Thread: Can U Fly/ How Did You Learn?

i learned to fly, swimming through the air and have been using this for the last year, i find this method rather innefecctivly tough, vizualising a force moving you is a better approach to it if you ask me, i tried it for the first time tonight, i were able to fly faster, it were easier to on that note.

When I first started to attempt to fly in my dreams, I always tried by just jumping up. The first couple lucid dreams it didn't work, but at least I was still having a lucid dream. I think I got it on the third lucid dream attempt, it took form as a slow levitation style flight. After that it became much easier to do, and now I almost don't think about how to do it anymore, I just do it.

My cousin really has problems with flying in his lucid dreams, but it is his main goal for now. He managed to levitate a bit by trying to swim in the air, but soon he had found himself actually swimming in the pool he has in his backyard. I also have a friend that told me IRL that in order to fly an easy way to do it is: take jumps increasing the height in each one, and when you are high enough it will come automatically.
When I was in a lucid dream of mine, in a night that I had 3 lucid dreams (yay ) and first I tried to change my moms car into a lamborghini , just for fun. That failed tho, so I moved on to the street and I saw that friend of mine that told me how to fly. So I told him I was lucid and asked him what to do, and he told me that I should fly.

Instead of using his method, I just took a big jump, and when I was at the top of the jump, instead of jumping again, I was like 'well screw this' and I just took off on the air, I actually took a step on the air and pushed myself off of it and then some epic flying followed with backflips and stuff, was a really nice experience.

I've been flying a little over 2 years now. I just propel myself upward into the air the same way a squid propels itself in water. Once I'm in the air, I use my right arm to direct where I'm going and how fast by turning it like a clock hand where my elbow is the center of the clock. To speed up I extend my arm more, but if I'm going fast I can only make slight rights and slight lefts like a car. To slow down or stop I bring my right hand back, toward my ear. Sometimes I'll bounce backward before I can get moving forward and sometimes I'll overshoot my destination.

I'll see far off places that I'd like to get to, so I start zipping along low to the ground and see whether or not these places have been resolved in my mind. Sometimes the detail is there, but, interestingly enough, sometimes the dream goes black or I wake for a few moments until my head gets the environment figured out. It's like zooming in on Google Maps.

Originally Posted by Chard

I've been flying a little over 2 years now. I just propel myself upward into the air the same way a squid propels itself in water. Once I'm in the air, I use my right arm to direct where I'm going and how fast by turning it like a clock hand where my elbow is the center of the clock. To speed up I extend my arm more, but if I'm going fast I can only make slight rights and slight lefts like a car. To slow down or stop I bring my right hand back, toward my ear. Sometimes I'll bounce backward before I can get moving forward and sometimes I'll overshoot my destination.

I'll see far off places that I'd like to get to, so I start zipping along low to the ground and see whether or not these places have been resolved in my mind. Sometimes the detail is there, but, interestingly enough, sometimes the dream goes black or I wake for a few moments until my head gets the environment figured out. It's like zooming in on Google Maps.

Wow, that is a very detailed system you have. Very cool.

Originally Posted by sivason

Wow, that is a very detailed system you have. Very cool.

Thanks! It's a technique that took a couple of months to get down pat. But losing control during flight and trying to regain it like a pilot caught in heavy winds can be just as much fun as flying with control.

I never had much trouble with flying, except some rare cases... like yesterday's lucid, where for some reason i was just unable to get high in the air while flying....

But ever since i started practicing i had an easy time flying, even in my first weeks You just gotta believe that you can fly and it works wonders.

The way i fly is that i propel myself into the air by swimming moves done with my hands, then when i'm up high enough then i just control the direction, speed, ect with my mind. Sometimes i do some swimming moves while already being above, because it just feels good to push the air around yourself

I've only properly flown once. I pointed my hands up above my head (like a dive) and just... flew! It was fun and cool, but pretty slow. I want to go bigger next time!

I've only flown once. One time in a lucid while I was jumping from roof to roof (not sure why) I tried to go up. I had tried many times before to no avail, but this time, it was as easy as that. A few seconds later I found I was sitting in a chair and flying (and there may or may not have been balloons tied to the chair). I tried going up and down, and it wasn't too hard. I flew pretty high, up above the clouds, but the whole thing, even though I was lucid, was filled with a lot of false rememberence (like I thought I had watched a video about Tobuscus talking about when HE flew in a lucid dream, but after I woke up I realized no such video exists). Overall pretty weird, but fun.

In my first lucid i started hovering and then I managed to fly straight up and then woke up sadly. I seem to fly in almost every lucid Ive had lol.
A lucid i had about a month ago, i was flying and then just lost all ability and couldn't start again :'( it was awful

I think flying was the first thing I learnt. I realised I was dreaming, and thought if this is a dream, I should be able to control what happens since the dream is based on what I expect will happen. I just imagined myself looking up and lifting off the ground really hard. When i say that, what i mean is, i tried really hard to make myself expect that i will levitate up off the ground. Eventually I looked down and I was an inch or so off the ground.

I kept trying a few times, and then I could fly. After I learnt to fly, I remember feeling a rush of power and i felt like i could do anything. I found that from that point on, I could do anything i wanted in all of my lucid dreams with no such learning curve. In the same dream I believe I teleported for my first time soon after this event and went to more enjoyable surroundings.

The dream isn't completely vivid though unfortunately. :-(

Originally Posted by Nox12

I think flying was the first thing I learnt. I realised I was dreaming, and thought if this is a dream, I should be able to control what happens since the dream is based on what I expect will happen. I just imagined myself looking up and lifting off the ground really hard. When i say that, what i mean is, i tried really hard to make myself expect that i will levitate up off the ground. Eventually I looked down and I was an inch or so off the ground.

I kept trying a few times, and then I could fly. After I learnt to fly, I remember feeling a rush of power and i felt like i could do anything. I found that from that point on, I could do anything i wanted in all of my lucid dreams with no such learning curve. In the same dream I believe I teleported for my first time soon after this event and went to more enjoyable surroundings.

The dream isn't completely vivid though unfortunately. :-(

You are very lucky! It is cool that you caught on to dream control so fast. Flying took me at least a dozen or more like 30 dreams to figure it out. I could not teleport really for many years. At least I stuck to it and can do most anything now. Sageous and another memeber talk about not having to learn or train a skill. They have dreams where belief and expectation is the key element if i understand them. With me I need to practice skills and improve them with time, just like in real life. I suppose it is some mental block I impose on myself. Oh well. Thanks for sharing, and I hope many members will catch on to flying with out all the trouble I went through.

I found in my first few LD's I could not fly for the life of me. Eventually, I just got annoyed and dived out of a window. My body reacted and I started flying
I currently fly by pointing my palms at the ground and shooting out some sort of energy to lift me up. I hope to change this technique somehow as it is does not let me fly very high or for very long

I might try and get flying lessons from Superman !

I haven't tried to fly in a lucid yet, but I recall having a lot of non-lucids where I had superpowers and flew around. I think I'm going to have a problem with it in lucids 'cause whenever I wanted to fly in a non-lucid, I failed. I only succeeded when I needed to fly (i.e. there was someone/something after me, or I had to help someone who was falling off a roof, or I had to defeat a giant blue tiger that was destroying the city (I actually had that dream, LOL), etc).

I remember this one time, in a non-lucid, where I managed to float around 10 feet above the ground, but then I went like, "Woah! I'm flying, look at this!" and fell on my ass. I woke up so frustrated.

My technique was to slightly bend my knees and fly Iron Man style. But without all the cool gadgets, of course.

Originally Posted by Sambo96

I found in my first few LD's I could not fly for the life of me. Eventually, I just got annoyed and dived out of a window. My body reacted and I started flying
I currently fly by pointing my palms at the ground and shooting out some sort of energy to lift me up. I hope to change this technique somehow as it is does not let me fly very high or for very long

I might try and get flying lessons from Superman !

I always wondered if throwing one's self off a building would work! Very cool.

Can I fly? Yes, but ... frequently I find myself getting tangled in trees or power lines.

How do I fly thee? Let me count the ways...I have flown by breathing into a bag and holding it over my head, folding and unfolding a chair really quickly, swimming through the air, throwing myself through the air like Superman, jumping really far, and then just not landing, and probably other methods I can't think of at the moment. One time I flew by absorbing the color blue. I'd point at a billboard, fade out all of the blue in it, then fly. Red and yellow were my enemy in that one, and if there were too much red and yellow, I couldn't drain the blue.

Originally Posted by Batch

Can I fly? Yes, but ... frequently I find myself getting tangled in trees or power lines.

How do I fly thee? Let me count the ways...I have flown by breathing into a bag and holding it over my head, folding and unfolding a chair really quickly, swimming through the air, throwing myself through the air like Superman, jumping really far, and then just not landing, and probably other methods I can't think of at the moment. One time I flew by absorbing the color blue. I'd point at a billboard, fade out all of the blue in it, then fly. Red and yellow were my enemy in that one, and if there were too much red and yellow, I couldn't drain the blue.

Wow! that dream about the color blue is very weird. Cool and hard to picture. thanks for sharing it. I used to constantly get stuck in power lines! I wonder what that is all about?

Probably stuff connected to all the sci-fi/fantasy I read. It was cool, but kind of hard to describe when I went to enter it into my dream journal. (Hopefully I entered that one. Some of them I never find time to enter, and they just sit there on paper.)

For me I started off using a glider (think Avatar: The Last Airbender) and then it was more that I would just tell myself, "I'm not going to fall, and I can't get hurt if I do fall," and fly without assistance naturally (Not much learning to it). As long as I didn't think about falling, I wouldn't fall.

Every time I have a lucid dream I fly. I don't ever try and have lucid dreams, for me they just seem to happen, but I seem to be very good at flying. My first Lucid dream was ages long and as real as it gets and I never thought about flying in it. Then I had a couple where I tried to fly and managed to but would only last a few seconds. Then like my dream I had the other night I can just flap my arms and ''know'' I'm going to fly. I think a really important thing to do is just know it's going to happen. I think the arm flapping really helps because in my last one the more I flapped the 'stronger' the dream got to where I could eventually just levitate and shoot through the air at really fast speeds.

In my first lucid dreams I didn't seem to have full control over flight but now I can fly almost to perfection. Flying in lucid dreams is like anything else you have to practice.

I just did a WILD flying with angel wings. it added a whole new level of weird to the experience I usually levitate in a yoga position, kind of like riding a flying carpet, minus the carpet. this time with the wings I could affect the flight and do haard banks and rolls and so on. Here is a link to my DJ entry, 08/14/12 WILD. Over an hour of nREM LD to get 10 minutes in REM only to fall prey to a FA - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

For me there's a very strong connexion between lucid dreams and flying. Well, perhaps flying is the wrong word - it's more like rising upwards and floating on air currents. So far, I haven't managed to move myself forwards very far. But what interests me is that I never fly or float in non-lucid dreams, whereas in four out of the six LDs I've had since starting to take notice of them, the flying is closely linked with the onset of lucidity. Mostly I find myself rising through the air and then realise I'm dreaming, but the first time it happened I decided to do it: I said (and I don't know why) 'I'm dreaming, so I'm going to do something wonderful' and just floated up to the rooftops. One time after a flying dream I had a false awakening, then went downstairs, realised I wasn't actually downstairs, floated up to the ceiling, and when I had touched it with my hands I flipped over and put my feet on the ceiling and began to walk along it - upside down on all fours - that was fun too, has anyone else done that?
I suppose you experienced flyers will say I'm not really flying, but it's something I find amazingly enjoyable and I'm not sure why. Yes, it's exciting to do something you can't experience in real life, but there seems more to it than that. I wonder if it's something going on in the brain chemistry which causes both the exhilaration and the feeling of flying.

Originally Posted by sivason

.../ I started with long strides, running while taking bigger and bigger steps learning to glide/...

I started to do that during my non-lucids in my urge to run faster and eventually it got into my lucids as a dream sign for a couple of times. It was something like extending the time when I was going to step on the ground until it became a constant. Now I need just a long stride to start this motion with better control.