Thread: I realized something today.

Very nice! Congradulations on the lucid.

I too like to fly in my dreams, but I always have a really hard time controlling them. I fly up into the air really high and then usually lose control and fall back down to the ground, crashing and waking myself up or making everything go black. How do you steer your flying and control it easier?

Well, like I said, it's not really that I have a certain method of balancing or controlling it, or anything like that. It really is my primary mode of travel. I generally begin the lucid phase of any LD by making a quick dash forward and leaping off the ground, then zooming around the scenery at breakneck speeds. Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure it stems waaay back to when I was a little kid; I remember excitedly telling my dad about a dream where I was flying, and it's become a fairly regular thing since then. Therefore, it's pretty much just built into me.

So in summary, I guess the best advice I could give would be to... just do it!
Don't think about it, I suppose. Just know that you want it to happen. Sorry I can't really give better advice than that... but please give that a try and see if it works! Given that it's lucid dreaming, it could be the fact that you're focusing on the mechanics too much, so it wakes you up, or your subconscious is having trouble keeping up with the exact details you're trying to impose upon it in real-time.

Originally Posted by OneirosKnight

Well, like I said, it's not really that I have a certain method of balancing or controlling it, or anything like that. It really is my primary mode of travel. I generally begin the lucid phase of any LD by making a quick dash forward and leaping off the ground, then zooming around the scenery at breakneck speeds. Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure it stems waaay back to when I was a little kid; I remember excitedly telling my dad about a dream where I was flying, and it's become a fairly regular thing since then. Therefore, it's pretty much just built into me.

So in summary, I guess the best advice I could give would be to... just do it!
Don't think about it, I suppose. Just know that you want it to happen. Sorry I can't really give better advice than that... but please give that a try and see if it works! Given that it's lucid dreaming, it could be the fact that you're focusing on the mechanics too much, so it wakes you up, or your subconscious is having trouble keeping up with the exact details you're trying to impose upon it in real-time.

Alright, thanks for the advice. I suppose it just will take more practice.

Yep, practice makes perfect. Think The Matrix.