I Learned How To Fly

So after 70-80 lucid dreams or so, I finally learned to fly!

So here is how it happened. I was with some DC on my front lawn talking, and I told him I was going to try to fly. I jumped up about 5 feet into the air, and just fell down. Frustrated, I called out to my dream guide (only the second time I have) - and my neighbor in my dream comes over saying he's my dream guide. I ask him to teach me to fly. He tells me, instead of trying to just take off into the air by jumping, I should try running as fast as I can, then glide a few feet off the ground, and lift off - and now that I think about it while I am typing this - just like an airplane does. So I start running down my street, and dive forward, and begin to glide. I'm about 5 feet off the ground gliding, when I drop toward the ground, pick up extra speed, and just lift off. I'm actually flying around very quickly like I've never flown before. I had great control, and it was very fun. I guess I'll be practicing this next few!

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Originally Posted by blade5x

So after 70-80 lucid dreams or so, I finally learned to fly!

So here is how it happened. I was with some DC on my front lawn talking, and I told him I was going to try to fly. I jumped up about 5 feet into the air, and just fell down. Frustrated, I called out to my dream guide (only the second time I have) - and my neighbor in my dream comes over saying he's my dream guide. I ask him to teach me to fly. He tells me, instead of trying to just take off into the air by jumping, I should try running as fast as I can, then glide a few feet off the ground, and lift off - and now that I think about it while I am typing this - just like an airplane does. So I start running down my street, and dive forward, and begin to glide. I'm about 5 feet off the ground gliding, when I drop toward the ground, pick up extra speed, and just lift off. I'm actually flying around very quickly like I've never flown before. I had great control, and it was very fun. I guess I'll be practicing this next few![/b]

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Congrats! I just learned after a few lucids, but i didn't really think i knew what i was doing, i just jumped in the air when i saw someone else do it. the thing is, i would keep landing after 30 seconds or so.

Way to go :bigteeth:

First flying experiences are always awesome. Keep trying different methods if it doesnt always work out. For example, try just leaping of a big mountain.. that can be really exciting ;) Its even better when everything around you begins to dissolve and you really just start falling into a twillight zone :content:

That's pretty cool. I was flying in my dream once (non-lucid) and then started become lucid and it became much harder for me to start flying. I had to start jumping off of things and was still only half lucid (if that makes sense) until I couldn't fly at all and woke up.

If I ever want to fly though, your method makes the most sense to me.

Cool. In my lucid dream I seemed to have perfectly fine control over my flight, it was the first thing I did once I became lucid. but in some past dreams in childhood I've had dreams where I can float around but i suddenly start losing the ability and I'm grasping at the air trying to keep floating. Glad Those dreams haven't returned ^_^

The reason many find it so hard to fly is, they associated flying with jumping... and when you start jumping, guess whats going to happen... your gonna jump. The most successful fliers are ones who do it like they've seen other things do it. Superman style, bird style, swimmer style, and classic levitation are some of the best ways to start. Its much easier to start flying, than to start jumping and try to fly.

Yeah, the first time I flew was amazing. I was in a store in an isle and i just took off running, dove forward and pulled a Superman. I was not high off of the ground and after a little bit I started to get lower and lower to the ground. When that started to happen, I just focused on what I was doing and just launched myself into the air. It was so crazy. I was flying all over the store in the middle of the night while everyone was sleeping in the isles. I lost lucidity somewhere during flight but had the ability to fly for the rest of the dreams that night lol. Didn't strike me as odd at all :content:

i think it's cool that your dream guide helped you

I can officially confirm that I have the ability to fly at will now! (though I've been doing it too much recently and it's lost some of its initial thrill - outer space the next step?)

Thanks dreamguide!