Lucid Living? I don’t really know if that’s what you’re meaning, but it might be a nice idea to check the topic anyway 
I think I know what you mean. I had dreams where I sort of flied but I didn’t realise it was a dream. Yet it gave such a great feeling. I even wondered if it was a dream, but came to the conclusion you can do this in waking life too. I then realised it wasn’t the first time I had ‘flown’ like this when I was younger. (It was more a sort of making big jumps than flying) I was a long time under the impression I never had flown in dreams.
A few weeks ago I was on vacation and I felt exactly this feeling from the dream while walking to the place where I stayed. I was walking alone on the street with an amazing feeling. I had the feeling I could fly, maybe it was the feeling of freedom.
Now I notice, those kind of things always seem to happen when I’m either in my dream on vacation or in real on vacation. Maybe vacation gives me freedom, or it was just that moment. The rest of the dream points towards that as well…
I’ve got two other experience - not on vacation or some sort - but they were rather different. It was more like I really had the idea I was dreaming. Yet I didn’t really have that feeling of freedom as I had the other time. So not really what you’re meaning I guess…
After reading what you both said I want to find ‘Waking Life’ even more.