my flying abilities seem to be limited

[sluggo]

I just woke up from hands down, the longest, most detailed and mind-blowing LD I've ever had! I even had a false awakening, which I never have, thought it was real until I saw 2 copies of my friend and realized I was still dreaming and it became another LD. Sweet! This is also the 2nd LD ever where I've had some real control, i.e. it lasted long enough and I was lucid enough to decide to start flying. The only problem is I feel very limited with my flying. If I'm indoors, I can only float about as high as the cieling. If I'm outdoors, I can only float about as high as the buildings around me (or whatever the tallest object is around me). I can never seem to get higher than about 20 or 30 feet max, even if I'm fully lucid and I will myself to keep going higher and higher. I want to get a Google Earth view of the the world or maybe even go to space! Has anyone else had trouble like this with flying and is there anything you can do to get over it?

[Drako Blakk]

Same here, I grew up in an old neighborhood with powerlines, I can't seem to get past those when I have a Lucid flying dream. I did once, look up and envisioned a cloud that was parting and flew past it but only once. It was the only daytime Flying dream I had, most seem to be at night. Try imagining clouds and then try to reach them, since they are higher than the buildings you see.

[skysaw]

You're not alone. In fact, power/telephone lines are VERY common as a limiting factor. Check out this thread here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ht=power+lines

[ninja9578]

You just need practice, nobody can go flying like superman the first couple of times, first u gotta stumble around the air for a while.

[KuRoSaKi]

I had this problem for the longest time I could never really fly higher than the roof of a house or a "Power Lines" height. After I sort of just "let go" I found myself going into the clouds, reaching outer space, free falling, etc. It's all in your head man.

[Mes Tarrant]

Why don't you: a) Fly around somewhere where there are no houses/power lines, like a grass plain. b) Sky dive out of an airplane. Or if you see a power line, just teleport yourself or something to a point right above it. For instance, one of the ways I once flew out past the earth's atmosphere was just teleporting to some place really high in the sky and then doing so again to some place outside the atmosphere, rather than flying up the entire (really really long) way.

[Drako Blakk]

You're not alone. In fact, power/telephone lines are VERY common as a limiting factor. Check out this thread here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ht=power+lines Wow, I thought I was alone in this type of flying restriction, only with me, I feel I'm going to hit the power lines and Fry! Thanks for the thread link.

[sluggo]

That is a really helpful thread....I also found excerpts from LaBerge's book on lucidity.com that talk about how lots of LDers have problems flying above a certain level. To me it feels like the dream world is kind of like a video game stage that your mind has created with certain boundaries...it's like in Duke Nukem: You can put on a jetpack and fly around all u want but when you get to the top of the buildings, i.e. the boundary of the stage, you can't get any higher. that's just what it feels like for me when I can get higher than the treetops or powerlines of rooftops of buildings. i'll just have to work on expanding the boundaries

[pyroguy305]

You are only restricted to what your mind believes.. In the words of Morpheus.. "You think thats air you're breathing now?"

[memeticverb]

That is a really helpful thread....I also found excerpts from LaBerge's book on lucidity.com that talk about how lots of LDers have problems flying above a certain level. To me it feels like the dream world is kind of like a video game stage that your mind has created with certain boundaries...it's like in Duke Nukem: You can put on a jetpack and fly around all u want but when you get to the top of the buildings, i.e. the boundary of the stage, you can't get any higher. that's just what it feels like for me when I can get higher than the treetops or powerlines of rooftops of buildings. i'll just have to work on expanding the boundaries It could be that in order to fly you have to have a guidepost of some sort. So that when you reach it, youve no other place to aim for and so your imagination now has to create something. So like someone else said, maybe see whats above, like the moon, or clouds, and aim for that.

[sittenpretty34]

when I am flying or about to fly in my dreams I hav full control of when whre and far up. th first coupl of times I could only go as far as the buildings and th trees around my surroundings. usually when i want to fly I do so to get away from the situation, or even to look down at what is going on around me from above, anyways so the first time I went higher then the buildings and trees it actually caused a sinking feling in my stomach and made me feel as if i was loing my breath, i think it was because i was just use to going high enough to b out of range and out of sight from the people below. However on the first time going up past everything i think i had those feelings because it was almost like a feeling that i was losing control, now i go however high i want and i love that i can control it.

[lucidboarder]

the problem with your flying ability is simply mental obviously. And though one might think the way to overcome that is to think, i CAN fly over the ceiling, or the buildings, which may work, i would suggest trying the opposite. Your acknowledgment of it creates a barrier, so if you think, i can go higher, your really thinking about the times you were not able too. You have to try to focus strictly the flying and your surroundings, and not thinking about just your limitations, focus on one thing is the enemy of lucid dreaming.

[pepsibluefan]

ALways remember, you are a god in your dreams. You can anything. You can fly like superman at will (know it sounds crazy but it is YOUR dream in your head, I just have a hard time walking without the gravity holding me down)

[Orvus]

It's normal to face mental barriers when you try to use superpowers out of nowhere. In those cases, you can trick your mind into believing that you can fly for logical reasons. Some suggestions: - Focus on a cloud, mountain, etc, very far from you and see it in detail. If it's that far, it means that there's a lot of space between you and it, and you can fly through that space freely. - Feel air currents pushing you. - Pretend that a magnet is pulling you (I took this idea from another thread) - Imagine you're underwater. You will be slowly pushed upwards.

[Jeff777]

Flying...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ_gnZ0TjUg

[james-25:22pm]

the easiest way to overcome this powerline thing, at least temporarily fly off a roof; or a out a window that is taller than power lines you build up confidence = problem solved!

[bro]

Where there's a will there's a way. You can make it happen. I've heard so many dreamers complain about this exact problem. Beleif is key. Do you expect to be able to fly higher? If you do, then it will happen, if not, then no. Try closing your dream eyes the next time you find yourself in and LD flying (hopefully soon). Imagine yourself rising slowly, and visualize where you want to wind up, if you are lucid, there is absolutely 0 reason why that has to happen...you'll get the hang of it, I was a pretty sh*tty flyer when I first began LD'ing as well, now I've got about 65-85% control of my flight these days...a good improvement. You'll find your way through the skies soon enough.