Thread: Can U Fly/ How Did You Learn?

Originally Posted by Renyao

Flying is my favorite thing. It's my most common dreamsign and the best way of getting me lucid (if I'm flying, no need to RC -- I know right away that I've gotta be dreaming!)

Back when I started getting interested in dreams and lucid dreaming, I frequently dreamed about trying to fly. I would use every chance I got to glide from the tops of buildings, flap my arms while running around in open spaces and maybe get a little lift, run and jump like I was moonwalking, etc. I used to use certain body postures and really force it, sort of willing myself upward with all my willpower. Gliding from rooftops was my first method of obtaining flight, and I recommend this to beginners...once you jump you'll already be in midair (and a ways away from the ground), you just have to work on coasting rather than falling straight down. Once you've mastered this, try picking structures in the distance to fly towards; remember that it'll be harder to fly straight up than to coast towards something lower than you.

These days I zip around in the air like it's nothing, though I do occasionally smack into walls/ceilings, lol It's wonderful feeling the wind in your hair and seeing the scenery blurring past beneath you, or gaining so much altitude that the cities and forests look like miniature models far below you.

Originally my incentive for flying was to escape from nightmare situations, and I still do this to this day...matter of fact I was lucid last night and ran into a darkened room that made me feel suddenly fearful, and to avoid anything nightmarish I launched myself out the window and flew away. Mighty useful trick. Aside from avoiding unpleasant situations it's also my preferred method of changing scenery when lucid.

After all these years I'm still kind of amazed that dream flight is a skill that can be polished with time, like a skill in the real world. No doubt it's one's confidence that builds with the practice, and confidence in one's abilities controls reality in dreams even more so than in real life.

That is so cool! You have had about the same process as me. I like your suggestion about gliding from building, that really good.

What if... you don't move the air... or fly through the dreamscape...but the dreamscape moves around you ?

Originally Posted by dreamguy1515

What if... you don't move the air... or fly through the dreamscape...but the dreamscape moves around you ?

I like that. I never thought about it, but that may be a way I could go really fast, like superman fast. Thanks for the idea.

I remember seeing this guy in my dream and out of impulse I just randomly chased after him. I ran then I started jumping as I ran so I ended up running on air. So when I woke up I realised I flied in my dream.

Originally Posted by dreamguy1515

What if... you don't move the air... or fly through the dreamscape...but the dreamscape moves around you ?

I've seen people talk about this before! It sounds really interesting! I know I've used this sort of technique to change from night to day - I couldn't make the dream brighter so I just grabbed the entire sky and whipped it around so that the stars went down and the sun came up!

Sounds to me like a really good way to travel large distances quickly without actually teleporting

I fly all the time. I learned just by experimenting with different techniques. There are so many awesome ways you can fly :p

Any beginners who are wondering how to fly, you can check out my flying guide (link in signature).

Wonder what people would have thought if they read all this and didn't know about lucids? That'd been cool..
I learned by doing in non-lucids.. And watching X-Men, lol

It was always easy for me, though sometimes it'd be a more lazy floating through the air, until I heard about so many people having problems about it that put the doubt in my mind and grounded me in a few lucid dreams

I didn't know this is hard for some people.
I can do these things for as long as I can remember.
Everything is possible in dreams for me, the only hard part is stabilizing.

Whats holding you back is probably thinking about it to much. When I lucid dream (rarely), I have always been able to fly, because I had never heard of NOT being able to. Therefor I KNOW I'll be able to fly. I know it's probably easier said than done to have this mindset.

When I first started lucid dreaming I couldn't do much, but flying was one of those things that went pretty smoothly. I just flap my arms up and down like a retard and go up, sometimes I need to really push the air to gain height, but usually it goes very smoothly. Once in the air I just float around

I really wanted to fly before i was LD'ing. So in my first Lucid Dream, i knew i could fly, i BELIEVED i could fly. So i just jumped, leaned forward and never fell. Since then i fly in my dreams, like a dolphin in ocean. Just jump through my window every LD. Never had any trouble controlling my flight. Imma natural flyer!

God even saying that is satisfying.

I first tried to jump up and down, higher and higher but I always fell down again. Then a friend of mine suggested I should try to jump from a high building, which I did and died instantly when I hit the ground (had a good laugh though!)
At my third and final attempt to fly I jumped once again up and down and said to myself "I can't land on the ground" repeatedly, but then I accidentally said "I can't control" (because I usually say "I can control my dreams" right before I go to sleep.) which made me fly away uncontrollably, like a piece of paper in the wind! XD I screamed "Don't hit the ground! Don't hit the ground!" and I didn't. I flew.

i can fly, i am not a very good swimmer and if i am in a dream i get frustrated that i can't swim and then i will start to fly. so for me flying isn't that really cool thing. i had a dream one time where i could swim perfectly and it was great

Flying is one of my most often encountered dream signs (although it's hard to attain lucidity just from that yet). Last night, though, I got lucid (which was an amazing experience, and it felt much more real and much more vivid than anything I have ever experienced) and told myself "Screw this, I can fly!". Then I ran in a random direction, jumped, and soared through the air and incredible speeds (up to 400-500 feet altitude in 2-3 seconds). The physical feeling that I had when flying is something that I really can't describe, but is amazing. Unfortunately, I got a FA after a few seconds of flight and couldn't get lucid again.

The first time I flew in a lucid, I didn't think ANYTHING of it and just took off. I didn't think "let's try flying" or anything, I honestly don't think I was mentally projecting any thoughts except for the fact that I "would" be able to do it. My first time, I didn't use anything to help me but now I use Mark IV armor everytime. It's easy to fly using it if you imagine that you're already wearing it.

Originally Posted by illidan

In my first and only LD so far I have flown. I didn't think of a particular technique, I just took off. Somehow I knew I would be able to.

Navigating was a bit difficult though and I didn't fly higher than tree-height, but I didn't try to do that, anyway.

Same with me. Literally as my first ever LD was breaking apart I made the decision to jump off the roof (that standing on the edge of made me realize i was dreaming) and i successfully flew although close to the ground, but very fast out over a field and then the sheer excitement got my heart beating fast and woke me up.

I can fly, well it is more like levitation and it is quite random sometimes I can and sometimes I can't. Learned it just by trial and error.

I started by running with big leaps, and I could sort of jump onto the wall at an angle and push off (kind of like in the pool) and I had to keep pushing off the walls, back and forth in the room. The problem was, whenever I started to actually fly I kept colliding with things. Now I can glide better, but I have to leap a lot to get started, and it feels like trying to run underwater o.o but I can usually stay up as long as I keep pushing down on the air under me.

But yeah, flying is sometimes a signal to me. Funny thing is, it doesn't really remind me I'm dreaming. I just realize I can fly, and then I'm like, "Oh cool, I can fly!" But I don't really get the idea that what's happening around me isn't real..

It was pretty easy for me. It was the first thing I did in a lucid (much like everyone else ). I have awesome control, just getting lucid is the problem.

I started flying as a kid, and at first most of my dreams involved my own neighborhood. This isn't surprising as I spent a lot of time up on my roof. As I grew older, perhaps middle school age, I would just need to get somewhere faster, like down the hall, and flying always seemed to work best.

I also spent a lot of time swimming, which is not fundamentally different than flying in some respects, and my flying dreams would begin with me sort of swimming up through the air, and suddenly I'd find myself anywhere from ten to four hundred feet off the ground.

I've flown a plane, and it always seemed weird that I never had flying dreams with visuals related to those experiences. Those were amazing times, and the freedom is incredible.


I wonder if skydiving would enhance a flying dream?

I think that I learned to fly in non-lucids before I learned in lucids. I really just don't think about the process at all, just knowing that it'll work. This has seemed to be true for me in everything involving dream control. (Just knowing that it'll work, that is)

I've always been able to fly in my Lucids. It was never something I had to "learn" to do. I just up and did it, without thinking. Have done it ever since. It's one of the few things that I've always been a "natural" at my lucids, and have never had to work on.

I do a really sloppy swimming kind've thing.. Im still trying to get it right though!