Thread: What's it Feel Like?

Originally Posted by DreamVortex

and whatever you do, don't think that you can't do it

I'm sorry? I thought being able to control dreams was all about believing that you are able to do things?

Originally Posted by Plathix

Originally Posted by DreamVortex

and whatever you do, don't think that you can't do it

I'm sorry? I thought being able to control dreams was all about believing that you are able to do things?

Never heard of a double negative? Or are you one of those americans who regard a double negative as a singular? "I didn't do nothing"

semantics aside.. I think the point was, as soon as you doubt yourself in an LD, things become more difficult or worse, impossible

Sometimes it feels like swimming, other times it feels like jumping with low gravity, sometimes it feels like flying like superman or Neo. But always I feel like "I knew I could fly! It is so easy!"

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Sometimes it feels like swimming, other times it feels like jumping with low gravity, sometimes it feels like flying like superman or Neo. But always I feel like "I knew I could fly! It is so easy!"

Oh yeah, I totally get the jumping with low gravity thing.

Though usually that happens to me without trying. Like, as soon as I become lucid, flying/floating just happens spontaneously. Sometimes even when I don't want it to. It's weird, I rarely 'try' to fly in an LD because it almost always happens automatically. Interesting, I never really thought about it before until this thread....

Low gravity jumping induced my second lucid. I was running and jumped over a lamppost and while midst air I realised: "Hey, I read on DV about low gravity being a dreamsign. I'm dreaming!" I did the nose punched, but I woke up while doing it...

You're going to laugh, (and i hope you do ), but try thinking about chickens or birds and start flapping your arms, just do it, do it and don't think about 'How this would/wouldn't work'. eventually you should get some lift, That's how i started, because i would do it Lucidly and when it didn't work i would lose interest just enough to not be lucid but still be dreaming and then the dream would have me still flapping and make me fly... Then in the dream after that i was like hey i flew last time, lets do it again and i "knew" i could because i already had, so i did.

I started as i described but as i started designing my dreams i wanted a more stable, effortless way of flying that appealed to me. So i took the DBZ route and used the explanation given of how to fly, and now i'm a Class 7 Goku flyer lol, jk but yeah when i fly it's like i'm willing myself threw the air. I almost always "feel" g-force and turbulance. Makes for a more realistic flight
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Originally Posted by Wikihan

Never heard of a double negative? Or are you one of those americans who regard a double negative as a singular? "I didn't do nothing"

My apologies, I didn't catch that.

It was an example of DV Grammar police on patrol:
I once knew of someone able to pull off a triple negative in a sentence. I forget how he did it now though.


Anyway,

Regardless of the method you use, the feelings you have about unusual experiences seem to determine the success of your experiences.

"Once you have flown you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, there you long to return" Leonardo Da Vinci


There are some nice examples here and I hope you learn new skills and techniques that you wouldn't of thought of.

Although some people have a natural talent for this type of dreaming, with care, patience & persistence, almost anyone can learn to fly with ease.

Good luck
Have fun and sweet dreams…

For me its like being weightless. It can sometimes be hard for me to steer or control my altitude

Sometimes i feel wind and it improves the experience.

I wouldnt think of swimming feeling like flying because flying in a lucid dream should feel like just that. FLYING. not swimming. If you wanted to feel like swimming you could go swimming.

Just a thought

I put up a thread on this...

When I do it I am always in the middle of the dream so flying usually has to be tailored to fit otherwise I end up underground with a glitchy dreamtime. My idea is to attempt a hover everytime you think you might be dreaming; like a RC. With the will one may learn to fly outside the dream in the same manner. Consider the natural levity we experience in the human condition, if you don't fly, no problem, does it matter which is the dream?

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Originally Posted by Wikihan

Never heard of a double negative? Or are you one of those americans who regard a double negative as a singular? "I didn't do nothing"

In spanish double negatives are good grammar. In Spanish, you would say "I didn't do nothing." and it translates to "I didn't do anything"

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

In spanish double negatives are good grammar. In Spanish, you would say "I didn't do nothing." and it translates to "I didn't do anything"

So you can't at all use double negatives in spanish? Too sad. It's a lovely trait of language WHEN USED PROPERLY

anything's possible.. Oxford finally accepted the use of split infinitives in the English language

Originally Posted by Wikihan

So you can't at all use double negatives in spanish? Too sad. It's a lovely trait of language WHEN USED PROPERLY

You DO use double negatives in Spanish and it is proper. You are supposed to use them. It is proper to say, "I didn't do nothing!"

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

You DO use double negatives in Spanish and it is proper. You are supposed to use them. It is proper to say, "I didn't do nothing!"

But do you still mean: I did do something?

Originally Posted by Wikihan

But do you still mean: I did do something?

If you say "I didn't do nothing" you are saying you DID NOT do anything, however if you say "Yo no hice algo", which is "I didn't do anything", it sounds really weird and no one says it that way.