Thread: Does flying really ever get easier?

it shouldnt really be that hard to do anything in a dream, its a dream, before going to sleep try mnemonic induction, tell urself that u can fly and in your dream jus jump and expect to be flying, or use the spinning technique and picture urself flying through a cloud or something

Flying is hard for me in most dreams; like you described, I often lift off the ground momentarily before losing the lightness and falling down again. In my childhood, I dreamed of flying without inhibitions or doubt. However, I'd never tried flying in a lucid dream until yesterday, and it worked pretty well.

The dream started as a non-lucid one, and I was standing in my back yard. I looked up into the sky like I do in real life sometimes, just daydreaming, and I got an intense feeling of lightness, like I do in real life. It's the kind of feeling that makes me just want to take off into that twilight sky so that I half-believe I could. Well, I half-believed it here, still unaware that I was dreaming, and I almost consciously said to myself, "Well, let's see if we can." And with that, I was effortlessly floating off the ground, and I realized that I was dreaming. It was one of the most exhilerating lucid experiences I've had, and I continued to fly until I wanted to stop and pursue other activities.

Maybe if you're looking for a real-life reference for how flight feels, you could just imagine how it would feel. For me, it helps to look at a wide-open sky, especially at twilight. But what may work for me may not necessarily work for anyone else, so you just have to find what gives you that sensation of lightness. I wouldn't recommend jumping off of a building, but maybe riding rollercoasters or simply being at a high elevation could give you some points of reference.