Flying in a Lucid dream

[kozzi]

The first lucid dream I ever had was absolutely wonderful.  It lasted for about 3 minutes, and I flew most of the time.  I remember that I was so amazed that everything was so clear.  I looked at my arms and they were glowing, and I was flying with them outstretched in front of me like Superman.  As I approached a skyscraper, I realized that I didn't have to fly like that, and I immediately came to a sitting position and flew up to the top of the skyscraper.  I landed with so much force that the concrete roof tiles broke apart under my feet.  I remember standing there looking out at a night-time harbor below me with boat lights moving across the bay, and the wind blowing in my face.  I felt so powerful and free.  

I still haven't quite had a dream that's lasted as long as that one, but I do have lucid dreams somewhat regularly (maybe once a week).  When they are really clear I get too excited I think, but I do fly most of the time.  

Kozzi

[Lickerish]

I have been flying in my dreams now for many years and it has been as true to life as possible.
When I was about anywhere from 1 - 4 years old I began levitating and would float down the hall of my apt. about 4 feet from the ground and for short distances such as to my bedroom.
In my dream world I wasn't old or strong enough yet to fly it was just like learning how to crawl and then to walk.
It took time but then one day when I was anywhere from 5 - 7 years of age I was leaning out of my bedroom window when suddenly I began to float out of it and out of the apt.
There I was a young girl outside her building 3 flights up from the ground an in mid air!
I was very startled and almost afraid but then I began to move and actually fly slowly through the air for a little bit before I flew downwards and landed safely on the ground.
Later on in time with the 1957 Superman from the old Adventures of Superman tv series as an example of how to fly, take off, land, etc. I became almost as strong, and skillful as he was at doing it.
It is something that is very freeing and fun that I still enjoy very much doing to this day in my dreams! []

[Michael_E]

quote:Originally posted by Nick


There are only so many lucid dreams that come my way. I am lucky if I can get a couple each month so I'm happy when they occur. Last night I was lucid and did my favorite thing which is to fly. For some reason, when I fly in lucid dreams, I usually start mentally playing the music from the 1978 Superman movie. It's kind of funny, but I seem to get a kick out of it while lucid. []

Anyone else have any interesting flying dream experiences?

i had a lucid last night and couldnt fly, I think because i wasnt situated enough in consciousness in the lucid world. What i did to get situated there better was to allow myself to fall forward from a standing position and right before hitting the ground i would stop and float, then fly around. A kind of either hit the floor or fly situation helped out for that just in case anyone cant fly.

[Lickerish]

Sometimes I dream about the old 1957 Superman from the show the Adventures of Superman in either color or black and white.
We are good pals in my dreams and enjoy an occasional flying race together but he almost always cheats and then has an impish grin on his face while doing it! []

[Nick]

Given the replies from all of you it seems that a number of us have these flying dreams. I thought I would check the website of the Lucidity Institute (http://www.lucidity.com) to see what I could find. The following is from their website:

"Flying dreams and lucid dreams are strongly related in
several ways. First, if you ever find yourself flying without
benefit of an airplane or other reasonable apparatus, you are
looking at a fine dreamsign. Second, if you ever suspect that
you are dreaming, trying to fly is often a good way to test
your state.

If you think you are dreaming, push off the ground and see if
you can float into the air. If you are indoors, after you fly
around the room, look for a window. Go out the window, and
strive for altitude. Curiously, more than a few dreamers
(most likely city-dwellers) have reported that they sometimes
find an obstacle in the form of electrical power lines that
seem to prevent their passage. And some of these oneironauts
report a surge of energy, often accompanied by a burst of
light, when they fly through the "power" lines.

Flying is fun, and therefore worth doing for the sheer joy of
it, even if you aren't determined to reach a specific
destination. People seem to be able to fly in just about any
manner imaginable, according to the hundreds of reports we
have received. Many people fly "Superman style," with their
arms extended in front of them."

[TheSeeker]

I had my first OBE a few weeks ago, and although I lost sight after about 10 seconds I was flying very easily.

I could dart in any direction and stop on a dime.  I wasn't flying like superman, just darting which ever way, doing loops and spinning around.  This didn't last too long, and everything after about 20 seconds gets fuzzy in my memory.

[holy reality]

"Curiously, more than a few dreamers
(most likely city-dwellers) have reported that they sometimes
find an obstacle in the form of electrical power lines that
seem to prevent their passage."

All the time

It used to be a huge deterrant... I wouldn't go near them... I'd fear them...

But I realized part of lucid dreaming and all this stuff I"m doing is to over come earthly burdens such as fear... it's like the Matrix.. remove yourself of all doubt...

So I just fly into them now, I still get reluctant to do so, and they tend to shock me, but once I get shocked a few times they usually stop appearing.

As for flying itself, I have quite the trouble gaining significant altitude.. I want to be thousands of feet off the ground soaring through the sky, but USUALLY I can't..

What I've found is I'll LOOK like I am, but i'm actually just a foot above the "ground" and it's just really tiny ground....

Sometimes I'll be flying with no ground in sight under me and all I'll of a sudden just be walking on top of something... it sucks

sometimes though I'm capable of flying very fast and doing manuevers and it's very fun usually... one time I went soaring through the clouds quite effectively, until I found that I was about 100 times better at diving than I was at climbing, and I barreled into the ground and had difficulty getting back up to where I came from.

I think it's kind of like literally learning to walk though, flying is in your dreams... being a human I don't know how to fly so it's something new to me that I'll get better at each time, hopefully.... I just hope that my mind is creative enough to truly let me go at supersonic speeds and out into space and stuff... because I've never been into space, just what I perceived to be space but was actually a crappy carboard cutoutlooking scenery scape of sorts....

Alice effect? I guess.... I'd like to be able to actually OBE into the  "real world" and do realistic things and go to REALISTIC PLACES... i.e. when I say I want to go to Las Vegas I don't end up in some weird fantasy looking Las Vegas.

also, when testing to see if you are dreaming by trying to fly, please don't jump off of anything [:O] seriously.... just try to levitate from where you are at the time....

I know when I become lucid and I'm on a skyscraper I love to fling myself off it and fall to the ground... but... that's not a good realit check, lol.

[Nick]

quote:
Originally posted by holy reality

I think it's kind of like literally learning to walk though, flying is in your dreams... being a human I don't know how to fly so it's something new to me that I'll get better at each time, hopefully...

That has been my experience as well. As I have had more of the flying dreams I have gotten better at things like maintaining altitude and controlling direction. It is as if we need to leave behind the physical world thinking regarding our physical limitations before we can hone these flying skills in lucid dreams. [8D]

All the best,

[Nagual]

In my case, it's not a question about learning how to fly; it's more about convincing me that I can fly.

When I have a low lucidity, I just fly as easily as I walk.  I don't even think about it; I just do it.  []

But when my lucidity is high, I have a hard time taking off...  I have to push myself from buildings/cliffs, or start by swiming in the air.  And then I can only hover at like a few meters from the ground...  [xx(]

I see it as a conflict between the conscious who believes it's impossible to fly and the unconscious who knows you can.  And you can apply that to other stuff like going through walls, etc...

[Nay]

I fly different ways, at different times.  Funny about the Superman way, I do that and last time I did fly that way, I actually started to giggle at the thought of how I must have looked.[]  Other times I am flying but I don't even have a body, that is when I can zoom here and there, very cool indeed!

One night I found myself flying (without the body) and realized I had my brother with me, we were flying over this inlet that had high rocky cliffs around it.  The beauty of it all was breath-taking.  The water was so clear that I could see under its depths, the wreckage of a plane as we flew over it.

Then we started to lose altitude, I told my brother, "you need to believe, just believe"  I felt it was his lack of belief that was pulling us down. I struggled to keep us in the air, but alas, we came to a soft landing on the top of the rocky cliffs.

My brother doesn't believe in any of this stuff, but I did call and ask him if he remembered anything about flying in a dream and of course no..eh, oh well, one of these days..boy is he going to be surprised! []

Nay []

[Adkha]

I have lucid dreams for a long time now....but the last one is allready a while ago. Actually since I know that others have them to and that these dreams are called lucid dreams, I'm getting them only more rarely :-S Usually I have them when I wake up, and go to sleep again.
In the beginning when I first had them, the main thing I did whas having great sex with anyone But later I reaLized I could fly too. But when I fly I always wake up faster.

Can anyone give me suggestions go get my lucid dreams back so I can learn more from it?

[holy reality]

"Can anyone give me suggestions go get my lucid dreams back so I can learn more from it?"

What? You mean have lucid dreams more often? Or actually go back and repeat the same dream again?

I'm not sure if you can do that, but if you wake up in the middle of a lucid dream and it's still kind of early in the morning it's usually pretty easy to go back into the dream by thinking about the last memory you have of it and the very last thing you experienced, and visualizing that, and imagining you are still in it. Eventually you transition back in.

To have them more often either think about your dreams all the time during the day and think about being lucid and what you want to do, or everytime you look at your hands or look at your watch or take a drink of water duruing the day ask yourself "am I dreaming" until it becomes a habit.

Also whenever you see something weird during the day also ask yourself that...

last night I was at this crappy amusement park and they were building the most amazing looking roller coaster ever, and I couldn't believe my eyes, and this triggered some sort of response in me becuase I know there is no way in hell there is ever going to be a good roller coaster built where I live, so I was like "do you think this is a dream?" to my friend, and he got real concerned and saddened and I figured out it was a dream, but we continued exploring the park as if it wasn't, only we would talk to the employees and tell them to build this ride in real life.

so just make a habit about associating the weird and unexpected with dreaming.

[Nick]

The website I posted above has some tips to help become lucid. There are certain dreamsigns to look for, as well as techniques for reminding oneself that they are in a dream.

The book to read is Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and is also mentioned at the Lucidity Institute's website.  []


Very best,

[holy reality]

hmm...

lately I have been able to achieve high speed/high altitude flight, but when doing so I have NO control over myself and where I'm going....

am I getting better at flying or is it just random limitations depending on the type of dream I'm in? Becuase last night I couldn't for the life of me fly fast.. but the first time the real fast flying happened I was actually trying to slow myself down and couldn't really do so.

it kind of had something to do with arm position though... when I drew my arms in to my sides I went faster but lost control, but if I put one partway outward I could direct myself better....

(kind of true to real physics I guess)

[drbombay]

My most recent lucid flying dream was pretty funny....I had to take off like the flying nun,steering my ascent with my head.If I kept my head pointed up,I could gain altitude,but I kept coming down to earth because I would think to myself "Hey,people don't fly!"But I wanted to show all of my friends and family I could,and finally,I just gave up and decided to try again later.I have alot of lucid dreaming experiences,but only a few involve flying.But they make me feel so good when I awake, I wish I could have them naturally, more often.