Thread: So. . . How do YOU fly?

I used to always just jump up and shoot myself into the air. I usually grow dragon wings out of my back now because I really like the feeling of flight when I have wings.

Yes I totally agree! I feel flight is better appreciated when you feel the wind underneath your dream wings. I feel that if I were to just float around, it wouldn't feel the same. That and I feel like I have more control over my flight. tip the wings a little and you turn, dip your wings and you descend, flap vigorously and you ascend. I love it.

I expand my arms, usually flapping slowly, from either high structures or running and jumping. I'd love to fly as a European Dragon; it's one of my LD goals actually.

I've flown as a wyvern

I remember I just jumped and glided, didn't even question my self whether it was a dream or what. Although, it was so vivid that when I woke up I was happy through out the morning because it felt sooooo real amazingly real even though I will never/had even experience something like that in real life

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I usually have to have a running start, then I fly with my arms spread out to my sides and my legs spread out. Sometimes I either have to flap my arms a little to be stable or go higher, or I sometimes imagine I have faery wings or angel wings and those are keeping me in the sky.

weird.. i came to this site thinking i was pretty advanced with my lucid dreams but.. you people seem to be able to do more LOL! EVERY dream i have now is Lucid but i only get dreams about once a week.. i figured out a way to ALWAYS get a dream.. but i wouldn't recommend it because its unhealthy when used wrong. Also it might only work with my body chemistry. as for flying i just had another dream last night. i tried to fly again but i just cant get it to work.. i run forward and jump and sorta do a superman pose with both arms infront of me. i glide for a bit then lay on the ground. i saw a basketball goal and i started punching it thinking i can learn some new boxing techniques when i wake up then i tried to see if i can hit it real hard and knock it away but it didnt move... after that i climbed to the top of the goal and jumped off.. the goal was abnormally high once i got to the top and i got the ( roller coaster) feeling in my stomach when i jumped.. realizing that and that im dreaming showed me that i can get that feeling with out actually moving.. soooooooo i kept climbing and jumping off trying to memorize the feeling so i can do it at will when i wake up.. but after like the 5th jump i woke up its wierd because in my mind i told myself that if i get to excited in my dream or if my heart rate goes up it will wake me.. and i was trying mad hard not to wake up!

I usually just jump, and the air takes me to where I need to go. I sprout wings, but they move on their own accord. I'm a very passive flier, I spend most of my time in flight constructing different things to fly to/by/around, and my mind just takes me where I need to go.

In my regular dreams, since early childhood, I either jumped on something higher, like a fence, from there to the tree or street lamp and glide from there. Or, I was gliding just few inches off the ground and propelling myself with my hands like a surfer laying on the surfboard. Later on, I jumped in the air a couple of times flapping my arms, untill the air under my arms got thicker and was able to hold me up.
In my first LD, I flew like a superman, although I have never done it before. Since then, in 99% of my lucids, dreams starts with me hovering in the air in what I call the "ghost" style. Upright, where body goes, legs follow. Kind of like a hovering hummingbird. Never really think of flying, I start out already in the air Loooove flying Feels like that's my natural state.

Actually, once I start flying, I automatically become lucid and take control of the dream. I guess it's my dreamsign. However, flight is not always needed in order for me to become lucid. Sometimes, if I keep up with my dream journal and go to sleep with the intention of lucid dreaming, then I have a good chance of simply becoming lucid in a dream. As far as I can remember, I have flown in every one of my lucid dreams. I have found no better joy than flight ^w^

I prefer wings. It feels so free and wonderful, yet somehow possible according to the laws of psychics (they can be upright mean sometimes)
Having a hard time with my wings suddenly disappearing though Just a crick gotta be worked out ..

I used to have a terrible time steering and staying high in the air. sometimes I would just sink in the air towards the ground. It was kinda weird. I still had my wings but they would stop working, or I would actually get tired of flapping and my wings would drop like heavy stones. I think lucid dreaming allowed me overcome those little issues ^^ In fact, if I become lucid in a nightmare, flying is my usual mode of escape. It is wonderful. Wish it were like that in real life.

Originally Posted by Ibis

I prefer wings. It feels so free and wonderful, yet somehow possible according to the laws of psychics (they can be upright mean sometimes)
Having a hard time with my wings suddenly disappearing though Just a crick gotta be worked out ..

And what kind of wings do you fly with? Are they your arms or do they sprout from your back?

I've used arms once, but I like having them free. I didn't think I could manage growing wings, and therefore didn't bother either.
In the dreams where I have had wings (non-lucid) they have been white and bird like, from my back. Those are the best.

flying for me has tended to start like this:
i push off of a wall (most of my dreams take place inside my/a house) then i drift away like im in 0-g. then i sort of flap around for more control. (if you get the chance, DO try for zero gravity its so cool!)
once i flew on a Nimbus 2000 (broomstick, for those unfamiliar with Harry Potter) but i accidentally flew a little too high, and ended up looking back down at our galaxy

Get some room as if Im an airplane then run off and jump.. though i need high ground to fly :p

See my dream journal entry, Flying 10/05/04. That pretty much explains how I fly.

at: www dreamviews com/blogs/earthinferno/old-dream-flying-10-05-04-31590/

i kinda just start by looking up at the sky and then "willing" myself to get up there (if that makes any sense lol) but in my case I usually instinctively flew to run away from something

Originally Posted by Kage64

i kinda just start by looking up at the sky and then "willing" myself to get up there (if that makes any sense lol) but in my case I usually instinctively flew to run away from something

Same here. I use flying to escape from nightmares lol

This morning, when I wanted to fly, I just squatted down (well looking upwards), then slowly rose my body up and up until eventually my feet left the ground.

Well, in my first LD, I tried flying; I just jumped and jumped until I got a bit higher than a normal jump. I never actually flew though in that dream. Once I just randomly jumped extremely high into the clouds, and then I knew I would have to fly or fall, so I stuck my arm out like superman and flew around.

For me, I usually jump into the air, and it's like I'm "swimming through air". I have to paddle / stroke through the air.

I'm actually not quite sure how I fly. Sometimes it's a zoomy sort of flight, and others, it's more floaty.

I've never flown with wings before, but it sounds really cool!