I am pretty confident in my ability to Lucid Dream, i've been doing it since I was a child and the regularity of going lucid is mainly dependent on my getting to sleep on time...

anyway, I have been able to do all sorts of interesting and fun things in my dreams, but for some reason I can not fly. From what I understand, this is a pretty early step for most lucid dreamers but I really can't. I either wake up or basically end up "moon-jumping" with my arms spread to the sky... i've tried jumping off of everything from buildings to trees to catapulting myself

i've broken the barriers of the waking world on numerous occasions (creating, changing, destroying, etc etc) but I can't seem to shake gravity...

has anyone else encountered this, and/or have any advice?

Maybe a certain mind-set or thought that you notice to reoccur while you're up there soaring?

I have it set in my mind that I should go sky-diving, in the hopes of familiarizing myself with what it's like to be out of a plane and up in the air...