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
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! [:)]
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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. [:D]
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.
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! [:D]
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."
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.
"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.
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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,
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. [:D]
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...
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.[:P] 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! [:D]
Nay [;)]
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?
"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.
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,
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)
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.
I've had many dreams where it felt like I was awke. Like the last one I had was about me and some other people and I had a friend who was a dragon and he explained to me and the others how he had a curse of some sort placed on him and that it was going to make him turn against us soon. So then me and my friends (who i have never seen in real life) said our good byes to him and then he dropped to the groung and lied there screaming. (we were in a tower of some sort) Then my one friend grabbed my shoulder and told me that we had to leave fast. So I stood up and quickly started running towards the ladder down, but the suddenly my exfriend the dragon smashed his head trough the side of the tower, so I jumped down and grabbed this other ladder before I hit the ground and the others followed. We began running towards this forest in the distance and then a woman screamed that we had left he child behind. So we ran back and picked him up and began running again. (I noticed the feeling of the wet grass on my feet and the wind as i ran) then we were a good distance away from the dragon when he finally freed his head from the wall. Thats when he bagan running at us. So we started to run faster. ( i kept looking back watching the dragon it looked soo real) Then the dragon took one great leap and began flying. I noticed a abandonned bus in the distance and told the rest of the group to duck underneath it. Then the dragon took one last flap of its wings and ripped the bus apart from right above us (I felt the rush of wind when it ripped the bus away) Then we all stood up quickly. We were right at the boader line of the forest and ran inside because the dragon was too large to fit between the trees. Thats when we were safe from the dragon. We all sat there sad because our good friend (the dragon) had truned against us against his will. Then I was rudely awakened by my brother. The dream felt real everything about it.
I also had other dreams that felt extremely real too..
This is a fun topic. When I have a lucid dream, I can't seem to do anything except fly. It is annoying when I wake up because I think of all the other things I could have done with the experience.
I go, 'oh cool, I'm dreaming! I should fly!' Previously, I could just take off. Now though, I have to jump a few times before I can get started. Like I have to be high enough up to maintain a cruising altitude.lol
Another thing that happens to me... My friends will be in the dream. And I'm lucid so I know I'm dreaming. But for some reason, I just know they can see me...like they really are there. So I try to show them that I can fly. They don't believe me, so I do it. I'm like..'Hey, check out all my majesty!' Then I wake up and I'm so dissapointed that I can't really fly, because it seems soo real. It's soo great though.
Does anyone have any suggestions for staying grounded in a lucid dream?
Does anyone have any suggestions for staying grounded in a lucid dream?
My first suggestion is try to keep you self from wanting to fly in the lucid dream. Try walking some where and explore the surrounding.
If you still can't keep yourself from flying try to build up a fear of flying. lol
Or just wait till you dont feel like flying any more in lucid dreams. Decide to explore where you are and see if its a place you know or something else.
Hi!
This can really be called a nice topic:)
I seem to be an outstanding personality, because i never thought about flying when i started to learn on how to dream lucid. Although it became very funny when i finally decided to learn it.
I found this superman-stuff not for me, so i tried to fly with another technique: I created some wings and flew with them. It was really a funny experience because it feels quite strange to have wings attached to your back...
I remember my first experience:
I became lucid in front of a swinning pool and created some pressure in my body for isolating energy. I stood there like Goku in Dragonball-Z when he tried to get some energy for his next attack. But i let it all out and saw that these wings were there.
My first tries ended in falling into the water but i quickly mastered to fly a little. Although i did not use my wings for that. I fully concentrated on moving them and finally succeeded. When i got more and more advnced i felt them as if they were really a part of my body.
It is always funny to fly with them but i discovered that human anatomy is not really made for wings. The only thing you can do efficiently is to stand still and sail a little. The whole body is just too heavy for flying faster and the legs always pull yourself down... later i kinda combinded it a little with some gravity-manipulation and it is always funny to do it...
But there are things, wich are even cooler sometimes:D Just take a look at MATRIX 2... the film really offers some amazing tricks. Just hit the floor with your fist like Neo did and imagine the molecules becoming liquid. Then you suck out all of the energy, concentrate it and shoot up into the air, like an arrow. Sometimes it got so fast that i woke up... it`s really cool[:D]
>>>also, when testing to see if you are dreaming by trying to fly, please don't jump off >>>of anything seriously.... just try to levitate from where you are at the time....
I usually had this fear of jumping off a building , even when i was lucid...becuase that fear keeps nagging me that i just may be in real life......but i got over that my telling myself , that if i even have the slightest doubt then it must be a dream...this is pretty usefull for scary situations.....
dream flying is great fun.
Anyone ever breath under water? thats how I usually start flying,
in your dream you first "hold your breath" and you even get the "fear" of drowning, but then it passes as Miracuously you can breath water!
not to mention that I could get sponsored for snowboarding.skateboarding in my dreams, as Im so good at it.
Yes! What a fun topic! It seems like the second I realize I am dreaming, I start to float in the air. I enjoy flying so much in my dreams, it hasn't occured to me to try to curb it at all.
The last lucid dream I had was a few nights ago, I have them maybe once or twice a week depending on my outside stress level, in this one I was flying over a city that resembled Atlantis, as in it was sinking into the ocean. Just the tops of the blue tiled roofs were visible, sparkling in the sunlight. Gorgeous.
Amber
Yeah this topic is cool.
Anyone ever fly into space??
I almost did, but the altitude freaked me out and i dropped all the way down into the ground and i even remember passing out and opening my eyes in reality and closing them again and waking up in a hole in the ground, hurting everywhere.
Sometimes it seems like my confidence resemble my dreams, like when i feel i can take on the world, i have full control in my dream and they very vivid.
This makes sense to me, because with a clearer mind, a high confidence and a lot of other good feelings boost your concentration.
And so i believe that level of control in your dreams depend on your ability to focus.
If this is true, could there be a level where dream en reality are ONE??
Sometimes i reach a point when meditating which seems be exactly between dreaming and reality and it actuallyt feels like 'the real reality' [|)]
I like the name of this forum as it is so close to the title of the Joe Satriani CD, "Flying in a BLUE Dream", (which has made me wonder many times whether or not Joe is a lucid dreamer).
After having had just one lucid dream many years ago, this year I began to do some of the practicing techniques given on many websites, mostly involving deeply thinking about having lucid dreams and also doing many reality checks throughout the day, plus writing down my dreams. There is a free online service whereby you can log your dream journal... it's pretty cool actually. Mine is at http://www.beachmaster.dreamjournal.org/ and I have about 6 recent lucid dreams logged in there now, most of which involve flying.
The flying technique that works best for me is just jumping straight up in the air. In my last lucid dream I felt like I had truly become a master of it and felt totally confident. In another lucid dream I flew way up and then glided back down and went looking for these two ladies and as I came closer to them I just floated sort of casually leaning on my side and began talking to them as I was flying. They didn't seem overly impressed with my flying but did like my sense of humor as I asked them "what's wrong ladies, don't you like men who can fly?" LOL
I love to fly and if that's all I ever did in lucid dreams it would be fine by me! But I do other things, experimenting looking at my hand, or my face in a mirror (weird as hell!).
I think I've had about 3 Lucid dreams in my entire life and they all involved flying.
It seems we all would like to fly, because in reality our human form is so limited.
I find it hard now days to remember my dreams, sometimes I awake and they are all so clear.... but then through-out the day they start fading.
I have been flying in dreams quite a few times, but those were in dreams where I didn't realize it was a dream.
A few days ago I actually realized I was dreaming/out of body whatever! And when I did I thought...time to practice flying! Nothing happened, tried to jump up a few times and get a grip in the air..but failed miserbaly..
I think I woke up/warped to a less concious dream after that again...
"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...
THANKS HOLY REALITY!
I used to have major fear issues with that. I wanted to overcome them but did not know what would happen if I hit one, so I was afraid to try. Now I know it is ok, I plan on flying straight for them!
Thelou
If I could do only one thing forever it would be to fly....
[;)]
I'm currently learning lucid techniques to increase my fly time. I love flying, I can't get enough of it. My only problem is that I become aware only when I'm in mid flight, which usually happens when I realize that I am way too high. That means that I don't know HOW to fly just yet. It might happen by jumping off a swing which just happens to overlook a forest at the top of a cliff. I just ascend and keep flying higher, when, I guess I look down and then my stomach feels exactly like it does when I ride those massively tall and fast roller caosters. At that point most of the time I begin to fall down and land hard, but ok. Sometimes I find myself just heading straight up through skyscrapers. The strangest was when I was holding a clothes hanger above my head, and then I began to float up, but I guess I realized the silliness of the situation, and then began to descend. The interesting thing about that, was that by the time I realized I was losing my flight capability, I begin to THINK about ascending upwards again, and I did manage to float for about ten feet more. Then I woke up. [B)]
I have had several flying/lucid dreams since starting on writing my dreams down a month or so ago. On last Friday Morning I just projected myself into a picture of a hypnagogic image and it turned into a film instead of a picture and I was flying above the people on a basketball court for a few seconds.
On Sunday morning I was in a dream sitting on the ground in front of a house and just started slowly going upwards, my legs underneath me. I flew around over people's heads(there was a sort of party going on) and tried but failed at first to fly to the clouds above. I tried again and managed to reach them and tested going through them, how the clouds felt and so on. Then I saw a really dark cloud and thought I would go through it but I could not. It was pretty solid. Iwas suddenly again sitting on the ground and went back inside the house. All the people were gone and I asked how long I had been gone.
I think maybe the dark clouds are subconscious problems I have to get at. Old memories or deep set attitudes. At any rate after worrying about these problems half the day the rest of the day I felt really relaxed and without stress or time pressure.
My problem with Lucidity is that I hardly ever notice it is a dream directly through logical reality checks. Either I fly or I do not and otherwise I do not get it.
A few weeks ago I got angry in a dream as I was being attacked and I just flew away as I had the suspicion the whole time that I was in a dream( I was blocked in that dream by building cranes from going higher).
The more I do this the less the lucidity is threatening or stressful. But now although noone is attacking me like that my subconscious problems are still blocking me(clouds).
I thought of taking a sword to those clouds afterwards during the day like RB described. This might do the trick with other blockages other people have as well.
The absolutely coolest flying dream I had was last summer when I was not into lucidity or writing down my dreams at all. I had just seen a while before Matrix reloaded and Matrix for the first time. After a fight with a man who I thought would kill me or something I just put my fist up like Neo and flew straight up and over the big city and the people looked up and thought I was Superman. I then landed in some isolated place by a big dam and met with UN officials and important world officials. Now that really was just a dream. No one in their right mind would think that sort of stuff when lucid.
Yo, I had just had the greatest experience! I was in the same dream as that of a friend of mine.
I was teaching him to fly, and I did that only by showing him what I did with my energy, i was flying on my lower dantien. And he just felt it and immidiately he could also do it. I spoke with him the next day and he told me he had the weirdest dream, which to him felt like I was in it and he told me exactly waht i dreamt but from his eyes seen. Even what we wear wearing and what the erear looked like.
It was no coincendce, cause had been out in the cuty together the hold day and practically had done the same things. So we were on a same level.
I also clearly remember that the color of the energy in the dreamworld we were in was orange, like that of the second chakra. And i lost control of the dream we were in, so felt myself falling into my own dreamworld, kinda waking up, where in my own room, still dreaming, and the erea was kinda red, like the first chakra. And then I really woke up. It makes sense that the chakra's each have their own reality. Because it's the first chakra where out daily issues go to, and where we dream about to process them, but when you have nothing to process you enter the second. Get what I'm trying to say?
Please respond.
O yeah
If so, would that mean that when dreaming in the 7th chakra, your dream would stand equal to reality and you some kind of Neo? Heheh
Flying is definitely fun in lucid dreams. If in a lucid dream, I am indoors, I don't even consider flying. But if I'm outside, I almost always decide to fly. When I do fly, I generally try flying up towards the skies and going beyond it. Generally, I can't reach it though or if I do, I don't see anything of interest. One time I just saw an empty giant arena.
However, today in a lucid dream I had this morning, I went beyond the clouds and saw a building. It took a ton of will power to be able to hold the dream that long and fly past the clouds. I had to pass some kind of barrier to reach the "Sky Land" and I didn't think I was going to make it. I almost collapsed when I entered the building. I went into a room and quickly talked to the people there. Since I knew the dream was about to end, I asked them to let me return there on my next lucid dream.
Fortunately, in my next dream I was in that same room. The professor was speaking in Chinese and someone was translating his lecture into English. And the students in the class told me that it was the year 2041 and the school's name was "East India University". Very random, but I know dreams can become pretty crazy.
Well, just thought I'd share to this topic!
One of my favorite Astral Projection books is The Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan Muldoon & Hereward Carrington. It was written in 1929 but remains a classic. In the book, Sylvan Muldoon details how he began his astral travels. He indicates that the way he remembers beginning his astral adventures was during sleep. He said that one of his favorite methods was to project astrally when he knew he was flying in his dreams.
Well often when I'm flying in dreams I'll do something like jump off a balcony or out of a window and I always come back up again after falling a few feet.
It's just like that natural buoyance one has like when they they jump into a pool feet first like off of a diving board and come back up again.
From there I'll start flying around similar like to when I'm in a pool and then start swimming around.
hey all.. I had a great flying experience today.
I was dreaming that i was walking in my street, after a few seconds i realised and the world suddenly sharpened as it does when you become aware in a dream.. i could see clearly the brick work on my neibours house etc.. Instead of jumping and willing myself to fly, which usually just frustrates me, i just began running towards the house and with complete belief i said "i can fly" and took off in superman pose..
At first i began drifting up almost uncontrollably.. but i wanted to fly properly and began to imagine propellant coming out from behind me (took the form of blue jet streams spiralling out from behind me).. i suddenly began to get faster and higher.. i was half expecting white space when i got higher than the houses but there was non.. just houses tree's, roads etc as far as the eye could see.. i then really did pickup speed and height.. the land was just flying by below me.. id estimate well over the speed of sound.. i decided i wanted a low fly-by of houses so began dropping in altitude but i got too low and bang.. hit a house and woke [:D].
The moral of the dream, dont spend your dreams TRYING to fly.. just know you can and do it (dont even think about it). [:)]
RooJ
Have you noticd you can fly better and faster when you're holding something in your dream hand? [:(]
Nick, thanks for such a nice topic! [:)]
I rarely have flying dreams anymore, but the ones I've had in the past have all been great! In one dream companions were asking me how to fly and I told them, "It's really easy, all you do is jump up and kick your feet hard." Then I proceeded to do it.
The thing I most remember about these dreams is the way it feels to really fly -- the air against your body, the feel of cloud mist, a difference in pressure when you're flying and when you're not. I have a theory that you won't realistically dream something you've never experienced -- the "set" might be there but the physical sensations will not. Maybe I was a bird in another life. [8D]
You folks have convinced me to work harder on the lucid dream techniques. I've had no luck so far, that I know of anyway. But I would love to be able to fly whenever I wanted to.
Well just recently I had a dream that I had a visit from my old buddy Superman, the color one from the 1950's tv series.
I was just practicing my takeoffs on the sidewalk on the block that I live on when suddenly out of nowhere he flies up to me greets me and says he's got some more pointers for me.
I was rather surprised because I though I had already learned from him everything I needed to know about flying.
He asked me to show me my take off form so I did and I ran up a few feet jumped, and pushed hard off of the ground taking off soaring at an angle at least 30 stories of more.
But oddly enough when I did I noticed that my right foot I would sort of tuck behind my left calf for a moment before straightening out both legs.
Superman told me that this wasn't neccesary and took up time doing the extra move.
I land again and then he takes off in front on me and shows me how he keeps both legs straight during lift off with me taking off at the same time with him side by side studying his form.
He would also take off with me and watch mine as he patiently tutored me in a very proffesional teacher like manner even though we both are good life long friends.
But I seem to keep tucking my foot every time out of habit when I took off it was so annoying.
However it was so cool to feel all of the great power behind the thrusts as I took off feeling the wind around me, seeing the ground blur and the feeling of weightlessness.
Maybe towards the end I came closer to gettting it right but I think I just got tired of the exercise so I eventually flew off elsewhere in the dream.
When I was little I used to fly like Superman in my dreams.
Nowadays when I get lucid, my thoughts tend to automatically turn towards sex...
Lickerish - that's a very interesting name. That's all I'll say on the subject!
Sarah
Fly....so beautiful! My favorite dreams are flying dreams. I even have a postion for fly (i make a chair posotion with my body, strange). They are beautiful. I love to fly. That´s my main reason (ands some more 2 reasons) for want to learn obe.
Selsky: sex? hmmmm...tell more about your dreams. Are they good?! lol, kiding (of course they are good, sex is good). You must teach me that because i wanna have lucid dreams related with sex. How can i induce a lucid dream?
It looks like I'm the only professional flyer around here. [V]
?What do you mean by that?
In dreams i am a pro flying [:)]
I'm kidding, I just thought someone would relate. I have friends who have also noticed they can fly better when they are holding something. Some even said that their ability to fly depended on that object.
Strange. I never heard about flying with objects. I had once a dream in wich i started to un very fast, but the faster i run the slowly i would be. SO, at some point i was stopped in the same place, but running. Suddenly, my effort to run was so big that i started to lift in the air!
Flying dreams are for shure some of the best ones!
Kazbadan - sex in lucid dreams is just like sex in real life - it feels utterly realistic.
As to how to lucid dream, I dunno, it just happens to me at times. Reality checks are a good way. Every 15 minutes say to yourself 'Am I dreaming' and really stop and think whether you are dreaming. After a period of time, your subconscious will start saying it while you are asleep. So, in a dream, you will think 'am I dreaming'. Hopefully, you'll then realise you are, and then you can grab the nearest male/female (depending on preference [;)]) and get on with it! You can even 'create' a person. Great fun.
I'm sorry this is a bit off-topic, but I'm only responding to Kazbadan.
Hi ho.
sex in lucid dream it is so good as in real life? Are you shure? maybe real life is 10 (from 0 to 10 in a pleasurable scale) and lucid dreaming is 9?! what do you think?
have you shure of that? maybe you say that because you never make real sex before [:D][:D]...lol, just kiding.
Well, if you have shure...let me start praticing it!!!
[:P][:P][:P]
About flying: do you think that is so amazing to fly in dreams, like in the real life? Maybe i would like as much as lucid sexual dreams...
Sometimes, it can be better because you can morph people into who you want them to be, and change the size of their body parts...[:O][:O]
Sarah
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Originally posted by Selski
and change the size of their body parts...[:O][:O]
Sarah
Looooool![:D][:D] you are a bad girl!
Flying dreams is the reason for this interesting website:
http://members.aol.com/caseyflyer/flying/dreams.html
Very best,
Nick
I must say Nick that this has been a most delightful topic and I'm glad you picked it!
As for Selski I know you were wondering about my name.
Actually it is the name of a cute little beanie black puppy plush toy thats made by Animal Alley and can be found at Toys' R' Us and is like so totally adorable.
As for me and Superman, well lets just say that maybe some of our encounters may have tended to be more romantic at times but thats a totally different conversion geared more for another topic!
Nick, you are a man, me too. We are not gay ( i think that you are not),but you deserve a kiss form me, because that site is very interesting!
Maybe with flying dreams (lucid dreams) i will be able to have obes in the future.
Yeah. Lately I'm having weird flying "assignments" to go THROUGH things; for example the other night, in order to evade notice by the robed elders or something in a giant gold hall or building of some kind, like a huge gold shopping mall with no stores, I had to fly up through a side seam of the large, gilded, domed roof, which, when attempted at a particular angle or at a particular place, was the only way to exit the building. I think I flew into it by accident, though I did meet someone (faceless, how annoying) I know in the building. When I got the angle right, I flew away as fast as could be (and there were a lot of trees surrounding it) so I didn't see it from outside.
I wound up flying so fast I went from day to night (maybe because I'm overseas?) to my old childhood home, where my sister was on the computer (the house was sold ages ago; she lives in another city now)... the house was dark and appeared in ruins... I tried to knock on the walls, which had no roof, to get her to pay attention and come join me, but she didn't want to.
Why is it that when your in a lucid dream on in astral, that you feel so horny? lol
I'm curious, serious question?
Even thought I haven't experiences real sex and not had a lucid dream, astral and OBE.
Kazbadan, glad you like the website, no kiss though please, (and my wife would get mad). [;)]
Folks, lets try and keep this thread focused on flying in a lucid dream, (if possible). [:)]
Hi everyone,
I'm Frank (hypnotist) on Astal Pulse:
Everyone's been talking about flying dreams and enjoying it. I can show you how to achieve a Lucid Dream State with Hypnosis which takes you deeper then meditation.
Hypnosis is Lucid Dreaming where you know your Conscious but actually your Conscious and Sub-Conscious mind are equal at that level.
I do group hypnosis on line on the computer, if your interested in trying it out you can go to Paltalk in JCcorvetts chat room where I'll do the session.
Once in that State you will be given a KEYWORD so you can use it and go back to that same deep level again on your own in seconds just by thinking the word in your mind.
If anyone in this group once to try it please contact me or JCcorvett on Astal Pulse or my Instant messengers aol. Yahoo. MSN. Or my e-mail address hypnotist41@aol.com.
I hope this will help anyone interested.
Sincerely,
Frank (hypnotist)
Hi Frank, I'm up for it. Please be aware that I'm new to all this, I have not had an obe, astral or lucid dream via meditation.
Do you think your hypnosis method will reach me to that stage easier and quicker?
I learned this technique a long time ago, and I thought I'd share it with you.
To have a flying dream (Not necessarily a lucid dream, but it can be), do this: Think about flying as much as possible right before going to sleep. Think about every way of flying possible; flying in an airplane, hang glider, floating, levitating, getting beamed up by a UFO, flapping your wings, holding onto a balloon, flying in a hot-air balloon, getting picked up by a bird, fill your head with as many things as possible.
Keep doing this until you are on the fringe of waking and sleep. You'll have a very good chance of having a flying dream. If it doesn't work the first time, try the next night. Eventually you'll get it. :)
Good luck and happy dreaming!
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Originally posted by Selski
...sex in lucid dreams is just like sex in real life - it feels utterly realistic.
In fact I think they are as good and better sometimes. The possibilities are endless. Thats all i'm saying ... now back to flying only topics.[:P]
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Originally posted by Kodemaster
I learned this technique a long time ago, and I thought I'd share it with you.
To have a flying dream (Not necessarily a lucid dream, but it can be), do this: Think about flying as much as possible right before going to sleep. Think about every way of flying possible; flying in an airplane, hang glider, floating, levitating, getting beamed up by a UFO, flapping your wings, holding onto a balloon, flying in a hot-air balloon, getting picked up by a bird, fill your head with as many things as possible.
Keep doing this until you are on the fringe of waking and sleep. You'll have a very good chance of having a flying dream. If it doesn't work the first time, try the next night. Eventually you'll get it. :)
Good luck and happy dreaming!
This works very well. Also try keeping a good imagination throughout the day. I have read having a healthy imagination increases the chance of lucidity in dreams.
Hey Nick, great site man, thanks!
Hi All,
I have had one or two quite intense flying dreams in the past, they were quite abstract but I could sense the motion, speed, acceleration etc.
Just recently I have had lot's of dreams about airplanes, flying in airplanes and airplane crashes, my first interpretation of this was that it was an ill omen and that I shouldn't get travelling by plane for a while!
But something happened in a dream just two nights ago that made me think about how carefully I should interpret my dreams.
Before going to sleep I had been doing some light meditation and some OBE affirmations (I have Oobe'd a handful of times before and have been wanting to try to do it again.)
That night I remember dreaming many times about trying to fly in large aircraft but I did not seem to have much success, near the end of the dream though I felt a presence in the dream, this felt like a higher part of myself or a different aspect of myself or maybe even some kind of archetypal figure.
This presence had taken me to a hill that I was very familiar with, and they had provided me with a hanglider! I made my way down the hill and remembered leaving the ground very briefly, it was quite an exhilarating feeling leaving the ground as I had become quite frustrated at not being able to fly beforehand.
The dream didn't lead to an Oobe though and although it was very vivid I wouldn't class it as a lucid dream either.
Thanks for listening
S
Nice post! I had a nice dream in wich i was, not in a hill like you, but in grass plains. I started to run and giving sequencial jumps (bigger and bigger) and then, in the last one, a started to fly .
It was not a perfect fly, it was near the ground (50m) but it was very beautifull and amazing!
In the last nights, my insomnias were bigger than norma and i dont remember my dreams because i am very tired (it´s very rare for me to forget dreams...very rare indeed).
Just to relate last night's dream, it was an intense flying dream! This was the first one in a while, and I found myself flying over buildings in a city at night. Different colored lights were coming from the city below, and also lights emanated from many of the big skyscrapers that I was flying over and around. It was fun!
Also, I did become lucid and was directing my flight. In the dream, I reminded myself that I was not in my physical body and that the rules of gravity didn't apply. No superman music this time, just fun flying over and through this cityscaped realm. I hope it happens again soon!
[8D]
Nick
Try being Spiderman next time! [:D]
Originally posted by nrishiraj:
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Try being Spiderman next time!
Great idea! [:D] My wife and I really liked Spiderman 2, and the way he zoomed around that city looked like a lot of fun. I'll have to bring that to mind in the next flying dream!
[8D]
Nick
quote:
Originally posted by Nick
Originally posted by nrishiraj:
quote:
Try being Spiderman next time!
Great idea! [:D] My wife and I really liked Spiderman 2, and the way he zoomed around that city looked like a lot of fun. I'll have to bring that to mind in the next flying dream!
[8D]
Nick
Yes I just watched Spiderman 2 today. I love the way he flies around and I can't wait have a Lucid dream one day and I will defintely Fly.
Hey, Spiderman is my favorite superhero. Back when I was younger, I used to daydream about being spiderman only so that I could swing like him.
And I already had a lucid dream in which I was Spiderman. It happened about 2 months ago. It was awesome! I enjoyed the way I went up and down. I enjoyed the wind! I enjoyed everything!! You all should try it.
I think I could count that LD into my 3 most pleasant experiences.
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Originally posted by Rakon
Hey, Spiderman is my favorite superhero. Back when I was younger, I used to daydream about being spiderman only so that I could swing like him.
And I already had a lucid dream in which I was Spiderman. It happened about 2 months ago. It was awesome! I enjoyed the way I went up and down. I enjoyed the wind! I enjoyed everything!! You all should try it.
I think I could count that LD into my 3 most pleasant experiences.
wow! that's wicked! Were you wearing the spiderman outfit?
Damn! I can't wait to have my 1st lucid dream. Is it really what people say about them?
No, I didn't have the spiderman outfit. But it didn't really matter. All that mattered is that I could finally swing! It was like a dream come true!
Except for the fact that it was a dream... [:D]
And yes, lucid dreams can be really amazing. I hope you will succeed soon!
quote:
Originally posted by Rakon
No, I didn't have the spiderman outfit. But it didn't really matter. All that mattered is that I could finally swing! It was like a dream come true!
Except for the fact that it was a dream... [:D]
And yes, lucid dreams can be really amazing. I hope you will succeed soon!
Now that is brilliant! What other cool things have you done? I want to drive a Formula 1 car! :)
Well, there was one time when I was playing football and I suddenly became lucid. I started jumping around very high. When the ball was led by the opposed team on the opposite side of the field, I would just jump right there and score. And then my team started cheering. I may not sound very interesting but I was having a lot of fun.
And I like to make a Star Wars scenario where I am a Jedi and I am fighting aginst Siths. I usually use a green double light saber. I jump high and I use lightning and force push and pull and speed and everything. Man, those SW experiences are really exciting!
We're getting a little offtopic here, aren't we? [|)]
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Originally posted by Rakon
Well, there was one time when I was playing football and I suddenly became lucid. I started jumping around very high. When the ball was led by the opposed team on the opposite side of the field, I would just jump right there and score. And then my team started cheering. I may not sound very interesting but I was having a lot of fun.
And I like to make a Star Wars scenario where I am a Jedi and I am fighting aginst Siths. I usually use a green double light saber. I jump high and I use lightning and force push and pull and speed and everything. Man, those SW experiences are really exciting!
We're getting a little offtopic here, aren't we? [|)]
LOL that's cool! How long did it take you to have your first lucid dream? How long did you practise?
My first lucid dream was spontaneous. It happened when I was 7. After I read about it on the internet later when I was 14. I was very enthusiastic and I succeeded the very same day. I had a WILD, in fact.
I was expecting to have a lucid dream again next day, but I didn't have it. So I started doing reality checks and 8 days later, I succeeded again.
i get flying dreams alot! usually, though, i fly with my arms too my side and i imagine jet propusion comming from my feet lol. its cool because i accelerate so fast and it feels so real. its my absolute favorite thing to do while dreaming. i dont think ive ever done it superman style. il have to try that next time
i had my first proper lucid flying dream today!!! [:D] in normal dreams i often fly around and everything, but up to now, when i knew i was dreaming, i sort of thought i had to imagine how the landscape looked while flying - i didn't suceed, which either resulted in blankness below me, or not being able to fly, or the end of the lucid dream. but i recently realized that i'm simply to focused on the stuff that's near (shortsighted) and therefore yesterday made a point of NOT daydreaming, but instead watching everything i could see in the distance - trees, clouds, mountains. and guess what? as soon as i realized i was lucid (forgot the beginning of the dream and how i realized) i just went outside and made a sort of jump/flying to the neighbour's garden. looked pretty realistic and sharp, so i tried flying upwards, and it was just PERFECT! the houses just kept getting smaller and smaller, but they were clear and real-looking!! [:P] i didn't feel any other flying-sensations as far as i can remember, but my landing sensations were extremely strong and vivid. for some reason i didn't land sensibly, but when i decided that i wanted to go down, i just stopped flying where i was and dropped to the ground from there - often 10 meters etc.! have you ever jumped from the diving platform? you know how your stomach goes all the way up? it's a pretty strange and sort of disturbing feeling, but in a weird way enjoyable. at least i enjoy it from 3 meters up, but i usually regretted dropping from so high in the dream when the feeling didn't go away and only kept getting stronger [;)] but try it!
congrats seraphis [:D]
I too had a really cool lucid dream today, i wont go in too much detail on here but at one point in the rather long dream i was jumping from building to building as is done on the matrix. From one of these jumps i started to fly, it was night time and the streets and a harbour where lit up by many street lights. I can honestly say it took my breath away at how real everything looked, i could see people walking below under the street lights going about there business. Also no matter how high i would go the clarity and realism stayed perfect.
I havn't practiced for lucid dreaming in along time but this has re-kickstarted my need for more [:)]
>RooJ
People!!!
You're makin' me feel crummy.[:(!] I've always had trouble flying in my lucid dreams. When I was a kid I would just balance on the air, and then kind of glide around, slowly picking up altitude. Nowadays, when I try to fly through sheer force of will, I always rise, but then fall as soon as my concentration falters.
I think I'm just too doubtful and way too, "down to earth." [8)]
Your mind cant let go of the fact that there should be gravity, try giving it an excuse to believe you can fly such as imagining a jet of light from behind you or some object that would allow you to fly. As you fly more it seems to get alot easier (at least in my experience).
One of my favorite things to do is find a bright star and use it as a target to fly to. I also like "scaring" myself by flying as high as i can in the dark especially when it sort of feels cold and let myself fall back down. I have only reached interesting places a few times when flying straight up. more and more ive tried to look at the star and will myself to shot to it instead of relying on other ways of flying.
Ive also noticed now that i work night shifts/graveyard i have many more lucid dreams so many more opportunities to fly around. Just wish i would get somewhere at times.
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. [:D]
Anyone else have any interesting flying dream experiences?
[My First Post! :)]
I've been dream-flying and lucid dreaming for many years now. I dream heavily every night, and at least once a week realise I'm dreaming.
I've found that a simple test (and a safe one) that works for me, is to do a standing jump, and try to hold the jump i.e. keep in the air as long as possible. Every time, it takes me longer than 'normal' to land, and the moment I realise it, I'm off :)
The biggest problem I've had is 'holding' the dream. The moment I become Lucid, it's almost like I alert my body, or I start to worry if its ok. A trick to overcome this, is to make the DREAM 'real', rather than it being a Lucid Dream. I do this by focussing on something. My hand, the leaves on a tree, anything that is complex. Using this I canhold the dream for longer, because in essence it becomes a reality.
Not sure if anyone else has tried this, and I apologise if anyone takes offence to this, but flying naked an be invigorating, and highly sexually stimulating (but not in a crude pornographic way)
One time I had been flying along a river, and was approaching an 'olde worlde' settlement. I flew up and over the buildings, when my clothes vanished, and I could feel a cool but refreshing wind rushing all over my body. All I will say is it 'invigorated' me, not being naked, but all the sensations of freedom and energy.
I've not had a dream quite like that before or since, but it did leave me with a wonderful feeling for days.
Welcome to the forum muppetgeoff! Thanks for the nice post, and thanks to all who've shared their experiences here so far.
Nick
I don't often visit this particular forum, but the subject caught my eye. I just scanned most of the posts (this is a long thread).
Flying is one of my favorite things to do in dreams. I would dream about flying all the time when I was younger. But I think because I wasn't really confident enough in myself, I could never gain altitude. I would fly, but always just a few feet above the ground. I remember getting so frustrated because I would try so hard to get high enough that no one could touch me, but I never succeeded.
As I grew up and gained more experience, I realized that, at least for me, my ability to gain altitude is proportional to my level of conscousness/awareness in the dream. If I know I can fly, then I take off straight up into space without a problem. (Space is my favorite place to visit -- the planets and stars are absolutely georgous). But if there is the slightest doubt about my ability to fly (not fully lucid) then I'll either do the levitate - fall - levitate - fall thing or I'll fly, but just off the ground and won't be able to get any higher. For me, flying is a matter of knowing you can and not having a single doubt about it. That doubt will mess me up every time! :roll:
As for styles, I don't do superman or anthing like that. I simply stand like normal and float up into the air a few inches, then I just take off straight up like a rocket. My arms are by my side and I go head first. I love the freedom of it. NOthing fancy, but I enjoy it.
Someone else mentioned breathing underwater, that is really cool too. Your vision is really neat when you are underwater. I would get this sea-green tint to everything I see, but not cloudy at all. Very crystal clear. It was amazing.
Goingslow, do you actually get to reach the star?
I use to pick stars as targets and fly towards them but I don't usually even leave the Earth's orbit.
You addressed your question about the stars to Goingslow, but I think you may have met me, as I didn't see Goingslow posting here recently.
My first trip to space I left the atmosphere, did a lap around the moon and then hovered and just stared at the earth. To say indescribable would be an understatement. But then I began to loose the dream and couldn't get it back. Normally I get just to the moon or past before losing the dream.
My longest trip out was passing the moon and just bolting straight out into nowhere. I'm not positive if this was still a dream or if I phased to the astral (which I do from within lucid dreams). But the scenery was beyond description. I saw planets and gaseous clouds and other things whose names I don't know. But the colors and shapes were absolutely incredible. I was able to hold this for a fairly long time.
I found I would slow down as I looked around because I would find myself so caught up in the images and their appearance. If I closed my eyes, then I would begin gaining speed again. So I opened and closed my eyes for brief periods to keep moving.
But I woke up from that experience feeling so energized and it felt so real. Like I was really soaring through space. I was pumped for days afterwards!
I think i had a lucid dream a few nights ago, but i am not sure. I was singing in front of a lot of people, and in real life that is something i would never do, and i think that as soon as that thought comes across my mind i stop singing, forget the words, and start to blush and feel very uncomfortable, which is what would happen to me in real life, and after that i don't remember anything. My friend recommended me to this site to help me get some answers.
Welcome to the forums gentlesavage. You might also enjoy checking out this site on lucid dreaming: http://www.lucidity.com/
Nick
hey thanks nick
I v had loads of flying dreams , and i generly recall those ones , but the struggle i seem to face in flying dreams , is identifying if its a astral projection , and i m in flite , for all the dreamscape evvents are happening still at the same time whilst i m flying .
Like in 1 particular dream, i ascended high into the sky, and suddenly realised i had to concentrate on remaining afloat in the sky, otherwise i would start to drift downward , while this was happening , there was a dream occuring where by there was 2 aircraft from a different technological era fighting in the sky , 1 was a 1940`s 2nd world war aircraft, and the other a modern stealth US jet lol , and in this particular dream, i was darting all over the place trying to get aboard the stealth jet , ( like flying towards it )
So to me , if i m haveing a dream and i start to fly in that dream, and become aware i m dreaming at the same time , and take some form of control over that dream , then i m expereinceing a type of > lucid dream projection ?
Can anyone relate to a simular expereince ?
regards Experimental
andrew,
no i have never reached a star thtat i remember, but a colorful "hole" of some type has opened up before and i flew through it into some weird place. I still dont know where it is.. but once i remember flying though swirling colors that appeared and being in a cartoon land.
I have a lot of lucid dreams lately. And offcourse I like to fly in it. But I have rarely that I can really fly. Most of the times I just flow above the ground but can not make altitude. But a few night ago I was having a bad dream, I wasn't lucid yet. I think I was superman or someone like that and I had to save someone, but then I realized I was dreaming. So in this dream it was no problem to fly as high as I want at all!
I'm not sure why I can fly in one dream but can not in another.
Anyone?
I thought I posted in this thread, but I can't find my post, so I'll reply (again?).
Flying in dreams has never been a real problem for me. Control has been, but control has been less of an issue as of late. It used to be that I'd start flying and get caught in a loop and fly around in an endless circle, till I managed to break out.
I used to fly by flapping my arms like a bird, but one day my dad suggested that the next time I fly that I try and fly like superman. So, the next time I was dreaming of flying I did that and guess what? I was flying like superman :p The power of suggestion is strong.
The thing is, in dreams, I have never had problems with "invisible" powers such as flying, super strength, telekineses, mind control, and other invisible spells. Super speed is an exception to that rule, I can't seem to get that going for me, unless I'm flying. As of lately, I can sometimes teleport and create objects in front of my eyes, but that's iffy. I can also usually cast invisible spells (like invisible fireballs.... lol). I'm not to good at creating DBZ blasts of any kind yet :) I'm trying though.
The way I usually fly is to do a little hop and then propel myself from there with my mind. If I were to describe how I do it, it would be as if I were pulling myself in the direction I want to go with my mind. I simply imagine or feel myself being drawn in the direction I want to go, and I do. I'd describe how I do other things, but this is the flight topic :p
huh, yes that's right I thought you posted allready. Strangeeehh...
Yeah, same for me about how to fly, I make a little hop and then just think "I will fly" and I fly. But still can't really make altitude, except for some exceptions. About super speed, I think I can run pretty fast and I'm trying to fly faster lately by looking for the right flying carriage. (kind of funny thinking about it :lol)
And about experimenting other stuff, was it you who said to tell yourself about experiments you want to do in your dreams through the day?
Well anyway I will try that.
What also works for my to become lucid in a night is trying to fall asleep as concious as you can. And maybe this goes for remembering your experiments too....so next time, I will fall asleep as conscious as I can and think about the experiments I want to do....
I will report :-)
Wow, I'm surprised you remember me :o
Anyways, if I didn't post to think about the experiments you want to do throughout the day (to increase the likelyhood of you thinking about it during your dream), I would still back that up as it's a very good idea. I think what I said though was to include it in with your reality checks. As in, you check reality. Yes it's real, so imagine yourself doing what you want to do in your dream later. That way you get a 2 in 1 deal. You'll be testing reality and you'll be thinking about your experiment. Therefore, when you dream, you'll have a higher likely hood of doing both (and maybe you'll start to do your experiment non-lucid, then become lucid because of it!).
"What also works for my to become lucid in a night is trying to fall asleep as concious as you can."
What you describe here is known as WILD or Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming. In other words, you go straight from awake to dreaming lucid, or put another way you go straight into a dream without any break in consciousness. It's far easier to do this in the early morning hours after just waking up because you enter REM sleep after just a few minutes as opposed to 90 or so minutes. The easiest way for me to do this is to focus on hypnagogic imagery. Eventually the scene develops into a dream scene and you just start moving. It's abit hard to time, but usually for me there's a distinctive snap of clarity from hypnogognic to dream to help me out.
The other thing you describe, possibly, is just going to sleep with the intent of going lucid. If it's the last thing on your mind before you go to sleep, there's a much higher chance of you doing that thing : ) Which is why I think a lot of times after you see a movie or do something a lot, you'll have dreams of it, since it's usually still on your mind.
QuoteWhat you describe here is known as WILD or Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming. In other words, you go straight from awake to dreaming lucid, or put another way you go straight into a dream without any break in consciousness. It's far easier to do this in the early morning hours after just waking up because you enter REM sleep after just a few minutes as opposed to 90 or so minutes.
REally? Canyou call this WILD? I also hear about people who can WILD anytime they want like OBE. But that's still to far for me:-)
Yes about early in the morning. Most of my lucid dreams start when I wake up. I wake up from a non-lucid dream with this dream very vivid in my head, then it's no problem to return to this dream but this time being lucid.
But when I try to fall asleep as consious as I can, I never fall into a dream immediatly, that would be really weird caus you only dream during your REM-sleep right? And you are in REM after a few hours sleeping right?
I think it goes like this: I fall asleep as consious as I can, when I'm in form I really can FEEL my body falling in sleep. But I never remember my mind falling asleep. And then somewhere in the night I wake up from a lucid dream. (in this case first a normal dream turning into a lucid dream)
So I cannot really say when I'm lucid dreaming when I'm not lucid dreaming in the morning, cause it's always just a memory. (maybe it got something to do with the fact that there is a time between falling asleep and the start of a dream in contrast with dreaming after you wake upin the morning...?)
Most of the times (not always!) my lucidity and vividness of the dream ar higher when I'm LDing in the morning. But I'm not really sure about that.
Ya, if there's any break of consciousness at all between awake and Lucid Dream, it's a DILD instead of a WILD. You are still using a hella good technique to get your dreams though. The only truely successful lucid dreams I've ever had were WILDS though. Everytime what happens is that I watch the dream form in front of my eyes, and then I just start moving in it after a bit. I usually lose lucidity fast though unless I'm on the ball making sure I remember that I'm dreaming.
QuoteEverytime what happens is that I watch the dream form in front of my eyes, and then I just start moving in it after a bit.
I know what you mean, sometimes this works for me too in the morning after I wake up. It's kind of an alternative if I can not return to the dream immediatly. It's actually an on visualising technique right? And if it works you are in a dream....but like you said, it's more difficult to stay lucid or even be lucid at the start of the dream.
I think you can train this technique with meditation, just visualize during the day when you are on a break or something that you are jumping out your window and fly, or walk in the woods or something.
Robert Bruce also talks about visualizing based meditation to be one of the best trainings for LD en OBE.
It differs from visualization in 2 very important ways.
1) I'm not visualizing it, I'm actually seeing it. In visualization you picture the scene in your minds eye. What I'm talking about is actually seeing hypnagogic stuff from right in front of your very eyes.
2) You don't control what forms in the slightest. When I am letting the scene form in front of my eyes, I make absolutely no effort whatsover in trying to control or shape what forms in front of me. Doing so usually ruins my chances of getting my LD. I'm honestly not sure why, but whenever I involve myself in my dream too early, it tends to break the imagary that's forming and make it fade away so that I have to start from scratch again. This is why I said that I waited for a while for the dream formed (doing nothing but observing the whole time... emotionlessly, be sure to not get too excited or scared while this is happening), and then after a bit, tried to move into my dream after I was fairly sure I was in my dream. The first thing I try do everytime is stableize my dream once in it, by doing something that invovles my sense of touch like rubbing my hands together or scratching carpet or whatever. It kinda draws me in when I do this and makes the dream more powerful.
Yes you'r right about the differences.
But as I remember my experiences of WILD:
(this method doesn't always work.
You say you are actually seeing it, but is this right after you woke up from a dream? cause then you'r talking about the same method I describe here)
Returning to the dream without visualizing: I wake up, having the dream very vivid in my head, and just close my eyes and I'm back in the dream.
or:
Returning to the dream using visualisation: I wake up, I say to myself, I will have a lucid dream now. I close my eyes and let my body go asleep again, I stay as consious as I can, and try to visualize a dream, whatever I want, first it's just in my head, but slowly it's getting more vivid and before I know it I'm in the dream and lucid!
But like you said, you can loose you'r lucidity easyly because you loose your focus by concentrating too much on the visualizing part.
Quote from: AdkhaReturning to the dream without visualizing: I wake up, having the dream very vivid in my head, and just close my eyes and I'm back in the dream.
Close, except it's nowhere near as instant like that for me. I close my eyes and the dream usually takes about 10-20 seconds to form or more depending on how close I am to REM and all that. Only once have I closed my eyes and had a dream appear almost right away.
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Returning to the dream using visualisation: I wake up, I say to myself, I will have a lucid dream now. I close my eyes and let my body go asleep again, I stay as consious as I can, and try to visualize a dream, whatever I want, first it's just in my head, but slowly it's getting more vivid and before I know it I'm in the dream and lucid!
I try not to do this because it usually screws my of my chances of getting an LD, but if you can craft your lucid dreams like this, more power to you.
I have had some LD flying experiences. Recently I was floating around inside a house/building and doing interesting maneuvers(turning easily on my axis). This was during my vacation where I was always in the swimming pool an hour or two every day so I was used to "floating" and moving like an astronaut in space. This is an Interesting variation actually on the usually flying feel.
Yes I believe these kind of things can have some influence on your dreams and also your LDs. It's getting dark earlier here now and I think my dreams are more often in a dark enviroment like in de evening.
I hope to have some new cool LD experiences soon.
I had a lucid dream two nights ago and I did some experiments like breaking marble railings and levitating like 20 feet. Last night, I had like 7 lucid dreams and I really messed around like flew onto buildings and all. I thought I was going to slow when I was flying so I landed on the ground and I just blasted off into space. It felt like an instant I was in space. I wanted to go back down so when I bolted down to Earth, I felt like I was sinking back into my body. What do you think that was when I re-entered my body and do you think I am getting the hand of lucid dreaming?
I have experienced for myself, that 'style' is totally irrelevant; as I am usually non-physical, until I 'see' myself. So I am never aware of what 'form' I have taken in my dream, until I look down at my 'body' and it's just there!
At the end of it all, we are experiencing a plane of existence that is based on pure energy. The 'physical form that is our body, only exists in the physical plane. The Energy form can be anything we create, and it manifests itself such.
Most people fly 'Superman Style' because their minds shape their non-physical form to one that they can logically equate to the flying ability.
I dare say that the 'Lotus Position' works well for some, as they see a reality of spiritual enlightenment in that position, and equate it the the ability to fly.
For me, anything goes, because usually I don't even *have* a body to form or propel around. It's just 'me'.
I hope that makes sense
And please everyone;
We get nowhere by fighting with details.
Share your experience; everyone else's is just as valid as your own.
Warm regards,
Geoff
Edit- Thanks Geoff, and sorry for the edit. There have been several posts deleted above. As you've mentioned, this is a topic about experiences, not a debate over what "style" someone thinks is superior. Any such posts will be deleted, and all members are invited to read the forum acceptable use policy. Regards, Nick
Quote from: muppetgeoffI have experienced for myself, that 'style' is totally irrelevant; as I am usually non-physical,
At the end of it all, we are experiencing a plane of existence that is based on pure energy. The 'physical form that is our body, only exists in the physical plane. The Energy form can be anything we create, and it manifests itself such.
Most people fly 'Superman Style' because their minds shape their non-physical form to one that they can logically equate to the flying ability.
Share your experience; everyone else's is just as valid as your own.
This is all I was trying to say, and you said it better. I appologize for any dissent I contributed to.
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So to me , if i m haveing a dream and i start to fly in that dream, and become aware i m dreaming at the same time , and take some form of control over that dream , then i m expereinceing a type of > lucid dream projection ?
Can anyone relate to a simular expereince ?
regards Experimental
What you describe is a fairly typical Lucid Dream. Once a person becomes Lucid, it becomes almost impossible to hold him down -- EVERYONE enjoys flying in their Lucid Dreams to some extent, although many women prefer to have promiscuous sex with random dream characters (it would wake a man up to have sex, and so men generally learn to eventually avoid having sex in their lucid dreams).
Also, you reference to Lucid Projection brings us a great controversy in the Field. Many people insist that Astral Projections are simply Lucid Dreams disquising themselves as Out of Body Travel... just as Lucid Dreams can give fairly convincing instances of 'False Awakenings' -- this is where the Dream has the Dreamer 'wake up' and go about his ordinary daily chores only to suck him, eventually, back into the Dream. Similarly, the Dream is thought to conterfeit an Astral Projection so that the Dreamer will no longer be insisting to himself that he is "in a dream". Apparently the Dream Creator, although sometimes willing enough to let the Dreamer become aware of his state, is jealous of control and sometimes simply wants the Dreamer to take the Dream Scenarios at their Face Value, and this can't happen while the dreamer is reciting to himself "this is only a dream... this is only a dream".
My advice, with Lucidity, is to fly around for a minute or two, and then allow yourself to descend into whatever special Dream your Dream Creator has been keeping back for such a special occassion. Or... what I have been doing recently is setting up Lucid Dream Checklists in whichy I try out a new Mantra or new means of Meditation.... it is when I begin to do these new Mantras or Techniques that the Very Special Dreams are triggered and allowed to play out. Again, I recommend that you do not attempt to spoil these Special Dreams by attempting to hyjack control and changing them while they are fleshing themselves out. Use your awareness only so that you may respond most wisely to the choices given you during the Dream. Remember, that the most important dreams are Tests -- made not so much to be understood, as to be responded too correctly.
Quote from: AsifI had to pass some kind of barrier to reach the "Sky Land" and I didn't think I was going to make it. I almost collapsed when I entered the building. I went into a room and quickly talked to the people there. Since I knew the dream was about to end, I asked them to let me return there on my next lucid dream.
Fortunately, in my next dream I was in that same room. The professor was speaking in Chinese and someone was translating his lecture into English. And the students in the class told me that it was the year 2041 and the school's name was "East India University". Very random, but I know dreams can become pretty crazy.
Well, just thought I'd share to this topic!
Wow! Nice. It is the first indication in a long time that something will survive the year 2012. Apparently in the year 2041 there will be a Sky Land in which there will be a East India University where Chinese Professors will be giving lectures. It surprises me, though, that in the next 35 years no greater emphasis is put on establishing a Universal Language. English has gone a long way in that direction; however, many of the contructions, syntaxes, spellings, etc... in English are definitely more complicated then they need to be, and certainly many of the other languages have wonderful words and expressions. If made King of the World I would heard the Linguistic Scholars of the World into a Large Room and not let them out until there is a New Universal Language, remarkable for the ease in which its fundamentals can be learned, but rich in its list of nouns and whateve unique modifiers can be found existing already around the world.
I flew again night before last in a lucid dream and tried to go through walls but woke up. In the next dream I thought I was awake on the way to work and was flying but thought it would be good to practice flying in real life so I would be more easily lucid or able to fly in my dreams. I always think I am different or special when I fly in dreams nonlucidly and nobody notices me flying and nobody else ever flies with me. everybody but me is normally walking. In the 3rd dream I was very lucid but did not try to fly as I was completely focused on examining my parent's house and being with my family(I do not live there anymore). I even told my brother he was sleeping and clapped my hands before his face a couple of times. Who knows? I should ask him if he remembers being in such a dream with me where I clapped my hands. Maybe he did wake up just then.
About the universal language. I read a little while ago that many of the 3000 languages on earth are dying out. Every few weeks or something like that another one dies out (or 3 per week I forget) as only a few old people speak it. So maybe some sort of universal language will be there by default in a couple hundred years.
Quote...There have been several posts deleted above. As you've mentioned, this is a topic about experiences, not a debate over what "style" someone thinks is superior. Any such posts will be deleted, and all members are invited to read the forum acceptable use policy. Regards, Nick
Just to reemphasise Nick's words - I have deleted the last couple of posts.
Nothing personal implied!
Regards,
Stephen
On the subject of Lucid dreams, or flying dreams , i m lucky to have them from time to time . My last encounter flying in a dream was another usual 1 a few nights ago .
What generly happens in my casefrom time to time is that , i l suddenly come to awareness at 2 or 3 in the morning from sleep time ( semi -con ) , and get the vibrations feelings for a split second , then i l find myself always in a dream of somthing happening . I know its a dream because theres somthing being played out in the dream which i generly percieve around my awareness .
At some point in the dream whilst i m aware i l begin to float upwards and hover in the air looking down on the activities in the dream . I then always speed off through the skies floating in all directions, marveling at my ability to maintain flite awareness ( note : I always have to concentrate on the flying otherwise i start to fall downwards ) , but these days when its happened i feel i v focused that much on the flying that i v left some sort of energetic reflection maintained in that enviroment , it seems every time i re enter a flying dream, it is becomeng easier to maintain gravity .
As soon as the dream has finished i rush to the computer and logg the dream in my dream journal to try and break down how much more awareness i am gaining in the dream enviroment .
It seems on further scrutiny that my dreams reflect my desire to have a astral projection , which never ever happens when i intend on it happening , but due to reading roberts first book ( astral dynamics ) and applying the new energy ways b4 i fall asleep, it makes me wander wether that raised etheric energy has delibritly been channeled into my lucid dreams to give me awareness into the dream , instead of that energy becomeing waisted due to not makeing a consuios exit out of body .
It makes sense when i think , because when your raising the energy ( the secondry sections ) ( then the primary sections ) , b4 falling off to sleep , you have stimulated your energetic body , so instead of haveing a OBE or trying to have 1 thinking you may fall asleep b4 you attempt a exit , you might aswell channel that raised energy into another specific area .
To test this idea, i delibratly channeled that etheric energy into my imagination to try and slip into a lucid dream through directing that raised energy into the dream scenario , funny enough i did have a dream that i remembered due to this thinking , so i m gonna keep applying this method to try and stregthen my lucidity . Delibritly channeling the raised energetic energy around my body awareness into dream re-call
Experimental
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Quote from: Leo Volont
It is the first indication in a long time that something will survive the year 2012.
I had a Special Dream in March of this year, where I became lucid, but rather than flying off somewhere, I stayed with the dream. My main thought was that I MUST remember this dream, due it being a
very important one.
In essence, I was told the date of my death. And interestingly, the date is a valid date, not some gibberish like you usually get with logic in dreams.
I don't really have any interest in what events may unfold in 2012, because I'm not going anywhere until 2030.
Perhaps I'll be the only one left on the planet... :shock:
Sarah
During school days i don't lucid dream much because i go to bed thinking "oh crap tomorrow i have to get up early", now that i am in christmas holidays i lucid dream almost everyday :D
In a recent lucid dream an old man told me that my life would change and have more "adventure" sometime during the first six months of 2005..
I don't know well what he meant by that but lately i have been thinking that life here on earth couldn't be more boring lol
I was coming into this forum to make a post about this, so I'm glad I found this thread!
I have been having flying dreams for about half my life. I've had at least fifty (that I actually remember and have written down- there are countless more that I've since forgotten). These dreams all seem to connect together, like an ongoing story. Many of them have recurring themes, and a couple of them fit together like pages in a storybook, adding onto events that have already happened.
As I have been having the flying dreams for such a long time, within the past year or so I have been experimenting with becoming lucid while in them. Now, most of the time, I can become lucid and control almost everything in my dreams. It's a bit like directing a movie; a couple of times, I have stopped a scene and started it over, because I didn't like the way it was going.
There are lots of other details, but I'm not going to ramble on. Any thoughts on these weird dreams?
i need to fly more in my dreams but am doing so much more, it is so much fun... falling is the best.lol
i found a very affective way to fly,... fall...
sounds odd but in dreams try to feel the ground, feel the gravity of that astral plane and then mentally flip it behind u, u should feel ur self to fall backwards then when ur falling at high speeds turn around.
u know the slow running sceen in peoples dreams i found a way to beat that... thun arond...run... backwards... and if something be chasin u, look right into its face and laugh...lol
if u can try them..... tell me if the wor or not..please
I'm not sure if you should get used to this technique, since in the end it seems you should be able to fly by sheer willpower.
But anyway, here's my novice technique anyway:
I'm always able to fly with this one. I spread my arms and let the wind push me up. Like an airopleane, with the diffirence that I can lift up in a vertical manner. I also turn/rotate my arms backward when I want to fly higher and I rotate them forward when I want to excellerate slower or to go down. I can really feel the wind when I do this. I'ts, for me, a technique that I can always use.
The best technique for me to fly is believing i can fly.
Posted by BahBoon:
QuoteThe best technique for me to fly is believing i can fly.
That's it exactly! :)
Very best,
Nick
I would just want to tell that I have had on numerous occasions flown with a broom or American vacuum-cleaner and by sailing in the air upon a nylon wing. But most of the times I just run of from the ground and take of. Sometimes I run on the walls and roofs of houses like in Asian movies, that is really fun. :) Brooms has good steering(and is also good to keep focused and lucid), one only has to drag it to point in the direction one wants to go.
I have also been having these dreams of flying for years since early childhood.
Somersaults, backwards, xcellent fun Weeeeeeeeeeeee :D
Posted by Mr. Burgo:
QuoteI have also been having these dreams of flying for years since early childhood.
Somersaults, backwards, xcellent fun Weeeeeeeeeeeee
They are indeed great fun! (http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/w/thumbs.gif)
Very best,
Nick
By way of an announcement, the AP team (Adrian and the Moderators) just opened a FAQ forum. It's an information only forum, and there is a section there on Lucid Dreaming.
Regards,
Nick
Although I started a new thread on my flying attempts, I thought I should add my technique here as well.
I realized I've been trying to fly all wrong. I've always tried to lift up off the ground, similar to levitation. I found it is far easier to fly by going head first forward, similar to a Superman pose. I don't know why this is such a big deal, but I had absolutely no problems last night when I tried it this way. I denied gravity easily, and was able to do any type of stunts or go anywhere with no limitations.
i feel thats its a psychological thing , there is no method that works best. Its just about convincing yourself if you are having dificulty. I dont even remember learning to fly in my dreams its just something that ive found myself doing.
When I fly, I just kind of lean forward and lift my feet off the ground by bending my knees. I've only had problems with it when I was watching other people do it in my dreams, then I couldn't lift off. The last time I flew was about a month ago, it must have been lucid, I ended up worrying about hitting the powerlines above me, and of course hit them. It sent a tingle through my head. After that, the dream went to completely odd teleporting, pyrokenisis, and telikenises, which the like have rarely happened in my dreams.
Yeah, I was young (probably 10) when I first flew in a dream, I was just able to do it, I don't think I thought about it, I just did it. I still remember the main parts of that dream.
hi guys, pleased to hear i'm not the only one with a thing for lucid dream flying. i find it a bit too easy to drop off to sleep, especially when trying to ensure i have a lucid dream, but have found flying to be the most fun.
i recently found a cd which guides you into lucid dreams, think it was "flying adventure", anyhow, despite being pretty skeptical i'm quite impressed. my problem has been greediness! i just want to experience everything, and can't really get my focus. thought the cd really helped. was an ebay purchase from a uk seller.
Hi freeflyer,
Welcome to the Astral Pulse forums! :) Wanting to experience all things spiritual, such as nonphysical reality, is a deep desire within most folks. The fact that you recognize it is a good thing, freeflyer.
Thanks to everyone above sharing their experiences too. Lucidity and flying are great adventures.(http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/w/thumbs.gif)(http://smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/w/thumbs.gif)
Very best,
Nick
Thanks for the welcome!! nice to feel part of the gang allready.
anybody else try using themed cds before? did they work for you too?
I never had LDs in the past but only this year i had maybe 4. Thats good! All of them were about flying.
I had normal dreams about flying but LD its completly different! So beautiful, perfect and with a real feeling of flying! I see things in great detail and i feel my stomach when flying at high speed!
When i have these dreams my wish for trying parashuts increases. I wanna fly in real life. That even greater!
check out the cds on
www.dreamcontrol.co.uk
They really work!!!
I've had many flying dreams mainly over the last few months. There so amazing and feel so natural and real it's very dissapointing when i wake up and i find i can't do them for real. :cry:
I'm not sure if they're lucid or not but i seem to have some control over them and i remember them vividly when i wake up. I'm normally hovering about like i have a invisible jetpack on rather than flying ala superman.
I've also had a number of dreams where i am flying around a city in a hot air balloon. That's fun but i'm forever landing and find it difficult keeping the balloon in the air.
i've spent years flying in my dreams sometimes with lucidity sometimes without, sometimes on the verge.
I use to have real trouble flying in my dreams. getting off the ground etc. i spent time swimming in the air, lots of falling esp when i gained lucidity, but now my lucid flight control is pretty good.
checking to see if you can fly is a good reality check, and will carry over into your dreams.
two main ways i fly now.
1) i read in Astral Dynamics to pick a point in the distance and see if i can fly to it. here i fly really fast, not unlike superman. i continuously pick points in the distance and fly to them. a couple of times i saw stars and flew towards the stars and ended up resting up among the stars. sitting/floating with no effort (just like superman) until i woke up!
2) i discovered in my lucid dreams that flying was all about overcoming "dream gravity". what i found is when i am 'floating'/flying it feels like i have a anti-gravity field around me. really it feels more like gravity is coming from within into a bubble around me. propulsion through this will easily lift me into the air. when flying like this it sort of reminds me of birds when they sit in wind currents and float more than fly.
Flew again last night! It never gets old. This time I used energy coming from the palms of my hands to move upward. Hmmm, it may have something to do with the Reiki work I've been doing.
Nick
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It was kind of neat last night, I party realized that I was dreaming. I ended up flying around while aware that I was lying in bed, because I felt my back on the matress. Sometime after this, I noticed that things started to change when I looked away from them (which brought me back into lucidity). I messed around with it for probably 15 seconds, looking away and looking back and thinking myself clever for noticing.
Then the scene started moving away from me, getting smaller in the distance and a loud noise started happening, so I jumped out of the dream and back awake.
All-in-all it was quite fun.
You people are lucky that you can get off the ground when trying to fly in dreams.....When i try i usually get back up and then i come gently floating back to the ground :cry: . My last flying dreams were a while ago, but in one of them, i had to use a paper plane to fly( had to hold it in my hand )????!?!?!?!?! weird huh! I just remembered that i had one a month ago, and in that same dream was a premonition, which came true the next day....Me and my god damn analytical mind ( i blame that on my English teachers BE ANALYICTAL WA WA WA) i was running along a road near my place, and was running really fast and then i would just and try and fly......I jumped REALLY high, and cam floating back down to the ground, and said to myself i am not dreaming, cause that wasn't flying, that was just jumping really really high......that high jumping thing just jumped my mind, and i just kept trying to jump and fly, but for some reason it was over a big pot hole in the road..... then all of a sudden i was on my nans from porch ( she lives down the street from me and i hadn't seen her for a long while, not enough time ) and there was commotion going on inside....the next day, i went into my nans place, cause i saw my mums car their. I knocked on the door, and then heard laughing etc....and mum and my nan were the laughing their heads off. ( she was their getting her dress fixed)
Just thought i would put my little say into the topic.
Cya
Quote from: NickFlew again last night! It never gets old. This time I used energy coming from the palms of my hands to move upward. Hmmm, it may have something to do with the Reiki work I've been doing.
I also fly with 'energy' coming from my hands. I sort of thrust myself into the air with the energy from my hands - and then I float, going down slowly...
But I can't fly for a long time... its like I have a certain amount of energy, and it burns out when I use it, and then it needs a couple of seconds to recharge (in which the energy amount is too low to rise again in mid-air**).
I doubt if it has something to do with 'Reiki', because I never did any Reiki work and I've been able to fly in this manner for most part of my life.
Should you want to check if your 'energy' is similar to mine: the energy can also be used to move objects, to reshape objects, and to defend yourself (but its not very damaging to opponents).
**= I wanted to add on an unrelated note that the energy is enough to reach what you could call 'escape-speed'. In dreams I have that if I rise too high, that I lose my 'connection' with the dream I'm in; and when I land; the 'storyline' and the world I was in when I lifted off is gone. (this can be very disappointing).
flying dreams for me is a way of showing me that my awareness is heightened, and that I seek to be free in my life, and perhaps I feel so in reality, for me in any dream I try to fly, since it automaticly enhances my lucidity, and this is a great launching pad for obe's...
the thing about flying dreams is that most are actualy astral projections, with the subconscious tossed in the mix, the sub images can either be taken over or take over your dream, its up to you and your will to reach a high lucid state..
I've read that you can test your willpower in lucid dreams. Trying to levitate objects or yourself is a good test to see how limited your willpower really is.
I've been flying a lot in the past, but unfortunately, I recently had a dream in wich I failed. Getting of the ground is fairly easy, but I never reach real height. I was even using rope technique to pull my higher. Very funny and stupid at the same time when I think about it now. Flying should come from sheer willpower indeed. I'm convinced of that now.
Greetings folks,
There is another lucid dream website that I just stumbled upon, I only skimmed it, but it looks interesting. I thought I'd post it here in the Flying in Lucid Dreams thread.
Here it is: http://www.consciousdreaming.com/lucid-dreaming/
Keep on flying!
Nick[/color]
Just by way of a small "Hello again" I thought I'd post this:
If I'm not sure whether or not I'm dreaming, but kinda know I am, I grab the air, like a ladder or rope, and I can pull myself up.
In this situation, the 'air' is 'solid' and holds me.
Kinda resembles Toffee or Glyceryn.
Warm regards,
Geoff
I don't know if I already mentioned it, but in that book that 'Flake' wrote, he mentiones something interesting:
In waking life you'd never question wheter you're dreaming or not. So if you are thinking 'Am I dreaming?', you most probably are!
Quote from: RDI don't know if I already mentioned it, but in that book that 'Flake' wrote, he mentiones something interesting:
In waking life you'd never question wheter you're dreaming or not. So if you are thinking 'Am I dreaming?', you most probably are!
Nice reflection :)
However some situations in real life come to mind where you would think you are dreaming :) ... but even so, clever quote !
Quote from: GeKKoQuote from: RDI don't know if I already mentioned it, but in that book that 'Flake' wrote, he mentiones something interesting:
In waking life you'd never question wheter you're dreaming or not. So if you are thinking 'Am I dreaming?', you most probably are!
Nice reflection :)
However some situations in real life come to mind where you would think you are dreaming :) ... but even so, clever quote !
I didn't add it in my post, but he (flake) mentioned that indeed. So my post excluded (almost) accidents/weird situations.
You all have to try this... rollercoaster flying.
I recently went to flamingo land (theme park) which greatly reinforced my love for fast rollercoasters. During a very long lucid dream today i decided i would fly (before that i was just following the dream lucidly). Mid-flight i suddenly thought about my enjoyment of rollercoasters and decided to try and replicate the experience. Do the following:
Fly like neo, put your hands beside your body and fly headfirst, get a decent height and then dive fast towards the ground, remember to arch your body as you get closer to the ground in order to arc back up into the air. Aswell as drops theres also loops, corkscrews etc.
I was almost addicted, did this for a good 5 minutes, flying fast between tree's and around chimneys, down the sides of house roof's touching the guttering as i passed :D. Lots of fun and the sensations are the same, feel of the air against you and i also had that feeling you get in your stomach when you drop fast. It eventually ended just as i was flying really high to try a much faster fall :(...
I think its safe to say Ive found my dream hobby.
>RooJ
I've been working my way up through the murkiness of beginner lucid dreams to mindful lucid dreams. I recently had a mindful lucid dream experience which might be of interest to others here.
I had been dreaming all night and then I was walking up a hill with some folks, I was outside and it was day time, and I realized I was dreaming. Rather than my hasty "I'm dreaming! I better take what I want while I have time!" I thought, "Ok, I'm dreaming... I'm going to ground myself... *breathe*... I know this can last as long as I want it to... what do I want to do?"
I decided I wanted to fly.
So I took off the ground like a character from "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon". I moved upward above the trees and was frantically wobbling around. I then noticed something shimmering above one of the tall fur trees. I made my way up to it and saw that it was a wooden carving of myself, balanced on the very tip of the tree, in a "flying sidekick" posture. I immediately assumed this posture and began flying very fast in a straight line. The land beneath me was short green grass with tall green fur trees all over it. I was moving up an incline as if I were in the foothills of a mountain. There was no wind, no clouds, and the sun was bright but not hot. The landscape was so perfect it seemed almost "computer generated".
I realized that my posture while flying made a huge difference. Based on my associations with that posture, I was more or less confident to fly fast and under control. I decided that if I were flying head first I could even move faster due to less resistance. So I moved my head into the fore position and flew on. I did begin to move faster, but I wasn't comfortable moving this fast head first for fear of a crash. So I "waved" as I flew headfirst like an eel or the waves of the sea. This impeded my ability to maneuver well and stay moving fast. So, I moved back to the "flying sidekick" posture.
At this point. I was coming to the outskirts of a town and there were randomly placed buildings. I flew down to one of these buildings. It was large, concrete and painted white, with smoke stacks and glassless windows. There were people on the veranda. I landed and went inside. Inside was a scene I will never forget.
The inside was all concrete, floors walls and ceiling, all stained and dirty. There was sparse florescent lighting. There were dozens of cubicles which were roughly 3ft wide, 3ft deep, 4 ft tall. Above the concrete cubicle were rusty metal grates which continued the walls of the cubicles from 4ft to the ceiling. So each cubicle was almost a kennel, but had an open face to the hall. Inside each cubicle was a desk, chair and a well dressed middle class person. These semi-formally dressed people were all over this place, talking and working and carrying on like they didn't even notice their environment. All of this chaos became to much for me and I slowly lost my mindfulness and then lost the lucid dream all together.
Follow up:
The next time I had a mindful-lucid-dream I went right back to work at flying.
This time I tried three different experiments.
1) I remembered this time that I couldn't experience physical pain in a dream. So I decided I would fly as fast as I could directly into the branches of a tree (not the trunk). I zoomed right at them, but before I slammed into them, I lost (took away) my altitude and glided/fell to the ground. I felt a pressure as I landed on my knees but it did not hurt. I concluded that I wasn't confident enough yet to let myself do such things.
2) I wanted to fly into space. I started soaring up and up. Up up up. Eventually everything above me was the night sky/space. It's vastness became so overwhelming that I lost my propulsion... almost like hitting an invisible (psychological) barrier. It took so much effort to try and fly against this barrier that I much rather wanted to fall back to earth than keep trying. Which is exactly what I did.
3) I remembered a visualization trick I use in my waking life for balance and attaching my intent to goals. I send and attach luminous awareness tendrils to that which I want to attract or manifest in my life. Anyway, In my dream I thought perhaps I could use my "intenticles" to quickly maneuver through space, attaching them to objects and pulling myself towards those objects with the "intenticles", much like Spider Man uses his webbing. This worked very well anywhere there were destinations to attach the tendrils to (trees, peaks, even clouds). Eventually though I tried attaching them to things I couldn't see like "the sky", and my confidence based on causal "attach then pull" fell apart. I got so confused over the physical dynamics involved with using this technique (was I supposed to pull, push, swing or just focus, and how could I attach them to an imaginary point in space?) that I eventually lost my finesse with them and lost the lucid dream all together in a mire of confusion and eventually helplessness.
My conclusion is that with the proper confidence, based on the proper techniques/experience, you can fly or move through space however you choose to in a lucid dream. The hardest part for me is getting over inhibitions rooted in waking life physics, and staying grounded in a mindful-lucid-dream state long enough to accomplish what I want.
Flying in dreams a definite way to obtain lucidity in dreams for me, the two sort of go hand in hand. If I start off flying , I'm pretty soon lucid in dreams and able to control my situation.
For me, when I was only knee high to a grasshopper, I used to have flying dreams where if I clenched my thumbs in a fist on each hand I would start levitating, and in my floating state I would usually go and sit on the roof of the house and watch the stars or just fly around the trees in my front yard. Very similar action with arms outstretched like superman , doing loop the loops, gaining momentum and then soaring up just before hitting the ground. In memory its got to be the most liberating feeling I remember having.
I used to have dreams like this at least once or twice a week.
It was a while before I found out what astral travel actually was, but looking back on these experiences , that's what I was doing!
I still have these lucid dreams now but maybe one a month or so.
Now I generally find myself soaring through parks and gardens of places nearby, or ducking and weaving through skyscrapers in the city.
I tend to have flying experiences in my non lucid dreams. some are with friends walking along and me sort of moving with them but floating on top of them, roughly at head height. Others with me flying around from different scenario to different scenario talking with different people. These people seem to have an air of importance about them, yet I never fully remember everything they say to me.
It's dreams like this where there hard to get out of your mind for at least a couple of days or so, because there just so wondrous and liberating.
I think that sometimes they happen as a way of relieving stress on the astral.
DrQuickbeam, it's hard for me to fly upwards in a straight vertical line, I always tend to slide to the sides, and at some point I can't gain more altitude, I just slide. I wonder how many people also experience this.
Latest dream or Lucid or projection related:
I am free from my body again and floating about the room and house - my greatest excitement comes back again as I decide where I am going to fly outside - thing I can never control in my flights while dreaming is the navigation of direction - it always seems I am not heading in a direction to reach a desired location - its like I just soar through the air marvelling at the feeling.
In this scenario I rise up through the roof aggressively as if knowing the more aggression the less dense I will appear to squeeze between matter itself. Next I notice clear skies and buildings all around - I soar upwards to about 1000 feet and take in the beauty below me.
I am travelling very quick at this point and seem to be focusing on the flight well enough to keep my gravity from the ground ( it seems in older dreams as well - if I take my concentration off the flight I start to descend ) . Lately though when I am flying its like this ability is natural now - and also the aggressive approach to matter - to squeeze between it also works naturally for me.
dream or projection related symptoms can be difficult to identify either 1 or the other occurring - in this case with me it seems I m in a dream occurring but getting the feelings of flying occurring in-between the dream happening . The flying aspect was playing itself into a dream occurring because just b4 I woke up I noticed a old friend wanting me to give him a lift home lol - as if I would hold him while I flied back to my house lol but this was part of the complex dream state .
I held onto him while we were on the ground and tried to ascend the air again - I tried and tried but could not defy gravity - hmm I wandered - I wander why? - it made me think of a defect maybe I have in the dream state - maybe I think the heavier the weight whilst flying the less I can defy gravity ? To me it feels like "you are what you think "in these states it seems the projection or the dream or experience you have will be within your own laws at how you perceive the environment. So for example if I think in real world that I can squeeze between matter but need to feel aggressive to defy its physicality - then when I am having a dream it actually plays out the beliefs I have.
Regards Experimental
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Experimental, that is quite fun!
What I find most exciting is flying with someone by my side, or teaching somebody how to fly.
The latest experience I had with that theme was early this month. I was flying over a beautiful farm, and a kid was joyfully watching me as I passed. He asked if I could teach me how to do that. I agreed, and told him to run so that we could get enough propulsion, I would come flying from behind and grab him by his hand to take off. And so we did it, I also told him to help me with the flight, to control his balance. It went fine. But sometimes it's hard to rise with extra weight.
Yeah I agree it's excellent!
Thing is these dreams or experiences seem random with me - I v tried and tried to slip into a flying dream deliberately - just does not happen that way with me, it's always on the random chance. Theirs been a few flying dreams I v had and I think the more you get the conscious intervention or the realisation or maybe the lucidity in these states , the more you become aware how to control it , and as ya say its fun when you find yourself flying in a dream and suddenly assist others to do it lol .
Like with me it seems natural to fly when I m having one of these dreams - its like I v taught myself in the dream how to maintain the flight awareness , at first I had to realise that I had to concentrate on maintaining it because as soon as my attention was taken away from flying in the dream I would start to descend , which in turn made me strengthen the fact as long as I remained focused upon it I would always be able to do it lol - and these days when I get a flying dream its like natural to be able to fly in the dream .
I think that type of philosophy would apply with alot in a dream - the more you can control your mind to do what you desire and focus your attention on that, the stronger and more stable that desire will be to maintain it.
It's like the imagination is very powerful in dream states - and you're the one controlling what you will perceive - so for example if I think I can float straight through a wall while having abit conscious intervention in the dream then I will be able to do that. I think it's down to your own personal law of what can be done and what cannot be done to what can happen while lucid.
cheers
Experimental ; )
i read this somehwere while ur in a lucid dream u say to urself "I ask my higherself to manifest _____(insert object here) and u would enter the astral plane from there
Yesterday night I had 2 lucid flying lucid dreams.
When I was a child I was already doing flying but I was not experimented like today. It was a long time that I didnt do LD and it was very fun.
Before starting my story could someone tell me if everyoby that does LFD are always outdoor near his house?
Because im always there .
So I was outdoor beside my house entering a ramdom dreams. So I began been lucid because that was a long time that I didnt and I read about it a little. I started to think about flying and after I jumped into the air to start. I was in a Matrix Style position head first ... But that was weird because everytime I was head first it was more fast but drew me to the ground and in a bird style I was getting higher but with less speed. So i alternate the two positions and that was a great feeling. I was in the road but I was not seeing car :razz:
Im not an expert of flying dreams about doing loops and things but im good...
After that I awake and return to sleep... I was already doing another flying dreams but this was the same! :grin:
i had a lucid dream about a month ago where i flew....it started where i was at work and looked at the clock on my desk but couldnt really read it right. a passage from waking life (the movie) clicked in my head and i did what i do that always triggers the lucidity. i tried turning a light off. when it didnt turn off i realized i was dreaming and started running through the store just because i could. i jumped over a table but i never landed and thats when i started flying. i just kept running but in mid air. it was such an awesome feeling. its the first time ive ever flown while in a lucid dream. such an incredible experience. it was so vivid. anyway thats my flying story.
Its like you can't stop thinking about flying when your in lucid dream :0)
The Lucid Dreaming (LD) experiences will hopefully increase for everyone. Then you can try out all sorts of flying techniques.
It seems that if I purposely think about LD before sleeping, it helps me to LD sometimes.
Keep flying folks - :smile:
Quote from: 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. [:D]
Anyone else have any interesting flying dream experiences?
flying in lucid dream is such an interesting one. i have been doing this so many times. how like superman, i fly wherever i think i want to.
The first thing I did when I came Lucid was to fly haha! It's so great though and it seems so real. Something else I want to try is breathing under-water. That would be fun. :lol:
Flying in lucid dream is indeed fun...it doenst matter to me wherever i go, up or down the galaxy of wherever...i was like swimming...soaring high etc...meet someone in the dream.sometimes when i am in my lucid dreaming i always got to where i want to. so cool...
what about fighting with vampires in the dream? have anyone experienced it...?......alot fun in lucid dreaming.it depends to what your thougth created...
No I can't say I have ever fought anything in Lucid dreams... I was too taken away by the aspects that I could fly haha :lol: I've only had two so far and both of them only lasted a few minutes but I'm going to keep trying.
i was reading all about flying in dreams for a few days, and since i had never really done it , i kept saying to myself ...flying in dreams, whats the big deal? well i got my answer last nite when i had a dream that i could fly (sorry not a lucid dream) and it was awesome! all i had to do was jump and say "up" then off i went....i couldnt fly for very long i had to land back on the ground and bounce back up, until i got the hang of it and then i could stay in the air longer ....i must say it was very fun
My most recentl semi-flying dream was when me and I friend were practicing flight. We kept levitating up into a huge tree near the friend's house, then jumping out. We were unable to really fly though, we both just kept gliding back to the ground. It was a pleasant dream, and we were not upset -- we both somehow knew we just had to keep practicing. It was a pretty dream.
For me, flying dreams are nearly always happy. Maybe the ability to fly has something to do with whether you are in a good mood when you go to sleep???
Someone asked if flying dreams are always near my house. Mine are not. In fact, my most memorable one had me soaring and diving over what looked like English countryside, though I've never been there so can't say for sure. Now that was a nice dream! :-)
Just had a lucid flying dream last night:
I was in some old laboratory-looking warehouse with someone as we discovered an unusual substance/paste which had explosive properties and would also bounce like a super-ball when mixed with some water. Then some wild-eyed guy, who looked like a jungle native from South America, began to attack the other person I was with... I immediately took off out an open doorway and flew out into the sky. I looked back to see the wild native flying straight at me, traveling at least ten times faster than I was traveling.
I saw a huge tree with many large branches nearby and headed right into the branches and placed my back to a large branch and slid down the tree - all the way to the ground, with my back still to the tree trunk. I could feel the wild man behind the tree and tried to hold him off energetically with my hands aiming in his direction, which seemed to take a lot of energy and was barely working.
Then another wild-eyed native suddenly appeared and they were both then standing before me with many different weapons in their hands. One of them then told me to choose a weapon for battle. I then grabbed as many of the weapons I could at once and slammed them all into the ground as hard as I could. Then it was as if this act caused the two of them to snap out of their wild-eyed states and they immediately became my friends.
We then began walking together back toward the warehouse as they began to explain to me how they had been harvesting the unusual paste substance. They told me of how they would go to an old dried up lake bed where the bottom was dried out and had very deep cracks in a clay-like substance. They said that they would get a tool of some type and reach deep down into the cracks and collect the substance in this way.
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Something then woke me up from the dream, which probably would have continued on.
Many of my dreams are quite elaborate like this with many detailed unusual experiences, and many times I am flying around in different parts. This particular dream had a lot more to it, which happened before the above experience.
Sounds like a very exciting lucid dream Covelo, thanks for sharing that. :-)
Covelo:
Your LD reminds me a little bit of a cross between Dune and Flubber :)
Jen
LOL! I was going to say something the other day about Flubber!! That is exactly what popped into my mind. :lol:
I have often in the past enjoyed flying with Superman from the old 1950's t.v. show "The Adventures of Superman.
We would get together in my dreams and have a great time flying side by side, even having races but he'd always cheat while having a big grin on his face-lol!
In more recent times I've gone flying with the Superman character played by actor Brandon Routh in the new movie "Superman Returns".
But we had a bit of trouble trying to fly side by side together because he was just simply too fast for me to keep up with since he can fly at the speed of a sonic boom and all.
Still I had a good time with him and seemed really determined to help out with his superhero activities.
I told him that I could do pretty heavy lifting such as carrying a person and possibly something a bit heavier than that but couldn't do any of the really superhuman stuff though.
Wow, what a fantastic thread, I just spent the last couple of hours reading every single post :-D
I have had many Flying dreams, it is only the past few years I actually started realising the connection & turning these into Lucid dreams
Like mentioned right at the start of this thread, I used to have a problem with telegraph poles, I was constantly being held back & too scare to touch the wires as I lived in the city & they always wreaked havoc with my dreams
My initial flying dreams were a result of Real life, where I used to take large steps stepping across the line / crack mark in the footpath, avoiding cracks when I was young just as a game, I started having these real clear dreams where I would do just that but would see how many cracks I could jump in one go
It always seemed so real when I was gliding across dozens of cracks which in R/L I knew was downright impossible but It never occured to me about controlling back then as I knew nothing about LD
Once I started developing a liking to getting off the ground I would have weird dreams where I was always trying to get away from someone or something, people would chase me & I would jump up into the air to get away but I would rise so slowly that these people would always catch up to me & pull me back down to which I would be scared something would happen & wake up
Then a couple of years ago after reading up on Lucid Dreams & the ability to recognise Dreams through flight I had a similar experience where I was trying to get away from a group of people, I started to lift so slowly & then thought to myself "This is ridiculous, I'm dreaming, I should be able to fly faster than this" suddenly Woosh, I took off so fast, I got so excited, everything was left behind & I think my excitement & concentration on actually controlling the flight woke me up again, ever since then though, I haven't had any restrictions when I attempt to fly in dreams & I can usually travel however fast I want
Has only happened a few times the past year with all my night shifts but when they do happen, they are great, I just wish I could maintain the dreams longer cause I am still having problems of when taking control I appear to be close to awakening & often wake up within a few minutes :(
I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread, thanks everyone for sharing your experiences :)
Quote from: AaronM on January 31, 2007, 12:58:13
Wow, what a fantastic thread, I just spent the last couple of hours reading every single post :-D
I have had many Flying dreams, it is only the past few years I actually started realising the connection & turning these into Lucid dreams
Like mentioned right at the start of this thread, I used to have a problem with telegraph poles, I was constantly being held back & too scare to touch the wires as I lived in the city & they always wreaked havoc with my dreams
My initial flying dreams were a result of Real life, where I used to take large steps stepping across the line / crack mark in the footpath, avoiding cracks when I was young just as a game, I started having these real clear dreams where I would do just that but would see how many cracks I could jump in one go
It always seemed so real when I was gliding across dozens of cracks which in R/L I knew was downright impossible but It never occured to me about controlling back then as I knew nothing about LD
Once I started developing a liking to getting off the ground I would have weird dreams where I was always trying to get away from someone or something, people would chase me & I would jump up into the air to get away but I would rise so slowly that these people would always catch up to me & pull me back down to which I would be scared something would happen & wake up
Then a couple of years ago after reading up on Lucid Dreams & the ability to recognise Dreams through flight I had a similar experience where I was trying to get away from a group of people, I started to lift so slowly & then thought to myself "This is ridiculous, I'm dreaming, I should be able to fly faster than this" suddenly Woosh, I took off so fast, I got so excited, everything was left behind & I think my excitement & concentration on actually controlling the flight woke me up again, ever since then though, I haven't had any restrictions when I attempt to fly in dreams & I can usually travel however fast I want
Has only happened a few times the past year with all my night shifts but when they do happen, they are great, I just wish I could maintain the dreams longer cause I am still having problems of when taking control I appear to be close to awakening & often wake up within a few minutes :(
I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread, thanks everyone for sharing your experiences :)
Thanks for sharing
your experiences with us Aaron - :-) - The waking up when taking control related problems you mentioned happen to me too.
Rereading this thread, I felt a bit nostoglic reading some of my posts from about 3 years ago in this thread (and a trace of a ToS breaking argument I had someone someone that didn't get deleted), so I thought I'd pop in with a few more of my experiences dreaming.
Normally when I fly, there's no resistance at all. I just go in the direction I want and that's that. Although, once while in the middle of a lucid dream, I found it really hard to fly down, I have no idea why. I had to 'turn off' my fight and let myself fall to go down.
But anyways, in one dream I had a few years ago, I was flying with my arms outstretched like a bird again. Except I wasn't flapping my arms. Anyways, I decided to try and propel myself with wind. All the sudden, I'm feeling this strong but soft wind pushing me from underneath propelling me into the air, much like birds do. It was a pretty fun experience.
The other weird part about flying is that often times, when I'm having trouble controlling my dreams, it's while I'm flying. I'll get 'stuck' flying in a loop, unable to break out, or like mentioned earlier, be unable to fly down or something.
But when all else fails, and I'm having problems flying, I can always super jump. Super Jumping has never let me down for some reason. Probably because my brain knows how jumping works in real life and so it's easier to extrapolate how it'd work if I had a little more 'oomph' in my jump.
My first proper astral experience I jumped and managed to hover with my face about 2 inches from the ground lol
The longest one I managed to do was flying by a over a lake on a sunny day, it was beautiful.
I can do ANYTHING in a lucid dream- I can change the weather, fly, walk (or fly) through walls, shape-shift, listen to whatever music I want (like my brain is the entire collection of music I have ever heard in my life), you name it, I can do it. I can even give myself wonderful surprises. All I have to do is remember the feeling of what it's like to have a really awesome day, open a door, and something will create itself that will produce exactly that feeling.
Man i haven't been in here in such a long time. Life's still gots a grasp on me - a choke hold : ) trying to figure out what it's all about... I know what it's all about but it's one thing to know and another thing to live it...
Anyways.. about flying in dreams (what a fun subject). I haven't had any for a while but i remember some cool experiences.
I remember flying around my house through walls, as fast as I could. I remember flying underground, going to hell, then getting scared and getting the helloutta there lol. I tried flying to heaven but couldn't make it..I don't think i was mature consiousnessly enough to expiernce it. I've also flown around different dimensions or planes of consiounsess?? with different people/spirits having races. Some times i would kick butt and other times they would blow me away like nothing..made me feel insecure and weak lol.
Sometimes flying is such a breeze..no effort at all. but sometimes it's so hard to take off..i try climbing on the air? but gravity just gets a hold on me (probably more my state of mind) or i'll stay airborne for a few seconds and then come back down like my engine cut off : ) so I try jumping as high as i can and sometimes I can start flying but usually i'll just come down. Either way flying dreams are such a blast. Its fun to reminise about them
I frequently have flying dreams, only instead of flying, its more like jumping, or bouncing really high with a very low gravitational pull...I always end up landing back on the ground...The only time I have actually flown in a dream was during my one and only actual lucid dream.
i love flying!
last time i flew in a dream, i went right up to a commercial airplane, flew along side it. looped the right wing soared past the cockpit and landed some where in middle in Nevada desert. fought some aliens in hand-to-hand and woke up.
I have had one fully lucid dream that lasted (what seemed like) 5 minutes. I tried flying, and was successful, but I couldn't keep myself up because I don't think I really believed I could. In other, more frequent dreams I bounce very high and far, and land softly on the ground...I am usually aware I am dreaming in these dreams, but my actions are harder to control. I like the bouncing dreams, they're really fun, and I often bounce around cities, and off of buildings.
lol, I forgot that I replied to this thread already...and said exactly the same thing...
Quote from: AsparagusBerry on May 07, 2009, 18:04:50
lol, I forgot that I replied to this thread already...and said exactly the same thing...
Lucid deja vu? :-D
Figured I post my flying ability.
When I was younger, I was always able to hover or levitate. I would sit down and cross my toddler legs in a pretzel and concentrate. I would find my dream self levitating up in the air. But since I was so young, I was scared to go so high, but found myself doing so anyways. If I didn't go back towards the ground, I just flew straight up and remember waking up after that.
During my kid ages, I was able to...glide, is a good word. I could fly around willingly (within city/town limits) but found myself getting swept up in certain air tides and/or currents. It was like riding an invisible, unpredictable ride. I always had to guide my landing to land where I wanted, it was probably 60-70% control.
As a teenager, A whole new set of abilities came. I was able to hover, levitate, fly, etc.. even while having a non-lucid dream. I remember several instances from super jumps, walking the air, etc.... During my teens, this ability was VERY active, probably once a night or more. There are far too much dreams to count on my behalf of me doing these things.
Now, (I'm 18), I remember a few NEW experiences. I will be flying the WORLD. There would be like mini regions below me, showing different kinds of houses. I've had these in my teen years, but their more vivid now. One of them was the CLEAREST ever. I felt so different. I was in a zoo (dreaming), but I was trapped by animals and wanted to get out, so I flew out and up. Next thing I know, I'm on top of the world, the water, air, and sky were so DAMN CLEAR! The zoo below me had even changed, Penguins and birds flew around me and I could see a stray animal taking up it's own beautiful island like region. It was amazing.
their seems to be less of them ,but I've been trying to astral project every day, and I guess my attention is strayed, or I'm, just not remembering properly. I haven't had a lucid dream since I tried to AP, so I don't know. But I know when I do start to lucid dream again, I'll have more than enough control over my flying ability, and now that I've been reading up on OBE, I'll for sure try to use that flying ability to have an OBE.
General question to everyone. Have you ever had that "roller coaster" feeling in your stomach when you fly in the subtle realms?
Quote from: Domintheos on September 15, 2011, 13:36:06
General question to everyone. Have you ever had that "roller coaster" feeling in your stomach when you fly in the subtle realms?
In the non-physical? Not that I can actively remember, no. :)
Hi,
That's a good question. If you had the intent to feel this, then its a possibility.
The alternative is it was a lucid dream.
I very often fly in my dreams. Almost every time it makes me realize that I'm in a dream.
Quote from: embrace on March 01, 2012, 01:00:47
I very often fly in my dreams. Almost every time it makes me realize that I'm in a dream.
exactly the same happens to me from time to time.
last night i was flying pretty recklessly, not having died after a dramatic fall made me realize it was a dream
Hi I would love to share my main OBE exp with yeas , I only got interested in OBE phenomenon after I experienced my first spontaneous projection , and honestly if I live to be a thousand years old IL never forget it ,
I didn't even know anything about obe or the sort before this happened to me , I remember been out about flying which is very common in my dreams but suddenly I had a deepening remembrance it was like Total Self Remembrance I knew about my form and identity back in normal life (don't know how else to put it) and it was relatively small in comparison to this sense of knowing that I was experiencing , anyway does anyone remember the film total recall? remember the red mountains of Mars ? well that's as close as I can describe the scenery were I was flying , there were others with me watching me helping me adjusting flying maneuvers , he he and our laughter echoed with laughter as we did AL types of maneuvers from red mountain to mountain I was also telleporting. I didn't see any type of body we all seemed to look like wind / energy or something and I felt very close to these people like real close friends that new each other beyond the senses , and I remember thinking threw out this experiences I WILL NOT FORGET ABOUT THIS and I never will , its enough to keep me on the quest for self mastery / discovery for the rest of my life :)
honestly Ive have some strange and exciting experiences in my life but they AL pale in comparison to this astral experience it is beyond words
Namaste
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I would like to share a Flying experience I had yesterday during a vivid Lucid Dream. As soon as I saw I dreaming, I took control of the scenario. Bad idea, lol. I was flying high in the sky and enjoying it, doing barrel rolls all kinds of fun things. I saw a neighborhood beneath me, so I decided to land. The next thing I know I was sitting down at a picnic table with a man and a woman in their backyard. Anyways, we started talking about Hawaii. I had lived in Hawaii for 5 years of my "real" life. We were talking about exotic drinks and I brought up the Island Mai Tai. She had never had one before. So, I said I'll back in a bit, I figured I could make it to Hawaii and back in no time at all, since I was controlling the event. I went to to fly, but I could only make it up so far. I ended landing on their neighbor's rooftop, skipping off it and then I crashed down to the ground right in front of a group of teenagers. I could hear their excitement when they saw this. At first they thought I was a UFO, but then they realized, when I had finally crash landed down in front of them, that I was human. They then started walking towards me. I got up and went to fly again, this time I got caught in a bunch of hydro/telephone wires, spun around and landed on a apartment rooftop. Now this apartment was adjoining another higher apartment and when I landed on the roof, I saw there were 2 police officers there that were talking to a group of people. Possibly due some other complaint, the Police saw me and gave chase. I ran to the end of the roof, jumped off, crash rolling to the ground. I then got up and ran down a alleyway. Once I finally knew I was alone, without any eyes on me, I tried to fly again. This time it was successful, I hit Mach speed in seconds. Then I woke up. I never did get the Mai Tai, lol.
Hi,
Nice share, made me laugh.
Thinking about this more today I saw a number of possible problems here. First off I was talking about Hawaii, like it existed. I thought I could fly to it in seconds, because in my reality it existed, but possibly not theirs. I knew I was in a dream so I could fly, but they didn't know I was dreaming so were amazed by this. My perception of reality was definitely not shared by them. Everyone was reacting wildly to seeing me flying. I couldn't see the expression on the 2 people at the picnic table I was talking to because I was facing away from them, but I'm sure they were astonished as well. I could hear the teenagers though and I could see how excited they were. The Police also responded by chasing me. I must have been in one of the Focus levels that strictly matched the physical laws here on Earth. I didn't give it flying a second thought when I did it, but next time if I do come across this scenario again, I will do further experimenting with this concept.
Quote from: Colin1710 on June 20, 2012, 07:56:10
Hi I would love to share my main OBE exp with yeas , I only got interested in OBE phenomenon after I experienced my first spontaneous projection , and honestly if I live to be a thousand years old IL never forget it ,
I didn't even know anything about obe or the sort before this happened to me , I remember been out about flying which is very common in my dreams but suddenly I had a deepening remembrance it was like Total Self Remembrance I knew about my form and identity back in normal life (don't know how else to put it) and it was relatively small in comparison to this sense of knowing that I was experiencing , anyway does anyone remember the film total recall? remember the red mountains of Mars ? well that's as close as I can describe the scenery were I was flying , there were others with me watching me helping me adjusting flying maneuvers , he he and our laughter echoed with laughter as we did AL types of maneuvers from red mountain to mountain I was also telleporting. I didn't see any type of body we all seemed to look like wind / energy or something and I felt very close to these people like real close friends that new each other beyond the senses , and I remember thinking threw out this experiences I WILL NOT FORGET ABOUT THIS and I never will , its enough to keep me on the quest for self mastery / discovery for the rest of my life :)
honestly Ive have some strange and exciting experiences in my life but they AL pale in comparison to this astral experience it is beyond words
Namaste
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Oh hey shaman!!
Dude, nice of you to join us here too. :)
I had my 2nd lucid dream ever the other night and I flew. I kept having trouble though I would take off and get up pretty high then just start to come back down. I couldn't seem to sustain it very long and I couldn't go very fast I kept trying to get more speed but just couldn't make it happen, was frustrating.
There is a form I take within most of my dreams. Probably 95% of them since I was young, no joke. I am for the most part myself, but on my back are a pair of bat/dragon-like wings. I have a long thin tail and my feet end in talons. My legs are shaped a little different, too. More animal-like I guess. My usual form within dreams is very useful because when I fly it is almost like it's physical. If I had human legs they would probably "break" from the force of landing. This way, they absorb the shock. (Darn you science!) Whatever, I've taken that form for so long, it doesn't phase me that I look strange. For an example, the recent dream I shared of being in male form and female form at the same time, I was in this form.
Anyways, when I was very young I was aware of the wings, but I could never fly. It wasn't until high school that I could make even short flight. I would literally, once achieving lucidity, set up a grassy field and practice. But oh, man, I was so proud of myself when I did. I always had to keep in mind the air around me and the wind. The feeling is exactly as I would imagine flying. And I get tired too, if I strain myself too much.
Now it's pretty common for me to fly and I don't think much of it. It never fails to amaze me even if I am flying away for my life or defending myself. But it's work! It's been a lot of work and I can't just float around! (unless I am OBEing, then I'm a big fuzzy human floating mess, lol) Flying does not necessarily make me realize that I'm dreaming.
I saw that someone mentioned teleporting. Now that is the coolest feeling! I've totally gone nightcrawler style a few times!
i flew in an LD for the first time ever this morning; however, it was short lived.
I had to wake up for work by 6:45am, and naturally woke around 5:43am. I decided to sleep that extra hour. During that time I had a dream where I was chasing a man in a black suit with a hat into an office building. I lost him inside and then found myself in the parking lot. For some reason I couldn't leave the parking lot. Invisible barriers or walls prevented me form doing so, like in a video when you can not go outside of the map. I voiced that such a thing was stupid and ran and jumped in the air. I was floating upward. Finally. I struggled for a bit, even flapped my arms like an idiot to maintain balance. Once I got the hang of it, I was flying over houses. I wanted to see my own house, but thinking about it caused me to experience false awakening and I then entered a regular dream.
I'm about to take an afternoon nap and hopefully do it again.