Whats your flying skill level?

Hey DV members, i thought it might be cool to have a flying skill poll where everyone can post their current skill levels of flying in LD's.

1 - I can't fly yet :(
2 - I can hover slightly but can't maintain it
3 - I can fly quite high but cant maintain it
4 - If i concentrate i can maintain flight/hovering
5 - I can initiate flight anytime i want
6 - I can fly in a variety of styles
7 - I can fly at exceptional speeds
8 - I can fly almost anywhere i want
9 - I can fly anywhere, anytime at any speed. I am god of flight

Please pick which level best describes you, noting each level includes all the levels before it.

Also, if anyone has any awesome ideas for flight, or has had some cool experiences, please post them here.

uh oh screwed the poll and it wont let me change it...how embarrasing

Level 1 - I still need to get used to the land of lucidity. :(

level 9-I AM A FLIGHT GOD lol :)

Lol, do non-lucid dreams count? ;) I haven't thought of flying in a lucid yet. (just never occured to me when I was dreaming) But if non-lucids count I would probably be a 2. :P

Level 9, if you're interested you can check out my flying in my lucid dream journal (link in my signature) I fly in most of them.

I chose Level 6. When the situation calls for it I have no difficulty attaining flight. The only problem is the vividness, many times it is a weak and a forgettable feeling (like no wind exists).

Mine is level 9, because i believe it is.


=P

Yea i know im cheating but so what..

Level 8 for me.

I can initiate flying whenever, I can fly as fast as I want, and with pretty much perfect control. Only thing is, I haven't tried flying into space or through things yet.

Maybe there should be fewer groups for the poll.............. Otherwise, I can always fly, when I have a lucid. The latter being the problem.

First try I flew high, but later on I started to fall. So I guess level 3.

Level 2. My flying dreams have been low-lucid so as soon as I get to a certain height I get nervous and fall. Plan to work on it more, though.

I would say a level 7 or 8. Sometimes my flying can really suck and I can hardly get off the ground.

8, I guess. Once I get lucid, I have no troubles with flying at all. I can't say I mastered it, trough, accidents happen once every a while.

I'd say 8. Its amazing how fast you can get good at flying. I only havent went super high yet.

when I fly I don't really control were I go..I guess I could but I never think of it

i said seven because it depends on my mood in my dream to how well i can do things. most of the time i can fly pretty well.

Cheers for all the replys guys, looks like a fairly even distribution so far, with a few people still having trouble getting off the ground.

For those that can't fly, i can't reccomend enough that you keep at it, it's by far my favorite LD activity.

As for my own level, i would probably say 7, because i cant get into space yet.

My favorite way to fly, is by using telekinesis on myself. I always suggest to people to learn to use TK, then just use it on themselves and be an instant master of flying.:)

Granted I haven't had a chance to try in months, back in the day it was probably a 2-3, I chose 2 for this poll.

Er...the poll didn't have a #4 option so I just went with 3. :)

In non-lucids I have pretty much gone all the way to 7 but maintained flight at that stage pretty much wakes me up. :P

I would have to say a level 5 because I don't necessarily fly--I jump. My jumping is extreme, like a flee. I can leap over tall buildings in a single bound, if you will. If need be, I can jump far enough that one could consider it flying, e.g., jumping over farmlands in the midwest to arrive at someone's house; nevertheless, I "sense" the experience as a jump.

I know exactly what you mean Cypocryhpy, i do the same, sometimes i prefer jumping.

I like to combo it up by jumping as high as i want, then gliding back down.

It's like i can feel the power build up in my legs before the jump, and i know that i have the strength to jump as high as i want, its awesome.

But my fav would have to be fast, low level flight, especially over water, superman styles. :P

I only started flying this month and I'm a level 5.

Flying doesn't really feel like flying to me and as a result I seem to have few restrictions. Rather than using some force to resist gravity, gravity doesn't apply to me and most of the time I don't have a body so I can just pass through stuff.

I've had 2 flying dreams in my adulthood (I recall a couple when I was very young), both were lucid. In the first one I decided to attempt to fly to confirm my lucidity (it was my first lucid dream) and I was able to take off very easily but struggled to control the flight and land.

The other time (last week) I became lucid mid-flight and was able to land. But I then had difficulty taking off again until a DC showed me how by doing a swimming motion. I woke up before attempting to land again.

Overall it's felt like I have no problem flying as long as I'm expecting it and not thinking "oh my god, is this going to work?" But once I'm flying the feeling is so cool and intense that I have difficulty not: a) waking myself up; or b) becoming so involved in the flight that I lose lucidity.

i used to have flying dreams almost allt he time... im only 18 nd my flying dreams 'stopped' maybe when i was 16ish? i LOVE flying dreams and maybe its just because i dont get as much sleep as i used to but omg i wish i could just go back to flying;.... any tips?

Flying is the thing I always seem to wind up doing in LDs. That as it is, I've become a pretty proficient flyer over the course of about 7 LDs and 6 months. The main problem is that I need LDs.

Every lucid dream I've had, except one, I have flown in.

I never have problems unless I'm trying to fly too high. Never been successful flying to anywhere above earth's atmosphere. Not Yet, anyways!

Around a 6 - I can always fly once I am lucid, but oddly enough I frequently do not become lucid until I am flying and then I realize I'm dreaming - then I usually increase speed, etc.

whenever i fly its ALWAYS lucid!!!!
i thikn once i went into the atmosphere.. but no space

but the problem is... I DONT HAVE ANY MORE FLYING DREAMS =( saaadd...

Flying isn't hard at all for me. I just go up and about. Although I don't often fly in my dreams anymore because I'm bored of it.

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I never have problems unless I'm trying to fly too high. Never been successful flying to anywhere above earth's atmosphere. Not Yet, anyways!

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I thought you did the task where we flew to another planet?

if i tried to fly aircrash investigation would be on the scene quick smart

I often have trouble flying in non-lucid dreams, or fly in very, very strange ways, but in lucid dreams, I am a pro. Since it's probably the number 1 thing I look forward to in dreams, nothing holds me back, except for losing lucidity and waking up :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuaE80L9y6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZyB_ghpa0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWF8KV4IW5o
(credit goes to http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=57253 for those last two)

I've been watching those before bed. Last night, I had a semi-lucid dream (lost the low lucidity very quickly) where I was flying like in the superhero clip. I wasn't on fire or anything, but I was going that fast. It was awesome :D

The weirdest way I ever flew was the way that yoshi jumps in this game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQGPJcK1d8 I had to keep jumping up and then running in midair to propel myself over houses. This was 10 years ago, when I lived in my old neighborhood and first got that game. It still stands out as the weirdest flight ever.

About a 6.5 I have flown in a variety of ways and by far the best is where I look at the spot I want to fly to, and then imagine myself being 'slingshotted' there, with the feel that my feet are the propulsion and that the angle my body is facing creates the steering.

I can pretty much fly whenever I want to

just jump.......

Level 3.

I have flown in all of my lucid dreams and it was not very hard to do. But I can't fly for a long while or over a long distance!

0? I haven't tried. :o

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Originally Posted by Shift

I often have trouble flying in non-lucid dreams, or fly in very, very strange ways, but in lucid dreams, I am a pro.

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I don't understand how you can fly in a dream without becoming lucid. I know I don't fly in real life, so when I fly, I'm dreaming. If you're flying, wouldn't that fact in itself make you lucid? You wouldn't even need a reality check in that case.

Sorry, I'm just confused. :/

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Originally Posted by luciddream

I don't understand how you can fly in a dream without becoming lucid. I know I don't fly in real life, so when I fly, I'm dreaming. If you're flying, wouldn't that fact in itself make you lucid? You wouldn't even need a reality check in that case.

Sorry, I'm just confused. :/

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...no. What's to understand? It fails to make me lucid the same way that other ridiculous things in dreams may not make you lucid, like talking to the dead, being good friends with people you've never met, being other people instead of yourself, being different animals, going on ridiculous quests, finding strange places familiar even though they aren't real... I'm sure if I made flying a dream sign and did a reality check every time I thought if it, I'd become lucid. But it has never occurred to me, while flying in a dream, that I am dreaming. In fact, I've never had a flying dream where I even questioned my state of reality. I became lucid once while flying, but not because I was zooming around in midair, it was because I was being shot at with an AR-15 and it didn't hurt.

Level 6, I can fly whenever, vividly, just never tried any tricks.