I learned to fly in a rather odd way.

i had a falling dream and hit the ground (mentioned in the dying thread). after that, (during the same dream) i had a 'flying dream', only it wasn't quite flying.

in the dream i was walking through a desert town, with tumbleweeds blowing around me, watching the tumbleweeds made me think of the wind, at which point the wind became extremely strong and i had to lean against it just to stay upright.

from this point on, everything that happened in the dream happened because i thought about it, i thought 'wow the wind is so strong it seems like it might even pick me up off the ground', which of course it did.

it lifted me EXTREMELY high, i was at cloud level in a couple seconds, i got scared of the height and thought 'i hope the wind doesn't let up and drop me', which of course, is the very next thing that happened.

I managed to recover before hitting the ground by thinking of it lifting me up again (this is about the point that i started to make the connection between my thoughts and 'reality' shortly following them, and is when i became 'semi-lucid', i sortof knew i was dreaming, but not on a totally conscious level (which is probably good, the first time i did have total LD i instantly woke up).

after that i managed to take a small amount of control over it and had the 'wind' blow me around different ways by thinking about it, so i was flying, but not really under my own power.


since then, i've had several flying dreams, and a recurring theme in them is me needing some sort of 'crutch' or semi-plausible explanation of why i'm able to fly. after that first dream, i didn't need to use wind anymore, but I WOULD need to flap my arms like a bird in order to fly.

I can also never manage to fly if another character in the dream is watching me, I can only seem to do it unobserved, i had one very frustrating dream where i was trying to show everyone that i could fly but i could only do it when they looked away, if they were looking at me i just flapped my arms and looked like a dumbass.


when i 'fell' and caught myself in the wind dream, that was very douglas adams ish, I don't actually agree with his method of 'throwing yourself at the ground and missing'. but what i DO strongly agree with is his advice not to think things like 'this can't possibly be happening!' because right after you think that, it wont be! it's much better to just sortof, drift, and kinda not really pay that much attention to the fact that you aren't supported by anything.