put it into the old google machine to get some answers. I must say…..I’m a little more at ease now after reading all of these posts. My dreams started about 3 months ago, which each one being different. The first I was a passenger in the plane (with Prince William…not sure about that one but whatever)and the plane was crashing and it was terrifying. But, there was a small gap between crashing and the ground. After the dream restarted, I was safe with out even a scratch on the ground, he was not, and the plane was in pieces and buring.
), it slammed into the ground and disintagrated into a million pieces. There were no survivors.
The second was different. I saw a plane heading for the ground and decided to drive my car toward it. As I got closer, I realized it was a 747 (a very large plane) and it was slowly heading nose first for the ground. Once I got close enough (I guess so I could see the horror better
Finally, last night close to the same thing but a happier ending. Saw the 747 heading for the lake (I was at my cottage up north). The plane again was super slow moving, but I knew it was going to crash. It crashed very near me into the lake. A friend and I dove in and started fishing passengers out of the plane. Everyone survived (which is like 300 ppl on a 747) except for the flight crew. When I went to get them in the cockpit, all that was left was their uniforms and lots of blood, but no bodies.
This is the 3rd time ive had these similar dreams. I am not scared of flying at all. I actually have my ground school and 20 hrs flying with my private pilots licence (similar to another person above). I am starting to see a pattern develop though. Many sites are talking about career issues.I am extremely unhappy with my current job, but cannot leave because it pays too much and would be very hard to find another high paying job right off the bat. Like I said, its more comforting to me now that I see this is a dream occouring every night across the world. Anyone else have more thoughts or a site to visit for more info?
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Wow, just….wow. Like so many others here, I found this blog by googling ‘dreams witnessing an airplane crash’.
What is truly bizarre is that at least two posts here have described my own recurring dreams to the letter!
The settings (location) are always different, but the circumstances/events are identical. I’m always looking up at the sky and seeing a ‘jumbo jet’ flying low, and I always know in an instant that it’s going to crash. When it does finally crash, it’s always very close, a hundred yards away at the most, and I always dive for cover behind a tree or large rock, and barely avoid being burned by fire and shrapnel.
I’m 45, and have never had these dreams until the past year or so, and they’re so frequent….well…that’s why I googled the subject.
These testimonials (the fact so many of us are having these dreams) is very disconcerting and more than a little creepy.
April 25th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
I’ve spent the last 30 minutes or so reading the prior posts in total amazement. I honestly didn’t have high expectations of finding any information. I assumed all dream/plane related articles would be people dreaming they were inside of the plane not on the ground watching as is the case in my own. I’ve had the recurring dreams for as long as I can remember (I’m 36 now) and as most everyone else has stated the scenarios change but the plane always crashes. Most of the time I’m standing in a yard or driving down the road watching the plane and I know it’s going to crash. In some (but definitely not all) of the dreams debris does fly towards me. In many I stand screaming b/c I know there is nothing I can do to save the people on the plane. In the most disturbing, I had family members in the yard and I was trying to save all of the from the burning debris…Wow… I’m loving this blog. I guess you were pretty shocked to have so many people respond. Thanks to everyone for sharing…
April 26th, 2009 at 5:11 am
i’m 19 and i have been having these consant crashing planes dream. and like u said in all dream i was on the ground and looked at the event happen before my eyes also many a times the planes before crashing did something to prevent the crash for occurring. its really freaking me out and i am kinda scared about travelling. i wonder if there is some hidden meaning behing this i mean so many of the people here are having similar dreams.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:07 am
I’ve had these dreams for a while, they come and go. Most of the time it’s a plane crash. Sometimes it’s a helicopter and in one (most recent dream) it was a space shuttle that appeared to have problems shortly after take off and eventually crashed. I’m always on the ground watching. It used to be very frghtening but over time (as these dreams kept happening) I’ve completelly lost all sense of fear. Fear got replaced with fascination (weird, i know). I just stand there and watch the plane come down, regardless of it crashing close to me or further away. From time to time, I actually begin to walk/run/drive towards where I think the plane will crash. Sometimes two planes crash simultaniously, creating big explosions. I find myself fascinated everytime it happens, and having a complete lack of concern for the people on the plane. I assume everyone is going to die as I stand there and watch the plane come down from the sky.
In the space shuttle crash dream, a huge peice of it (fuel tank I think) had fallen right next to me. It exploded, sending me flying (more like sliding on the ground) a few hundred feet. I had zero injuries when I had come to a stop. And was very pissed that I had lost my cell phone in the process.
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:04 am
I had a dream last nite, I have never been on a airplane, I had a dream there was different planes flying in the sky, low enough to see them some helicopters, it was like a parade, then this big white with red on it airplane look like it going to land and tries to get back up in the sky, then takes a nose dive and crashes, in a housing project and felt it when it crashed it left a big hole, there was a car in the wing hole of the crash after clean up, with a purse and doll in it, and the owner of the car was trying to get the stuff out the car. then I woke up, what does this dream mean?
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I too have had multiple dreams about planes crashing. I’m never on board, but as most who have posted, I am observing. I live about 15 miles from the local airport and we have a national guard refueling base there. My most recent dream envolves watching a tanker bank steeply, leveling off and trying to climb. I can see huge plumes of black some rolling from the engines along with enormous whine or roar. I see the plane drop just over a tree line and then there’s this huge fire ball that comes within a couple of hundred yards from me and I can feel the intense heat. Then I wake up frantically. I don’t know what these dreams mean, but I have had them for years.
Right before 9/11 I had dreams like these quite frequently. The one I had right before 9/11 involve me and my wife eating dinner at a restaurant on the beach. The building was on stilts overlooking the ocean and was directly on the beach. The plane came down we could see it. It knocke the bulding off of the stilts and everyone was in the ocean trying to swim from the ruble. Two days later the world trade towers were hit. These dreams really creep me out for days now.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hello Lori. I have been having dreams like this for as long as I can remember. I am 28 years old.
Very life like dreams where I stand and watch a plane crash somewhere close by(sometimes into a building I live near). There is nothing I can do but stand there and watch it, I try to scream but nothing comes out. I try to run but my legs will take me nowhere. I am helpless and can do nothing but watch. They are very intense and scare me badly.
I am never ever in the plane. I never get hurt in the dreams even though I am it seems, only yards away from where it happens. Sometimes the planes explode on contact of what ever they are hitting, sometimes not.
I have often wondered what these dreams mean. I have a firm belief that one of these days I will figure it out, but not until it is meant for me to. I have come to understand after years and years of these dreams that there is nothing that I can figure out that makes the dreams come. They just do. Sometimes every two or three days, sometimes they just happen once a month. I have a firm belief that all dreams do mean something. And maybe they do not mean the same thing to every person that has them.
I have learned to accept my dreams, even though they make me wake up in a cold sweat with my heart racing, unable to go back to sleep.
I do want you to know that the video you posted on June 20th 2008 made my heart race just watching it, even though I know that it is not real. It is still a little creepy to watch.
Take care.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Gonna sound like a broken record here but I am an airplane crash dreamer too! What a relief to see I am not alone. These dreams are at times very vivid and detailed… most of the time I do remember alot of them after I wake up. Of course I have been having them long before 9-11 too and when that happened….it was like I had dreamt it.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Just woke up from dreaming that a plane flew so low over my house and it shook the windows..And my son was in the kitchen and said Mom WOW that plane was right over our house..then BOOM an EXPLORTION and some parts hit our house..I then called 9-11..Then I went back to my room and sat down next to my window and saw people all around my house even close to my windows looking at the explosion…I woke up with my heart beating fast..I never ever had a dream like this..
May 25th, 2009 at 5:03 am
I have been having very detailed dreams color,size,were it crashes or what it crashes into etc.of commercial airliners for the past 20 yrs.I am 41yrs old,these accidents always occur within 3 to 14 days after dream,I frequently get calls from freinds or relatives prior to them taking aflight to in inquire weather i have had a dream in past 3 days.tam1970steve@earthlink.net
May 26th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
I have been dreaming about crashing airplanes too since I was in college. I always know that the plane will crash. My dream is like that again last night but a little different. Before, I always dream of a plane crashing down to me, and even though I will run so hard to escape, it still crashed down to me, and I will see all white and i’ll be awake already. Its like I died when it crashed down to me but my dream stopped there. Then last night, its my first time to dream that I was able to escape a crashing airplane. And then after the crash it was raining. The plane was huge and and its like a very real airplane though it took off like a missile. I have never been on a plane in real life, and I have never dreamed that I was inside the crashing plane or know someone in the crashing plane.
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 am
I have dreams of plane crashes … strangely about the time there are real crashes and the events are somewhat similar. TWA800, the AA flight over Long Island. I dreamed the other night I was on a plane and something was installed backwards on one of the rear doors and it compromised the cabin pressure in flight … I saw a woman falling through the air. Wonder if rapid decompression like this caused the Air France disaster …
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 am
Your posting was so interesting to me. My plane crash dreams began at age 19 and have been ongoing. Several days to several weeks after a dream, the crash occurs. It is always a troubling and depressing time for me and always the question of “why?”
Ironically, I was in a plane crash myself some 15 years ago, and as we prepared for the crash, my thought was that this was the reason for all of my dreams through the years.
Always a troubling event for me and nice to read that others have the same anxieties over those terrible dreams.
Claire Connelly
June 8th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
it’s interesting to hear so many others have these dreams… now if we can only figure out why!
I have had so many plane crash dreams (all either passenger plane or helicopter). Last night was the first time i dreamed I was a passenger in the plane. And I dreamed about 2 crashes in a row (the same passengers including myself in both crashes). The first one, everyone survived because the plane broke into pieces and everyone jumped out into the water (where we crashed over). The second time, we crashed over water again, but the plane did not break and I was the only one to jump out before we hit the water. I was asked by an old man to jump out and swim to the shore of the city for help. I made it to shore and started gathering help, but woke up before I knew the fate of the plane and passengers. so crazy and scary!
June 18th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I also have recurring dreams of watching a big white commercial airlane crash and burn. The first time I was standing in my yard… and an airplane gets my attention, being the its flying pretty low… I watch it start to fly weird and in my head i’m thinking “oh my god whats wrong”…I realize oh my god this plane is going to crash!!!! I see it crash and burn, it always crashes close enough to me, for me to feel the need to run for cover but I never get hurt… during this dream I feel very scared and great remorse for the passangers though I dont know any of them. Another time i was standing in an open field like a park with a group of people and the same thing happens. Another time in my room looking out the window. Another time i was in the back seat of my car looking out the window near an airport….. it ended with the driver trying to out run the flying airplane parts, again I was not hurt. I do feel that it has to mean something but i’m not sure what…. I always try to backtrack after the dream as to maybe I watched something on tv before I went to bed but there never is anything that would trigger it
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
Hi, im 25 yrs old, and i have had plane crash dreams since the birth of my child last june. So when people say about anxiety i think it most be that, because im anxious all the time with family worries, bills, etc. i never had all this responsibility before, and my feelings at the moment are thinking something bads going to happen to my baby, thinking we’re gonna be in debt for ever, worried constantly about all simple things that i shouldnt be.i just wish i would stop being so anxious and live life in the light rather than thinkin of the things that may never happen.It is strangly comforting though to find other people have this freaky dream and not just me.
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:26 am
i also found this too on the daily mail website….
Often dreams about planes or other modes of transport that crash are to do with feelings of being out of control.
It is as if something in your life is just going crazy and you have no control over it. In your dream there could well be some dynamic or event that is going on within your family but that you have no say over and all you can do is watch things crashing down around you.
It is significant that you yourself are not in the dream plane. This makes me think that you are simply on the edges of some kind of chaos and that you are some how managing to distance yourself form the main source of difficulty.
You might want to get involved if you feel you can in order to take some control if that is possible. Otherwise lets hope that things s
June 26th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Hi there, I was doing a search to try to come to some resolution of my dream last night.
I had a very vivid dream last night about a plane crash.
I was in a park, when I heard the sound of accelerating engines. I looked up to see two planes intersecting and flying off in opposite directions when a third commercial size plane crashed only blocks away from me. The shock wave was enough to push me back and the debris field was massive. I still remember the details of the buildings being pushed away from the crash. I know exactly where and the size of the crash site.
The thing is, I have had many dreams about plane crashes before. Most a precursor to something real. I do not believe that they have any effect on the future, but find it disturbingly close to what actually happens.
What I am wondering, is that if anyone else has the haunting feeling following them for days after?
b
June 27th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I have these dreams as well, very similar to the majority of posts here. I recall having these dreams for several years. I see the plane above and know that it is going to crash. Sometimes I am inside a home, sometimes I’m inside an airport or just outside, sometimes a field, etc. In the dream I always hear the plane first and then see it begin to crash. I try to escape the turmoil but it always explodes next to me or right on top of me. Several nights ago the dream changed a bit. I repeatedly had the same thing happen over and over again during the dream. This time the plane crashed into the building that I live in, continually crashing. I repeatedly tried to wake myself up from the dream as if I were conscious that it was a dream but was unable to do so and eventually, while still dreaming, I was unsure if this was a dream anymore. I am curious as to the reason that my dream has manifested into something else now. I suppose this is one for Jung.
June 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Unreal, had my first one ever last night and I had to come looking for answers it was so real. Just like everyone elses except mine was a jet fighter plane shooting up into the sky and clipping a huge white jumbo passenger plane. The Jet crashed in the city I live in right next to the airport and about 100-200 yards from me. I went to help but we couldnt get near it cause the jet had live weapons on it and the fire was to much. I have family flying in in 3 days, I hope this isnt trying to tell me something.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
This blog is so helpful! I have had recurring plane crash dreams for YEARS! Last night (which prompted this search) – I dreamed I was on the ground and witnessed first a United Airlines flying overhead, and just break apart in mid air and fall to the ground. Then after sometime a SW Airlines did the same thing – two more planes broke apart in mid air and I just watched them fall. I could hear the pilots screaming during one of them. It was so vivid and traumatic! What in the world is going on in my psyche? Am I just stressed out to the max? I feel normal, but maybe I am not. UGH – at least I know I am not alone. I am also a big flying phobic – so maybe its a bit of that fear. Very wierd – thanks for letting me share.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:34 am
I have the same dream!
I am with my fiance at the airport or something, and we are outside watching an airplane take off and I for some reason know that it’s about to crash and just watch. The plane lifts up into the air and suddenly starts to tilt forward and crashes into the ground. Debris flies our way and we run, and then for some reason we end up getting on a plane shortly afterward, and my fiance keeps repeating that he hates planes and I wake up. I’ve had it 4 nights in a row and have been fascinated with watching airplane crashes now. Is that wrong?
July 16th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Just watched tv and realized that a plane crashed yesterday. Weird.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:49 am
Well, add me to the list!
I’ve been having this dream the past two years. Typically, my dreams are very vivid, and I remember quite a few details. It’s strange though, because I used to have recurring dreams of graveyards — and before that, end-of-the-world dreams — but that has completely changed into plane crashes.
I am always in a park setting that I am not familiar with, looking up in the sky, and watching a plane go down. I never see it actually hit the ground. Instead, I hear a thunderous crash over the horizon. I always run over to the plane to see if I can help anyone, but the wreckage is in an impossibly small site (usually a backyard), lacking any passengers.
And a family member is sometimes helping me look for survivors.
It’s interesting to see the number of people who have this dream, and Googled it as well!
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 am
Great to find this list, I too have had infrequent dreams about airplane crashes. In my dreams, I’m usually in a fairly wide open place, like the desert, or a large field, an airport, or even in a neighborhood area that has a decent view of the skyline.
Sometimes, I have a build up into this dream set, which I hardly remember, sometimes all I remember is whatever gets my attention and the crash itself.
Typically, I’ll be in a situation where I’m watching airplanes come in for landings at an airport, and then one of them coming in obviously has some serious problems. Most times, it will not land, circle around, and make some very odd movements that are not typical of an large jumbo jet. All this builds suspense about what I know will happen soon. Its like I’m driving this airplane into a tizzy, being thrilled, excited, and intensely scared about the crash to happen next.
Almost always, as soon as the plane crashes, my dream is over. I usually don’t hear others scream, usually everyone is quiet but moving around a lot and freaking out only moderately.
I live under the flight path of a mid size airport. I worked for 3 years in the southern california upper desert area for a large aerospace contractor and saw a ton of planes of all varieties.
I had dreams as a small child not of crashing planes, but of thousands of planes high in the sky going off to war (that was my feeling of what I was seeing).
Weird stuff, I believe for me some of it is a loss of control situation, some of it brought on by the sheer terror of an massive metal airplane crashing, and who knows what else.
July 24th, 2009 at 7:33 am
I used to have many recurring dreams in my childhood, but since few years, plane crash dream has been the only recurring dream. The dream that described by you very much resembles with mine.
In the dream I always like a spectator for the uncontrolled plan which circleing around my house. They come down with great speed as if going to hit my home, but miraculously survive every time and crashing finally very near to my home.
All the dreams are very vivid. The one I saw yesterday crashed just beyond my compound wall and small fire was set in my compound but I was able to put it off throwing carpet or stuff like that.
The one I saw few months ago in which plane had emergency landing and was approaching towards my home with great speed, but miraculously stopped 2 feet away from my home with its nose facing the home wall.
In many other previous dreams, I used to see multiple uncontrolled planes which may as if crash with each other above my home and finally they crashed too but I was survived very narrow margin.
The all dreams I see as spectator, uncontrolled planes that hover around my home for quite sometime before either crashing or miracuously surviving, great speed as if they are like rockets and fly above me just few feets above.
In reality as well, my home is located very near from airport. In most of the dreams, I see very much the same setting of the reality.
But there is one satisfaction I feel in dream – if may scare me, I may be terified but finally it can not bring any damage to me. I will be survived miraculously every time. I wish I see again Lucid Dream which used to be my regular dream till couple of years ago so that I can even control the uncontrolled planes.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Well you can add me to the list.
My dream was in a large building I think and a plane crashed then I went and checked the news and there were several planes goin down at the same time all over the US. Went outside had a discussion with people. I wonder if the governments involved? Maybe
I was actually searching for a recurring dream I had as a child of snakes on a plane, has anybody else had one of these dreams?
July 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Me too!
I dreamt that there were hundreds of fighter planes in the sky and they were all exploding and falling to the ground, I was driving along the road where they were crashing, the flames made the ground so hot that my tyres melted, so I had to get out and run, I called the police and it was a indian call centre…. and he kept putting me on hold 
then I woke up.
I have them all the time, I am either in the plane and it starts falling out of the sky, sometimes the pilot corrects it and its ok, but sometimes we keep falling, or I am on the ground watching it crash. I had one a few months ago where we were at the airport and one was taking off and it just starting falling towards us. Last night’s dream was awful
August 1st, 2009 at 8:14 pm
In my dream, I witnessed an commercial airliner in distress flying over my parents’ neighborhood/house as I stood in their backyard with them and my sister (and possibly other family members). In reality, there is actually an approach path that commercial airliners take that goes right over my parents’ house in Brooklyn, New York (planes fly by about once per minute, but still pretty high in the air since they don’t live very close to any airports).
As I saw that the airplane was going to crash, I hustled my family members to stand against the back wall of my parents’ house to protect ourselves from a fireball which came shooting down around the sides of the house (it did not hit us).
I actually recall pinching myself (in the dream!!) to see if it was dream. When I felt pain in the dream, I rationalized that it wasn’t a dream, but was an event that was actually happening. After that, we all ran to the street where the plane had crashed, and in the dream, I can recall feeling residual heat from the plane crash, but seeing little to no evidence of the crash (no debris, no further fire, etc.).
That’s all I can remember. This dream just happened last night, but it has really stuck with me in a way I didn’t expect. I generally do not remember dreams, particularly in such vivid detail. One aspect that I considered is that I am fascinated by airplanes, love flying and know a lot about different types of airplanes from having flown a lot and from looking on the internet, although I’m unsure if this is related.
August 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Hello,
I too have recurring dreams of passenger planes crashing near me. In my dreams I’m always trying to reach the crash site to help passengers but I never can reach it.
Last night I finally made it to the crashsite and found 4 kids (all under 10) and their mother who wouldn’t wake up. The baby didn’t understand why his mom wouldn’t wake up and was crying.
I have two young boys and am constantly fearfulthat I won’t be able to protect them from people/things in life that may hurt them.
My husband is a police officer and this also adds to my anxieties.
These dreams don’t happen often, but just like others have mentioned – often enough to google the subject…
August 28th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I’m glad there are many people that have airplane recurring dreams. My dreams started about 6 years ago. At first I would dream about packs of planes, mostly jets, travelling high doing some sort of surveillance. Then my dreams went to commercial airlines where I can read the wording on the planes. My dreams lately have always been airplanes about 500m from me that spin the circles before falling. I never see them hit the ground or water, but I just see them disappear over the horizon. It has been bothering me enough, well that I research it and had to find answers. What makes it worse is that I’m in the airfoce and my husband is a pilot. However I said these dreams started 6 years ago, and I’ve only joined the military 3yrs ago and just got married this year.
Any thoughts??
August 31st, 2009 at 7:09 am
Just had one of these. So weird. I was on my bike near the Park in the city I live in. I saw the plane dip in close to traffic a couple of times, then spin and roll in the air before it crashed somewhere out of sight but within 3 blocks. The street I was on was near huge trees and a park obstructing my view. I was scared of flying debris so I figured I should get under shlter and seeing as I was in a neighborhood I knocked on someone’s door. It was a family of 4 eating dinner, oblivious to the crash. But they let me in and offered me mashed potatoes and seemed far less concerned about what I was telling them, than whatever they were discussing at the dinner table, which annoyed me. They also had life size rockets on their front porch for launching, which impressed me. Anyway eventually I left. I rode home past the park and I only saw one part of the plane, the Nose and the cabin, lying silent in glass in the corner of the park with a few poice with clipboards standing above it and talking.
September 1st, 2009 at 9:45 pm
The only recurring dreams I have are those of my teeth falling out so when I had this airplane dream last night it really struck me as profound (which is why i wanted to google it and see if others has this dream)
In my dream I first heard a loud sound and I knew it was a plane about to crash (b/c i said it in the dream) So I went to a window and watched the plane crash into what looked like mountains. The aircraft was celestial and when it crashed amazing vibrant lights of yellow, pink, teal, and purple began streaming from the wreckage…as if it was a light show. I stood in awe for a moment and thought how i was glad not to be on the plane…but all of a sudden I feel emense fear b/c I knew the world was ending and I asked my mother did God still love sinners?
It’s crazy how all of us remember this dream in detail…our details may differ a little but all the dreams are essentially the same.
I definately have to find out what this means…there aren’t many answers here but it is definately comforting to know I’m not the only one having this type of dream.
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:09 am
Hi there.
My first dream accured about a month and a half ago, of a plane crashing a few hundred feet away from me, I see it take off and for some reason I know its gona crash and as helpless as can be only stand there and watch. The second one happened a week later and same thing, an airplane takes off and crashes as it takes off, so I open my dream books I have to look up the meaning and cant find anything…. I then left it untill last nite, only this time it was 2 planes that crashed quite a time between them and I was in different places and I had my wife and my son with me protecting them from flying debris in the dream. I wake up realising its only a dream when it actualy felt so real that you feel your stomach turned upside down I had to come onto google and search it only to find this great website!.
If anyone knows what this mean, Please let me know.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:18 am
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.
September 16th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Hello
I have had recurring dreams about planes crashing into towns and buildings for just over 20 years now. I know that because the first one I had was approximately one week before the Lockerbie plane crash in 1988, and that freaked me out so much, as you can imagine. I don’t think for one minute that I’m psychic or anything like that, I think maybe I now keep having these dreams simply because it did freak me out so much, I don’t know.
I’m never in the plane, always watching, and I know it’s going to crash because it’s flying really strangely, sometimes looping and things like that. The last dream I had was last night, and it upset me a lot. It crashed into the town where I work (I’m sure that’s a first, knowing where it crashed), and I was watching a mile or so away. As well as the explosion it sent out a massive cloud of dust (like when the twin towers collapsed) which hit me.
Sometimes I dream that I’m on a plane which is flying really weirdly, really close to buildings etc., and I’m terrified, but when I’m on the plane in the dream thankfully it never crashes.
I do fly approx twice a year, and I don’t like it. I often tell myself that I’m not going to fly again, but I do because I love going on holiday! I have the dreams a lot more often.
Glad to have found this site, to know I’m not alone!
Carol
September 16th, 2009 at 4:19 am
…One thing I’ve just remembered which I’ve thought of before, any of you who live in flight paths, maybe we have these dreams because we actually hear a plane taking off/landing whilst we’re asleep, and it triggers it. The fact that you’ve had a similar dream before means thats it’s stored in your subconscious, ready to be recalled whilst asleep, albeit in a slightly different way. I live in a flight path, and I do sometimes hear planes coming in to land early in the morning. Could explain a lot…
September 18th, 2009 at 6:34 am
I’ve been having recurring plane crash nightmares since late high school (about 7-8 years now.
Like almost everyone else here, they involve witnessing the crash, never actually being in one. I also never hear the sound of the plane or the crash; it’s almost as if I’m watching a video with the sound turned off. Most of the time the plane is crashing right in front of me, although on some occasssions they’ve been at a considerable distance.
I’ve Googled this topic before, but never felt compelled to post before today. Last night, I had possibly the most terrifying plane crash dream yet – two plane crashes in a span of a few minutes, while sitting in the same spot.
I was on a bus with a friend, stopped in front of a gas station. All of a sudden, a plane, missing the tail portion, crashed on top of a car in the gas station. Surprisingly, the gas station did not explode, and a person crawled out from underneath the wreckage pretty much unscathed. Passengers on the bus got off and went to help the injured man.
A few minutes later, the people on the bus heard a huge wailing sound (and I heard it too – the first time I’ve heard a plane in my dreams), and all of a sudden a huge passenger jet crashed nose-first into the ground in front of us. I saw the orange of the explosion and went to cover my friends’ head to sheild her from the heat and shrapnel of the explosion.
The last thing I remember is telling my friend that I had to fly next week and that I was terrified of getting on a plane.
Like most of the posters here, I’ve read that this may have to do with something in my career or personal life that I have no control over. It could be caused by stress and anxiety as well (of which I have a lot of, both personally and career-wise). I haven’t been able to link life situations with this dream but am going to start keeping a dream journal related to these plane crash dreams.
It’s nice to know that there are others out there who experience these dreams in a recurring manner. I woke up comletely shaken this morning and it still hasn’t worn off. I find some comfort in reading that I’m not alone.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:29 am
Thank you, All for your dream stories. I googled and came across this site. I started dreaming of plane crashes in 1993.
I was always a witness, never on board. I wasn’t very close but what I heard…wasn’t the sounds of the planes, but the thoughts and sounds of the passengers.
They were like hundreds of radio stations playing at the same time with thoughts of fear, family, finances…sometimes, they would speak a foreign language I didn’t understand. I started telling my husband about them but he thought it was pretty normal.
I dreamed of planes crashing into buildings and on the ground, always. I even was direct by a Shaaman to sleep facing a certain direction but that didn’t help.
I told my husband that I almost knew where I was in the dreams but was just ‘deposited’ there. There was always broken glass and fire.
I haven’t had any of the dreams since 9/11 actually. I also haven’t flown, either. I fly for the first time Sept 28th, 2009 since 1989. I’m nervous but I don’t think the dreams were about me.
Since I stopped dreaming of the planes, I began dreaming of earthquakes, tsunami’s and floods. Sometimes going to sleep us more trouble than it’s worth!
Thanks for listening!
September 25th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Holy Cow…put me on the list. I’m 38 and have been having this dream for several years: jumbo jet flying too low. It starts to fly erratically and then loops like a cork screw. Somehow I know it does this maneuver to slow its self down in preparation for a bad landing. I keep thinking how terrifying it must be for the passengers and how there must be people being tossed around, oxygen masks, stuff all flying around, and then the plane horrifically crashes but no one seems to want to do anything about it. I’m yelling at people to call 911 but people are just going about their business. I just had one this AM, woke up at apx. 4AM and could not get back to sleep. I was convinced I was going to see the wreck in my back yard.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:23 am
I also have reoccurring dreams of plane crashes- not every night, maybe once every other month, sometimes several times a week. But enough to make me wonder what they mean by googling their symbolism. Last night, in my dream, I was on a plane that made an emergency landing and almost crashed, and 2 months later (again in the dream), I was on a plane with my parents that actually crashed. I survived the crash, but I don’t remember what happened to my parents. The crash took place near a mountainous airport somewhere in South America on a cloudy late afternoon. A friend once told me that we can’t dream numbers, and if we see them in our dreams, they are blurry. However, in my dream, I had taken out my phone to see the date and it said 8/7 (which is my birthday), and then thought to myself, “I took a flight on 6/7 which made an emergency landing.” I was thinking all this as I lay there on the ground hurting and watching the crash unfold. My arm started to hurt, and then I woke up realizing my arm had fallen asleep (which is why it was hurting in the dream).
Anyways, I tend to have a lot of plane crashing dreams, sometimes I am in it alone, with my family, with friends, or watching the plane crash knowing I know people on it. I have to admit, I have a fascination for plane crashes in real life. Whenever a plane crash happens, I get so into the story and try to read everything about it, even watch youtube videos about the investigation, over and over again. Another note, I LOVE to fly on airplanes, and quite the world traveler… Random fact: I knew friends that passed away on a plane crash (American Airlines ’95 in Colombia).
Does anyone know what all this might mean?
October 1st, 2009 at 6:14 pm
After reading other peoples plane crash dreams and writing in this blog i’ve stopped having the dreams
I kind of miss them now – even though they were scary they were quite interesting.
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Wow, I have those dreams too! I started writing them down like 5 years ago to know how frequently I dream about that (the answer is about once or twice per year). Common scenario: I dream about a plane (never the same plane, never the same place) that crashes near me (I can be anywhere on the ground: in a city, in the desert..etc). I’m never actually in the plane. Those dreams are always very disturbing, when I wake up, I remember every details of them for days.
October 4th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I had a dream last night where I was at a landing strip out in the deep woods aboard a large passenger flight. Right before lift off a bridge appeared and we crashed in to it. I woke up (in the dream) at a cemetary on a large tombstone shaped like an angel, and right in front of me there was a little girl. This girl was made out of stone, like a statue, and she was running away from me. I heard a really loud shriek, then I woke up.
This is the second time in a month I’ve had this dream.
October 23rd, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Looks like I am not the only one.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I thought I was alone in my dreams of seeing planes crashing, but there are obviously a few of us out there! The planes always go over my head enough for me to see faces of passengers, none that I recognise and the airline tail where I can work out what airline it is. So far it has always been Qantas and British Airways, and I wake up and immediately search the news sites to make sure that it was not a premonition. I don’t like flying and try to avoid travelling on those airlines, ‘just in case’. I think the anxiety theory is a good one though.
November 6th, 2009 at 10:27 am
IVE BEEN HAVEING PLANE CRASHEING DREAMS FOR LIKE 2 YEARS NOW.ONE OF MY DREAMS WAS WHEN IM AT LOOKING OUT MY WINDOW OUTSIDE IT WAS NITE TIME AND I SEE PLANE PASS BY. SUDDENLY HEARD THIS EXPLOSION SOUND I SAW THE PLANE EXPLODE AND THEN I SAW THIS BIG GREYISH REDISH CLOUD. I WENT RAPPIDLY OUTSIDE AND I TURN AND SAW THAT THE PLANE HAD LANDED ON THE NEXT STREET. I SAW THE HOUSES BURN GUTS, HADS, HEADS, ECT EVERYWERE AND PEOPLE OF THE PLANE ASKING FOR HELP I WAS SO SCARED CRYING I DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO. I SUDDENLY WOKE UP. I WAS DREAMING.IVE BEEN HAVING THIS CRAZY DREAMS.
MY OTHER DREAMS IS THAT IM IN THE PLANE AND IT FALL DOWN BUT EVERYBODY IS DEAD EXCEPT FOR ME IM LOOKING AT EVERYBODY DEAD BURN. BUT I SUDENLY WAKE UP.I HOPE SOMEBODY COULD HELP FIGURE WHAT DOES MY DREAMS MEANS.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:36 am
I just woke up from another one. I was a passenger this time. Sometimes I am a witness. Many times in a dream, I am suddenly on a vacation over-seas, and wonder how I got there, since I don’t fly anymore. Then I freak out wondering how I’m going to get back home. I used to fly a lot, but won’t anymore. I hate these dreams. I just woke up in a panic.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Oh, one more thing, this one was my second night in a row. Last night, was one where I was on vacation suddenly. This is why I Googled it this morning.
November 10th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hi,
Thanks for your post on this. I have had about 50 recurring dreams about plane crashes (sometimes helicopter). Each time i have the dream it will be a completely different scenario and also each time i think that i really have seen it.. until i wake up of course. I don’t find find the dream so traumaitic it’s just a curiosity for me why i have had the dream for so many years (about 30 years).
andy
November 11th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Is anyone afraid of flying after having these dreams? I fly all the time and am not afraid, but I have been having these dreams since I was little. I’m never on the plane, just watching it crash and explode, or stop right next to me without exploding. Sometimes the plane is coming down right toward me, and then flipping this way and that, and I can’t control where it’s going to land. I’ve had dreams about passenger planes and F-16 planes and cargo planes too, and the dreams are never exactly the same. I suppose we all could take some time out to “decompress” in life. From what I’ve read, these dreams represent uncontrolled stress or unattainable goals. Isn’t it strange how our brains work?
November 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I had a dream last night that I was in th turning lane to go to the airport to catch my plane and it was night time. I saw a plane take off from the run way right near me. It was a comercial plane. Suddenly it took a nose dive and went nose first into the street in front of me and I saw the parts flying in the air toward me and hears the noise. I ducked and remembered thinking that was the end for me.. The parts would hit my car and kill me. I woke up with my heart racing and hot. It felt so real.
People have said here that it may be about something going on in your life that you can not control..
I have been dating a man that is wonderful for about a month but he leaves for Korea for a year and then afganistan . I didn’t expect to fall for him and I have been thinking of it so much. After researching this dream.. It makes sense why I had it.
November 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Hi all
Like all of you, I also watch recurring plane crash dreams. I think no video can depict those intense feelings. I am always out of the plane and the plane crashes near me … once even at the roof of my house and broke the ceiling. I always know that the plane would crash( in dream) and usually utter to myself … Oh God its gone, it will go down… it will crash.. and then it crashes. Everything seems a bit slow and its really strange that I remember every bit of it. Last night I saw aplane crash dream again. The only addition was that a steel or iron piece of plane fell near me when the plane crashed. I have to travel by air after 15 days for an Exam ! and I m so terrified
November 16th, 2009 at 5:02 am
I have just started having these dreams in the past 2 months.
Like others have said i am never a passenger and the planes are always big passengers (such as 747) apart from one which was a sea plane!
Nobody ever dies as i am rescuing them but nobody else nearby seems concerned that a huge plane is about to land in front of them – oh and the plane never explodes
I just worry that i am due to fly to NYC in a week and it is a premonition – although i never feel like it is about me.
My contract is due for renewal in march, saving to get married and buy a house and got a few debts so maybe that is it?
November 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I am checking back in, it seems that there have been quite a few comments on the board. Maybe there is something to this. So where do we start?
Do you guys feel like you have achieved a higher sense of awareness or have premonitions?
I am really not sure what question to ask. Maybe we all have something in common?
November 24th, 2009 at 3:56 am
For several years now I have had recurring dreams of witnessing plane crashes. They have always been quite detailed and for some reason I have never really thought of figuring out what they meant. I just woke from my most vivd dream to date and had to research into what I am dreaming about. I am glad that I found this blog.
The dreams are always me seeing the large commercial plane crash from atop a hill and until I just woke up were always in the daylight hours. Tonight I experienced the same type of dream only it was dark and this time there were people around me. This particular dream had the plane coming in on approach for landing and making a left bank for final approach. As soon as it went into the bank, the plane rolled and went basically upside down. It disappeared into some large pine trees and within seconds there was a large violent explosion. I could see the dark mushroom like smoke clouds and orange fireball flames light up the night sky. Almost instantly, I was surrounded by jetfuel and flames. I remember asking the people around me if they were ok and they seemed to not know what had just occured. I yelled didn’t you see tht plane crash. they indicated no and I said we need to let the authorities know what just happened. It was at that point they I awoke.
I know dreams have some meaning and it looks as if what others have shared that I am not alone when it comes to plane crash dreams. Any thoughts would be more then welcomed.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
I found this through google like so many others and find it interesting how many people experience these dreams and have frequently in the past year. I used to have one of these dreams every year or so and have them about every month now. I think those of us that have these dreams are usually more in control of our own circumstances and with the state of the economy and raised unemployment rates, we’re feeling even more anxiety recently. I know in my family we’re struggling to pay the bills and my husband is working in Iraq to put food on the table while I’m home with the baby. I have to look for a job soon in a city that has no jobs and I’m afraid for our future. I think we as a society are just more worried about the future because of what has happened to our country in the past 8 years. We’re in bad shape and these dreams are manifestations of all the turmoil we’re feeling right now. It doesn’t help that I am terrified of flying but strangely I’m never in the plane, just observing like most of you.
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 am
Wow, I can’t believe how common this dream is. I had my first plane crash dream last night, and like most of you I was an observer watching helplessly from the ground. I was looking out a window over a city-scape and there were several planes coming in to land which all simultaneously started to go out of control. I knew that my parents were passengers on the nearest plane, and as the plane span out of control I was thinking to myself “oh no my Dad is scared of flying at the best of times, this is going to send him out of his mind”.
As this particular plane came nearer and nearer to the rooves of the buildings around me I could actually see the pilots in the cockpit who were unable to keep hold of the controls because they were being thrown around so much my the force of the plane spinning. However in the end somehow miraculously the plane landed awkwardly but was not destroyed on impact and most of the passengers survived.
I’m due to give birth to my first baby in 5 weeks time so I guess this is the connection to the theory that this dream is your subconscious feeling a lack of control over events in your life. I’ve also had several dreams about tidal waves lately which are supposed to indicate the same thing.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:03 am
Hi, Seems most if not all of these comments are about people having witnessed or observed plane crashes.
But in every single one of mine, I am also a passenger among others. I am 17 and have had them for as long as i can remember. Every few months im guessing.
Every time its a different plane, place surroundings, but generally I board the plane, prepare for take off and its like im already anxious that we are not going to get much further.. so we take off and no more than a minute later we crash but I survive and death is not a factor, so we or i ( i just know there’s mostly always others around me, passengers ) try again, and again and again, get in, strap up, take off.. crash and burn then again… in the one dream Just keep trying, never dying but always failing, its like a cruel joke.
But i seem to have a thing with never finishing anything or even taking off from home ground… I guess that could be it. Whatever it is, its taking the piss out my life i don’t like it!
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
theres a simple explanation as to why alot of people are having this dream… we all have similar struggles in life!
December 7th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
OMG! i have also being having these nightmares.It’s just like I am standing in an empty parking lot and a plane falls either far away or very close to me.In the dream,I always survive and i always go outside and tell other people about what i saw.This is recurring and it freaks me out!!!!
December 10th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Hi Lori (and Lori in Scotland) I am wondering if the crashing in the sea is Scottish thing! I found this when googling my dream of a plane crashing in the sea at night, I was standing on the pier watching, and the plane is all frozen with hanging icicles from the wings…i’m glad to have found this blog though – i think the gist is I am way to anxious!
December 10th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
I should have said that I am in Scotland too and it would have made more sense..
December 13th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Finding this blog was of such comfort to me!
I, like so many of you, experience these recurring dreams very frequently. Sometimes they will go away for weeks at a time, but normally they occur several times a months, They can be erratic–two on one night for weeks and then nothing for a few weeks; but they always return.
I am beginning to get frustrated with them because they are beginning to affect me when I fly. Previously, I would have the dreams, but I would be fine flying. I could effectively separate them from reality. Now, however, I am finding that flying is beginning to affect me. I flew home for Christmas yesterday and was utterly terrified of the possibility of the engine stopping and nosediving into a mountain. I couldn’t even breathe. I don’t want to have to be asleep for the entire trip, but I think at least then, if something happened, I would never know.
My dreams are reminiscent of others’ on here. I am always a passenger, and the planes crash almost in slow motion. The skies are usually grey or streaky, as though there has been a storm recently. It is always a passenger plane; a 747 or similar model. I am usually alone in my viewing of the crashes–there have been instances where I am accompanied by a friend, but usually I am alone. The planes crash and explode; during one dream a reporter came to the site and taped a boy cut in half. It was awful. Most of them happen, as mentioned by others, from 100 yards or so away. Everyone always dies. They happen in odd arenas as well: I was shocked to see such similar posts: crashes in backyards, etc. The plane will often take off and then loop around or just stop and nosedive.
I feel comfort in knowing I am not alone, but I need to get this sorted out; it is becoming increasingly brutal to deal with. I don’t want to stop enjoying plane rides because of dreams either.
Thoughts?
December 20th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
hello…i just woke up from one…usually they are fighter jets and sometimes big jets that havent been invented yet…
most of the time they crash and dont blow up but i sheild myself thinking ill be burned alive noticing that the planes are only 50-100 meters from me but they never doo…i once had a snowbirds plane crash in front of me…really weird they dont blow up..
this morning…or welll i slept in to 3pm had a 737 westjet on it and it was trying to do some sharp turns only 2 or 3 feet from the ground. andi knew it was going to crash before it actually did…..funny eh…its like we know somethings going to happen before it actually does
December 24th, 2009 at 6:55 am
WOW, I thought I was the only person with this kind of dream. I’ve had it regularly for a couple of years now. Nice to see I’m not the only one.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I have always had these dreams aswell and it always seems to upset me for days after because it seems so real. I always seem to know that the plane is going to crash, and I always say very casually to whoever’s near me, ” that plane is going to crash) The plane always crashes near me and my house. It’s such a horrible dream to have as it seems so real..
January 7th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
I have this kind of dream once or twice a year. Last night i dreamt that i was sitting at the end of a runway as i watched how a Concorde jet landed. I remember the details of the jet and the pointy nose. The plane landed but then for some reason it did not stop and kept going. Then it took off the ground and did kind of like a backflip. After this the jet just came straight down and crashed on the ground. I remember being really anxious and all i did was just sit there.
Im going through a break with my girlfriend at the moment. I told her i need a break bc I am not sure about my feelings. She gave me time to think about it but within this time I have been afraid that she is going to do something with another guy who has been after her and now that she is going through this wants to start talking to her. I am anxious and jealous about it bc there is no way for me to know whats gonna happen. Maybe that is the reason why I had this dream.
January 8th, 2010 at 1:48 am
I have had extremely bad plane crash dreams for years. I don’t like flying and the dreams have been worse since 9/11. Last night’s was about being a passenger in a jumbo jet, taking off at Heathrow Airport practically perpendiclar because there was a very high hotel on the runway. The plane then shot straight up, avoided the hotel and then started straining ( a bit like the Concorde crash flight). It managed to right itself, everyone was convinced they were going to die but remained silent. Then the pilot found an abandoned factory near the airport that had a long road in it and landed safely. But the pilot or the air hostesses wouldn’t tell anybody anything. I then ended up wandering around London and found a stray frightened abandoned dog and went to take him to the rehoming centre. Instead we walked into a millionaires wedding reception and one of the guests adopted the dog.
?????
January 11th, 2010 at 6:20 am
This dream occurred about three nights ago… 8 Jan 10. The locations and landscapes of dreams never make sense. In this dream, I was standing on the side of a mountain in some sort of a structure or building looking out of glass windows that overlooked a ravine and another mountain. I watched a heavy airliner (oddly enough it was AirTran) descend in to the side of the mountain. The body of the aircraft was parallel with the mountain so I could see the passenger windows. The plane crashed but that wasn’t the dramatic part. After the crash I could see all of the passengers were trapped and scrambling to the windows… pressing their faces against them and hitting them with their hands… all screaming. Even though I was maybe a quarter mile away, and the passengers were enclosed, I could hear the screams. Then all of the sudden, the interior of the aircraft burst into flames and the looks of desperation turned to looks of horror as the trapped passengers desperately tried to pound the windows out. Then all at once, the passengers were engulfed in flames and the screams stopped. I was horrified and felt helpless, but at the same time felt I should be calling someone for help instead of watching all of these people die. Then, I noticed three survivors on the wing, badly injured. It was at that time I called for help but noticed (or could hear) sirens and knew help was on the way. Still, I felt like there was more I could have done instead of just watching. It stuck in my head so intensely that I told my wife about it that evening. I would have bet I was going to turn on the news that day to see it had actually happen. Wow! Anyway, thanks Lori for allowing me to get that one off my chest. Whew!
January 13th, 2010 at 10:35 am
I had a dream similar to this the other night. Only in mine the people in the plane were friends of mine from school years ago. People I haven’t seen in ages. It was on a movie set and we were all suppose to be extras. Only I was a person on the ground and all my friends boarded the plane to be passangers. One of my friends had a daughter who stayed on the ground with me… I watch the plane head towards ground and the next thing I know the plane is engulfed in flames and I’m on the ground watching all of my friends burn. The director of the movie was on the ground laughing this evil laugh that still gives me chills to think about it. I grabbed a hold of my friends child and cried like a baby. The dream was so real I thought could feel her hair touching my skin. I woke up sobbing. For the first time in my life a dream felt so real I was terrified for hours after. I haven’t seen these people in years and we don’t really keep in touch. I don’t understand what would make me dream this. For the past three nights I always have the begining of this dream but wake up before I get too far into it because I’m terrified.
January 14th, 2010 at 3:23 am
I’ve skipped some of the posts in this thread as I can now appreciate how common this type of dream actually is. After reading several posts I was anxious to contribute my own.
I am a qualified pilot, but only on single engine aircraft. That “type” rarely features in my dreams anyway, so I doubt there is any link. Not only that, ALL of my crash dreams are from a passive bystander perspective.
I’ve experienced such dreams on and off over many years, but as I am currently in a situation of high anxiety over a family members health, I have found them to be more recurring in nature.
The type of aircraft varies, and in fact, a helicopter recently featured. Also, in common with many others here, I also anticipate a pending crash, even if the aircraft is performing normally. For example, the helicopter appeared to be doing a low level survey. As I was watching, the thought came into my head that it was going to crash. What followed was a puff of smoke from the main rotor, silence, and the “chopper” pilot grappling with the controls. In this particular instance, he glided over rooftops and out of my view, but typically, the aircraft I see do actually hit the deck [usually in a field that backs my current house, or fields that adjoin previous homes].
Last night I heard a loud engine noise, but a noise which was unusual all the same, only to look out of the window and witness a world war two Liberator bomber plummeting towards the ground at a 45 degree angle. Strangely, its flight path would have been entirely consistent with the main runway axis of a disused bomber base nearby, but I had been “thinking” about the bombers earlier that day. In other words, I don’t think it was a spectral replaying of an actual event, but more that my dream was influenced by my earlier thoughts.
Individual situations aside [far too many to mention], the key theme for me appears to be a morbid fear of approaching the wreckage. I “feel” the crews emotions as they face their pending doom, and I dread the fact that I will usually be the nearest person to the crash scene. I seem to be faced with a moral duty to help, yet I only ever look on in horror whilst others eventually rush to assist. It isn’t a nice feeling, and I struggle to think of any real life event that might have triggered that guilt. When I wake, there is usually an accompanying sense of morbidity that can take an hour or two to shake.
Jets rarely feature in my dreams. Most are piston engine aircraft and the sound of heavy misfiring is often the thing that alerts me first to the immanent predicament of the pilot. It is often accompanied by a feeling of empathy towards his lack of control and fear, followed by remorse at my inability to help in any way. Then, guilt for not approaching the resultant carnage.
Interesting topic.
[And yes, I am fussy about grammar lol].
January 19th, 2010 at 3:18 am
i was searching plane crash dreams and i found this site. for a few years now i have had different plane crash dreams. the first started in 2003, the dream was that i was 4 yrs old (in 2003 i was 22yrs old) and i am in a plane with my entire family going on a trip. the plane then plummets from the sky and crashes, everyone on board dies except me. i have no idea what that means and it scared me. recently (for about a yr now) i have dreamed that i get a job opportunity in the US or UK and i go. shortly after that i get my family over and the plane crashes with them all dying. i do not wish for my family or myself to die at all. if anyone can help please help me as i would like these dreams to stop. i fear going to sleep as i know i will dream of a plane crashing and my family dying. anyone know what this means?
January 25th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I just had my first plane crash dream last night. I dreamt I was standing on a floating rig in the middle of the ocean and a 737 passenger jet was about to crash into the water. Like your dream the palne tried to use strange physics to pull itself out of the crash, it was like just feets away from the water, slowed to an impossible speed, did a 360 loop and attempted to use the floating rig i was on as an emergency landing strip. The right wing came off and as it bounced broke up into quarters and then slid right past me(I was like a few feet away) off the other end of the floating rig and into the water. I didn’t see any passengers but in the dream I was aware that there were.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
I found this website searching for the cause of disturbing dreams involving planes that I’ve been having recently. I always watch the plane land in these dreams. It always happens in the same place, a really wide footpath that’s elevated and there’s an industrial building beside it. I’m standing on the path facing the building. This time an Aer Lingus (Irish airline) plane was in the sky and I was watching it and it had the little lorry thing and the container they use to load food on the plane hanging from it as well as a bright green “Aer Lingus” cabin thing. I remember wondering how it could fly with all that on it
and then it looped back towards me and went down behind the industrial building and there was silence, and then huge flames. I always wake up at this point. Disturbing! It’s reassuring though to know that other people have similar dreams
January 26th, 2010 at 4:42 am
I may have some insight into at least a partial reasoning behind this. I just had a very similar dream to all of these last night and I dont think its any cooincidence that I also found out yesterday that my father had died. I also have some other issues going on with my wife and father-in-law both in the late stages of cancer.
In my dream I am driving on a freeway in a suburban/rural area and I see a large airliner flying backwards and oscilating flying forward, sometimes losing control, sometimes gaining it, but always losing altitude. When it hits, it is about 1 mile ahead of me off to the side of the freeway by about a hundred yards and at first I see nothing. Then there is a delayed loud explosion. The remainder of the dream has me driving by the crash site with emergency vehicles and destroyed roadway and wreckage strewn about.
To me the coorelation with others in my life who have passed or are passing is pretty clear. But it seems a general sense of anxiety would also fit the bill.
January 26th, 2010 at 4:46 am
Here is another explanation that might be more accurate, who knows:
“To dream that a plane crashes, suggests that you have set overly high and unrealistic goals for yourself. Your goals may be too high and are impossible to realize. You are in danger of having it come crashing down. Alternatively, your lack of confidence, self-defeating attitude and self-doubt toward the goals you have set for yourself is represented by the crashing airplane; you do not believe in your ability to attain those goals. Loss of power and uncertainty in achieving your goals are also signified. ”
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_it_mean_when_you_dream_about_a_plane_crash
January 26th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Or this, which actually makes more sense to me because I have not been close to my father for a long time and he lives far away.
“We received an interesting amount of mail about dreams containing planes and plane crashes. It appears that people often dream about being in a plane crash, witnessing a crash, or being bombed or shot at from planes. Airplanes, like all other vehicles, symbolize a portion of your life’s journey. The part of your life which is represented is usually a memory, material from your unconscious mind, or something that is physically far away from you. Since we use planes to travel to places that are far away, the logical progression of this interpretation is that the airplane is symbolic of an event, individuals, or emotions that are either in the past, physically apart from you, or deep in the unconscious and far from conscious thought. Disturbing dreams in which you are being bombed or where you see a bloody crash scene may be trying to bring up issues and feelings that have been buried in the unconscious mind (from the past or the present) but are still powerful and disturbing to the dreamer. The more powerful, vivid, and disturbing this dream is, the greater the necessity to interpret and obtain a satisfactory meaning.”
http://www.spiritcommunity.com/dreams/a.php
January 28th, 2010 at 7:01 am
Wow, we are all having the same dreams . . . 9 out of 10 times dreams are forgotten by morning and never thought of. I am 38 and just started having these dreams of planes, not small cessnas or pipers, big 747 type planes coming down right in front of me. I am on the ground, see the plane in the air as if all was normal, then it just nosedives into the ground in front of me. I watch it, then go about my business. No bodies, blood, debris, just a clean hole or small pile of something where it crashed. Sometimes the plane circles in the air before coming down, sometimes theres more than one coming down at the same time. You are all right that it stays w/ you for a few days.
I am not a believer of dream interprations but these dreams have brought me to look into it and try to figure out what the heck is going on . . . I live in Queens NY , being close to the Trade Center and witnessing the plane in the Hudson , i didnt think that had anything to with these dreams . ..
January 31st, 2010 at 5:04 am
I thought I was the only one!!
I’ve been having these dreams since I can remember (I’m now 42). Always watching planes in air (or last night, taking off). They always do dome weird maneuver, and I know they are going to crash…and they do. Last night I was on an airport tarmac watching a plane take off right in front of me…it left the ground, veered to the right…then began to climb almost vertically..stalled..then straight into the ground. Oh…dreamt of another crash just before this one. First time I’ve had two in same night. Went through an unwanted divorce last June (however, I’ve been having these dreams since I was a child).
February 6th, 2010 at 5:50 am
I also thought i would be alone with this kind of dreams and i find this very interesting to compare our differing or similar feeling or thinking processes. a lot of things are here alerdy said… I just wanted to ask of somebody here has helthproblem with his thyroid, especially cold nodules, because this pathology seems to be correleted with this feeling of “not to reach a goal” according to some researchs in the new medicine, total biology or biopsychlogy… I am curious if i receive an answer… Thanks.
February 7th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
well, I guess i belong to this club too, been going on for years. Strange that in many cases there seems to be a real crash within a few weeks, some times major ones. But then the truth is there are always a few if you look for them.
Last night i dreamed two commercial airliners crashed into two very large buildings. My wife was inside on of the buildings, and she was hurt but still alive. i went out and saw a large section of the tail from one of the planes and I saw the markings. I have never seen it before it looked like a little wing on the tail. here is the freaky part, i looked up air craft symbols and found it.. I must have seen it before but for the life of me I don’t know where, I don’t fly anymore…
The plane symbol was from Indonesia, and needless to say that really blows my mind…
February 7th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
ps, the building was a hospital, my wife is a nurse. don’t know what the other building was but it was much much bigger that the hospital one.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:24 pm
I’ve been having plane crash dreams too except in all of mine I’m the passenger with the exception of last night which I only watched a plane crash. (sort of)
The dreams where I’m on the plane I’m always really nervous, like i have this feeling its going to crash. They are all passanger planes but modified by my imagination- and always right after they take off (with me on it) they go down and usually land in water. I’m never alone though, usally with family or friends while its happening. Last night, however, I dreamt that something was going horribly wrong and me and my mom were trying to escape and a huge plane was on the verge of crashing. We were in a wheelbarrel(lol?) on a highway that was packed with people trying to leave the city (which I don’t live in a city)and then we looked back and saw this massive passenger plane plummeting toward the ground. It swooped over us and landed somewhere in front of us but I didn’t turn to look, or watch it actually crash. I remember my mom saying “Oh crap…” or something along those lines and I was only thinking about fear of death…and worrying about what would happen- but I was also glad that I would be with my mom if we did die.
Crazy!
And a little weird. I looked up reoccuring plane crash dreams since constantly having them is starting to get to me, but it’s really nice to see that I’m not the only one.
My friend suggested an interpretation of them;
“Maybe it means that you want to go far, get away from any rut you are in but you feel like no matter what you’ll always fall back down.”
Maybe? Makes sense to me, but who knows.
Anywayyy that’s my two cents.
February 16th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Me too! Jeff’s description mirrors my own experience. My planes have inevitability about them, I know that they are going to crash from the outset, from the moment the dream starts. Having said that I do not feel as though I am influencing what happens in any way. The fault is nearly always pilot error and like Jeff my planes perform some weird and clearly stipid manoeuvre before crashing into the ground or buildings. I am 43 now but as a child suffered from Night Terrors – a severe sleep disorder that I regrettably passed to my daughter. My terrors consisted of an imense all powerful force beyond my control that was pure evil. Could plane crash dreams be an adult legacy of this condition? My plane dreams are very realistic, the planes are extremely large and powerful and their fate is completely beyond my control. Just a thought. I’ll also briefly mention that I only have a handful of dreams each year but they started one week prior to the Lockerbie terrorist attack. Every night of that week I had vivid dreams of an airliner exploding over a barren moor. I told friends and relatives about this and you can imagine the amazement and my shock when the news broke. Strangely that was my one and only air disaster prediction, and I have given up writing down my air crash dreams as none since have coincided with real life reports. One final point worth mentioning is that I have a stable family, no mental problems (that I know of)a job I enjoy and no fear of flying.
February 18th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Oh wow! Thank goodness i’m not alone! I just had one last night. 5 jumbo jets crashed into my back garden while i was looking out my window. One even crashed only a few feet away. Weirdly i was unharmed. They always seem to just drop out of the sky. I’ll look up, and think “lucky people going on holiday” and the plane will just stop suddenly and just drop! I can hear the boom, i can see the black cloud, i can see the flames. but like #145 said, i just go about my business. The disheartening thing is, i’m in college training to be a air stewardess. I’m 21, but i’ve been having these dreams since i can remember. At one time, i was having them twice a week. Today, they’re once every month. But still, they’re quite scary!
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 pm
I visited this blog a year ago after dreaming about an airplane crash for the nth time. And here I am again. In only one of my dreams have I been a passenger. All other dreams have been watching a plane crash, knowing that it’s going to crash, seeing the plane come apart, etc. But in every dream, there is a feeling of intense despondency – a couple of nights back, I dreamt of an American Airlines plane start a go-around – as I watch I’m wondering why, and then I notice a tornado forming behind a high-rise and think to myself “oh, that’s probably why they were asked to abort the landing”. As it struggles to climb back up, the airplane loses it’s left wing – over the downtown area of a large city. Just as the wing falls off, I turn away thinking of the pilot vainly struggling with the controls and mumble to myself, “He can’t save it. They’re all dead”. Just left me feeling so sad for the pilot and the passengers
Stress? Check. Fear of flying? Check. Fear of failure? Check. High aspirations? Check. But why do I feel so depressed at the fate of strangers? The events in my dream don’t threaten me personally in any way…makes no sense to me.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
I am gobsmacked, I just idly googled this and had no idea so many people had the same dream. Always watching helplessly in the middle of a vast open field as a plane (and frequently buses and lorries!) slowly loops the loop in the sky and then suddenly come towards me, the fear is sickening, I duck and they swerve away at the last second and crash out of sight. I am not aware of people on board, it is more a feeling of malevolent machines. Last dream an Egypt Air plane was crashed into by another plane and they both came down. I live next to an RAF base and used to fly loads with my job. I am also a perfectionist, worry wart and a Virgo
Used to have loads of dreams of going to airport with all my clothes hanging out of my case or without passport, tickets, money. Your average control freak basically.
February 26th, 2010 at 4:16 am
After three days of carrying around the memories of my latest plane crash dream I Googled “recurring plane crash dream” and found this post. I’m shocked to find the dreams I’ve been having for more than 15 years are all described here in detail. Amazing…
Posts #143 and #144 are especially relevant. For me, I’m a big dreamer and I also have high expectations of myself like many people on this site. I’m on board with the grammar/writer theory and I also set myself some enormously optimistic goals sometimes and place a lot of pressure on myself to succeed.
My plane crash dreams either come at times when I’m freaking out (either consciously or subconsciously) that I’m not going to achieve the huge goals I’ve set for myself. Or it comes at a time when I’m contemplating change and not sure of the right decision.
In my younger years, I used to take my plane crash dream as a sign to get up and go. I’d have the dream and I’d pack my bag and take off somewhere – either on a holiday or to work in a different country. I’ve always been a traveller – living, working and studying overseas – and it was my sign that it was time to move on to the next destination.
These days I’m married and although we travel a lot, I’m not really inclined to just pack up and leave on a whim. After we got married I had to re-examine the dream and now I see it is still there to give me a kick up the *** to propel me towards my goals but that I don’t necessarily have to get out my passport.
Over the past year or so I’ve started to think the dream is there to deliver a message but it’s not the plane crashing itself which is the message. The message involves the smaller details in the dream and the impact of a plane crashing is designed to be big enough to make me remember these smaller details. I’ve had dreams where my husband was on the plane but also standing next to me when we watched it crash and that helped me understand the dual side of his personality in stressful situations. I also had a dream that the plane I was on crashed into the ocean and then the plane which came to rescue us was a missile – a dream which came at a time when I was contemplating a move which might have been from the “frying pan to the fire”.
I feel like I’ve had every dream you’ve described on this site and I’m grateful to see I’m not alone. No matter how many times I have them, they’re always a little traumatising and stay with me for days – probably until I’ve interpreted what that particular dream wants to tell me.
Very interested to read other people’s theories on the dreams and possible common threads between us – but when all else fails, like me you should feel free to use the plane crash dream as an excuse to go on holidays!
February 26th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
My recurring plane crash dreams don’t usually involve the plane actually crashing, I usually wake up before it gets to that. I remember once the plane crashed very near to me, but usually they are like post #65. The plane comes over far too low and I get really scared that it will crash on me, but then it manages to do a manoeuvre and climb again and I am relieved the plane has gone, only for it to circle back and threaten to crash on me, and it seems there is no getting away from this fate. I think I have this dream around 2-3 times a year, for the last 10 years as far as I can remember.
March 1st, 2010 at 4:13 am
Like most others on here I’m surprised at how many people share this type of dream with me. I’ve had the dreams for about six years now. I too am always watching and have never been personally involved. Mine are always a short distance away, often involving me being with others I know. 90% are of crashes at airports where the plane is trying to land, and I can always notice when the plane is in trouble.
I googled it tonight because I had another one last night. It’s so strange to me because I love flying, have never suffered anxiety when flying and infact fly often for work.
Thanks for this thread, it’s a good feeling knowing I’m not alone.
March 7th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Last night I had nearly the exact same dream. I have never been on a plane, but i live near a small airport. I saw something following a plane, and the plane made a severe turn to the left to try to avoid this thing flying so close to it, the plane flew away, but the object hoverd for a few moments, then shot to the ground like a shooting star. The feeling I had in the dream was something I have never felt before, I felt like everything was coming to an end as soon as the object hit the ground. Then I woke up from fright. The dream was so vivid i had to look it up, and im glad i have found this site.
March 12th, 2010 at 3:31 am
I have had recurring dreams of plane crashes too. I know the plane is going to crash and then shortly afterwards, it nose-dives into the ground and explodes. They plane crashes quite close by, they are usually large passenger planes. I have had lucid dreams also where I ‘wake up’ in my dream, although this is not very often. I can wake up and fall back to sleep and into the same dream which many people find odd. Most people I talk to cannot even remember their dreams, but I remember mine so vividly with all the colours and fine details also. Whilst researching this topic, I was lead to another site which links this kind of experience to blood types. People who have vivid, lucid or psychic dreams often have a negative blood type. Mine is O negative. I would love to know what people on this board think about this and discuss the possible unexplained link between the two?
March 15th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Whoa. Anyone seen that Nicolas Cage movie ‘Knowing’? That’s probably the closest thing to mimicking my plane crash dreams that I’ve ever seen.
I probably had the first one at age 13 or thereabouts. I’ve had a couple dozen of these dreams that I can remember. Always a witness, never a victim. Not sure I ever get scared during these dreams when I see the inevitable is about to happen, but it’s always so surreal and shocking. I always wake almost immediately after the dream too, maybe a couple of minutes after the event. I run to help the victims and see the plane’s debris, but I never find it. So vivid and it lingers in my head for the next few days/weeks.
The most recent one I had was last night (I’m 28yrs old now). There is one difference in this dream that seperates it from the rest. The setting for it, rather than being in a field or in a house observing from the window, was the fact I was walking down the street with an uncle of mine in my hometown, and we both knew it was the beginning of the apocolypse (?!?!). The sky was burning red, and more than a couple of planes fell out of the sky. Never seen that before. Again, I didn’t panic. I’m always helpless and can only watch. The plane rather than losing it’s altitude and come crashing down, the closest one – few hundred yards away, was flying upside down, pulled sharply and pummelled into the ground vertically nose first. It was also the first plane that wasn’t a large commercial 747 or alike. Wicked dream. We started running, there was a loud noise, a bright light, then I woke up. Woke my other half up too! Haha
Weird aye.
I am looking at moving country very soon, within the next month or so, and it’s something that is out of my control – like what the meaning of these dreams are supposed to be. I don’t usually like to try and find meanings by deciphering dreams, don’t believe in that. However, maybe that is one ringing true. I’ve never lived outside of my current city my whole life, and even tho I’m really excited that I will be moving (from lil’ ol NZ to NYC precisely), it means everything I’ve ever had and known is not gonna be there for me anymore. Reasoning for the apocolypse factor maybe?
However, I have travelled extensively internationally and in particular I love flying (especially Singapore Airlines first class, hehe). Love taking off, love seeing the ground/ocean below.
It’s so interesting to see that so many other people share the same dream as me (well except for that last one). Weird huh?! Wonder if we’re an elite group of peaople? Hahahaha
Thanks for the support group Lori and finding somewhere I can share these as well as hear others accounts of the same event!!! Tho did I just counsel myself? Haha
Thanks
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:14 pm
I, like others, found this site searching for a reason for my airplane crash dream. I had it last night and it was my first. It really scared me half to death.
I was standing outside and I looked up to fine this airplane in the air in front of me. It was a very long airplane and it was floating there jerking. All of a sudden, it starts turning upside down. When it was upside down completly after a few turns, it suddenly just fell to the ground, and burst into flames.
I’ve never had one of these dreams before, and I have flown before, but i’m deathly afraid of heights and planes. I’m getting married in july and going to florida for our honeymoon. This dream has me wanting to drive to florida instead of flying.
March 22nd, 2010 at 11:28 pm
I had my first dream about this happening to me the night before yesterday. Tonight I had another one.
In the first dream, the plane was a small type (2-engine propeller), and I was inside a building watching it pass over from a window. It was in the middle of a city. Tonight it was a large aircraft, coming over a building (again watching it from a window), near a steep valley where it eventually crashed.
My mother has been present in both dreams, but she don’t see the crash. I also pick up my camera-phone to take pictures of the event, but only after the crash. I go to see the place where it crashed in both dreams. And I also think in both dreams, that it will only be a matter of seconds before other will make an emergency call, and rescue team is already present when I come to the crash site.
I’m a 38 year male. My economical situation is not very good at the moment. So I think I must improve it
I didn’t knew this was a common dream, and I don’t dream very often.
The video you posted can also be found here:
http://yamany.multiply.com/video/item/204
March 30th, 2010 at 6:41 am
I have just woken up from a dream watching acrobatic planes practicing over my backyard…..I could see before it happened 2 planes would touch wings. They did and somehow I knew the tips of wings were reinforced and the planes dented but did not crash so disaster was averted.
I am currently very distressed about new dental work which is not the result I expected or hoped for at the moment.
April 5th, 2010 at 10:19 am
I’m shocked as to how many people have the same dreams that I have. Mine are constant and basically always have the same premise. I watch the plane and know that it is going to crash and feel this immense terror and helplessness. After the plane hits the ground I run towards it to try to save the passangers and it exploads before I get to it. I am very emotional and then I wake up. I have only been on the plane once and woke up as I felt the impact and tasted blood.
A dream analyst told me that the plane represents some goal that I am trying to obtain, and watching it crash is like the term “watching your hopes and dreams crash”. I know sounds corny byt could mean something. She also said since I am crying in the dream that that the hope or dream is something emotion based.
Not sure if this helps…
April 10th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
i just woke from one such dream :/
and surprised to find that I am not alone, so may blogs on this topic. the weird thing is whenever i ahve this kind of dream, a plane really crashes somewer in the world.and this is very disturbing. like for instance today i woke up seeing a jet plane crash and ppl weeping over dead bodies, i almost knew somewer in the wolrd a plane might have crashed. opened news and saw the news of the jet crash in Russia and i feel terrified and satrted googling and go this site
April 11th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Hi, I too, have had recurring dreams of airplanes exploding in the air. The planes are military. I started having these dreams late in 2009 and early 2010. I have flown once in my lifetime. My husband and my in-laws recently told me that we are taking a vacation to Colorado and we are flying. I reminded by husband of my dreams and he told me I am crazy and that I shouldn’t let it bother me. Prior to me finding out that we were taking a vacation my co-workers whom I mentioned by dreams too reminded me of what happened to Ritchie Valens (the movie “La Bamba”). I know it’s just a movie, but I can’t help feeling a little nervous. Can anyone tell me if they have flown after having these dreams? Or can someone help me understand what these dreams mean?
April 26th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
I too have had recurring dreams about plane crashes. It started when I was very young and they are the most vivid dreams I have. The dreams are never the same and it’s not always planes but the result is always a crash. These dreams are very detailed from the loud sound of the crash, intense heat generated from the crash, to the smell of smoke. I don’t know if dreams really mean anything or not, but I will always remember the crash dreams.
May 1st, 2010 at 2:14 am
I think we dream about plane crashes because they do happen and will continue to happen. Our chances are one in millions but we are part of that statistic and we don’t know who will die. I’ve flown through storms, severe turbulence, air pockets and lightning and they are extremely scary experiences. I have heard the pilot say, ” the flight will be choppy so if you need to use the lavatory, now’s the time.” I’ve also heard the pilot ask the fight attendants to sit down way before landing. In severe turbulence the flight attendants kept reminding us that the fasten seatbelt sign was illuminated. In the news we see images of plane crashes. All these things stick in my mind and recur in my dreams. Sometimes the plane crashes, blows up in the air, crashes or sinks in the ocean. I think I dream about plane crashes because I imagine the moment of suffering the passengers go through right before the disaster. I imagine I am one of the passengers going through the scary experience. Because we need to fly for work or holiday, we can’t help but risk becoming a statistic in an uncontrollable environment so I think it is normal for us to have nightmares about air catastrophes.
May 5th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I have had the same plane crash dreams for years. I am always watching the plane and I know it is going to go down. It is always a different place and different location. I just wanted to know if anybody else had the same dreams. By the way I have no fear of flying and love to go soaring in a glider, hang gliding and even flying in a small two place airplane. Hope this helps
Pete
May 12th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Stopped reading post less than halfway through. Not helpful. I dream it… it happens. I’m not stressed, I’m not afraid. I’m on the ground in places I’ve never seen before never on the plane. Different scenario everytime, and the EXACT scenario when it happens. 3 days in between the last dream and actual crash and I saw the numbers on the jet. Ever think that maybe we can change the future? I need help.
May 13th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
I have had dreams like his for years. the first accurred perhaps when I was 10 and I haven’t had any very often until recently. I’ve had three in the past two weeks. I’m never in the plane. and all times except once I am in an amusement park where it crashes. The other time it crahsed into my neighbors yard.
May 14th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
I’ve been having this same recurring dreams for years (well before 9-11 too). I’m always on the ground and notice a plane flying too low or doing weird manuevers indicating that it’s in trouble. The plane always crashes in spectacular fashion very near me. I always have to hide behind something to avoid being struck by debris, burned, etc. I don’t have a fear of flying and have even gone skydiving a number of times so the source of this dream is a complete mystery to me.
May 16th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
i am 14 years old and for he past 2 weeks ive been having dreams of plane crash’s here has not been one night where i havent dreamt about this …what does all this mean ?
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May 20th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Wow this is so weird that everyone can have the same dream, I keep having dreams about planes blowing up in the sky then plumeting to the ground, im never in the plane and dont know people on it just know there was alot of passengers, so far from my research i think perhaps im setting goals that are to high and are going to crash to the ground, does anyone have any insight to what these dreams could mean? there quite freaky and seem so real at the time.
May 26th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Can’t remember ever dreaming about a plane crash before but i did this morning. I’m in my 40s and so i’m thinking about what it could mean to me in my life right now. if i figure it out i’ll let you all know. Apparently the way to interpret your dreams is to focus on the feeling/s associated with the details, rather than the actual details themselves.
May 29th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Wow, in my dream I was in a parkinglot in front of a store setting on the curb talking to this chic I just meet when all of a sudden I seen a plane a large plane in the sky and it had fire commingle out of the motors. I stood up and told every one to run for cover I watched the plane take a large lose of altitude and then it started smoking and blew up. I seen one moreT plane comming and ran it seemed to be following me but it miss me and hit a huge overpass that caused all the cars on the freeway to blowup.I looked up and found the girl I was talking to we ran out in the parking lot only to findout that other side of the overpass was a large airport and we seen 2 more planes comming in both of them crashed at the airport. This was a strange dream I did not know where I was or who this girl was that i was talking to.I was thinking That’s the planes transponders had stop working but the first plane was on fire very weard dream….my first plane crash dream
May 30th, 2010 at 2:23 am
iv’e only just started having the same dream this year, but i have had it numerous times. in my dreams i amm normally standing in a different location each time and there are lots of planes that come spinning down to the ground and when they crash they explode, when i say explode i mean i a thrown though the air about 50 feet. this is normally where i wake up. but in my latter dreams my girlfriend is there with me and before the explosion i throw her down to the ground and then i am thrown though the air. i have had about 5-6 of these drems in about 4 months. not sure what the drems are about but they are very realistic and i can remmember a lot about them, which is weird because you normally forget about detals in dreams when you wake up.
May 31st, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I’ve been having weird plane crash dreams for as long as I can remember. It’s good to know I’m not alone! My dreams tend to involve me seeing the plane heading nosewards into the ground, knowing it’s in trouble. The last one was me sat in a green and beautiful field, somewhere like Switzerland. There were mountains in the background, but lush green fields & trees in the foreground (imagine the ‘Heidi’ TV series from the 1980′s
). I’m there with people I know but don’t know who they are. All of a sudden, a blue & white plane comes over the mountains. Similar to a KLM 737 or similar except the wing is missing & I know it’s going to crash nearby. At this point I’m in panic mode so I grab my flip-flops(!) and leg it, keeping one eye over my shoulder. The plane then disappears and I awoke in a sweat. Other dreams involve me witnessing the actual crash from afar. All I see is the plane and subsequent explosion which also wakes me up. The office I work at is on the flight path of an busy international airport and about 2 miles from the runway. Strangely though, all the planes that crash in my dreams are taking off! Weird
June 1st, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Interesting stories..they go on and on. Mine went away after I met an amazing guy who put me at ease. In my dream, the crash happened in the middle of the jungle in Africa ( I was on it). We didn’t die, but the jungle was infested with rebels. This dark man (which my new guy is) in my dream, took my hand and I felt an intense calm. After that dream, I hadn’t had any more which was about 6 months ago, until last night. So I think it could be a sign?? But will wait and see:)
June 6th, 2010 at 9:05 am
I have got to say that this is the most fascinating blog that I have yet to read.
Could there be a subconscious connection between all of us? I mean the world is composed of energy and we are energy sources. Why can’t we share this connection?
I just woke up from having a plane crash dream. In my dream the plane was racing a motorcycle. I was on land watching the entire thing. Weird, I’m never a passenger; I’m always a bystander. As I looked up the plane was flying upside down, wobbling at that. It then crashed in a residential area.
I’ve had these same dreams, off and on, since I was in my early teens. I’m now 27.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Hi all,
wow, I didn’t know these dreams were this common! It’s good to know that there are ppl out there who understand how frustrating it is (even though I’d rather you guys don’t have to suffer the same).
I’ve been on a quest to decipher these plane crash nightmares that are haunting me for over 3yrs now. Not much success so far :S
Without going into minute details, I would like to highlight that my own dreams are very similar to yours—I’m standing on the ground, watching the plane and I KNOW IT’S GOING TO CRASH. That’s probably the most frustrating part of it.
I tend to think that these plane dreams have something to do with relationships.
June 13th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Like most of you I have been having this recurring dream for a long time. The planes are always huge passenger planes and I never get to the crash site, even though they crash not far from where I stand. I have a vivid memory of a dream that happened about 10 years ago, because the plane crashed into me. I remember the turbine engulfing me and the the moment I died. A feeling of complete freedom and serenity washed over me and I remember thinking…”oh, I just died”. A couple of weeks ago my dreamed showed a huge passenger airline go down about a 100m from me and I thought “oh no that plane is going to crash” as it was coming down on such a steep angle. Suddenly it pulled up and I was so relieved. However, it pulled up so quickly the wind caught it and it flipped over backwards and then slammed into the ground, exploding. I remember the green, red, yellow and blue on the tail and thought, oh Mauritius Air. I have looked everywhere for the matching color and patten, it was so real, but I can’t find it. They are the colors for Mauritius but not the airline.
June 16th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I have got theat same dream once in a while. I always watch from the ground how the plane comes down and explodes. It is always a passengers plane, but last night the flying thing was not a plane but a van with people inside, it was flying upwards, but suddenly it came down and crashed. I expected to see the smoke rising but suddenly I awoke. I have that dream oftenly, I don’t know what it means, but it is so vivid and “real”, somebody explain me please.
June 19th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
*Sighs*
I am dreaming about plane crashes too. As of now basically every night.
They are different every night. Sometimes I watch, sometimes I am on the plane. It is different every night, though it is very similar to the dreams some of you described.
I booked a transatlantic flight just a couple of weeks ago. I booked it over the phone and all I knew was the date, departure/arrival times and the Airline. I did not know the Flight number. 2 nights later I had a dream that a plane with the flight number 190 crashed.
A couple of days after I got the confirmation letter from the travel agency I booked with. Opening it up I realized that the number of my flight is TS 190….
Since a couple of years I have had those dreams, quite often, though never as intense as right now. Disturbing the very least.
June 23rd, 2010 at 2:51 am
In my dream which I had today the weather was really bad, dark, clouds and wet. Anyway I was at my mum’s house and I remember I was talking to a friend on MSN but I can’t remember what we were saying, I was in my room. I went downstairs and opened the door, a few seconds later it started to pour down with rain. When I say pour down I mean pour down. I just stood there watching it. A van went past that said “OMG OMG”, some girls who I recognise from my school walked past and looked at me. I then looked at the newsagents shop (I live next to a newsagents) and saw a road sign that hadn’t been there before on the right. It was directing towards the town centre, I think it was anyway. Next thing I look up and there is an airplane flying really really low. It was a passenger jet, I could see the airline “EasyJet” but the aircraft was white and the letters were in blue. EasyJet have an orange theme in real life. Anyway, it’s still raining and the plane swerves violently towards my house but keep swerving and crashes into some houses in the street in front of my house. I shout “OH SHIT” as there is a massive explosion and slam the door shut, I quickly run into the living room and pick up the phone, I try to dial 999 to report it but couldn’t get the numbers right. I eventually manage to dial it. A few seconds later a woman answers but I can’t make out what she says, then nobody spoke after that. A few seconds later I woke up.
June 30th, 2010 at 8:04 am
I, like others, found your blog after finally googling about recurring plane crash dreams. I used to see them as “psychic” because there was always some kind of air disaster within days of the dream. I was having the same dream way back when the first space shuttle exploded, when the Lockerbie crash happened, I had it for weeks before 9/11 and was having it when the space shuttle exploded on reentry over Texas. I woke up and turned on the news to see it had just happened.
It is always one of two versions. In one I am in a parking lot somewhere and in the other I am at my own home. In both versions the plane always crashes the same way. It is a big passenger jet (I do not know anyone on board) and it crashes nose down into the ground. The only variance is that sometimes it burrows into the ground and sometimes it just totally disintegrates, there are no parts flying around anywhere and I am VERY close to it. It takes me days to get over them when I have them because I always have this sense of impending doom I cannot do anything about.
I have noticed over the years that sometimes I have them and there isn’t some kind of air disaster. After having it last night I finally decided to google dream interpretations of plane crashes and found this blog. It is nice to know I’m not alone.
I do want to say though, I have to argue with the grammar explanation, there are not many worse with grammar than me!!
Thanks to everyone that posted here for making me feel a little less nuts.
July 1st, 2010 at 8:26 am
I wanted to simply vent on this forum because I have been having similar dreams as all of you, and it is really starting to scare me.
The majority of the time, I am in the plane as it is crashing. Looking at my loved ones and just feeling absolutely horrible. The cabin is still pressurized and there isn’t much turbulence, but the plane feels like it is crashing straight down every time, and I am constantly looking at my Mom and girlfriend wishing I could help them from the inevitable. I never finish the dream ie. the plane crashes etc… but I have had this dream many times now, and it is typically the same. My Mom and Dad are always 5-10 rows ahead of me and my girlfriend who is always by my side, near the window.
Last night was the first time that I have had the dream of an airliner crashing from the ground perspective. This was extremely vivid and I remember very minute details. Myself and my girlfriend were at a park nearby our house. I remember looking up and seeing what looked like one of the new Boeing 787′s flying awkwardly. The plane banks down like it is stalling, and the engines rev up to gain more speed. The plane starts to fall almost vertically and as it is about to hit the ground it is just beyond a 90 degree angle. Very realistic physics. The plane crashes a few hundred yards from us and we watch the entire thing as if it is happening in slow motion. The nose and forward section crumple and disintegrate, the engines and fuel tanks/ wings hit and a huge fireball erupts, enveloping the entirety of the plane. Hundreds of people look on, only a few, including myself try and see if we can help any of the unfortunate souls on the plane. My girlfriend tugs at me telling me that there is nothing we can do, but I continue on. As I am walking to the plane, I call 911 and give them all the details. 11:58 AM is when the plane crashed and I tell the emergency operator all the information I can, and tell her “dear God please hurry.” That’s all that I can vividly remember.
Like a lot of you I have extreme anxiety problems, probably exacerbated by the fact that my stressful job requires stressful airline travel. I am a control freak as well, which is also likely contributing. Nothing seems to help, so I am to the point of blogging anonymously in an attempt to realize the root of the problem.
-Thanks everyone for sharing.
July 3rd, 2010 at 3:28 pm
I just woke up this morning after another dream about watching a plane crash. As per usual I felt shaken and agitated from the dream and I jumped on google to try and figure out why I keep having these dreams.
I have had these dreams for as long as I can remember and I’m now 24 and the frequency seems to be increasing.
The dreams are never the same and the details often change such as location, the type of plane and who I am with. However the one factor that remains the same is that I am always watching the plane as it crashes to the ground. Often I am trying to alert the people with me to get to safety. I feel that is usually the overwhelming sentiment in my dream: I need to run to safety before the plane crashes on top of me.
Usually it just one plane that crashes but last night on my dream I was with my Mum in a car driving somewhere and I looked up and a small grey plane was spinning out of control. I pointed this out to my Mum and then I looked out the window and I saw a huge Boeing 747 right above us about to crash…
I’m really disturbed by these dreams and feel slightly upset for a few days afterwards. I wish I knew what caused them and how I could make them stop.
July 6th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Woahhhh everyone has the same dreams! WHAT DOES IT MEEN??? Ime only 18 and it really freaks me out. ime standing on the ground watching the planes, Theres allways a few and its almost as if i carnt move and just watch them. Before they hit the ground they start moving weird in the sky kinda like a fish would in the sea. FREAKY!
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So i came online to check it out and this was alot help! So now i know ime not the only one Having these
July 6th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
This is crazy, I’m so glad I’m not alone with these recurring dreams – I’m 20 and I’ve had them since I’ve been 6 or 7 years old. I only recently told my mum about them and she looked at me like I was mental! Haha.
I’ve checked this blog a few times in the past 6 months but last night I had a classic plane crash so I felt compelled to post about it because something strange happened:
In my dreams I’m always in the middle of an open plain and there is a city skyline on the horizon which I’m walking towards but never seem to get any closer to. The plane passes in EXTREMELY slow motion over my head, causing the ground to shake around me and bringing an overwhemling sense of anxiety. It then continues forward to the horizon where it stalls then falls out of the sky, still in slow motion, behind the first line of tall buildings, then explodes moments later, causing a blast that travels out to where I am standing, at which point I always start running in a panic but it catches up with me passes over me (killing me, probably) and then I always wake up.
HOWEVER, last night, for the first time, the dream verison of me, KNEW it was a dream. I remember saying to myself “You’ve been here before, you know exactly what’s going to happen – this is a dream you’ve been having for years, once you die, you’ll be awake again” and suddenly an immense calm came over me and I didn’t run this time, I stood and waiting calmly for the explosion to hit me and I woke up in much less of a state than usual.
Weird.
I’ve had some experience with involuntary lucid dreaming before, it just “happens” every now and then which is always a laugh, as apart from this reccuring dream, I never experience nightmares or bad dreams, so being able to control your actions and emotions within other situations is fairly awesome and a bit of a treat.
However, I never thought it would happen in my plane crash dreams. I’m pretty stoked, I hope this wasn’t a once in a lifetime thing.
Has this ever happened to anyone else or any ideas as to why I was suddenly able to ‘control’ a dream that’s supposed to indicate a loss of control?
Cheers, fellow dreamers
Jen, London
July 6th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Just found this
An airplane crash may also symbolize spending a lot of time worrying and fretting about things over which you have no control.
July 8th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Hello. There has to be more to this. I have them too. There are a few things that are always commong. 1) The crash is close by 2) i alaways notice it and yell to whom ever is around that a plane is about to crash 3) i always run to the crash to see if i can help.
I dont fly much. I am not afraid of flying. I would love to be on a plane going to a vacation somewhere.
This dream that i had last night had some more details to it and i have been on the internet all morning. I am looking to see if there was ever a child named Danny Alves or something like that who was killed in a plane crash. In my dream, i pick him up out of water and he is alive, but there was an ice cream truck outside the water who was calling names with people in line (as if it was a symbolism of Heaven). The ice cream truck called out Danny Alves’s name as i was carrying him out of the water. He smiled at me and was happy as if to die in my arms. The dream freaked me out a bit. Hence my morning search on the internet to see if there was such a person and accident.
July 13th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
@Christian G, Danny alvis maybe?
July 15th, 2010 at 11:07 am
I have been having reccuring plane crash dreams for the past couple of years, so I finally decided to look up the meaning, and it seems I am far from the only one having them.
I am not 100% certain what the meaning or connection is, but I have a feeling that is does have a lot to do with something happening that is out of oneselfs control.
In my dreams, I usually see the plane (usually a large passenger plane) flying off in the distance, where it looks like the plane is flying kind of slow, then it usually starts to turn and go on an angle, and thats when I start thinking, “Oh my god, this plane is going to crash”, and then I see it slowly plummet down, usually followed by a hhorrific soundless slow explosion. Sometimes the plane crashes close, where I, or we, have to cover behind a building to avoid the explosion.
Lately, I have had similar dreams, but intead of a plan, it was a wide sky scraper that is under construction, and there was large equipment on top of it and workers, and I think “that stuff is too heavy” and sure enough, off in the distance I see the building come crashin down.
These types of dreams are usually muddy too, all grey and brown colors.
I kind of wish the colorful dream of swimming with dolphins happened more than once :-/
July 17th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
wow, this is incredible. i’ve been having vivid and surreal plane crash dreams for most of my life: they all have in common; i am never in the plane, always watching. they always crash nearby to me, the details are always very vivid (smells, loud noise etc) and they terrify me to a state of crying out in my sleep. the feeling stays with me for the whole day.
im so glad to know im not the only one who suffers this. i wonder if my problem is related to being aware of the Lockerbie crash in 1988 as a child.
i wish you all a VERY peaceful night’s sleep!
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Wow…never would have thought this many people were having this awkward and disturbing dream. I’ve been having them for about a year. usually in a city setting and usually with a large 747′ish plane crashing into somesort of building. what proceeds is complete pandemonium and chaos and I’m usually the one going the craziest.
I also wake up more disturb then with any other type of dream and that’s how I found this blog…lasts nights plane.dream was so disturbing I started searching on Google.
I always tell people that my scenes in my dream most resemble the unfortunate scene from 9/11. the overhead view where you see the belly of the plane go into.the.tower.
either way its always better to know your not the only one.going.through something…I guess this kinda makes us family
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:21 am
Ohh My God .. I have a same stupid dream and scares me all of a sudden. And you what the same morning i hear a news that theres a crash somewhere. I stay outside of US. I just dono why but its So strange. I guess it has something to do with past life. This dream keeps haunting me all the time. I just get this dream that im flying and all of a sudden the plane crashes and is into flames. Its terrible.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
My dream scares me. I moved nearly 3 years ago and for over 2 years i have had this nightmare that some sort off passanger plane will crash through my kitchen window. I see my kids and partner in the house and also some faces from the people on the plane.We live on a flight path always aircraft above us am i paranoid? It scares the living day lights out of me. I often wake up really stressed..
July 28th, 2010 at 11:30 am
We all are in this blog because we share the very same dream, I wish there was a way for us to understand the connection we are all experiencing, it’s so unique in a way. I had these plane crashing dreams for sometime but last night was really scary.
As this enormous plane 747 crashes down i can hear the engine (as if the pilot is increasing the speed and trust of the engines but the plane struggles to increase its speed or engine power then at the very same time i can hear the people inside the plane screaming for help very distressful, almost similar to a real experience i guess. The plane is out of control and crashes followed a few seconds later by an explosion. When arriving where the plane crashed, it’s so badly scattered and it becomes clear in the dream that all the passengers died in the crash. There must be more to this dream then what we think…
How can all of us have such a unique dream and so similar. We all are different ages and races but we share the same dream, it’s to strange to be a coincidence. None of us are related in anyway. However hope we will one day know the truth.
July 28th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Wow who would have thought that so many people share this same recurring dream!!
I have had this dream for well over 15 years. Usually 6-8 times a years.
Its always a similar scenario. It is a massive passenger plane. I am never in the plane. I am always very close to it and watching from the ground. It flies in slow motion and then looks like it is having problems… it then falls from the sky… usually nose first in slow motion. I am always just far enough away that i don’t get hurt, but i see (always in slow motion, no sound) pieces of the plane wreckage fly by me. There is always a massive explosion… very vivid and the plane almost always crashes from behind a treeline.
My location is usually standing outside witnessing it from the street… I am almost always standing outside my childhood home and sometimes I am watching it from inside the house through a window. and sometimes I will run from the street to the house.
my thought is that possibly this is symbolizing how i use my parents as a safety net or possibly that I am hiding where I feel safe from things that scare me.
With that said, the thing is i don’t usually necessarily feel scared in the dreams, its more of a stimulated sense… like your having an adrenalin rush… anxious etc. I don’t know how else to describe it… its like I’m in awe of what I’m witnessing. I’m not saying I WANT a plane to crash, but honestly, if one is going to crash… wouldn’t that be something extraordinary to witness?
I did see a bi-plane crash into a lake when i was very young and that event has always remained very vivid in my head. I remember the ambulance racing by me and my parents hurrying me out of the way as it raced towards the crash. i suppose this event alone could be the reason I have the recurring dream.
just thought I’d share as it seems this is a very common thing.
July 28th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I have the same dreams, planes crashing in a ball of flames near me, or coming towards me but then crashing somewhere else nearby.
The most recent was the most horrifying of all. I look out of window, there is a plane, i know its going to blow up. It does, and the passengers land on the surrounding streets of my house. The passengers are like stick people. Then people are told to come out of their homes and started picking the body parts.
It is true the bad feeling stays with you for atleast a day.
Today i learnt a plane crashed in Pakistan…..Really Sad
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:05 am
Hello,
I to have these plane crash dreams but mine are never just a single plane it is always thousands of planes in the sky above my house and town the other night they was all red small planes like crop dusters and 2 crashed in the yard.There was so many it was like flocks of geese,I wake up sweating it is real intense.
August 8th, 2010 at 1:05 am
About every couple of weeks I have a dream of a plane crash. I’m always in the front yard of the house I grew up in and witness a plane crashing from several blocks away and I always wake up when I’m running towards it to help.
August 22nd, 2010 at 8:10 am
Found this via Google because I heard other people have these dreams too.
I have them a few times a year and can always see the plane in trouble in the air, and then it crashes somewhere near where I am and I try to rush to the scene to see it. Sometimes it crashes in a neighbor’s house, other times I’m nowhere near my house when it happens. I’ve even had dreams in which there were multiple crashes around me in a few minutes.
For me it’s not really a nightmare usually, since I’m never in the plane and they never hit me or my house. Nor do I ever see people on fire or anything horrific like that. The only unpleasant thing about them is trying to get there to help and not being able to help. A few days ago one was more nightmarish though. I was with a friend and we saw a plane crash approximately where he lived, very scary.
I actually love air travel, so no fear of flying.
And I agree with this comment completely, I too think it’s about witnessing something extraordinary:
“With that said, the thing is i don’t usually necessarily feel scared in the dreams, its more of a stimulated sense… like your having an adrenalin rush… anxious etc. I don’t know how else to describe it… its like I’m in awe of what I’m witnessing. I’m not saying I WANT a plane to crash, but honestly, if one is going to crash… wouldn’t that be something extraordinary to witness?”
August 30th, 2010 at 12:08 am
I have dreams about planes crashing as well, which is why im on this blog, however, mine are fighter jet type planes and one always shoots a missle at the other, and it happens more than once in the dream. I sometimes find myself at soccer practice or in a downtown city(one i am not familiar of) when this happens, but while I was taking a nap earlier tonight, this dream happened, but with a surprise in the middle. I was at soccer practice with my older brother there and the rest of the team (whom I dont recognize) which is normal minus the brother being there, and a bomber flew over us and dropped a huge bomb on us, however when I first saw it I ran away from the group, but they didnt follow or run, until after the bomb BOUNCED OFF THE GROUND once before exploding. I didnt see the bomb explode because I had jumped into a bowl in the grass if you will. After that part of the dream i remember finding myself at home the same night asking my father if he has seen or heard any explosions or plane crashed in the sky, which he replied, “no, I did hear the big one that shook the sky though.” This dreams happen few and far in between, but when they do they freak me out like I cannot believe. Does anyone know what could be wrong(or right) with me?
September 6th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Plane crash dreams can also be seen as the Tower card in the tarot. In the Tower card, the typical image seen is that of a tower being struck by lightning sending its inhabitants plummeting toward the earth. The Tower card is typically thought of as extremely negative, and usually its appearance does indicate an intense, abrupt, completely life-altering experience. However, despite the pain which may accompany this change, the ultimate result is usually one of the person’s life being completely cleared out which results in liberation from a stagnant life.
The same may be true of airplane crash dreams. They may represent a necessary change, usually in your thinking that allows you to enter another ‘plane’ of existence–the current ‘plane’ must crash to allow new freedom of existence. Should this be the case, remember that what always survives the crash is the black box–that part of you that keeps your memories, your dreams, and your soul alive!
A final note about plane crash dreams. Planes involve soaring, of reaching unbelieveable heights and traveling at amazing speed. Your dream may simply be telling you that you have the ability to accomplish more than you ever thought humanly possible but the fear of taking flight and going into a place you’ve never been is overwhelming you. If this is the case, I encourage you to step on the plane, get in that seat, and prepare for the adventure ahead…even if you need a friend to help you do it!
A tarot card reading i found on the subject. I too have had these dreams all my life. But also have always been fascinated by airplanes and how majestic and effortless they look in the sky. PLANE DREAMERS UNITE!
September 11th, 2010 at 9:07 am
My plane crash dreams have gotten slightly more scary recently. I had 2 (I think) dreams of planes flying very low over my house and crashing into fields nearby, I would be the only person around and I would go to the crash scene and see if there were any people alive and if so try to get them out of the wreckage.
A few weeks ago a fairly large commercial aeroplane flew extremely low over my house (I thought it was a lorry driving past on the road because of the noise) I looked out of my window to see it no more than 200 feet from the ground, wings un-level and seemingly out of control, it continued to decend and I was genuinely waiting to see an explosion in the distance. It pulled up and to my knowledge didn’t crash (it was dusk and just getting dark so I couldn’t see it after a while)
I’ve continued to have more dreams about planes flying over my house and crashing, the last one was much like the first but there was no fire, just bodies sitting in their seats and only me around.
I don’t think I have any anxiety issues i’m a student and comfotable financially, yet keep having these strange dreams!
September 12th, 2010 at 10:01 am
I have had these dreams off and on since my late teens. I have never been a passenger in a plane crash dream–only a witness on the ground. Typically they are in a rural setting. I can see that the plane is in trouble and it seems to be a drawn out process of watching its downward path. The very first one I remember having involved a bi-plane with just the pilot, but all recent ones have been big commercial planes. Last night I had another, and it was different for a few reasons. For one, this one was very vivid and realistic. Most of my dreams have illogical elements that make them obviously dreamlike, but this one could have been a scene from a movie. Secondly, this time the plane was broken into two pieces, both of which were flaming. I was in a rural area again–fields all around me and a beautiful day. The odd thing about this time is that my kids were involved, and it is rare that my children make an appearance in my dreams.
I was in an grassy field and heard my youngest cry out. I called his name and he ran out to me scared, followed later by his older brother. He pointed out the flaming section of plane high in the sky and I watched as it got closer and closer to the ground near us. I remember filming it on my cell phone camera while trying to comfort my two kids who were huddled with me. It was kind of an odd mood to the dream because I had such a peacefulness that my children were safe in spite of what was happening in front of us.
As far as an analysis goes, I think this was the dream process of me thinking recently about making a point to let less things distract me from my kids and make tending to their development as young men more important than other things on my busy to-do list. So much around me is out of my control in this life, but I do have direct control of how I tend to them.
September 14th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Hello just thought I would share my plane crash dream experiences with you all since there seems to be a lot of us…lol. One thing I will say and I believe someone else mentioned earlier is that 9 times out of ten when I have these dreams usually, the next day I read of a plane crash occurring somewhere in the world during the times I was sleeping. A little background about myself, I was in the Air Force for 8 years and worked on & around airplanes daily. Since leaving the military, I have worked on planes in the private/commercial sector, so I have been around airplanes everyday for the past 13 years. I have had plane crash dreams since I was in my early teens. Usually I am watching from the ground and I can see the plane in slow motion about to crash, it is usually close to me and there are always passengers and the plane always bursts into flames. I have had dreams of cargo planes, fighter jets and passenger planes. I usually have these once a month sometimes more, sometimes less.
The reason for looking into it this time is the dream I had on September 13th during the night only to see the headlines about the plane that crashed in Venezuela. My dream was so detailed and there are so many similarities that it is a little weird. In my dream, I was one of the people on a crew to “launch” the plane if you will; we were on a runway very far up, almost like a mountain with fences around the runway. Once the plane took off as soon as it cleared the fence and was just over the height of the surrounding buildings all engines just dies, it nosed down and towards the left, just missed the top of a building a crashed into a field, maybe 100 yards from this building. The plane in my dream was a commercial jet and was white/orange and I believe it had a blue stripe separating the two colors. The area from where it took off was ½ mile or less from where it went down, there were chain link fences, buildings and sheds, and the terrain was somewhat hilly. I read of the crash the morning after I woke up and thought that was weird and told my wife. I also told her some of the other details, not having read them myself and only actually seeing pictures of the plane today for the first time and was shocked that the plane was nearly the exact color as the one in my dream and the surroundings were almost identical. I have had several dreams over the years and sometimes once I read about them the next day or two, there may be a few similarities, but none comes close to the similarities that this crash and my dream have in common. It is as if my dreams are becoming more detailed and more of a reality. I will certainly share my next dream and the following day’s news of any plane crashes.
September 18th, 2010 at 4:17 am
Sorry if this gets posted twice – I may have hit the button before I was ready to submit.
My dream is very similar to others in that I just sit and watch the plane crash. My recent dream (9.17.10) involved a few plans flying over the home but one seemed to just slow down enough (large passenger airliner) and went nose down into the ground next to the house. The most interesting part of this was the planes coming in for a landing were completely upside down during their turn before hitting final approach – only one (the plane I saw crash) didn’t get turned back around. I seemed to be the only one bothered by this as everyone around me seemed very calm about it all even though it was so close to the home (why the home didn’t go up in flames is another mystery). I tried finding a phone that would dial out to 911 but could only find phones that would “text”. This made me quite distraught and I was yelling at my wife to find me a phone that worked – even the one land line phone I found didn’t work. Again, everyone around me was very calm about this as if it’s normal to have planes crashing around them. Just to mention my background – I’m a 35 y/o M w/ 3 kids. I’m pretty high up in the food chain in the IT world. I do have a lot of stresses but I’ve had these dreams for years, even before moving up the ranks or even having a professional job. What could all of this mean?
Thanks,
September 30th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
same dream, i witness several plane craching while landing or departing, indeed i have some confusion in my life where i don’t have control to fix them, but the dream is just an expression of the stress or may have some signs of solutions?
October 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Hey there…i’ve been having these reoccuring dreams almost identicle to yours. in mine often times they crash several hundered feet to just across the street. i’ve been having these plane crash dreams since the seventh grade…im now 16 and am still dealing with this nonsense. now their as crazy as two crashes per dream. the first one i ever had it was a passenger jet that had crashed into my neighbors house…then one of the engunes from the wing crashed through the wall of my room and stopped right next to my bed…in all of my dreams im never a passenger nor do i ever get injured. similar to yours i can always tell right befor it goes down but i can never do anything about it…i dont ever know what o make of it…most of them are extreemly realistic almost like it actually happened…the planes are always very realistic in size…idk…it drives me insane.
October 13th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I have had recurring plane crash nightmares since I can remember. The plane is always a large passenger jet and it normally ascends, stalls, and falls back to earth. Typically, it crashes behind a building, home or mountain so I don’t see the actual impact, but I see the subsequent fireball. I usually wake up at that point. The dream is probably the result of living in San Diego when PSA 182 crashed when I was a child. This photo from that crash ran in the newspapers: http://images.artnet.com/WebServices/picture.aspx?date=20061105&catalog=109308&gallery=176819&lot=00214&filetype=2
October 16th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Hello,
I just had the dream of a two crashing jet airliners last night.
The first airliner crashed after flying right over me,then over the trees I could tell it blew up. Then I turned around a nd another jet was coming in the same direction as the first jet,but was being fired on by what looked like a type of weapon that put out tracers…kind of like either from an F-16,or Alien space craft. Anyways the jet went down. There is more to it though. After all that then people stated showing up like secret service and then kids were sent home from school because of the crash near by.
Thanks for reading,I just thought someone mightbe interested.
Best regards
October 16th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I also have to plane crashing dreams. It was so weird to read everyone elses comments and how simmular the dreams are. The planes are always close to me when they crash in my dreams. Sometimes I just stand there and watch and sometimes I try to run. Either way it always scares me into wakeing up. Glad to know Im not alone though
October 17th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I just had a plane crash dream for the first time last night.I was with my mom, and we were walking through a field in the country side. All of a sudden two planes flew by side by side,fairly low to the ground and not very far away, and I had the feeling one of them would crash. Sure enough, one of them did a backwards loop thing, and then did a direct nose dive into the ground, while the other one just kept flying normally and disappeared. The wierd thing was that the plane made no sound when it crashed, nor was there any explosion. You could just see the tail of the plane sticking out of the ground.
Me and my mom witnessed this, and then wondered if we should call 911, but right away this emergency helicopter flew right to the scene of the crash. We still went to the crash scene to try to help out, but I remember being scared that I was going to see a bunch of blood and dead bodies. When we got there, a random guy I went to school with a while ago was there, and was trying to look inside the plane to see if anyone survived. When I finally got the courage to look inside, there was just a bunch of children’s toys piled up inside. It was really creepy, and I’ve been thinking about it all day.
I believe you may be onto something with the whole grammar thing, as I am a Communications/Professional Writing student.
The cause might have been financial stress(I’m a 22 year old student, I always have to worry about money!)but I think it might also have to do with the fact that me and my boyfriend of almost 4 years are on the verge of breaking up, and we just had a big fight today coincidentally. I’m not sure, but has anyone else had a similar dream to mine?
October 17th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
At age 25, Dec 1990 I had my first plane crash dream. Some weeks I have dreamed about this several times a week and at the least several times a month. The last dream was Dec. 1998 and since then only a few times.
Began close to the major airport and over the years they crashed closer and closer to my home. They have been crashing around my home for years. Even after moving, they crash at my new address. I am always on the ground. I know the plane is going to crash before there are any apparent problems.
The plane always is asending then can’t make the climb, tries to make a circle to gain altitude and insteads circles towards the earth ’till impact. Sometimes they explode, sometimes not. I am always the first, and most of the time the only person trying to help get people off of the plane.
October 26th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Last night, my aircraft dream began in my living room. It seemed to be just prior to sunrise. I heard a loud, yet distant explosion that shook the entire house. I ran outside through my carport door and around the corner I stood while observing the NW sky. To my horror was a very large aircraft flying towards my house. Knowing I had little time to respond, I ran back into my house and held on for dear life. Somehow the aircraft pulled up slightly and managed to head for the local airport well over a mile away. I realized this after I ran out to the front of my house to see what was about to happen. It crashed with a thunderous boom as if explosives were aboard. The explosion was so powerful that the blast nearly reached my neighborhood even from that distance. I could see debris flying towards my general area. One piece was quite large and I thought it was coming towards my house, but it veered off much to my relief. Finally, I saw small pieces of debris falling from the sky including clothing articles. I then woke up. It’s been bothering me all day and I don’t know why exactly. I then found this website and had to share this. I’ve never done this before but it actually helps me deal with it. Thanks for reading this everyone and posting your experiences as well.
October 27th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
I am so happy to discover this is fairly common. I have been having these dreams for many years and another very vivid one just the other night. Like many on here, I am watching from only a few hundred metres away and see a huge passenger plane flying very low and it gets very loud. I know its going to crash and then there is always a huge fireball. Sometimes I have to climb up on the roof to see the point of impact, but mostly I can see the crash from where I am standing. I get very distressed for the passengers even though I know none of them. My last dream sent out an almost nuclear ripple after the explosion,I could see it comming and I hit the ground to protect myself.
I have never been a passenger in my dreams but was in a helicopter that crashed and hit the ground in almost slow motion. Its unbelievable how similar my dreams are to many of you that have posted here.
October 29th, 2010 at 12:43 am
I get the same ones. Had one last night hence the search. I must say I am never horrified in my dreams, I just observe. And I am never in the plane, I pray I never am !
November 5th, 2010 at 9:31 pm
Hi everyone,
I was planing on taking flying lessons at The Van Nuys airport but I started getting these dreams that I crashed the plane. One dream was I was flying the plane over the mountain range right before the desert and all the sudden I was looking down from above at myself in the plane stranded between mountain range and desert. Should I fly???
November 6th, 2010 at 7:38 am
I have roughly one plane crash dream a week extremely similar sometimes im on the plane and wake up just before it hits the ground and sometimes there are dozens of planes crashing ive even tried to land them I will never get on a plane again I used to love flying and im beginning to find these dreams to much now its like a joke im 33 and scared to go to sleep its just to much
November 6th, 2010 at 7:53 am
I just thought I would ask before the plane crash dreams I used to dream of ufo crashes I was not in the ufo when it crashed but I would explore the crash sites and find human abductees in a slimy fluid this was before all the alien abductee movies I think the last one was when I was 17 I should add I dont believe in aliens and I am very sceptical but I do have A lot of dreams that come true but I put this down to coincidence so did anyone else have dreams like this
November 7th, 2010 at 6:07 am
I live in NYC and witness, from close proximity, the events of 9/11. Since then I have at least 1-2 dreams per year about planes crashing. Sometimes over the City, or a city, sometimes just off in the horizon of wherever I happen to be. They usually turn straight down to the ground, fully vertical, obviously with the intention of crashing–it’s never just an accident. Always passenger jets. I’m always helpless, and aware. Just had one last night, and it also included building being blown up. It’s obviously about post-9/11 anxiety. Just thought I’d share. I hate these dreams!
November 8th, 2010 at 4:33 am
I just had another dream last night that I was standing in a field up the street from me and I was looking up at the sky with my brother and we were watching planes of all shapes colors and sizes drop from the sky and they were falling all around us. It was really wierd in my dream as if this was a very srange thing but for some reason we calmly stood there and observed as if we didnt really care if they landed on us. I read a lot of the forums and I too felt that feeling of wow I don’t know who is in them planes but I know it’s a lot of people. I was just happy I wasn’t in one it was a very wierd creepy feeling like a peaceful serene feeling as I watched a this happening. And then at the end we all walked over to my neighbors and there was a dog that was born and it was crazy and drooling out of its mouth and my neighbor said something about radiation. Wow glad Im up
November 12th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
I had a lucid dream about a plane crash in a field near woods 10 days prior to the Pennsylvanis Plane crash on 9/11.
I had another dream about a plane crash 10 days prior to the plane crash in Buffalo, New York on February 12, 2009
My most recent plane crash dream was on November 6, 2010. Will there be another crash on or about November 16, 2010 which will be 10 days later. Interesting, isn’t it?
November 19th, 2010 at 5:10 am
Clearly, there is something very interesting going on here.
There are too many people having these specific types of dreams for it to be anything random. I doubt seriously it has anything to do with control issues or even anxiety. First, you have to answer the question about where dreams *really come from. If you’re like me, I know that there are things we can’t possible know or understand about the larger existence of human (and otherwise) life. I happen to believe something very very important is taking place in the collective consciousness. A shift from one plane of understanding to another is underways. The old ways of perceiving are dying (crashing) and new ways are taking root. There will be those who go first. I had my first HUGE plane crash dream in 1993. I have been thinking about it ever since. Today, I am a completely different person, more highly evolved on all fronts, than I was then. So much has happened to me to lift me higher into more understanding, but it did not come without pain and fear.
Sheree
November 20th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Wow. Incredible this thread is still going two years later. I’ve had many variations on the dream for years, usually I’m standing in a city and watching the plane plow into a neighborhood. Sometimes I’m on the plane, knowing it will crash.
I’ve gone through analysis at various points in my life, and I can hear what my Freudian analyst would say:
Describe the plane. It is large and long and rigid. How do you feel? I am afraid. It is so big, and I know people will be hurt. How will they be hurt? They are helpless, so am I.
Look at it that way, and it takes on the feeling of a sexual attack.
I know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Just thought I’d contribute that analysis.
November 23rd, 2010 at 10:06 pm
I stumbled across this blog while searching for people having dreams about plane crashes and well, Now I’m here. A couple of nights ago I had a very vivid dream. This evening I was anxious as my wife and I have been having relationship problems and I could not sleep – we are taking a proactive approach to working it out. Without saying, for some strange reason I decided to get outside of my head and do some research about the dream I had and am getting ready to tell you about. This is my first dream about Airplanes. I was in and out of a house that I was building on top of a hill in a grassy field, I remember it some how getting knocked off its foundation at some time in the dream. It was night-time and everything was crystal clear High-Def,-Like being able to see clearly in the darkness if at all possible eg. “Dream Physics.” The stars seemed closer to earth than normal & strangely I remember seeing a few bright blue stars amongst the white stars that were not there before. I was with some friends and family and we were all calm even as we were experiencing and watching the events unfold. There were several small towns around the bottom of the hill where we were standing. We were at the highest point and could see everything around us. Suddenly, I would look up and there would be a plane leaving behind a trail of smoke and then crashing onto earth. The plane would Then explode into a mushroom cloud of fire and smoke and then go out. A few seconds later at random, another plane would fall from the sky and crash. I remember people coming out of their homes and crowds of people were scattered and strangely drawn to something as they were marching and directed by officials to an unknown and centralized location. I remember thinking in the dream that I was left behind. But if this was the rapture and the lord is to call us up all at the same time, then why were the plane crashes seconds and even minutes apart? Were we all being raptured in a sequence? Then I remember thinking in my head during the dream, The planes were crashing seconds and minutes apart because they were all flying at different altitudes, -The Pilots were Christians and raptured and therefore the planes were crashing. Guess this would explain why the larger planes fell from the sky last-”Higher Altitudes”. If you think about it, if you take a 24hr day and divide it by 3rdds. you would get 3 ( sets of 8 hour days. Even though we sleep more as infants and children, it only makes up for the lack of sleep we would obtain in out older years. Therefore we all have slept an average of 8 hours a day through a lifetime and by the time we are 60 years old, we will have slept 20 years of our lives. Besides the physical need for sleep it seems it would be a waste of time not being able to learn. Therefore I believe that God or the Holy Spirit does speak to us in there dreams. This is actually biblical and I can provide you the scriptures vie email. Thanks for your time and yes this whole blog is very interesting. Thanks for posting this Lori. -Justin Flynn
December 3rd, 2010 at 1:36 am
Like others I have these plane crash dreams on a regular basis, but mine are different in that I can see the plane falling out of the sky, but I NEVER see the impact, but I do sometimes see the fire and mess caused by the crash. The planes are always passenger jets, and as cruel as it may sound, in my dream, I don’t seem too concerned or I don’t show any emotion whatsoever.
I also have dreams where I am a passenger on a flight, but it never takes off – it starts the take off roll, and then it just keeps going right to the end of the runway, then across busy roads, over fields, it just never takes off, yet there is no damage to the wings or fuselage, after a while I wake up, then it stops, again there is no feeling, no distress, just like drinking a coffee or something simple like that.
December 10th, 2010 at 3:21 am
I am always on the ground, I can hear the turbins and I know its comming. Always a large airliner and it always crashes close to me. I had so many dreams I started keeping a record, describing each dream. But after I got to 100 I stoped keeping track. Im sure I have had over 200 everyone different in some way. Im not afriad to fly, I even worked on jets when I was in the Marines. Only one time I was a passenger. But you can bet every time I here a low turbin jet, im looking up, lets hope they stay in my dreams.
December 11th, 2010 at 12:53 am
Interesting blog. I have had dreams of planes crashing for as long as I can remember. The planes are typically large passenger planes and on the odd occasion fighter jets. Until last night, I was always on the ground and the plane would crash in very close vicinity to me. I never saw any bodies and I would always be alone. These dreams are normally terrifying and will cause me to wake up in a cold sweat.
Last night I was a passenger on a plane that crashed. Interesting enough though. In my dream I did not feel any descent and realized that it was crashing when I looked out the window and saw rolling hills and forest. The plane landed on a road and was ironically, a very smooth landing! I was thinking, ok… this plane has to stop now before the wings clip a tree or overpass support structure. I had thoughts of – do I pop the emergency exit door and take my chances of jumping out before it crashes or do I stay put until it stops. I ended up waiting. The wings hit an overpass support column and were cleanly sheared off. Fuel was gushing out and I struggled a bit to get the emergency exit door open. As I was getting out I watched fuel splashing on my feet thinking the plane could go up at any time and I along with it! I ended up escaping without any injury (don’t recall how I reached the ground) and went on to call my family to let them know I was ok. Nobody on the flight was injured and at no time in my dream did I feel paralyzing fear, only amazement with what was taking place. I think my exact words were, “You’ve got to be kidding me! This is f**king unbelievable!”.
My situation right now. I will be flying overseas next week, I am waiting to find out about a job promotion and at the same time, waiting to find out what impact restructuring will have on my position and the location where I work. I fly a lot (although I hate it) and have spent a significant amount of time over the past 3 years working in a conflict zone where I have witnessed a helicopter crash with fatalities and two fighter crashes.
Would be interested to hear your thoughts on why my plane crash dream was not catastrophic and I did not feel any fear but rather amazement with what was happening.
Thanks!
Brenda
December 11th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Hey everybody! Now I’m in the “plane crash dream” club too!
I watched a plane plow through a condo complex.. but I lived.. whew!!
If you haven’t found out already it supposedly means your worried about impending doom for others that you can’t control (the economy crashing) but your proximity means your worried about yourself too.. remedy? turn off Fox News.. and vote Democrat
December 12th, 2010 at 2:51 am
hey guys,
i join the club too, as last night i dreamed about a fighter jet crashing
i was on the ground in my garden and i looked up and the was a fighter jet in the distance facing upwards but going sideways (strange physics)
then smoke began to come out and it finally began to fall from the sky towards my house, but the pilot jumped out in a blue parachute .
then it was coming straight for me, it landed about 5 metres behind me , then part of the wing came flying at me and nearly hit me,
then i realised it was going to explode so i changed direction and hopped over my neighbours wall and ran then BOOM!!
December 13th, 2010 at 7:59 am
i have dreams all the time about this…they are always in a different location, and a different looking plane, but the plain is always massive and i can see it in the distance and i know it is going to crash but it does some crazy aerobatics to try not to and then it usually ends up coming right towards me or whatever building i am in. i usually wake up before it plows into me.
December 13th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
I’m 35. My dreams have occurred as long as I remember. I’m always on the ground watching and I always know it’s going to crash before it does. The airplanes are not always the same, sometimes huge, sometimes small, sometimes it’s obvious they are in trouble, other times they just nose dive or fall. Once I was standing in the high school parking lot and a huge plane came very low and stopped in mid air just feet above the high school and then melted all over the school. Almost always the plane turns into a torpedo or bomb of some sort right before it hits the ground. There is never any sound, usually there is a mushroom cloud. The last time it was a small plane, I watched from a window fly into the concrete and vanish in a small cloud and I hurriedly closed all the windows so the gases couldn’t get in. I always have an ice in my veins, end of the world feeling of panic after the plane crashes. I too have always been naturally very well with grammar and spelling. I’m not a perfectionist, I haven’t always had financial or life control problems. I’m not competitive and I do not have really high expectations of myself. I wonder if there are more traits that airplane crash dream sufferers have in common? I’m a very creative and an innovative thinker…anyone else?
December 16th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
This website gives me some peace. I’m not alone. I’ve recently had VERY vivid and exact dreams about a United Airlines plane being pulled up from a wind shear, then rolling and crashing. There is very light, powdery snow falling. It made my heart rush so much, and so very, very real. I pray that I don’t have psychic ability and it’s nothing but a terrible dream.
December 17th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Wow…I have the exact same dreams! My son does too. It is great to know we aren’t the only ones!
December 19th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Hello plane crash dreamers:
My name is Kevin Root, and I am a dream analyst/psychotherapist in private practice. I am also a family survivor of an actual plane crash that was in the news last week: the December 16,1960 mid-air collision of two airplanes in New York. I have for many years(I have been in practice for 20 years)been aware of the prevalence of plane crashes in dreams, and have taken a special interest in understanding them. I believe I do understand these dreams, and can certainly offer people insight and understanding regarding their dreams. The common occurrence of plance crash dreams tells me that it is a universal or archetypal symbol(I am Jungian in orientation). The fact that numerous individuals have the dream of course means that despite the commonality of the symbol, each situation is different, each dream an individual one, about an individual life. Both a common and unique meaning can be found for these dreams. If you want to discuss your plane dreams with me, you can contact me at my website: kevinroottherapy.com thank you
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
So at first I was scared to even type anything about an airplane crash into google but after I did I was relieved to see there was something about a Airplane Crash Dreams. So like many others on here I have had different aircraft dreams over the course of my life actually since 1986. My most recent one last night was enough to have me search what they mean. Two planes almost like concords is what they looked like flew overhead and took off tree limb branches. I thought the first plan was going to crash into the ground and remember being scared I would be killed the second took off a few branches and both planes pointed the nose to the sky and went up and gained altitude. They were white with red lettering and said TWA on them (are they even around anymore?)Both planes one at a time reappeared in the opposite direction crashing directly into the ground next to a neighbors that I did not know. There was schrapnel everywhere flying towards me however I was able to dodge all of it. The second plane followed the same path as the first. I remember being in a house not one that I ever was in before but one that had a porch. The ground was blackened all the way to the concrete and the paint of the concrete on the porch was eaten away. I remember saying to what I believe was my dad why is no one calling Fox News or CNN there was no police, ambulatory service nothing. In the dream it was the second day and still no on there to help no news media it was like it wasnt important to anyone that two concord type jets crashed and people died. In real life I have a close friend who is a flight attendant and I don worry about him alot especially since 9-11 always tell him to be safe it drives him nuts but makes me feel better. I am hugely overweight and it bothers me regualary to where I am scared to fly that I could be embarressed cause I would need too many seat belt extensions though I currently dont use one at all. My career I feel is not what I want to do forever and feel there is not any advancement in the future. I also try to help everyone all the time I am kinda the go to person at my job. Being a boss I can have no friends where I work and being out of town I know no one. I think the plane crashing to me is that I feel everything in my career with not being able to move up is one plane and not having friends and having personal family issues is the other plane. They both crash and burn however in the end no one gets excited no one is there to say OH MY GOD with me cause these things with time will pass.
December 28th, 2010 at 11:35 am
I am an air traffic controller and have these dreams almost every month. Usually I’m working and watch two planes crash even though I did nothing wrong. I usually wake up feeling guilty though. The last one I had was a northwest painted DC9 on final approach and an airbus 319 was waitng to take off. The airbus turned on to the runway and started to take off. I started screaming at the airbus to stop and then turned to the DC9 to go around. The two planes hit each other right over the runway next to the tower and I watched metal, fire, debris, and bodies fly everywhere. After standing there speechless which felt like hours, I woke up. I still can’t shake the guilt.
December 29th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Thank God someone else has these! I had an awful one last night where a passenger plane crashed in the field behind my house, I went to investigate it to find burnt bodies. For some reason when I saw the bodies I heard my mothers voice saying things like “look away” and “get back to the house” (even though my mother wasn’t in the dream. As I was turning away to go back to my house I heard one of the passengers cry for help in a way which terrified me! Although the dream/nightmare became more of a dream after this I still woke sweaty and scared by the voice.
January 4th, 2011 at 2:08 am
Amazing to see so many people turn up here after googling the meaning of their dreams…
There are subtle differences between the dreams, but also recurring themes, which is also fascinating. For me, the dream involves being a spectator, hearing a plane approaching, or watching a plane fly by, it tries to climb or pull out of a steep ascent, but it never makes it, crashing into the ground. I never see the actual passengers but I know there are passengers who have been killed, and I usually awake as I rush toward the crash site to help.
One thing I am curious about is how do you feel the next day?
I had this very dream last night, and today I feel exhausted. Clearly, the anxiety or the stress related with the dream causes me to have poor quality sleep?
Look forward to hearing if anyone else has the issues with tiredness after these dreams?
January 4th, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Two nights ago, I had a dream about a plane crash. I’ve had two within three months, only this one was a military plane. I was in small room with a young woman who had her back to me the entire time. There was no dialog between us. I believe the room was much like a control tower at an airfield. Suddenly an aircraft approached from behind at a high rate of speed and passed over us. It was about the size of the space shuttle, and had four engine nozzles blazing as it flew by. Strangely, it came to a stop in mid-air about a hundred yards away and hovered about 50 feet above the ground. I was thinking it was about to land vertically like some planes can do these days. Much to my horror the craft lost control and fell the remaining 25 feet to the ground. Following this was a tremendous explosion that shook the building and engulfed us with fire as I woke up horrified that I was about to burn alive. I’ve had similar dreams before, but recently they’ve been very intense. I think they’re related to the stress we all experience in today’s world. Thanks everyone for sharing your dreams as well.
January 6th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
I like this blog because I too have these strange dreams. I have started a page on Facebook called “Recurring Plane Crash Dreams” for people to share their thoughts there as well.
January 8th, 2011 at 2:23 am
Hi. I too googled ‘plane crash dreams’ to see if I could find an explanation as to why I am always having these dreams! The first one I clearly remember (and I mean every detail even to this day) happened 10 years ago. Ever since then I have had so many I could not count. Mostly I am an observer. Sometimes I am on the planes but the one’s I am on are not the one’s that are going to crash. I have seen them crashing into fields, at airports (while I was on the tarmac at the gates to board), in an asian country near a bridge, on an island, into buildings, into mountains, into a shopping centre (sending cartons of milk flying everwhere), the list goes on. The one I had two nights ago I was due to board a plane but before myself and all the other passengers could get on someone said to us ‘check this out’ and showed us a video clip on the things wrong with the aircraft and how it was going to crash after take off and I remember seeing people still going to get on and I remember saying to everyone “are you all crazy??? why would you still get on this plane when you know it is going down???”.
It was interesting to find this blog and see how many other people experience what I do and are curious enough to look for an answer. I hope you all find what you seek!
January 8th, 2011 at 3:52 am
Hi. I’ve just googled aeroplane crash dreams and found this blog. I have been having plane crash dreams for years – one was actually a preminision because I described the dream to my wife, even drew a picture and then 2 days later a cargo plane crashed into a block of aprartments in Germany that was being used to hold imigrants – I froze when I saw the apartment block, it was exactly the same picture that I had drawn.
Anyway, I am never on the plane, it is close-by. Last night my wife was caught up in the aftermath of the crash, flying debris and bricks. I just laid back, told myself that it would be ok and then I woke up. Now I have a headache as I type and I can’t get the dream out of my head.
Does anybody have any real idea or knowledge as to what underlying feelings are causing these dreams?
Tel
January 8th, 2011 at 10:11 am
hi i’m 17 years old and around this time last year i was having a dream about a small plane crashing into a bunch of bright lights, and what i remember the most about this dream was a big 12 painted on the side of the plane with the numbers 27 painted inside a square, one night i didn’t hae a dream, and when i was getting ready for school the next day i was watching the news and saw that a small plane had crashed in las vegas at 12:27 at night, i felt sick to my stomache for the reast of the week.
January 8th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I have had the very same dreams where I observe plane crashes, for many years now. I am never a passenger as I do not fly in reality. Sometimes the place crashes in slow motion. I never consider the dream to be a nightmare, but memorable.
I have a fear of flying, but I did have these dreams before I became too frightened to fly again.
I have never had financial worries, but am probably a fairly anxious type of person.
January 9th, 2011 at 6:59 am
I have had these recuring dreams ever since hearing about the 9/11 and watching the movie. I get really scared because now i hate flying, i begin to shake when i get on any sort of plane and it’s the same with turbulance. I’ve had these dreams since i was 5 and now i’m 12..the latest one i had was last night..it was where me and my friends went to newyork in the summer holidays and we went into a nail parlour and we heared on the news that a plane had crashed into one of the twin towers..we ran outside without knowing what it was like..i remember seeing loads of smoke,fire..lots of noises and all sorts..people screaming..it was vile so my friends and i ran to find safety and we stayed there for ages..i saw the top of one tower fall down it did a full turn and i new it was landing on where we were so i shut my eyes and lay down screaming because before anything happened i was talking to my parents..i lay down screaming..and then i woke myself up..i couldn’t believe how scared i was but i have flown to most parts or america with about 14 hours flight time going to L.A and Las Vegas and i’m alright when i get up there and theres no turbulance but i hate taking off knowing how long i have to stay on the areoplane. I also have a phobia of boats since the movie titanic..i keep having dreams about that where i am crushed by the boat and alsorts..i swear i would never go on a boat though. I always wake up screaming :/.
January 10th, 2011 at 6:51 am
Hi its me again I just had the flu and and I spent the day in bed and I had two plane crash dreams that same day the one I remember most is I think we were at some kind of war and at least six planes crashed two crashed into each other but one plane hit a chimney and carried on there was something else comming but I cant remember what it was I just know we were all scared not of the planes I think it was a noise but like I say I cant remember. like I have said before I have nearly one crash dream a week and I would say some of you people do too but as you know its very difficult to remember your dreams and they happen when youve had a good amount of sleep
January 10th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I too have dreams on and off of planes crashing. In fact, years ago, after dreaming about a plane crash, one actually crashed the next day. I just had one the other night and I was in a jet with my parents. My mother was sitting next to me and my father somewhere in the back of the plane. I yelled out to him that I loved him and then held on to my mother as the plane started taking a nose dive and fast. There were people screaming and I just kept telling my mother I loved her and then I awoke. Last night I had a dream that I was packing to get onto a plane but it was getting dark and I was procrastinating so I wouldn’t have to leave, but then I won the jackpot in a bathroom somewhere. That was more fun! Anyway, glad I found this site. I have these dreams often and they are quite disturbing, especially when I think about traveling.
January 11th, 2011 at 2:49 am
I am also seeing such dreams of plane crashes. I am standing on roof of my house and suddenly i saw a small plane that is floating downwards like a kite. then it fell on a nearby house. I am very excited by seeing this crash. Then after sometime a big jumbo jet fell on the same place. I am again relaxed as nothing has happened. Can anyone tell me what it means? I have tried to find out its interpretation but failed.
January 17th, 2011 at 7:14 am
I just googled “Recurring Plane Crash Dream” and found this. I had no idea so many others were having the same dream I was! I have this dream generally once a month or once every two months. Minor details may be different (driving in another direction, different car, etc.) but it’s always the same thing. I am driving down a country road and see a plane in the sky out my window. The plane is in obvious distress and I’m just looking at my window watching it. Next thing I know, the plane is spiraling out of control and crashes nose first into this field. There is a huge ball of fire, debris flying over me…I cover myself and wait for it to stop. Once it does I call “911″ and report a plane crash as I’m running over to the plane…I know there are lots of passengers but I never see them or know them. Right when I get up to the plane I wake up….
I’m a stay at home Mom too w/ the same problems you mentioned Lori. Same worries, etc. I don’t know if that has anything to do with these dreams but thought I’d throw it out there!
January 17th, 2011 at 7:28 am
Lauren (and everyone above) – see my update!
~Lori
January 19th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Last night I dreamt for the first time an airplane crash by the seashore plunging into sand!!! and immediately another one gliding through the surface of the sea nearby! It was a vivid dream and I don’t remember seeing any people in the vicinity…
Any interpretations by the experts of dreams????
January 24th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
For many years I’ve had occasional dreams of watching a plane crash. Usually the plane, which varies from dream to dream, is flying along just fine and then it abruply stops and nosedives or falls straight down. I don’t remember all of my dreams very well, but these plane crash dreams seem more vivid than usual and I remember them in more detail for a longer period of time. Rather haunting.
Since so many people have found this site by virtue of having the same themed dream, and usually recurrent ones, I’m curious about what similarities posters have. One person commented that most here have good grammar and spelling, etc. Also noted is the popular interpretation of one’s life being “out of control.” Being a UFO/ET researcher and experiencer, I am wondering how many others who are having the recurrent plane crash dream also consider themselves to be UFO/ET experiencers?
January 24th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Last night I had a dream that i was a police officer driving in philly and out my window I see a plane falling from the sky and crashes into another plane about to take off. This causes me to lose control of my car and i get into a accident. My car just keeps flipping end over end and then it comes to a stop when i finally jump out to avoid another collison. I ask around whats happening and if someone can drive me to get help but everyone is telling me ER already is full from the plane crashes earlier today. Then I figure whatever and i just leave and go home and then i wake up. What does this mean?
January 25th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Thats just wierd and yet comforting at the same time. I’m Irish living in Brussels and I have these dreams quite regularily. Although I never actually see the plane crash, I see the glow of the aftermath of the impact and always seem to be with someone and turn to say “is that plane looking funny, or is it going to crash” Do we all live in the countryside or in rural areas. Or possibly in the media or something like that.
February 1st, 2011 at 6:20 am
How strange,
I had exactly the same dream. I only had it twice in my life (that i remember) and both in last two months. In my first dream, i was watching a plane falling down, and i remember thinking whether it was going to crash on me or not. It crashed quite close, but i did not get hurt. Also, don’t remember any bodies or victims. Also, remember being quite excited about it. Not sad, more like an adrenalin rush.
Second time, it was not the plane but a space shuttle, i knew it was going to crash, and also felt quite thrilled. it tried to land but overrun the runway, then the pilot tried to lift it up again, and then the shuttle did a 360 degree loop, and crashed nose down and exploded. Again, I was not hurt and again i did not see any bodies, however i knew there had been people on the plane.
I read other posts and i think there are a number of details that seem to be occurring in most dreams:
1. witnessing a plane crash rather than being on a plane or piloting it
2. the feeling of excitement, thrill
3. a big plane, cargo plane, or even a space shuttle. the size of the plane seems to be important
4. plane doing a loop, or some other acrobatic stuff that a passenger plane couldn’t possibly do
5. no visible bodies even though there are people on the plane
6. it falls nose down and close to the observer
i have no idea why we have the dream, i am sure there could be an explanation for the dream, but the fact that so many people have it is amazing.
also, the dream seems to be somewhat global. i am not an native english speaker or american, and i see there are other europeans here and people from other countries.
February 1st, 2011 at 6:22 am
oh, yes, in the first dream i clearly remember driving a car on the country road, that also seems to be a common theme.
i don’t live in the countryside, btw, but in a big city
February 4th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
I have been having these dreams since i was eight years old. I have seen every type of aircraft crash. Bi-wing planes, jumbo jets, fighter jets, zeppelins, hot air ballons, you name it. Probably 3-4 times a year (I am now 39). They always crash nearby, between 50 feet to a mile away. I don’t associate it with anxiety or anything going on in my life at the time, they just happen. I have asked people about them, but nobody I have ever met has had them. FINALLY! Through the internet I am not alone. Thanks for providing this outlet, hopefully someday we can understand this strangeness.
February 6th, 2011 at 5:51 am
like most, always wonder “why” with the dreams. have had them my entire life and almost all of them happen within about a two-week period after the dream. have been in a crash myself – years after the first dream. it saddens me terribly when they occur.
February 8th, 2011 at 2:30 am
Simply amazed and relieved too ,,,I have been dreaming of crashes from ever since i remember my dreams ..at least 10 times a year and am a witness too,,happens nearby or in the neighborhood,,,and when i see airplanes flyin above in real life,,I always get a feeling,,is this the one thats going to crash for real,,,have been afraid of flying and my flight fear is getting worse,,and i have to take lot of flights…am relieved to see so many people sharing the same dream….:-)..hope this stays a dream ,,and has no meaning or message,,,
February 11th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
Wow. Thinking I was alone and sort of a freak for having these dreams! I was wrong! I, too, have been having plane crash dreams for years. I’m always watching it, know the plane is in trouble, and see it crash. Like others who have posted, it usually crashes near me; at times I’m amazed I’m not harmed, other times, just by watching how it is crashing, I know I’ll be okay, but there is overwhelming fear/sadness that the passengers are about to lose their lives, followed by a very strong urge to go help, but terrified by what I will see. There have been weird times where I’ve reached up and tipped it, so it wouldn’t land on my home. I’ve had the debris come flying at me. The last one I had, it crashed outside of a medical facility I was working in (I’m a nurse), that had a rolling landscape outside with multiple ponds, and there were bodies in the ponds, and a gruesome amputation of a leg of a black woman who was a victim–she was screaming, and we were told we couldn’t go out to help. Then I woke up. The bodies in the ponds all were wearing bright colored clothing, most were face down.
I know these dreams mean something for me, as they bother me for days after having them. I have yet to make a link, however. Instinct tells me these dreams show up before major changes in my life. They can’t be premonitions, no one would fly anymore if there were that many crashes! I get the more recent healthcare/saving people spin, that relates directly to my job (My specialty is Emergency nursing). Another interesting piece, I’m not afraid to fly–in fact love flying. The dreams come out of nowhere, are always disturbing, and now it is a relief and very interesting to know I’m not alone!!
February 15th, 2011 at 10:37 am
These comments have been very helpful, and it’s amazing that people have been posting constantly for almost 3 years now!
I had one of these dreams last night (prompting me to search for this topic, like so many others). It seems like I keep getting this recurring dream every 6-10 months or so. My dream is very similar to others posting here. My plane is a standard commercial airliner, flying lowly over my head, and I know it is going to crash.
The only nuance is that in my dreams the plane does not perform any weird/unusual maneuvers before crashing, and my plane never explodes. It just sort of “crumples” into the side of a hill 100-200 yards away from me. I know the pilots are dead because the front of the plane is smashed, but the passenger cabin is mainly intact. In every dream I nervously run to the plane, where I find some passengers alive, who I talk to and help. Some passengers are dead, others barely alive and crippled. Sometimes I dial 911 but get no answer.
I noticed some other posters mentioning that most of us commenters are using proper grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, and so forth. I found this to be interesting because I was an English major in college, taught English/grammar for 4 years, and am now a lawyer (lots of reading and writing over these years). It must makes me wonder if these dreams are connected to our common backgrounds as described by these earlier comments above!
February 19th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
I have had similar dreams and just over the last two nights especially. I’m always watching it unfold and either the plane crashes, or it explodes. The dream I had the other night was strange because part of the cabin fell into a huge lake and the next minute I was on a boat reaching in to the water and a man was grabbing my hand from under the water and I managed to pull him out of the cabin and save him.
I often have dreams of planes crashing and debris nearly hitting me on the ground and I love planes and travel a bit so I’m not scared of them. I wonder what it all means?
February 20th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Having stumbled across this site like many others, Ihave read it with great interest, I often dream of plane crashes,never think of passengers or pilots,and planes always crash close to me.coincidently I do worry about money & my children although they are both in their 30s
February 26th, 2011 at 2:16 am
Hi! I’ve googled this dream many times over the years, but never come across this thread before. I just knew as I began to read that it would still be going!
I have these dreams a few tmes a year, certainly they could be anxiety dreams but I’m not convinced that’s all there is to it. I believe in synchronicity so it interests me that I have only NOW found this page.
My dreams are similar to the others above. Sometimes I just see the plane in the near distance, once it did the ‘dream physics’ thing someone describes and managed to crash in a controlled manner, not hurting anybody.
Last night’s dream was of a helicopter. I’ve noticed I’m often vaguely lucid dreaming when these ones happen, enough that I think, “Here’s another plane crash dream!” but then I get caught up in the action. Last night, I saw the helicopter, which had just set off, and thought, “This is like one of those dreams where it crashes.” There were a few of us watching and sure enough, it began to wobble. I had a sinking feeling and didn’t want to see the crash – but I did. It completely overturned and landed on its top, still in one piece, and I thought, “Perhaps nobody’s been hurt?” but couldn’t bear to run and look as others were doing.
I ran to the house where I was staying and dialled 999, asked for all the Emergency Services but realised I didn’t know the address, stressed the ambulance was the most important, and woke as I was trying to find some mail so I could give them the address.
I do have times when I’m anxious, but this weekend I was talking to people from my old workplace, which I left because I am certain it’s going to ‘implode’ (my word) or perhaps ‘come crashing down’??
I’ve had premonitory dreams too, nothing about 9/11 but I did once have a waking ‘flash’ of a terrorist attack in NY which was followed the next day by a thwarted attempt to set off a bomb.
I am a stickler for grammar! lol So perhaps there is a control element in this? I notice we are also an analytical crowd here…
I have also realised that I can hear next door’s TV and as they put it on early, I wonder if some of my dreams are triggered by actual news reports rather than being the premonitions I thought, but I have always been called psychic by those who know me, and definitely see no reason time couldn’t work backwards so we remember the future now and again.
March 3rd, 2011 at 9:12 am
Amazing to see so many comments here and such similarities. I’ve been having these dreams since at least my early 20′s, maybe late teens (I’m 38 now). I probably have one of these dreams every 2-3 months, had one last night which is what prompted my search.
I share some of the common themes above, specifically:
1) Knowing that the plane will crash before it happens.
2) Crash happens nearby but I am never injured.
3) Typically a large commercial jetliner.
4) Dreams are very vivid and details stay with me more than other dreams.
Some people have mentioned common traits of those having these dreams. I fit a few of these:
1) Well educated.
2) Attention to grammer/writing and general precision.
3) Easily frustrated with the efforts or abilities of others.
4) High ambition and self expectations coupled with a degree of stress and fear of failure.
5) Analytical.
This is all very interesting. Reading these posts has given me the same sense as watching a really creepy episode of Lost or something.
March 4th, 2011 at 3:47 am
Last night I had a dream that I was coming home from the hospital (where I am a medical student and I have a written and oral exam this morning). As I was driving back home during the day a Continental airplane (specifically 7 passenger windows) broke at the tail in the air and crashed into a black Volkswagon Golf that was a few hundred yards behind me.
I called 911, but the operator was non-chalant about the situation. I described in detail what had happened, but she said in a relaxed voice “yeah, these type of accidents happen all the time”. Needless to say, I was surprised. Later on in the dream I saw the tail half of the plane fall into the river.
After this, it was the next day. I was leaving the hospital, went on a different route than I usually took and found my way home faster.
March 7th, 2011 at 4:06 am
I started having dreams back in the early 80′s after my father died in a private plane. It was constant and was freaking me out because within several days to a week they actually happened. I saw the United plane that crashed on landing in Sioux City before it actually happened and the one that went off the runway into the water. There were several more and it was really scaring me. Thank God the dreams finally stopped because I couldn’t take it anymore.
March 10th, 2011 at 3:34 am
Very interesting comments re: grammar. I am an author, so the comment made me wonder.
In the past several weeks, I have had three crash dreams. Two out of the three have already happened. Very unusual to have them that close together.
Nice to share it all with others.
March 18th, 2011 at 7:27 pm
I have been getting dreams of crashing planes ever since I can remember. I’m always the onlooker never in the plane. Haven’t yet found a reason. Or maybe dreams have no logic or reason. Or maybe I’ll find logic some day…
March 28th, 2011 at 9:11 am
i’ve also dreamed of plane crashes for years. sometimes i’m watching, helplessly from the ground. oftentimes, i’m on a plane and it’s about to descend into the ground or into a body of water or a wooded area. that’s something i noticed was a little different than the other dreamers here. it seems a majority dream of watching from a distance. in most of my plane crash dreams, i’m a passenger. in last night’s dream, i was on a large passenger jet and minutes into take-off, i noticed we are starting to plunge back down toward the ground into a lake or ocean. i start to pray out loud (and i’m not the praying or religious type, either) and i keep saying, “be positive, think positive, it’s going to be ok. we’re going to survive this.” i’m convinced that if we (the passengers) all pray/think good thoughts together, that we can somehow affect the outcome of this imminent crash. i am hopeful but filled with dread because my young daughter is with me and i’m worried she will drown once we crash into the water. upon impact, we are engulfed by water and have to swim to a higher level of the plane (it is one of those two-story airliners) somehow, we manage to survive, but the crowd trying to get out of the plane is so large and the water is starting to rise. my daughter notices another exit that no one else sees, so we go out that way and are safe. miraculously, everyone survives that crash and we all board ANOTHER plane (!!??) to continue our journey. everything is going ok, we are about half way through, getting close to our destination. it is now night and the sky is black and filled with stars. i notice how calm it is outside and i even see a shooting star. then the pilot quietly signals that we are about to make an unscheduled landing. i am in a panic because i know my family is also on board. i am especially worried for my baby daughter who is sitting a few rows behind me with a stranger. she is asleep on the seat and i tell the woman next to her to please take care of her when we crash (i don’t know why i don’t just grab my daughter?) i look out the window and we are about to attempt a landing on a 6-lane highway with heavy traffic in both directions. i can see the cars getting closer and closer and they aren’t reacting to the plane about to land. it’s almost as if they don’t notice. there are emergency vehicles gathering and trying to stall traffic so we can land. at this point, i’m still thinking positively, “we can do this. i’ve heard of planes safely landing on freeways” but then i am suddenly viewing the plane from above and i see it slowly approaching the crowded road only to crash into a semi truck. i hate these dreams because they feel so real. but it actually helps reduce the stress/anxiety they create by telling them to someone or, in this case, writing it down. in one of my plane crash dreams, i actually took control of the plane and landed it safely in the woods! it was crazy, trying to maneuver through the trees. but thrilling at the same time. that was the only one i ever survived (besides the first crash of last night’s dream).
March 28th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
I am here also for the same reason as everyone. According to Carl Jung, the symbols in dreams need to be interpreted individually and cannot be given a clear definition via a universal dictionary-like answer. the most important thing is to read the things in your dreams as symbols or metaphors for underlying meaning. Here, perhaps a plane is not so much a symbol of transportation, especially because most of us are watching and not inside the plane. In my own dreams, I read the plane as more of a symbol of aspiration and future plans (or dreams ironically), which by crashing, are symbolically ending. A plane flies high, always carrying excitement and new horizons, adventures etc.
Perhaps a question to ask is, if most of us here feel like they have held some life ambition which has not been realised but still plays heavily on their mind, and in terms of timing, if that ambition started to be important, around the time that these recurring dreams started?
April 2nd, 2011 at 10:02 am
I have had airplane crash dreams for years now, and I am never the passenger, I am always watching from the ground. I usually look up and see the plane doing somthing odd and then it comes crashing to the ground. I never remember my dreams, but when I have one of these dreams, it stay’s with me for day’s, and I never forget it.
Had a plane crash dream this morning. I looked up in the sky and the plane was turning around in mid air. It had to be at 25,000 feet. I thought, that is weird and the next thing I know, the plane is falling upside down toward a busy highway. It went out of sight and then a ball of fire. I woke up.
I have had many other plane crash dreams, much like the one this morning. Once though, I had to run away from the crash and felt fule spray onto me. I always feel so uneasy after these dreams. It is like I witnessed so many deaths and could do nothing but watch.
April 3rd, 2011 at 11:44 pm
glad to know im not the only one it was freaking me out. never in the plane just watching….. crazy
April 18th, 2011 at 4:02 am
Hi
I hav same recurring plane crash dream.
Its like plane is about to fall on me and i am running away to save myself.
I am having this dream since my childhood.
April 27th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Cannot believe this post! I have the exact same dream – it’s scary to see so many people share the same minute details. The scary part for me is though I have this dream weekly, sometimes more and it seems as though everybody has it for years. I’m only 18 I can’t bear the thought of having this dream forever.
April 27th, 2011 at 5:35 pm
I have plane crash dreams all my life. They in some instances have come to pass. I typically know the airline, time of day, type of plane, survivors if any.
Most vivid always.
My latest dream comes last night. It had to do with planes (big jets) on approach to land at a busy airport not sure Which one. It was late afternoon /evening and these smaller jets started taking static approaches to the larger jets landing and were putting the larger planes on the ground by crashing into them. it was an obvious attack by orchestrated planned attack. I think it was Washington regain airport or Dulles or possibly JFK. Today is 4-26 I just am documenting this vivid dream.
April 30th, 2011 at 2:42 am
I have these dreams, last night was the last one. I live 2 miles from manchester airport and always had a passion for flying although im scared of flying in reality and dont anymore, I doubt any of that has anything to do with these dreams.
last nights dream was a 737 flying overhead but it started performing very tight circular holding patterns, just as I predicted the plane fell tail first for a long time into the ground, I remember thinking that in reality the nose would have dropped down ahead of the tail and that the physics of the plane were all wrong, the dream continued with a black plume of smoke.
April 30th, 2011 at 3:14 am
It’s strangely reassuring to know that a lot of people share the same recurring dream – being on the ground, witnessing a plane crash. It’s distressing but knowing there’s heaps of us having this dream is comforting.
May 1st, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I had similar recurring dreams of airliners crashing, either taking off or landing for months prior to July 2001. Also had dreams of clouds of smoke or dust rising up and enveloping me. I never mentioned it to anyone thinking no one would believe it. Saw this website and thought I would post it. The dreams stopped after 911.
May 7th, 2011 at 5:11 am
I have been have plane crash dreams for as long as I can remember. Usually I am just outside or near a window and see a plane and know that it’s about to crash, and then moments later it nose-dives and explodes upon impact with the ground.
Early this morning I had the plane crash dream again, in my dream I was talking to a friend and noticed a small passenger plane flying by, I knew it was going to crash. The sky was a grey/brown colour and there was heavy rain. All I could do was watch in horror as it nose-dived into the ground. Although this time it did not explode into flames there was a small plume of grey smoke coming from it. I turned to my friend and said “I can’t believe I have seen a plane crash, I have had this dream so often and now it’s finally happened!” It’s like in my dream I am aware that I have had this dream so many times but I am convinced that this time it has actually happened for real, and then I wake up.
Anyway the other part of my dream was that I dreamt there was a flood in my area, and my back garden was totally submerged by a couple of metres in flood water, but my front garden was dry!
I checked the news just 5 minutes ago and discovered there has been a plane crash in stormy weather – a small passenger plane. It crashed into deep water.
I do not have any anxieties as such to regard this dream as an emotional dealing, so maybe I had a premonition? Who knows. As long as every other weird and scary dream I have doesn’t come true, I think the world will safe!
May 8th, 2011 at 4:28 am
Last night I had a dream that I was in an airplane and it was very low to the ground and unstable in bad weather. During this, I felt a very intense pressure in my head. I felt like my head was going to explode. That is also very concerning to me because two years ago my sister passed away suddenly because of a aneurysm. Neurologists told me Im not at risk like she was but it’s a huge fear of mine. And I’d never felt pain in a dream before. I’m feeling so terrified today
May 11th, 2011 at 3:19 am
I am 26 and have also had these dreams. The only time I saw a movie that showcased what I see best was Numbers. I saw this movie after my first few plain crash dreams. I hear the plane coming down and then it crashes. I can HEAR the people screaming in my dreams but I don’t see anyone. Very vivid!
May 13th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Another to add to the list. A lufthansa flight. The plane went down after the second failed approach. Second dream this month. Going through a stressful time at the moment so I guess this explains.
Last month I had my first on board dream! I was the only survivor. Creepy!
May 16th, 2011 at 9:03 pm
I am so relieved on reading all of your posts. I have had plane crash dreams for years. I don’t know if it is anything to do with it, but a passenger jet did crash about a mile from here at Gatwick Airport in the 60s and my dad drove round with us in the car as near as we could get. Don’t remember being frightened, but have had the dreams ever since. Also, years ago the planes used to fly over the village when I was a child and the window panes would shake and I thought they would land on the house and was frightened by that. I also worked for an airline (non flying) and they got worse then. My dreams are that I see a plane and then the pilot is trying hard to control it, and it ends up looping the loop, straight up, basically anything he can do to control it, then eventually it crashes. Last night the wing tip was about 12 inches from me – they always just miss, or crash just beyond a building I am in. This has gone on for years and years. It doesn’t normally wake me up, I just go on to something else. I have flown twice in reality, but wouldn’t do it again if you put £ million in a briefcase. Oh and on the second flight, we had an emergency landing as they thought the undercarraige hadn’t locked, so that did it for me.
May 18th, 2011 at 3:53 am
i woke up from one another plane-crash dreams this morning and wanted to google it again. maybe for 20th time.
i am so stressed because of these dreams, like you people.
unfortunantly, i have these dreams sometimes 5 days a week, definetly over 10 times a month. i am getting more and more anxious and effects my daily life.
one huge reason ofcourse, is that i live nearby an airport and i oftenly hear as they are close to landing. and during stormy weathers, i even see how the wings of the plane shake in a disturbing way.(i bet, we dont feel that much of shaking as we are in the plane)
i cant move out, at least now, i am trying to accomplish my master study, therefore i cant work to pay a better home-away from airport.
i feel stuck and dont really know what to do.
thanks for this forum, at least i can let it out.
May 19th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
Another one – these dreams seem very common. This time three planes in sequence, first crashes into a field after some explosion event on board (I know it is going to crash as soon as I see it). Second crash similar but closer to me. Third is at an airport just after it takes off. In all cases some explosion event occurs around the planes’ middles breaking them in two before the inevitable crashes. Excitement and shock at the first crash give way to fear after witnessing the third.
Male 44, Edinburgh Scotland.
May 20th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
I had the same dream about three weeks ago. I ran outside, and was looking up at several planes and aircraft all burning and trying not to crash, but coming crashing to the ground. I was looking up at the planes, and not a passenger. I could see fire lotts of fire. They were partially on fire when they were crashing. It was very vivid and I remember seeing a mountain or hillside in the back ground. But there were other people coming out to look with me. We were terrified that they would all hit us. There was for sure more than one, maybe about 5 in my view…all twisted and burning and crashing.
May 22nd, 2011 at 10:15 pm
I’ve been recently having these dreams. The most recent was from this morning; I was in my sideyard with my brother and a F16 was flying around my house at a ridiculous speed. It ended up doing a flip in mid air but once it was aiming towards the ground it kept going.
I also “knew” before hand it would crash, and was trying to get my brother and I out of the way, and whichever way I moved it followed me (crazy physics) but abruptly swerved and violently crashed what seemed like 50 yards or so from me.
Strange dreams… very overwhelming too. The nature of an airplane, it’s size and speed, crashing into the ground is somewhat frightening.
May 23rd, 2011 at 7:33 am
I was glad to find this site. The same theme dreams I’ve had off and on for years. It is the only recurrent dream I have. Different size planes, once I was helping the passengers as the plane landed in a field. I am always an observer. It is nice to know of others having the similar dreams. It would be interesting to know the occupations of the people. I am a nurse.
May 28th, 2011 at 12:38 am
Wow! This is unbelievable. I never thought a lot of you guys are experiencing these dreams. I have been struggling with dreams about plane crashing since I was 9 years old. I was never a passenger on the plane. Always the horrified and powerless onlooker. It was strange. It’s been going on for the past 20 years now. I dunno what’s causing it though. One scenario: I was standing on a field near an airport then the plane would take off as normal. Then after a minute, it’ll go around in circles as if it was trying to gain altitude; then Bam! It crashed about 30 feet away from me. Anyway, I’m glad I found this blog. I am not alone. I haven’t had these dreams for quite awhile now but I know that it will happen again. God Bless y’all!
June 8th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Hi! I have been having the same re-occurring plane crash dreams since i was about 13. I am now 24. Before the plane crash dreams started, it was re-occurring dreams of comets shooting out the sky! Then came along the plane crash dreams. And it’s always the same exact dream, where i find my self dodging planes that are falling out the sky. For some reason, every single plane that are in transit to their destination comes falling out the sky. Always seems as if they will crash directly into me but somehow flies over or right before me, then crash. in my dream, everyone on earth are aware of the planes crashing and everyone are trying to dodge them. Everyone are in panic and fear for their lives. Scary dream! I always wonder if the world will come to an end soon. I hate these dreams!
June 8th, 2011 at 11:31 pm
I also have a recurring plane crash dream, except that I am always on the plane!!! It’s pretty bad to be honest; the plane is always trying to take off and it never gets off the ground properly, and everyone is shouting for the pilot to stop. Then it tries again, seems to get off the ground for a moment before plummetting, and then darknesss — like a sort of limbo for a while. I just needed to get this down and try and find out what it means as I have had it before.
June 9th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
So far, of what I can remember, I have had three dreams. One of which I was on the plane, the other two occasions I standing in my house and randomly a plane crashed in to a nearby house and garden, giving off a massive explosion. The other one I was with my friend and I looked at the sky to see the plane going upwards and then falling backwards as if the engine had stopped it started rolling in the air and then eventually stopped, we were both watching and didn’t move. When the plane crashed (again very close) it exploded again with the fire coming towards me and killing me (Not to be over-dramatic or anything), which scared the living day lights out of me and I was in panic for the rest of the time.
When I read your ‘post’? about the anxiety thing, i was annoyed, because i only recently discovered I suffer from anxiety attacks – I fear I was having another but in a dream? :S
June 10th, 2011 at 2:18 am
I have similar dreams every couple of months or so, about planes crashing. I am usually watching and notice it plumiting to the ground the breaking up, not to far away, few hundred metres or half a mile. One dream I was in the plane but managed to jump out. Straaaange dreams and freaky. Even though theyre not on the news to often to have them stick in your mind to dream about… would be good to see what they really mean.
June 17th, 2011 at 11:57 am
I too have had this type of dreams of passenger airliners crashing. Most of the crashes happen somewhere right near me. I just had one June 15,2011.. as a matter of fact I have had at least 5 of these dreams this year. In the dream Iam looking at a passenger airliner as if Im aware it’s going to crash and all of a sudden the plane is on a crash course. I don’t get emotional upset anymore since I decided I would embrace this type of dream and try to investigate further in my dream. This last one I had.. I found it amusing to want to know more about the crash it’self… Like the passengerr, the company liner and so on…
June 22nd, 2011 at 8:08 pm
I also have this kind of dream it was like in the movie like 3 planes are having their exhibition in the air and all of a sudden one plane smack into a building then it hit the 2 planes in the air, then I was like miles away from it then suddenly it appears that it landed and crashed on me and I dreamed that I was actually injured and I felt numb that the time I woke up… and until now its freaking me out.
June 25th, 2011 at 5:22 am
what a relief:I am not alone!i’ve been having this dream since I was a little girl(now I am 38 yrs old)and last night(unfortunately) I had it again but,for first time,with a terrible twist:my husband and our beautiful chuldren were there.They walked away from me in the amusement park to get something.Soon enough ,booom,the plane crashed and they were gone.Seems like I am always watching helpless and never get injured!It is beyond upsetting…period.
June 27th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
How weird that so many of us have similar dreams. I googled “dreaming about planes crashing” after another dream last night and ended up here.
I also stand and watch a large aircraft get into difficulty and know it’s about to crash. It always crashes nose first into the field a few hundred yards away from me and bursts into flames. The noise of the explosion is really loud and the sky is orange with the fire.
I too have anxiety issues. I had no idea others were having similar dreams. It’s almost reassuring.
July 4th, 2011 at 8:25 am
Thank you Lori and all of you for helping me in my journey to understand my dreams.
My plane crashing dreams have a lot of the elements people have noted here. Especially, I want to note the one I have last night. It’s pretty close to Mike’s (41) dream). I was on my way to Tokyo — I have never been there. I was a passenger in a 747-like plane. The plane was full and hiving problems reaching altitude. We flew low through the city and I knew we were going to crush. I was a bit scared but not afraid. I always knew (as usual in these dreams) I was to survive. Then, the front half of the plane crashed over the rails of an elevated train. Big and colorful explosion. The second half slowly got to a full stop. I and the other passengers (in this half of the aircraft) calmly started to get out.
But I have another recurring dream — which resembles Mike’s trip to Japan dream. I’m in my country of origin (I immigrated to the US 20+ years ago) either looking for a job or finishing college and not having a job. Also, I have little money. In the dream, I have left the US for an unexplained reason. I regret the move and feel extremely anxious. The dream, while changing in details, is always about been unable to change my moving back to the country I was raised in, and unable to find a job.
I do think the plane crash as well as my being back in my original country are archetypes — symbols that we have created, as a society, and use to channel meanings. Yet, the meanings we attached and experience vary from person to person.
The question is: why these archetypes or symbols and not others, say a laptop a bicycle, stairs, or a book?
As others here, I do lots of writing, reading and analysis for living.
July 5th, 2011 at 4:53 am
OMGGGG!!! I just had a dream last night! Its awful I always dream of a plane losing control and crashing into the ground maybe 1,000 ft away from me but I always run from the explosion, and always make it away but I wake up with my heart racing like crazy and heat flashes, almost like I was actually really physically running wide awake. Its scary I always tend to have these dreams and just never really know what they mean…as well as tornadoes, but that’s another story :0
July 10th, 2011 at 1:22 am
I just had a dream where a jumbo jet crashed when I was at the beach it did to loops in the sky then crashed. When we went towards where the place crashed it was under a load of sand. We then started digging the sand and found a Lady pilot in the jumbo. I fly to America in two weeks time. I feel it may relate to stress and also to be with a flight about to happen or that has happened.
July 18th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I have dreamed for a some years now, always the same thing but I’d be in different places. I’d be watching a plane over head (jumbo usually) and all of a sudden out of nowhere it would just explode and burst into flames. It just comes down and crashes into the ground, never within my sight although very near to me. Sometimes during the say I look up in the sky and see a plane and freak out, expecting it to explode. I don’t have any problems with flying at all. I’m glad I’m not the only one with these dreams!! So what’s the reason behind these dreams??
July 18th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
I had another one last night. My daughters fly home tomorrow, I assume this may have triggered it. I was with some guy (I am single IRL) and we were going to a cafe when I spotted a plane in the air. “That’s not right!” I said, and pulled his arm. A huge jumbo jet was looping the loop (this is often what they do in my dreams).
So far so usual. THEN we looked up and about 5 – 8 planes were in the sky, all looping round in ways which would be impossible in real life. They didn’t crash although I think they were going to.
These dreams are always vivid and disturbing but they never feel like nightmares even though there is a huge element of disaster.
July 19th, 2011 at 4:01 am
Hi,
I am getting plain crash or missile crash dream for last 12 to 14 years. This dream is so frequent for me , that i get it in every 3 to 4 days.In my dream i am never inside pane, but it crashes somewhere very near to my house. I do not know if there is any connection of this dream with my past life.
July 29th, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I have these dreams up to 4 times a month. Majority of them I am watching the plane crash. It usually splits in 2.. and one part lands very close to me and slides quickly towards me, causing me to think quickly and strategically about which way to run to avoid being killed. Other ones are more like crash landings, and I am in the air plane itself.. and feel the plumitting (sp) sensation of falling fast.. then looking out the window and as it hits the ground.. I am magically outside of the air plane watching it crash, once again. An interesting theory to this.. my boyfriend suggested as a more black and white approach is that .. since we live in the suburbs.. we are generally close to a flight path. I possibly hear the lower flights, and they become apart of my subconscious dreams? Other interpretations are that I have set goals that are too high for myself at this time and I am scared and anxiety riddled that they will come crashing down. hense.. not being in control.I have these dreams so much that they don’t scare me anymore. Im used to them, even in my dreams I almost am aware of what will happen, and how to avoid being crushed by these airplane parts. It is VERY interesting.. and sort of alarming .. at how many people have these RE OCCURRING dreams . I bet you, they have muliplied after 9/11. airplanes become apart of our subconscious as a symbol of stress and fear, and not just in the people who are scared of flying.
July 30th, 2011 at 12:49 am
Holy cow!!!!! This is amazing! I thought these dreams were because I was petrified of flying! I was a Marine for 7.5 yrs and was in special operations in Okinawa Japan. Some of those rickety old flying machines would frighten to death during training, but staying focused was my main objective. I finished my 2nd contract and decided to go to college. (1996) In 2003 I was diagnosed with cancer and went through 77 weeks of chemotherapy. I was not expected to live. However fought tooth and nail and pulled through. During this time I relinquished all control of things I had no control of and sometimes I had to take minute by minute at a time while I was tremendously ill. Also for the first time in my life I struggled with this battle alone. Tomorrow was never promised. With all of this being said my recurring plane crash dreams have dissipated and I am no longer afraid of flying. Whew, I am a survivor! Honestly anxiety of not having control of certain aspects of my professional and personal life, now….I’ll just roll with the punches and life for me is much more pleasant especially without those recurring plane crash dreams. However still they are so vivid and clear for me now that in my dreams should there be a plane flying nearby I somehow some way in my unconscious mind I choose not not watch, but upon awakening I sort of wondered if that dead gummed plane crashed. I’m not sure if I am choosing not to deal with real issues going on in my life!!! Please help!
July 31st, 2011 at 11:58 pm
Like its not the first time I have had these dreams of plane crashes and sometimes even accidents which come true, but the details of the dreams are even partially accurate. Today even I had two dreams in one night or very early morning I did not c the time but mainly its 230 or 330 am or 3 and once 12 & 1230at night I had a dream of a plane crash with no flames and it was a small plane but when I saw the news today there was a plane crash that did not burst into flames but had skid of the runway and in the dream there was a kind of a fall like a very big empty tank but there metaphorically a ravine which was in the news which it missed a 200 ravine, just before this dream I dreams of a bridge collapsing and a building falling to pieces from the top and a couple of cars damaged and in this dream it was dark like it was late night or very early morning which was during my dream a kind of an earthquake and there it is in New Zealand thee was an earthquake today. There are details like I explained above that even besides the big picture when I concentrate on the minors it all made sense and very very close to the article I read the next or following day. Now comes for the predictions, 40 percent of things I predict even comes true and at times if someone does harm to me or hurts me I kind of hate them for that time but don’t really mean it but some how in some following days something happens to that person or his spouse or something he or she owns. I tried remote viewing as in the movie “Suspect Zero” I got that faintly correct as well. Once I dream’t of a very bad accident which is recently in the rain after a couple of days, and the girl I was sitting with told me to take a route but I did not but at that time I did not think of the dream but my bike shut off but before that on not such a busy street we slightly slipped and not damages and after that I changed route then that horrible dream came to me and it was a man road just as I was suppose to take and cheated death. There are many things unexplained which we often overlook or don’t like to admit another’s powers or gifts I had many dreams which I don’t even remember but somehow it came kind of true and we often balm coincidence but mostly its ignorance when the other person does not want to understand or can’t or like I said above is not bothered his or his ignorance. Coming back to the dreams and all the above it there is anyone who can explain or answer or agree without anyone saying that we make it up in our heads or we dramatize it which is totally not true. Yes I agree some dreams are dramatized but us with our emotions and self directory of thoughts. Who speaks to us? Where do these signals come from? How do we get these strange premonitions?
August 1st, 2011 at 9:16 pm
I have had a recurring plane crash dream ever since I was a kid. (I’m 44 now) I’d say Ive had about 50 total. It’s always a large passenger jet and from a distance– close enough for it to be very personal, yet far enough that I can’t be of any help.
I’ve read some theories here -such as having anxiety over a goal you’re trying to reach that is over your head- but as a child I wouldn’t have had such goals. I also never had a goal that was “unreachable” or out of reason for me to try, nor have I ever not achieved my “big” goals or had anxiety about their supposed impossibility.
I’ve never been afraid to fly, in fact I have always loved it very much. I am a helicopter pilot now although only for the past 2 years.
Overall I haven’t gotten any answers from here as to what it means or why… but it’s good to know I’m not the only one. Also interesting that they’re largely the same or very similar in nature. I am intrigued that someone said this happens largely to people with negative blood types, but unfortunately I don’t know my blood type. (Sad I know!)
What did people have recurring dreams about before the advent of Aviation…??
I will keep looking!
August 1st, 2011 at 9:23 pm
PS
I dont know if it’s relevant but I have extremely ETREEEEEMELY vivid dreams- I can feel temperature changes, taste things, smell things and even wake from a dream into another dream. (I also sleep in my dreams) Recently I had a triple layer where I was alseep in the dream and woke up into another dream (that I thought was reality) then went to sleep again and woke into yet another dream.
August 5th, 2011 at 5:32 am
I have these same dreams too. I have never been on a plane and i don’t understand why i have these sort of dreams, like you said that it was because of you worrying for your kids,but im only 16 and finished all of my exams and it makes me feel uncomfortable when i wake up. Its the same too, im never on the plane just standing and watching and most of the time im standing with my best friends when it happens, i had one last night of not just one plane crash there was many all at once, i have never known any passengers either apart from the one when 1 of my friends just got on the plane and then it crashed. I dont know what they mean, i can feel, smell and everything else, they are almost all the time now too.
August 5th, 2011 at 8:51 am
I’ve had only five or six airplane dreams in my life (that I can recall anyway). In all but one, I was inside the plane. In most of these dreams, including the one I had last night, the plane never lifted off the ground. Instead, the pilot drove the plane around on surface streets.
In last night’s dream, I board a plane and look at my ticket… seat A9 (in my dream, the rows were not numbered but were lettered, and the seats were numbered). So I’m in the front row, close to the cockpit which is open to the pilot. The people around me are a little irritated because they wanted to sit next to each other, but I had reserved that particular seat.
So it’s finally time to take off, but I note that the pilot is not heading towards a runway, but rather is speeding along surface street. We’re going so fast that each little dip in the road makes my stomach “drop” for a second. Finally I ask the pilot if he’s just trying to get up enough speed to take off from the road instead of from a runway. He looks over his shoulder at me and says something like “You’ll see.” The next thing I know, the road has turned off to the right, but we’re continuing straight and are headed right into a large brick building – a cream colored church. It’s at this moment that I realize the pilot’s intent is to commit suicide and kill us all.
I get up and run to the emergency exit door to my right, and I think I get out, but then I realize that I must not have made it out in time because water is filling the plane and I can smell chlorine. Turns out there was a swimming pool inside the church. I realize that the pool is not all that deep and that I can get out of the plane before it fills with water. As soon as I get to the pool’s deck, I start lifting out pieces of white plastic in order to see if anyone is trapped underneath. No one appears to be trapped and most of the passengers are standing around the edge of the pool. Even the church’s cathedral windows appear to be intact. Then I woke up.
It was a very odd dream, but I tend to have odd and vivid dreams quite often. However, this is not the first time I’ve dreamed about being a passenger in a plane that never leaves the ground. I’d be really interested if someone has some thoughts or insights about what might make me dream such a thing.
August 19th, 2011 at 12:18 am
I have just had this dream (about 30 mins ago).
I was at a festival. The plane seemed massive, more like a spaceship – but definitely shaped like a plane. It tipped slowly in the air and began to hurtle down towards me & hundreds of others. It was so vivid.
When it crashed there was a shake and everyone fell to the floor, then – as if on time delay – the explosion came and washed over me, roaring. I had my fingers in my ears.
But it continued – I woke up in a German household (but the TV was english, because I found out it was a hovercraft – doesn’t make sense but hey it was a dream) and with a friend. We tried to escape and realised everyone in the village could see us. I was terrified and woke up.
Easily the most vivid dream I’ve ever had. As I say, it happened half an hour ago and I can still remember it all. Still shaking off the feeling.
Brrr.
August 21st, 2011 at 9:48 am
Hi, I also had this dream a number of times in the past but I always thoght it had something to do with the fact that I worked as an air traffic controller for a long time.
I had this dream last night again and thought of looking it up on the internet and thats how I stumbled upon this website. Its amazing how many people had this same dream. In my dreams I always try hard to save the planes and somehow end up feeling cmpletely helpless.
August 23rd, 2011 at 6:43 pm
I had the exact recurring plane crash dream for about 6 years prior to going back to college to become a social worker. The last dream in my series had to do with a plane crashing, bursting into flames, and I was helping people. I never had the dream again. I now realize that the dream was about “me” and my mixed feeling about what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Being a domestic violence social worker, I help people every day.
August 27th, 2011 at 3:21 am
I had the same dream…but mine was that the plane was crashing directly to one of my family member…and in a strange way i pushed the family member away and stopped the plan with one hand….when i turned to my right i could see 2 space craft fly pass me really quick…they looked alien like the ones we see on movies and other Space shuttle program….it was floating around…and I woke up….
August 28th, 2011 at 9:36 am
had this dream for the 1st time that i remember and i was outside after dusk i looked up from the sounds of the passengers in the small jet plane screaming. The jet was spinning out of control while is flew past me and crashed about 100 yards away. the crash was strange because i didn’t hear it and i couldn’t see the plane after it hit there was trees and bushes blocking my view. the jet looked like it sat 10 people.
September 10th, 2011 at 2:05 am
I literally just woke up from my second hyper vivid plane crash dream. Unlike most of you, however, I am a passenger and would have died if I didn’t wake up in time.
My first dream was roughly five years ago and caused me to have a fear of flying. It was a few months before a mission trip I was supposed to go on and in my dream that is where the GIANT plane was headed. I was seated in the front (left) next to my friend and this guy in a pink shirt who kept badgering the stewardess. The plane took off but shortly after we were airborne we nose dived. I could see the nose crumple up toward me in slow motion and then had a moment of pure peace in which I accepted the fact that I was going to die. But, then I woke up gasping for breath.
The dream that just woke me was again on a GIANT airplane. This time I was flying from Charlotte to Montreal for a conference (I will be attending a conference in Atlanta in a few months). The plane began takeoff and then there was this deafening noise, that originally I thought was just the plane speeding up super fast because it was so big. But someone shouted about the wing and then we nose dived into the ground. I could see the plane disintegrate before me and awoke, unable to move for a moment or two. Oh, this time, I was a flight attendant that had rapped the instructions, but then became a passenger.
I was wondering if anyone else has had that really loud noise in their dreams? Just the other night I dreamed DC was being carpet bombed and I had that same really loud noise.
September 21st, 2011 at 11:44 pm
I have lots of these dreams. I’m never on the plane, I’m just an observer. The planes sometimes hover, then perform random movements before crashing. In some dreams multiple planes crash immediately after taking off or just before landing.
September 21st, 2011 at 11:48 pm
@tina (entry 303) I also can see the large planes getting into difficulty and know they are going to crash. You can just tell it’s going to happen. I want to get footage of it crashing on my phones camera but I can never get the camera working quick enough.
September 26th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Am I the only one who has this recurring dream (maybe once or twice a year) but am always on the aircraft…last night’s dream had me sitting next to my brother (haven’t told him yet LOL)…the aircraft usually ends up a bit crumpled after a spectacular crash but people seem to survive it OK…definitely never an explosion or anything like that
October 2nd, 2011 at 1:45 am
i have had dreams of jet fighters crashing or even flying past me in the road to take off. teh plane usually crashes next to me or i hear the noise. i have a full on covert police job plus my new wife isnt gettin on with my two boys from a previous life, i dont have two seconds to myself and seem to fighting against all of them, i have at least 4 dreams about this a week x
October 2nd, 2011 at 1:51 am
to add to the last i do always have dreams about some instances ive been involved in in work ( real bad nightmares) the plane ones dont seem to wake me but i do remember them vividley, where by the work ones i can smell and feel everything even the actuall smell on the day ( bodies or burning cars) x i thought i was just f*****d till i read this , we all are, thanks for the relief xxxx
October 2nd, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Wow, i woke up from this dream for the first time just last night. I have never been so freaked out this much by a dream. Here’s how it started: (In real life) i live in the country, but it’s one of my life goals to move to a big city like New York. (In My dream) I was walking through a mix of New York and D.C. Then i looked up into the sky and a plane attacked two tall buildings (not the twin towers, i remember them looking different from another). Then after that a plane came spiraling down toward me. I somehow dodged the plane by rolling to my left (like in Gears of War, if you know what i mean). Then another plane came down toward me, and i dodged it again. Then once i recovered from dodging the plane my friend told me that this is the next 9-11. Then the dream got really weird and there was some “Alias” type of conspiracy and i went undercover in some facility…..Sorry if this is hard to read, it’s so hard to put into words lol…But i’m soooo glad im not the only one
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:41 am
I do have a lot dream about plane crash and Its really bothered me as well but when I became Christian I knew that I need to pray for the salvation of the person I’ve seen in my dream. I really prayed for them. A few years later when I disclose my dream to them, they are really happy because I did pray for their salvation & now there are saved (born again Christian) and no more anxiety because they have faith and hope in Jesus Christ. If we die as non-believer, surely we will go to hell and die forever. But when we put our daily trust in Jesus, He will be our Savior.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:46 am
I’d like to be apart of this chat, I too have reoccurring plane crash dreams. I always know they are going to crash and I’ve had so many of these dreams that I now warn others around me to take cover. Last night’s plane crash I actually said “yeah this ones going to crash, run” they are always commercial airlines/large passenger planes and they always crash near me but I never die. I watch and wait for them to crash, sometimes trying to dodge them. Last night I actually got into the burning plane somehow thinking if I got in there I could save the people, somehow trading places if you must. I think about those dreams the entire next day! I seen a plane crash with I was 10 at selfridge in Michigan, that I just remember, maybe that’s why? Can’t figure it out, but I like to think these dreams mean I will win the lottery one day!
October 4th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
i have had them for years too.
i think it means a lack of success, or not been able to achieve yr goals in yr life. when the plane catches fire in the sky and then it starts diving to the ground and crashes means yr goals have crashed and burned!
October 7th, 2011 at 8:02 am
I too have had plane crash dreams for years. Like others, I had one last night and finally decided to google it and this site popped up. I have this recurring dream at least once a month and it is always very vivid and colorful. I am always on the ground looking up and notice a plane in the sky, then I think prior to it happening that it might crash and it always does… sometimes in my dream I feel like I am causing it to crash because I was thinking that it might before it would happen. It is always a Commercial Jetliner type huge plane, always with people on it and sometimes I even had it where I see two planes flying close to each other and when I look at them it is like they become magnets and instantly fly into each other. These recurring dreams always stick with me for days, they are so vivid that I feel like I have really seen it happen and if I do see a plane flying, especially if it is low, I always think back to my dreams and wonder if it is really going to happen in front of me, but thankfully it never does!
October 10th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Hi all, I too like everyone else have been having these recurring dreams! The most recent one caused me to do some research. I found someone else’s very similar to one of mine where I am in my bedroom which looks out over a field and I see a plane coming down towards me, it goes to rise back up but falls backwards and into my neighbours house. I can see the smoke and hear the screams and the air is all hot and muggy. The one I had last night was more vivid and I actually did think it was real!
I was travelling with my family in a car around some mountains but it was like we were on a motorway. Then I see a plane, as though I am stood still watching the landing strip come down at an angle, it hits the ground but doesn’t explode, the nose just breaks and it continues to land properly. Suddenly it flips over multiple times and I can hear people screaming, then it falls off the edge of a cliff into a river below. I then see onlookers jumping into the river to save the passengers. Next thing I know I’m walking over a bridge and watch as the onlookers save a mall child, whose face I can see rising out of the water perfectly, a look of relief on his face as he reaches the surface and inhales the air. Weird.
October 10th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Finding this page totally freaks me out. I had these dreams of large passenger and military transport jets falling from the sky and crashing near me that occurred several nights in a row last fall almost exactly a year ago. I was just beginning another Dream tonight tonight of the same thing (not sure how I know that except that in the dream I was talking to people about “that time last year when all the jets were crashing”) my dog started barking tonight and woke me up as the dream was beginning and I couldn’t tell if those events “last year” had actually happened or if I’d dreamed them. Since I had my iPad right next to the bed I goggled “planes falling from the sky” and found that many, many people are having these dreams. The dreams were always nightmares and usually involve the jet crashing near me and en debris from the crash hurling toward me at high speed. I seldom remember dreams but these stand out and I remember them in great detail. Not sure what this all might mean but I’m definitely going to do more research. This literally scares the crap out of me.
October 12th, 2011 at 10:14 pm
I am a flight attendant and I always have dreams of plane crashing. But I’m my dreams I am not on the plane. I am on the ground and I look up and see the plant flying weird. With my experience I know something is wrong. I always rum towards where it going to crash and rescue the people. No this has not stopped me from flying 25 days out the month. I love my job and in my dream I am always greatful for the emergency training that we are given. But stills a spooky dreams.
October 18th, 2011 at 10:09 am
I found this site because I had another dream last night. Ive been having plane dreams for years and always check the news afterwards just incase. I’m convinced I dreamt of the Lockerbie crash before it actually happened although that might have just been a co-incidence. In that dream, I was actually on the plane and looking into the living room window (at an old man with a golden retriever dog) of the house I was about to crash into. Usually though, I am on the ground and spot the plane going into a nosedive. Mine are usually large commercial airliners and usually come down nearby to where I am standing – usually in a built up area or in a field nearby to a built up area. I have also had a couple of dreams where the planes are smaller and only have a couple of passengers in them. I find when the planes are smaller, the passengers are more likely to survive the crash for some reason. In addition to the plane dreams, I have over the years also had hallucinations (of people and sometimes objects) when I first wake up. When I was a teenager I also had several episodes of sleep paralysis which was very frightening. I have looked into the sleep disturbances and think the hallucinations are called hypnopompic or hypnogogic hallucinations, I forget the distinction. They used to terrify me when I was a young child. However I also had one of these hallucinations when I was wide awake during the day when I was approx 9/10 years of age. Again, it was a plane and was very real although I do remember the colour and sound seemed to fade when I saw it. It was an old army bomber plane and was very low in the sky flying almost in line with the phone lines in the street. I remember thinking if it got any lower it would take the rooftops off. I have suffered with anxiety for many years and think this is all anxiety related. I’ve even spoken to a psychiatrist about the hallucinations. However not even he was able to give me an explanation for the bomber plane. I once had a conversation with someone in a psychology society who had had a similar experience and also had no explanation for it. Has anyone else ever experienced that or know anything about it?
Anyway, my latest dream wasn’t a plane. This time it was a space shuttle or rocket and the dream seemed to start after it had already launched. I was looking at a black spiral smoke trail which went straight up into the sky. The sky was a deep indigo blue and there was a white/silver arc across the top, it was very wierd looking. Then I became aware of the shuttle hurtling back down towards me. Again it was in a built up area with lots of people and it seemed to come straight towards us but then veer off and hit some buildings not far behind. There were bits breaking off and shooting off all around. What does this all mean and why is always about planes/crashes? Does anyone have any ideas?
October 18th, 2011 at 10:47 am
also just noticed the analytical comments.I was tested at uni with a personality questionnaire based on Jung’s work and came out with an extreme analytical score.
October 18th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Sorry to post again so soon but I have read through a few more stories and it is startling that there are so many commonalites. English and art were always my best subjects. I’ve seen perfectionism and double-checking grammar mentioned and someone talked about not finishing things, that also applies to me. I also noticed a few stories about people trying unsuccessfully to contact police/emergency services. (Does anyone else read 9/11 as being synonymous with 911 by the way – wierd since I’m Scottish not American). Anyway, I’ve had that too and actually have a whole other recurring dream where I’m on my own in a strange place and trying to phone home but either can’t dial the number and have to keep starting again or when I do dial it correctly there’s only static. Strangely enough I did my dissertation on control and communication – oh and I didn’t finish that either! The other thing I notice is a lot of people talk about flight paths and I think someone mentioned stored memories. There could be something going on there but I think there’s more to it. I currently live in a flight path but most of my dreams were in previous homes which were not in a flightpath. (I also have a recurring dream about myself being able to physically fly). The weirdest thing though is that the hallucination I had of an army plane occurred in a village which I recently found out was in the flightpath of an old army airport which had been shut down decades before I ever lived there. Whatever’s going on, the co-incidences and similarities are striking. It seems to me that the people sharing these dreams probably share the same kind of brain chemistry. Whether they are premonitions or something to do with the unconscious or whether it’s all the same thing, I just don’t know but it’s very intriguing. It would be really interesting if someone did a study on it!
October 19th, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Omg I have the same kind of dreams all of u have had. I had one last night, it was a huge plane that crashed near my house in a field. I was outside when it happened and all I could hear was children that survived screaming. I called 911 but I was so scared I couldn’t talk. I woke up crying. I wish I knee what these dreams mean. I also had one exactly one week before 9/11/01 it was a plane that crashed into a huge building.
October 22nd, 2011 at 8:18 am
I was travelling with my car again, it was a plane and was very real although I do remember the colour and sound seemed to fade when I saw it. It was an old army bomber plane and was very low in the sky flying almost in line with the phone lines in the street. I remember thinking if it got any lower it would take the rooftops off. I am on the ground and spot the plane going into a nosedive. Mine are usually large commercial airliners and usually come down nearby to where I am standing – usually in a built up area or in a field nearby to a built up area.
October 26th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Yeah been having these on monthly basis. I am usually outside the plane. but its so annoying and disturbing. I also saw burnt corpses once. It has made me fear flying.
November 6th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Welcome aboard, glad to see so many on my same journey. Safety, and or sanity, in numbers…
I have had these dreams for over 30 years. ANYTIME a plane is in my dream, it WILL crash.
Like so many of the above, I am on the ground. I know the minute I see the plane that it will crash. Usually close to me, without any injury to me. It is ALWAYS upsetting but as I have gotten older I am more aware that I’m having a dream.
I have had one very real dream in which I was not aware I was dreaming. I was on a small plane and it crashed into the side of mountain. I could actually feel my body suffering terrible pressure as I went through the “tunnel towards the light” and I felt I was experiencing death. I woke up, and have never had a dream again where I was that certain I was starting to die.
I don’t know what made me investigate this today, as I haven’t had the “plane crashing dream” in many months, but here I am.
I wish there was a website where this “community” of common dreamers could share more. I guess this blog will have to do for now.
November 9th, 2011 at 4:01 am
I usually have these dreams about once a month. It is usually always about a huge airliner (airbus), like American Airlines, or Delta. They seem so real. It happens when I’m usually sitting outside then I see the plane caught in some kind of turbulence. Then after a short time I watch it plunge to the ground near me and bursts into flames. Sometimes destroying a house in a small neighborhood. I am never injured. But I try to help out. I try to call 911, but miss dial many times then finally get it right. I’m usually the first one to walk up to the crash site and notice passengers still strapped into their seats, but dead and burned. Why does this happen to me? Am I ok?
November 12th, 2011 at 5:37 am
Hey guys! GUESS WHAT! My recurring plane dream crashes have ended. I would be a psychoanalysists dream. They increased in frequency whilst I revised for my exams, decreased after I took them, then increased again when I was waiting for results. Once I got my results and knew I was going to my first choice university I haven’t has one since! Woohoo. I’m very thankful for this, as they were pretty disturbing. Hopefully they have stopped for good, but only time will tell
November 13th, 2011 at 6:44 am
I guess I am in this club to lol!I am 41 years of age and since I was a little girl I have had these dreams.When I was a child my dad was a farmer and we had cotton fields around our house.We always had crop dusters flying spraying the poison (also us at times).Well I started having dreams of all sorts of planes crashing and sometimes combines(cotton pickers or tractors) falling out of the sky.As I got older I would dream of war and planes falling or soldiers coming in our house and trying to kill us.We would hide behind couches and other things.I could see faces of people that I had never seen before.After I was married I still had these dreams at every home that I lived at.It has mostly been of helicopters and some planes.One dream I could see vividly of a soldier jumping out of a crashing helicopter and landing in a tree in the backyard.Then my daughter was recently married and lives close to an airport.IT DRIVES ME INSANE to hear the planes fly over so low.Her husband thinks I am completely INSANE.I told her that her house reminded me of one of my dreams when I was younger.Well last night I dreamed again of a helicopter crashing to the ground.I was sitting outside I think at a table and I heard it coming right over me and one of the blades was missing and the other was bent.It started falling and I ran to find my daughter and grand daughter.I yelled at the people in the building that it was headed for to run.I then tried to go to the crash to help and I could see their faces so clear.I never have seen these people before so how could I dream of someone I have never met? It seems like I always know that something is going to crash and I also try to go and help in some of the dreams.Thank you for letting me share. L.D.
November 13th, 2011 at 6:52 am
I just saw Nic’s post and I wanted to say that since I was a little girl I dreamed that I could fly.I could run and just leap in the air.
November 13th, 2011 at 7:01 am
Oh one more thing that I just remember about my dream last night.It was military related.The building that the helicopter crashed into housed people in the service.
November 14th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Lanna, I think we’re having the same dreams. The helicopter with the missing blade seems very familiar. I have the military dreams too. It’s kind of like a Nazi invasion. My family and I are hiding in our house and see the tanks coming in the distance. Then we move between deserted houses to get away from them but they just keep on coming. I’m 39 and been having these for years. My flying dreams are kind of the same too where I kind of jump into the air but when I’m in it I can change direction kind of like swimming.
November 21st, 2011 at 8:47 pm
I always dream about being in new York and being within 5 feet of the crumbling tower. Once i was on top of the tower but whats strange is that I always dream about my romantic interests and then 9/11 happens. It worries me that my subconscious links these two.
November 23rd, 2011 at 12:44 am
This is amazing… I had been having these dreams every few months (I think) for a few years now. I thought I was the only one. I rarely remember my dreams but remember my dreams about Planes crashes vividly.
I am always on the ground, with a group of people and I watch the Plane crash, I always know its going to happen before it does, the crashes are always within walking / runnning distance and always passenger Planes. Usually over water and near hills. I used to be a flight attendant and I have done some Flight training in a Cessna, But it has always seemed to me that these dreams were unrelated to my aviation background. From reading these blogs and doing some research i know that its not…
Its great to know i not alone and I really do hope that if i can find the source of these dreams they will go away, they are quite disturbing and really play on my mind.
November 25th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
this is amazing to see how many other people have dreams like me! i have alot of crazy dreams that dont make any sense! but one that always gets me is me watching a plane crash to the ground. i have had several of dreams with planes crashing. now i took a plane to florida in july of 2010. made it their and back home alive. but the last time before that i was only 5! i do live near an airport but the planes are not distracting me! but i always seem to have dreams of planes crashing. funny thing is! im not in the plane. all of my dreams are not in the plane. but its like im watching it going down. and before it even happens i know its going to go down. in my dreams i always seem to not get hurt by this crash. some how i always seem to dodge it!!! i often wonder what it means in my dreams. alot of my dreams seem so real as if im living another life, so vivid when i dream. i cant explain it…
November 27th, 2011 at 2:55 am
All of these comments have been very enlightening to me. I had these recurring plane crash dreams regularly for years and they were about as close to a nightmare that I would experience. The details varied from dream to dream, but it would always be a bright sunny day and I would be on the ground and see a large passenger plane that I knew was in trouble. I had the dream so many times that I would start to question myself in the dream as to whether this was the real thing or another dream. I would always think it was real though. Sometimes I would think that the plane would make it but it always would come down and crash nearby, and I would be filled with a feeling of despair and dread. I was never in danger of being hurt, but sometimes it crashed so close that I would be showered with tiny flaming debris. The worst dreams occured in the months after 9-11. In these dreams i would be confronted by the injured survivors who would beg me for water and aid as I walked through the crash site trying to make my way home. I had nothing to give them and I would feel so guilty. In my case I finally attributed the dreams to my anxiety about family members who I felt were making self-destructive choices and whom I felt obligated but unable to help. Since drawing that conclusion I have not had the dreams for several years now thankfully.
November 30th, 2011 at 10:13 am
I have seen a dream almost as close to a nightmare, in which I saw a huge physical duck flying on the sky moving upside direction 90 degrees heading towards the sky. Its face was like a duck I mean the beak, and the neck narrow and Body beneath was fat and big enough with limbs. it’s size is as big as flying balloon but soon I noticed its a new designed airplane. The cockpit was in its beak and the first class Passenger seating in the beak while rest of the body divided half as economy class and half cargo. After it went high, I take off my sights from the sky. But sooner I notice that the duck shadow covered the sky and falling gradually downward. Although the pilots are utilizing maximum force to up lift the body of duck style airplane but seems due to over weight or something fall in cargo section made the plane imbalance and plane was declining its altitude. Then its one of a limb hit the tall building damaging a corner of it. The earth shakes with a mild earthquake and thereafter finally after 15 seconds, there comes a great magnitude of earth quake. But my home survived and my mother asked me a huge earthquake and I replied no it was a plane crash just saw it falling. The plane cause a great collision to earth and thereafter I saw a huge flames raising on the sky with black clouds of smoke that covers the sky and sun making it dark. After that I saw the Tsunami like volcano lava is spreading out very quickly and I could witnessing the catastrophic disaster but could not move. And I got up …. The impact remained on my head all day of the dream …. Later I sat on internet and was searching some songs until I got this movie trailer. “The Movie End of World 2012″ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsY7-QH4-vE
Although I don’t believe it but the images I saw last night and the impact of having disaster felt the same. The location was different as per mine surroundings but the impact was felt same. I just wounder is that only a co-incident or we are really going to face the end of world in December 21, 2012 at 11:11 am in something real. I don’t believe that this may end the world but, I fear something worse could happen on that day from the beginning of January 2012 to our planet earth ….
I therefore share here seeking the reality and meanings of my dream. Is that just a nightmare or else there has been an indication or prediction pointing out something ….
I never saw such dreams …
Regards
AhSaN
December 12th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Amazing how you think this is just happening to you until you do a little research on the internet. I have never posted any comments on-line about anything but this has grabbed my attention to its fullest since so many people experience the same recurring dream I do. Just the other night I witnessed about my 6th plane crash in a dream. Like all the others, i’m on the ground watching the plane in the sky as if i’m wondering when it’s going to crash. This time the plane was smaller than usual and it came crashing down next to me where I had to run for cover. All my other dreams I was a safe distance away. As I was running away the shock wave from the explosion propelled me into the air several feet and as I was in the air, I saw the pilot flying in the air as well only to land 20 yards past me. I immediately felt the heat on my back from the fire but I was not burned badly at all, it just felt like I had a sunburn. I went over to the wreckage thinking the worst and part of the plane was left intact with about 5-8 survivors in it. No body was in serious pain or badly burned. The only serious injury was the pilot. The other differnce in this crash compared to the others is that it crashed in front of my house where I grew up (I was just there visiting the same day). 2 of the other plane crashes have been in the water and the others in a field or in the woods. I fit all of the traits common to those who experience this dream as mentioned in some earler posts. I am also a Taurus and I wonder how many others might be as well? Just curious to see if there is some astrological significance as well.
December 12th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
I have that dream a lot recently. I think its linked to anxiety, as I suffer from it at the moment. Like you said, The plane is a normal passenger plane and usually crashes near to me (last night it was into a small building right next to me). And also the part where you said they try get out of crashing, for me they fly too low then cant pull high enough and end up colliding with something like a large hill.
I think the dreams scare me about flying more than the reality of it. Its actually a relief to think that most planes that have crashed were only dreams and in reality your pretty safe
December 22nd, 2011 at 11:29 pm
I have this recurring dream too! I had one last night, which is what prompted me to Google about plane crash dreams. Last night, two planes crashed. They were huge passenger planes and they just fell out of the sky. I was watching from a nearby tall building. Sometimes they crash into rivers in cities, sometimes into buildings.
This has been going on for years! I’m not sure what causes them – we all have anxieties in life, I guess, but at the moment there is nothing that I can think of that is worrying me!
Do you have any other recurring dreams? I dream about heights a lot too – always impossible heights, and when I wake up, my feet are tingly!!
Thanks for sharing your experience of this.
December 23rd, 2011 at 7:02 am
Janet, I do also have dreams about heights, yes! Impossible heights describes it quite well. I am always unsecured (nothing to hold onto either really) and worried about falling.
And then there’s my other post about the dream where I’m lost in high school, ugh. That one wasn’t fun…
December 24th, 2011 at 2:01 am
I have the same dream. Never on the plane but aware of passengers. However, one dream was significantly different and I think gave some insight. I was on a jet and trying to get off, telling the flight attendant “I’m not supposed to be here.” When it crashed, I was unscathed and was helping with rescue. The best I’ve seen to match these dreams is in the film “Knowing,” with Nicholas Cage.
December 29th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Glad I found this!! I used to dream of plane crashes. They started in 1993 and ended in 2001. My husband used to make fun of me for them until he’d watch the news and there’d be a crash like I had described!
I know people here understand just HOW disturbing that is!! I’m never on the plan, always standing off at a distance-not too far-watching and here is what freaked me out the most-I could hear the thoughts of the passengers as they were going down! It was like having 50 different radios going off in my head!
I dreamed of planes going into buildings, the swamp, the water, the ground-just blowing up in the air-it was so bad that my mom got in touch with a Shaman who had first told me that some of us are guides and we are connected to everyone else and we there to calm their fears of the unavoidable. He actually had me sleep in different positions to not “pick up the signal”.
Well, after 9/11, I never had a another plane crash dream. But I have other disaster dreams that sadly come true.
I am very afraid of flying because after experiencing the fears of all of those passengers-I don’t want to feel that for myself.
I have to fly soon-and I know that my destiny is unavoidable but I still don’t like it.
I wish someone could help me and the rest of you truly understand it all.
Til then-Be Blessed:)
December 30th, 2011 at 9:25 am
Wow…so many people with the same dream! I have been having plane crash dreams off and on since the 70s. In all but one, I’ve been watching from outside the plane. In one, I was piloting it and averted the crash to land safely. I’ve come to believe that these dreams all have to do with control or the lack of it in life events. For example, we just learned a few days ago that our beloved dog has a brain tumor and the prognosis isn’t good for him. Yesterday, he had another seizure, then last night, I had one of the worst plane crash dreams ever. The 747 was trying to land on the runway, but it was engulfed in flames. Even if they could have landed, all would have died. I think that dream represents my frustration at not being able to help him…my lack of control over an already bad situation with an ultimately bad ending. Thanks to everyone here for sharing your plane crash dreams. It made me feel better about mine.
January 7th, 2012 at 8:12 am
Count me in the club. For at least 30 years.
We all have one thing in common…trying to find out what the dreams mean.
They recur on a totally unpredictable basis for me. Usually months apart. Similar scenarios as so many have described but usually with a twist.
As someone else mentioned, whenever a plane appears in the dream it is going to crash! Ditto here. I am the spectator. The plane is always prop driven and arrives unexpectedly in some other context that I am dreaming about. Instantly I get an ominous feeling about it and it becomes the focus. It seems to be flying normally at first and at a relatively low altitude. There is usually sound…which also sounds slightly off and ominous. Then suddenly it will execute violent physically impossible maneuvers and plummet to earth in a split second. Usually it is headed toward a crash uncomfortably close to me and I am expecting the absolute worst. The twist comes in here: at the very last moment it converts into a flimsy small model airplane much like the rubber band powered toys of youth. Sometimes it will become some sort of small inflatable vinyl type airplane. When it converts and does it’s death spiral it is accompanied by a very short “whoosh” like a toy balloon turned loose untied. The resultant “crash” then becomes a totally harmless…albeit confusing and frightening…event. Enormous anxiety and fear leads up to it.
Anxiety. Yes, an old friend of mine. First diagnosed with anxiety/panic disorder in 1968 and struggled with it ever since. I am now 71 and have quite an extensive repertoire of life experiences. I have concluded that anxiety is indeed the main driver behind this type of dream. A good technique for developing insight is to keep a journal of these dreams. Keep a legal pad next to your bed and immediately write down every last detail you can remember. Especially note the context of the dream and what you were feeling at the time. Try to correlate that with what is going on in your “real” life. You will find it.
Closely related to airplane crash dreams..at least I think so.. are what I call “sky show” or “light show” dreams. Again, the vast sky is involved. Usually at dusk or early evening. Normal dream of some sort but then the sky suddenly becomes incredibly ominous. Dark, gray/brown cloud like structures cover the entire sky. Very specific geometric shaped patterns everywhere. Sometimes unique pinpoints of scintillating light again in very disturbing shapes and patterns. Maybe hints of tornados in the mix. It all adds up to terrible portent of an unknown calamity to come…yet it never does and I wake up extremely anxious.
And so it goes. The human condition. Trying to figure it out is fun in a perverse way and does lead to greater self-understanding/insight. But most disturbing and painful nonetheless.
Good luck to all.
January 10th, 2012 at 2:50 am
I had my first plane crash dream last night it crashed in next doors garden n set on fire but no1 i knew got hurt. Yrsterday i applied for a new job which is a new career for me that i qualify next month so im looking to get straight into my work howevr im nervous n question myself can i do it? Do u think this dream could relate at all?
January 14th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
I have been having these dreams for a few years, my last comment on here was in November. I just had another dream about a Plane crash since leaving my last comment… This dream was very similar to the others, except this time I was convinced it was real, in my dream I remember thinking wow i’ve seen this crash before in my dreams. Of course it was a dream but i woke up and checked the news website before I ended up on this blog again. This crash like past dreams was over water and I was in close proximity I saw 2 Planes ascending (both Air NZ, one 777 and 1 737) the two planes came quite close to each other during their ascent but did not collide, the 777 kept ascending but I knew the 737 would not make it… A few seconds later the 737 spiraled out of control and crashed into the sea. What was different about this dream is that I had just seen and old friend and her mother, her mother was about to fly to Wellington and I thought she may have been on the 737 that went down. I think this is the first time i have known some one on the Plane personally.
Todd, I am a Taurus do you really think astrology is linked to dreams?
January 20th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
I have actually been having dreams of planes crashing. Last night was about the 3rd time I dreamt it. I’m never in an actual plane until last night I dreamt that I luckily got into the wrong plane and the plane I was SUPPOSED to get in crashed. The first time I dreamt that I saw an airplane and I already knew it was going to crash I was devastated even before it crashed, it was a horrible feeling not being able to do anything about it, I woke up and still felt horrible. I’m kind of scared of what these dreams mean, my friends and I are planning a trip to Cancun this summer. Ever since we started planning this trip, these dreams have been occuring. So now I’m debating whether I should continue my plans and go to Cancun or not? Any suggestions?
Feel free to e-mail me at alilove3630@gmail.com and tell me what you think my dream means or your suggestions.
January 22nd, 2012 at 11:57 am
I’ve posted here before too and like to check back every so often as the similarities in peoples accounts fascinate me. I’m a taurus too. The comment Atienne made about people being connected is interesting. I was told something similar by a hypnotherapist/psychic. I had a horrible experience in a swimming pool. I had a strong irrational fear that my oldest son was going to drown when the wave machine came on and made my husband get him out of the pool. (when I get strong feelings like that I go with it as things have happened before). We found out later a boy did drown. No one saw it and he wasnt found for some time. My hypnotherapist thought I must have been picking up his energy.The whole thing freaked me out and I couldnt help thinking afterwards that had I known it might have been prevented. I know this sounds bonkers but I sometimes get other peoples pain symptoms too. At the moment I’m getting shooting pains down my right leg. There’s nothing wrong with me but my husband has damaged his sciatic nerve and tells me I’m getting his pain. That happen to anyone else?
January 22nd, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Toni, it might be a stretch and just purley coincidental, but still curioius if one sign has these dreams more than others. Who knows?