Thread: What's your method of flying?

Originally Posted by NrElAx

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.

what did you find at the house?

well when I first started I could just jump up and fly...but now I have to sort of get a running start (just a bit like a jog) and I jump up and kick my legs and like jolt myself up, then I have to sorta flail my arms until I get into my flying position, which is with my arms spread out to the side
I usually can fly really high and really fast, but I like going to the height of around telephone poles, and not too fast. I HATE when I'm going fast and I end up dive bombing into the ground and waking myself up.
A couple nights ago in an LD, I was flying at I ran into a tree xD

Originally Posted by dakotahnok

what did you find at the house?

People about to shoot up heroin hahah. its weird, i got too curious and lost lucidity, but then gained it when I was about to shoot up. I was like wtf am I doing. I think that happened because I saw the movie trainspotting that night.

Originally Posted by erible

well when I first started I could just jump up and fly...but now I have to sort of get a running start (just a bit like a jog) and I jump up and kick my legs and like jolt myself up, then I have to sorta flail my arms until I get into my flying position, which is with my arms spread out to the side
I usually can fly really high and really fast, but I like going to the height of around telephone poles, and not too fast. I HATE when I'm going fast and I end up dive bombing into the ground and waking myself up.
A couple nights ago in an LD, I was flying at I ran into a tree xD

That made me laugh.

I'm excited to have my first long, proper LD just to fly. I've flown in LD's before, but they've all been semi-lucid. I never had the fear of heights, or the disadvantage of proper logic.
When I do try to fly I want to jump of something really high

I have a few different ways to fly sometimes I just fly and not too much effort is required, sometimes I use Rocket Boots like Iron man and once I looked at my feet and pictured me rising up witch worked.

You know I have no problem stablizing a dream or staying lucid, but thing I real haven't gotten grip on yet is dream control in general. I spent and entire 20 minute lucid trying to fly and it just didn't work. When i run and jump I just sort of hover forward on my stomach until i hit the ground. i tried levatating but that didn't work. actualy I can't recall ever flying in a dream lucid or not. the only cool thing ive ever been able to do while lucid really was stoping a car and that wasnt even all that amazing. i just kind of put my hand out and the car hit my hand and came to a dead stop. oh well

The only time I've wanted to fly I just... flew I don't know how to describe it I just sort of went.

Kinda embarrassing to admit, but the first LD I had I flew like Goku.

Even though at that time it had been years since I saw DBZ, I instantly knew I'd rather fly like Goku than Superman. Those bursts of speed you see in the cartoon also happened, it was incredibly realistic, I loved it.

More recently though I find myself flying at a much slower pace to really take a moment and look down at the dream world below. Sorta like Peter Pan.

Yeah. That's much less embarrassing.

Will yourself upwards.
Don't think about it too much or you will break the dream.
Don't try to exert physical force too much or you will break the dream.
Move your body with your mind not with strength.

Looking up and focusing upwards can help.
Also running can help

Once lucid that is my only mode of transportation.

It may be hard to navigate in the beginning but you'll eventually get skilled at it if you practice it enough.

Well I've managed to glide low to the ground, but no flying yet
I'd like to try magic carpet or jet pack, or just Peter Pan style my next lucid dream.

Originally Posted by Ookami

Don't think about it too much or you will break the dream.
Don't try to exert physical force too much or you will break the dream.

Interesting, is this just what you've experienced firsthand?

Originally Posted by IndigoGhost

Think of a falling feather in reverse and you have pretty much got my method.

That's typically how I induce my WILDs.

Originally Posted by Caradon

I use telekinesis on myself.

Ultimately this is how I always fly.

As for the thread topic... I don't have a typical method. It varies from time to time. Often it's like Magneto where I just hover up and up. I've flown like Superman (both arms outstretched) and I've flown like Neo (one arm forward)... I've flown like Iron Man (arms down at my sides) and I've flown like a bird.

But the most exhilarating method of flight I experienced was only once, and I can only describe or liken it to having the nose of a motherfucking rocket in the small of my back, with my torso being the furthest thing forward, forcing my arms and legs back. Think the end of "The Fountain"

I kick off the ground with my ankles while thinking, I'm going to fly now, mentally anticipating what flying feels like. It's a lot like starting to pedal a bicycle: when you start pushing on the pedals, your mind also has to start thinking about what riding a bicycle feels like in order for you to keep your balance.

Hmm I just remembered a method I used a long time ago. I would jump up into the air and while in the air I would jump again and go higher. All I had to do was continue to jump in the air to fly.

The ironic part of all this is that in a dream you are always flying!
There is no real ground, you have no leg bones or legs, holding you against gravity's pull. You are moving purely under the will of your intention to move. Actually you are flying at the height you think your should be walking at.

Interesting... I had no idea there were so many ways to fly.

As for my method, spread my arms out like a child would do if he were pretending he was an airplane seems to do the trick... not sure what that says about me.

When I want to fly, I usually look slightly upward and give a little jump to get off the ground. Sometimes when running after or away from something, I'll suddenly notice that I'm no longer running on the ground. Recently I've been trying to fly in vehicles.

i usually have to grow wings using my shadow, but i need to learn to go without them, im pretty sure that they hinder my speed and mobility.

I can never fly I can just jump really high then look down and freak myself out :/

Originally Posted by SammyTusturize

Easy. I run forward, shoot my legs back and my arms forward, then I just barely think of flying and it works. Very simple.

Yeah thats what its like for me.. I just think about it and it happens.

I get this really joyful feeling from flying, so all I need to do now is just re-create or remember this feeling and I start flying. I've flown so many times now that this feeling is really ingrained into me so its not very hard to reproduce it, its like flying has become second nature.

I used to fly in my dreams when I was a kid. All I would have to do is jump out a window head first and I was off. Nowadays, when I can, I leap up into the sky. I can't necessarily fly but I can leap huge distances... Its awesome

I think if you want to fly you have to change the scene around you. Atleast this is what it feels like for me. You just have to let go of the scene you are standing in, you just fade out everything blurs out then it's easy to fly up. If you are too much focused on the ground ( your scene) it's impossible to fly up, period. So you simply have to defocus on everything (almost fading out to black) and then imagine flying up. For some people this happens naturally and happens really quickly, they just alter their surroundings that's what makes them fly or fly up very quickly because they change the scene around them. Some are too focused on their surroundings. That's what I think about it and how I feel about flying. I only flew once in a LD though.

Let me try to be a little more clear

If you're too focused on your surroundings (the ground in this case) and still attaining lucidity from it, you simply cannot fly. Let go off these surroundings. Defocus and focus on flying. All happen in a fraction of a second.

That is just my theory of how to fly

Originally Posted by Captain Frapo

Interesting, is this just what you've experienced firsthand?

Yeah that was usually always my problem. I would want to gravitate upwards so bad that I would exert physical force (like trying to move my arm to grab on to a wall to push myself upwards) and it would just break the dream. I learned to just know and understand what I'm trying to do without thinking about it and just using will to move myself.

By the way I love The Fountain >.<!! Totally unrelated but I've heard Aronofsky consider that his best work in an interview I was listening to a while back. The hosts literally laughed when he said that. Everyone thinks its just a visually striking movie but its much MUCH much more than that!

i failed becomming lucid once because of flying....I thought I was dreaming and i read that if you skip and try and jump higher each time you will fly....i tried and i hit my hed on the cieling...in my dream i thought this meant i couldnt fly anf therefore was not dreaming lol