How do YOU fly?

[Raihab]

Hey I've been wondering... how does everyone fly? I mean what sensations do you get when flying? what position do you take? how do you lift off? here's how I fly: Lift-Off: When I lift off I just simply run... and jump and then try to get this weightless sensation on the stomach(then again it just comes naturally) that makes me feel that I can keep going up... and up... until I choose to stop going up... the sensation remains though. I can also dive down from a building and slowly curve upward with that sensation Position: After I've lifted off I start positioning myself not superman style(with both arms out) or with just one arm out... I just let my arms be my wings... they're not outspread... they're like 45 degrees away from my sides... Kingdom Hearts Style... Landing: I just simply swoop up(to make my body vertical) and stop the sensation to land. It's like an empty stomach sensation... not a pit though... it's kind of hard to explain... and also it makes me feel... extremely free... lol... and it flying feels so natural to me... so yeah... how do you fly?

[Replicon]

I've found that flying comes VERY naturally to me. I don't recall too many unexpected weightless sensations... I just kinda start floating (sometimes i'll just let myself 'trip' into it... like jumping off a diving board, except you miss the water/ground hehe). Then, as far as flight is concerned... once I'm in the air, and confident (cause i'm in the air!), I can just fly like superman or whatever. No acceleration problems.

[latency]

My flight is Wind-on-Fire style. I jump, but I don't fall. I think the air supports me... I've scorned flying in recent dreams to do other things (like my current obsession with mirrors), but in past dreams my control has allways been strong enough to require very little will power, it is just a matter of pushing myself ina direction and not falling... Man cannot fly becuase he expects himself to fall. Loose the expectation and gravity will release it's grip.

[MartinB]

I only recall once flying in a lucid dream, but flying is something that just occurs naturally to me during my regular dream, providing that the reality of the dream allows for it and there is enough open space. I normally fly by just leaping off the ground, and reach about several hundred metres where I can look down and see the fields and the countryside. From there, it usually takes me some effort to keep airborne. It feels somewhat similar to swimming, still different, and much more responsive, so I can move around fairly swiftly by pushing air in the opposite direction. I normally begin to fall pretty fast if I don't put effort into keeping in the air, but never fear hitting the ground for some reason, and sometimes I bounce back off the ground into the air again.

[NiGHTS]

I used to run as fast as I could and then just let go of the ground, but now it's more like the ground lets go of me without me thinking about it. My flying is similar to NiGHTS into Dreams, for the Sega Saturn, if anyone's played that game.

[Gargen]

if youve seen the 2nd and 3rd matrix movies, i do it the way Neo does because it looks so cool to my DCs they get all amazed (which just reflects my feelings towards the movies)

[ZappPSR]

I learned here how to use jets. I put my arms down, with hands closed and imagine a beam of light getting out of my hands, as a propeler. Sometimes it is blue, somtimes it is yellow, sometimes it has no collor. But this jet propulsion makes me fly... sometimes real fast...

[NiGHTS]

Originally posted by ZappPSR I learned here how to use jets. I put my arms down, with hands closed and imagine a beam of light getting out of my hands, as a propeler. Sometimes it is blue, somtimes it is yellow, sometimes it has no collor. But this jet propulsion makes me fly... sometimes real fast... Whoa, that sounds awesome! Can you face them in opposite directions to spin around in circles or anything?

[ZappPSR]

Whoa, that sounds awesome! Can you face them in opposite directions to spin around in circles or anything?[/b] NiGHTS, I never tried that... maybe I will next time... Although, spining can take me to another place....

[samf]

what would be the best way to fly that would probably work for everyone. When I did it I closed my eyes and When I opened them I was off the ground. But I'm afraid that may lead to loss of lucid state.

[Remus]

When I take off from the ground in LD's.. it's a lot how Spider-Man jumps off the top of the buildings in Spider-Man 2. xD But, instead of me falling and casting a web, I just sorta keep going up, and can control which way I want to go.

[deeptrance]

I can fly somewhat. I never have fun doing it though. I can never go fast enough. I always seem to drag at an incredibly slow pace. It usually takes me several attempts to fly, but I know when I am going to succeed because I feel a pit in my stomach right before take-off. I usually have to force my body to fly, like by jumping and I have fallen a good few times and scrape my stomach along the ground. Like last night when I tried to takeoff from the back of a bus. I would jump, throw my arms out 90 degrees from my sides, tilt my body parallel to the ground... and skid down the aisle, all the DCs laughing. About the 3rd attempt I managed to take off and luckily the bus roof vanished. I flew around it a couple times going extremly slow and not being able to fly more than 30ft off the ground. Any advice on how to fly faster, higher and more consistantly?

[mustachecake]

I only had about 4 or 5 lucid dreams in my life, so I'm not extremely experienced when it comes to flying (although I'd like to be). In some lucid dreams I tried to just lift up in the air. It was really hard and I only got a foot off the air. I don't think I was lucid enough. The lucid dream I had last night, I did fly though. Well, it was more like, jumping EXTREMELY high and just leaping 1000s of feet at a time. That's always fun.

[sword chucks]

I never did an actual lucid dream but I remember once I did fly in a dream, and I didnt go very high up I can't wait to try some of these methods when I learn how to do lucid dreaming

[night]

After reading the HHGTTG, I thought Douglas Adams had the simplest approach. Throw yourself at the ground... and miss. I generally run into tree limbs and telephone wires before I get too high up, or I'll go up so high that I sort of get lost. I blame the telephone wires and limbs on LaBerge. I think he inadvertently planted those in me.

[Moogies]

First I have to run, and then cross my feet and then jump, I think start soaring against the ground and it feels like geforces are pulling me down. I slowly start to break that barrier and then I begin to fly.

[samf]

Originally posted by Moogies First I have to run, and then cross my feet and then jump, I think start soaring against the ground and it feels like geforces are pulling me down. I slowly start to break that barrier and then I begin to fly. geforces pulling you down? interesting. I just feel like My entire body has been emptied.

[NiGHTS]

Wow, I just flew a shopping cart! I just stood on the back of it and kicked the ground, got speed, hopped in, and sat down. I was rolling really fast, and I just lifted off the ground by pulling the front up. It was like I was flying a little plane, a lot different method of control than how I normally fly. It was pretty cool, I recommend it. It's really fun to crash, too, I hit a bunch of buildings and stop signs and just bounced around and regained control.

[mikeytime]

to fly, i just crouch down real low and jump as high as i can, and i soar up vertically pin straight, then i just think about where i want to move and i move, to land i back up and fly very fast towards the ground, and before i hit i put my legs into a running motion and i run for a few feet before coming to a stop, and flying comes to me easily

[Josh_Mac]

[quote]if youve seen the 2nd and 3rd matrix movies, i do it the way Neo does because it looks so cool to my DCs they get all amazed (which just reflects my feelings towards the movies)[/quote Thats what i do to, you get a real adreniline (SP?) rush

[skwerlfish]

last night i had my first LD where i flied, and it was awesome! First of all, i ran while closing my eyes and just jumped, and when i opened them, i would be in the air, floating. Then, i would get in superman position, and i would move my hands in the direction i wanted to go. I tried some pretty cool tricks, like loop-da-loops, which felt just like a rollercoaster. For landing, i just floated back to the ground.

[existenceisadream]

Years ago when I was a beginner Lder I used to run a few steps and jump and go into the superman position but often I would come crashing down on my face if I didn't have enough belief that I could fly. For a long time now I just run a tell myself to float off the ground while running and it works 100% of the time. Then I go into the superman position most of the time. Something else that I've been doing intead of that though is just to levitate off the ground. This is my number 1 RC. If I try to levitate when I think I'm in a dream I will always levitate sometimes even to my surprise because I was sure it was real life. When I levitate I always put my arms out like David Blaine does in his TV special.

[Dagaz]

Originally posted by DigitalCrash so yeah... how do you fly? Well the few times i have flyed i just jumped in a open area and believe i can do it so i begin to fly, i think this is one of the most easyest things to do in one of my Lucid dreams, it comes even more easy than creating objects.. well when im flying i do it superman style... haven´t had many happy landings.. , i have woke up a few times because of this... PS: my "dream" is to be like Neo, fly destroying all that is behind me at ultra speed, of course this should be at will...