Thread: How to run faster in dreams?

Whenever I try to run in my dreams I run in super slow mo and I need to catch my breath a lot. Do you have any tips on how to fix this?

I've heard that running on all fours often helps~
Belief, of course. If you have confidence that you will run faster, and such you make it so, it will happen. It's your dream, you have total control.

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If you don't think about it it won't happen.

Don't try to run like you do in real life with your legs, just imagine that you're on some sort of invisible vehicle like a unicycle or some such thing and that you can really zip it. In other words, don't focus on physically pumping your legs, rather focus on moving forward quickly (whether or not your legs are moving isn't really important).

Hmm, I had an idea. Maybe, when you run, you can imagine that it's because the air has the consistency of water, and just start swimming, and swim really fast. Sure, it wouldn't be a permanent solution, but it would be fun for a while. Then it could lead into other solutions such as "get above the water" or make a gigantic drain or something. Meh, just throwing out ideas.

you could also think totally outside of the box by altering time. Run and speed up the movement of everything around you so that it blurs. And tell yourself that you'll be at point B when you stop running and the blurring stops.

To get a better description of what I mean....try youtubing The Flash TV show...theres first person scenes where it's shows super fast movement through city streets.

Originally Posted by no-name

I've heard that running on all fours often helps~

I can vouch for that. Normally I run faster on four legs in my dreams than I do on two.

Originally Posted by sora12

Whenever I try to run in my dreams I run in super slow mo and I need to catch my breath a lot. Do you have any tips on how to fix this?

The exact same thing happens to me whenever I try to run. o.o

Yelling "maximum speed!" has been very successful for me when i needed to run faster.
I have also had some success visualizing myself running faster.

Originally Posted by FortressForever

Yelling "maximum speed!" has been very successful for me when i needed to run faster.
I have also had some success visualizing myself running faster.

I love Crysis


I usually don't run in dreams, if I want to go fast I will usually fly/hover a foot or so above the ground and get places that way.

Originally Posted by FortressForever

Yelling "maximum speed!" has been very successful for me when i needed to run faster.
I have also had some success visualizing myself running faster.

Sounds like someone plays a lot of crysis Cool game, but, you need a good gpu for VH Anyways, believing that you can run faster is all you need. Don't say what if I can't, say I can do it, it's my dream and I can do anything I want, etc.... then just start running

BigFan's right. That's how I flew for the first time. I believed I could do it, and I could do it.

I tried running on all fours last night, and I definitely found I could go faster.

why run when you can fly?

dont think you can... know you can.

haha but seriously..

When I want to run super speed I don't try to run really fast, I do a mind-trick. I sort of warp time or warp my perception. I visualise myself travelling further faster in a shorter amount of time. In a way I'm teleporting but its happening as a continous blur-motion effect. What I'm trying to say is you don't actually need to run faster, you could in fact just stand still and still move across the ground an incredible distance at an incredible speed - its all in the mind.

I just tell myself like Morpheus tells Neo in the Matrix... do you think you are breathing real air? Once I am over the fact that my legs wont get tired nor will i be breathless because its a dream then I run pretty fast. But usually if you can try flying. I find flying or jumping long distances easier than running fast for a long time

Originally Posted by sora12

Whenever I try to run in my dreams I run in super slow mo and I need to catch my breath a lot. Do you have any tips on how to fix this?

Hi Sora, this happens to me to in regular dreams a lot when i try to run. My brother told me once about it as well he has the same and some other family members and a friend told the same thing about running when i asked them.
Especially when you are on the run for something it's almost scary to be caught or something you wanna run and run and run but you just seem to go slower haha feels like running through a force or a strong wind.

Try imagine running trhough this kind of waves (from the bigger part to where it smallens) and that the tunnel is dragging you forward and kinda shoots you trough the little hole at the end. I actually do this in RL and it's not really very effective there but I'm quite sure it could work in dreams =)