Yeah so after the first time I managed to fly in a lucid dream, which I did quite well... since then I have had a couple of difficulties. The last 3 times I've attempted to fly I only go up a little ways and come crashing down on my head which causes me to bounce a little bit and then land... It's actually pretty amusing when I'm awake to think about it... but when I'm trying to go somewhere in a dream and instead just repeatedly bounce on my head it is REALLY frustrating... I discovered that the thing that tends to cause me to come falling out of the sky is when I look down. The obvious remedy being don't look down unless you intend to land. Doing this then causes me to ascend to the preposterous heights (I.E. I can't stop going up) Once I try to stop ascending and look down to find where I wanna go... you guessed it... *insert sound of Wile-E-Coyote falling off of a cliff*
Each time I progress to the point where I've just about got it... I can stay airborne for a good while before landing normally. The thing that strikes me as odd and frustrating is that I seem to need to relearn how to do it EVERY SINGLE TIME I become lucid. Every time I become lucid and go up, the second I look down I KNOW I am gonna fall. Obviously knowing this is what causes it to happen, but why is my mind insisting on ignoring the facts that:


1. I have flown before
2. I am well aware that I am capable of flying in the dream world
3. and by the end of this dream I will fly again


Point number 3 is the most important, because while I eventually relearn to fly every time, I waste the entire lucid dream in the process. The other interesting thing to note here is in addition to knowing I am gonna fail at first, I also know I will succeed eventually... Why can&#39;t I know I&#39;m going to succeed on the first try? >_<




So my two questions are:

First off, and I realize this is a mind over matter type thing here, what can I do to keep myself from having to relearn how to fly every time I become lucid?

Secondly, has anyone else experienced the "can&#39;t stop going up" phenomena?