Thread: What's your method of flying?

Originally Posted by louie54

Apparently, you normally wouldn't want to fly too high because you will start losing stability, mainly if you are lucid. Not always the case though. One time I had a lucid and I flew straight up and went into outer space.

I tried flying into space. I went straight up but eventually it got too difficult and I gave up. I didn't have any trouble with losing stability, but I just couldn't get any higher.

My method of flying is letting go. The less you think about the easier it is. Try to focus on doing something else and then just move around in the air. If you don't think about it is just like walking. Another method is superman style, which works incredibly well for people who have difficulty flying.

It used to be I couldn't really fly, I had to bounce off buildings, tress, and anything else high up. It was fast, and I always made it to the next building, but my mind went "nu-uh, not happening." Sometimes, I can fly by flapping my arms bird style, but that's tireing.

Now that I sprout bird wings, however, I have no problem flying. I have a really hard time giving myself powers, it's like my subconciuos goes, "Nope, you have to follow the story. No Mary-sue (or Gary) for you!"

Sprinting very fast usually does the work for me, knowing that the earth is spheric, I'll just jump and go higher and higher ( a bit like in super mario galaxy).

Heck I once tripped while sprinting super fast and ended up being an living asteroid


Fiddling with gravity ain't my stuff, I once did and ended up falling in the sky... weird!

I'd like to try growing wings and fly with them.. unlike flying with the collar of my shirt

Originally Posted by MoonshoesPotter

I tried flying into space. I went straight up but eventually it got too difficult and I gave up. I didn't have any trouble with losing stability, but I just couldn't get any higher.

Yeah, I haven't had much problems with this myself. Space was a neat experience though

Originally Posted by CliffDreamer

My method of flying is letting go. The less you think about the easier it is. Try to focus on doing something else and then just move around in the air. If you don't think about it is just like walking. Another method is superman style, which works incredibly well for people who have difficulty flying.

I agree totally, just expect it to happen.

When I was a kid and first learned about dream control, I used to fly like Mario does in Supermario 64. Soaring slowly down, going down fast to be able to gain speed and go back up again. I noticed that this was ineffective as I always ended up scraping the ground with my stomach.

This spring I was getting sick of just going down and not being able to go back up, so I created my own technique based on IRL experience from an amusement park ride. If you've ever been on a ride which shoots you straight up in the air, letting you feel zero gravity; Use it! I just hold out my arms, look down and jump. Remember the feeling of being shot right up, and ofcourse believe that you will. From there I'm able to fly just like superman but with my arms to the sides.

Just like CliffDreamer says. Don't focus too much. Flying can take a while to learn for some, but I think "my" technique is worth giving a shot.

Keep on dreaming!

the best method when lucid is just to know that you can fly and allow yourself to soar up into the clouds. easier said than done but once you nail it once you will never forget it. much better than flapping around. dream props are also great for this

i had a great but barely lucid one last night in which i was using a massive plastic bag as a parachute/wing in a gale. sometimes its more fun to have less control and smash into the ground a few times

I don't think I'm flying -- just making huge leaps. I can run hella fast though! If I focus on a destination that's far away as a method to get myself in the air, I usually end up teleporting.

Just had a chain of LDs last night and I couldn't get up more than 20 feet into the air :-/

I personally have had a struggle with flying. I've been working on it for many many years. It started out that I would fly as something else. Like once I was a Power Puff girl and could fly. Then I gradually worked my way up as myself. I used to float a lot. I'd jump really high and then slowly come down but a few 100 yards in front of where I started. After awhile I could fly for some time but then my body would come down to the ground and I wouldn't be able to keep myself from going down. There were times I'd come to the ground on my stomach and wouldn't be able to even stand back up. Now I have found the way to fly for me and to keep it going is to concentrate really hard. I have to always be focused on where I want my body to go. I can't let my mind wonder at all or it won't work. I'm actually a lot better at it now the only problem I have is that I'm usually a spectator of myself flying as opposed to actually being in the body of the flyer and feeling what it's like. Hopefully I get that next.

hmm I dont really think about flying at all. It is just natural to me. Like walking i can be flying around and reall not even be thinking about flying just doing it as i think about something else

At first, I just thought I was like Superman and went into the position, with an arm or two in front of me, and I was able to fly. But recently when I tried, it wouldn't work. So in my last LD, I just said "Flame on!" My body was on fire, but I didn't feel any heat, and was able to fly very easily, and quickly =D

fly? no, never. But I find that I glide very easily! Of course I never tried to fly before.

Never tried to fly? i thought that was one of the very basic dream powers that was in 90% of lucid dreamers repertoir. How could you never have even tried? It is a very deep wish that everyone has at some point and dreams are the perfect place to live that dream out.

I flew like Superman once.

In another one, I was fighting a lot of people at once and did a flying kick. I never really landed down. I just kept flying into people with my foot outstretched.

It was epic.

Let me just say this is my first time posting and I think it is wicked awesome that there are other lucid/vivid/dream controllers out there who I never knew existed before.

So flying in my dreams has become my number one favorite thing to do. If I'm still on the ground (sometimes I start out flying) all I have to do it start running and then jump once off the ground. If it doesn't work the first time I just try again. Then I use my arms going up and down like bird wings.. it sort of feels like moving your arms through water, kind of thick (the air). But it isn't tiring at all. And I just continue doing that to go higher and higher, or hold my arms out straight to make my descent. Usually I just end up hovering above a city at night, staring down at everything. Sometimes it gets pretty cold up there at night though.. can someone teach me how to create myself a sweater? I also have a second method that I have used only once. It was a small plane looking type thing (I know there is a name for it) that is controlled by using your feet with bike-type pedals (now that part I think I just made up). I used one of those to fly quite high over the country-side for a long time but my legs actually got sore.

I remember when I was younger I used to try the same thing (sprinting and then jumping) but I would always get about twenty feet up and slide back down again. I wonder why it is now that it is so simple?

I've always had flight trouble. I think that I blurred the dream/reality line one (or more...) too many times, to the point that even in a lucid dream it's too "real."

One method that usually works, but takes a lot of concentration, is to jump and try to think about that freefalling feeling you get going down. That falling dream? Harness that feeling. I usually fall up, though the speed varies. The more frustrated I get, the slower I go. Though I have flown rather fast, and my favorite flight is to get as high as I can and just float on a windstorm. WHEEEEE!

I can stand relaxed in a field and be shot straight up like 300 yards and float there and control it. But I have to be completely relaxed for it to happen. It's like going over a huge bump in the highway...like the hellevator at the PNE.

Right from the beginning I would use my hands to press gravity down. run and push. Then I started to doggie paddle in the sky. Then the breast stroke. the floating and taunting of the ones below. I was little then. Then the cable wires to get through. Now I can (once I get through and over the wires) go real high and press my arms at side to go faster over the dark cold mountains. I agree on needing a sweater. I often hold my sister (who died) to my breast and tell her to hang on for the ride. Very strange.

-Swimming
-Superman method

I fly by flapping my arms, or swimming. I never get tired.

DBZ style.

I just run and jump into the air. Has worked every time, but twice I've woken up when I was like 75 feet in the air. But I mean it was pretty easy, I just knew I would be able to fly. I didn't say, oh I'm going to jump and fly, I just do it. The furthest I've flown is past a park in my backyard and then landed because I saw a light coming out of a door in a house. It was the only house that was lit so it seemed kind of weird.

I just fly. I don't even jump, I just fly up in the air. For me, it's about confidence.