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      How do you Fly?

      And with that, I don't mean, how do you make yourself fly, in dreams.

      But rather...when flying in dreams, what unique way do you fly?

      I personally swim to fly, in dreams. And depending on how fast I want to/am flying, the "more I swim"
      Slow flying=Gliding in Swimming (hands to my sides, feet together...kind of like superman)
      Medium flying= Hands to my side, but kicking my feet
      Fast flying= All out free style

      Then last night for the first time, I actually was "treading water" in sky, in order to stay airborne.


      I am just curious if everybody "swims" to fly, or just me.
      Its interesting, because no matter how lucid I am, I always HAVE to swim to fly. I can't just fly any other way.
      I never fly with wings for instance.

      Anybody want to share how they fly?

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      My flight doesn't require a particular motion; I just go where I want to go.

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      Kinda like Superman I guess usually, but I'm quite often wary of falling, and then of course I do sometimes! Don't seem to be able to get very high up (ie outer space) but high enough for my needs right now, probably to do with the fear of falling. But yeh Superman, it just kinda happens, I'm just like "I'm gonna fly now" and then I just do really without much thought, that's about the only thing I'm pretty good at controlling in my dreams!

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      wut i do is not breath first. then I float up in the air. once im there, i put my arms to my sides, and i just sort of go
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      It varies. In my lucid dream recently, I had to kinda swim to fly, but just one stroke got me pretty far. Sometimes in normal dreams I just fly where I want. Sometimes it's like I have some sort of helium or something in me that I control that makes me go higher or lower.

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      I always used to use the swimming technique just to gain altitude if i had
      grounded myself in the dream for a closer look on the ground. Once high
      enough tho, i just take off like a rocket. For some reason i couldnt do that
      from the ground. I will always start the flying right from my bedroom and
      just fly outside already high enough to just take off. But....in my last LD,
      from ideas i got in here, when i was on the ground, i just thought of jet
      propulsion from my feet and it worked immediately....and worked fast also!
      I just went straight up! Then took off horizontally like a rocket....always pretty
      fast, i never want to fly slowly in a LD.
      Before though, when i would use the swimming technique to gain altitude,
      it wouldnt always work well and many many times it was more as if i
      were treading water in the air. When this would happen i would climb a
      pole usually to jump off and then take off from there. But now ive got
      the grounded thing figured out...foot-jet propulsion. I had to actually think
      of it for it to happen, i dont have to think about it once im higher up.
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      I usually just imagine a force pushing me in the desired direction. It's very easy to reach high speeds this way.

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      i grow wings but only coz it looks cooler

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      to fly i have to run as fast as i can and then jump of the ground. I start flying and just go like superman. Ive tried to swim but it never worked. It seems i need momentum to get airbourne

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      Quote Originally Posted by drewmandan View Post
      My flight doesn't require a particular motion; I just go where I want to go.
      Same here. No momentum or flapping required, I just will myself off the ground and all around. However, I usually find that I tend to lean into the direction that I am flying, and if I am flying very fast I might even be completely horizontal. In those instances I will often put out my arms in a "superman" style to get the full experience .

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      I just think about flying and the next thing I know I am shooting through the air like a bullet. Sometimes when I have trouble I have to change it up, like do breaststroke or wiggle my body like a dolphin does.

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      90% of the time I'll swim through the air using breastroke method.. the other 10% I'll Just look where I want to go to and then I'll be taken there. I've tried the superman method before but I dont seem to get much acceleration.

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      The swimming while flying is the start of learning to really fly.
      It started this way when I was like 5 years old. Then you will develop to be able to put your hand through "solid" objects and walk through them. Then you will do telekinesis. Gradually you will be able to fly higher and more easily.

      So keep up the practising.

      After these stages you will get many more abilities that resemble magic.
      Then at a certain point you will be spiritually tested...

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      I don't have a sense of my bodies position.

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      I began flying as an extension of the running leap. Then as I got older it turned into a swimming motion (probably because I spent so much time swimming as a kid in CA). Eventually I added a rope-climbing motion to help me get higher when swimming like the dickens didn't quite cut it. Now I mostly just want to fly and then I'm doing it -- zooming without using any symbolic motion.

      I fly in any position -- superman style, sitting, on my back, feet first, standing, etc.

      Height or speed is only ever a problem if I anticipate that it will be. So the current flying goal is to forget to anticipate trouble! So hard sometimes!
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      I swim to fly.
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      I jump and tense my leg muscles. I don't really move anything when I'm flying.

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      Cool Flying

      I grow wings =) works quite well, I have issues with flying =P

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      My last lucid I tried running down the interstate and jumping, then I fell on my face. :/

      So I'm going to try jumping off a building with wings next time.

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      Last Sunday I had my first long (well, 3 minutes) and tried to fly. I only managed to hang in the air for a bit though.
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      Sometimes i just start floating off which is what triggers me to be lucid, sometimes if I try to fly intentionly I just run while leaning forward and have my arms in a superman kind of way and jump

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      I like gliding the best. It's the easier for my mind to imagine because I hang glide. Of course in my dreams I'm more nimble than a hang glider

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      Levitation + direction of wherever I want to move, or wings. Wings look cooler but are harder to use <.<

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      Move as if I'm grabbing a sphere in each hand and move the the direction away from my hands.
      My hands behind me I go forward, there under me I go up.

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      I too swim. No other method works for me, but swimming does quite well.

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