Woo hoo! I have had my seventh lucid (since joining this forum) and I just wanted to share my excitement because I think I met a Dream Guide and I think I learned how to control flying in my dreams. But honestly I am not sure. I have never been strong at dream control and I am wondering if all of this is just a fluke.

Here's the lucid part of this dream, crossposted from my dream journal. It can be read in its entirety here.

(I meet a man who looks like Albert Einstein teaching some sort of class. When I approach him he asks: "Are you ready?" I say yes. He tells the class that I am going to teach them how to fly, because I used to do it all the time in my dreams when I was a child.)

I became lucid because I realized what he was talking about, but protested that I could not fly anymore and had not done so for years. I cannot remember what he said next but it was something about making the air below me solid like the ground. I closed my eyes and imagined an invisible platform below my feet lifting me into the air. There was a loud "crack" and a dull sensation shot from the top of my skull and down my neck as something hard hit my head. I thought for a moment that Albert had smacked my with his pointer, but when I opened my eyes I realized that I had floated up above the classroom and smacked my head on the ceiling. I was excited but also kind of anxious and scared because I felt stuck and did not know how to come down. Albert told me to do exactly what I had done to lift myself up, except in reverse. I closed my eyes and imagined a ball of light above my head and shoulders that was heavy enough to push me downwards.

When my feet touched the floor and I opened my eyes Albert asked me to hover. He said "It's easy. Use the Force." I imagined what the Force (from Star Wars) was like in my own mind, and "felt" the space between the walls, the floor, the ceiling, everything in the room and myself. When I did so, hovering was damn easy. I wanted to show off and fly across the room above the students heads but...

...the damn telephone rang because of a stupid telemarketer (GRRR!!!) and woke me up! What the heck are they doing calling at 8:30 am in the morning anyway! Sheesh! Some people like to sleep in.

I have no idea who the Albert Einstein look alike was. A Dream Guide? Or just a random figment of my subconscious? I know nothing of Dream Guides and have not made any effort to pursue that idea at this point, so I have no clue. I am looking forward to trying to fly the next time I have a lucid dream though.

Thanks for reading!