I actually tried to fly for the first time last night (in my first LD! ) and managed to get pretty high off the ground for about two seconds, then started falling slowly. But I don’t really think it’ll be too hard to properly fly.
I’ve only been semi lucid in one dream so far but in that dream I was having a problem with running so I thought to myself “Agh, I might just as well fly” and then I just lifted myself of the ground
So it’s certainly not been hard so far
For me it varies from dream to dream. Sometimes I accidentally float off the ground without really thinking about it. Other times I’m lucky if I can even get off the ground at all. Generally though, flying comes very naturally. Scarily enough, any time I want to fly really, really well I just remember something I heard in some old cartoon: “To fly, just place all of your energy in your feet and let it guide you.” I’m not really sure why it works for me, but it does.
In my 2nd LD (not recorded online), I flew with the help of some of your (collective) advice - try “swimming” up. It worked. The side effect was that the ground turned to water when I blinked.
Unlike what seems to be everyone else, I still have trouble flying without the aid of something. Usually when i fly i summon a broom or something and use that to fly with. However, unlike in things such as harry potter, i don’t have to sit on my broom to fly on it. I merely have to hold it (think “witches from the series His Dark Materials”).
In my one lucid dream, I decided to fly. Easiest thing in the world. It was exactly like swimming for me, except I used the breast stroke.
I heard that that is supposed to be a slow method of flying, but it was really fast for me. Probably something to do with my swim team background. For me, swimming is fast, so that’s a fast method.
I’ve only had one LD and the first thing I did was fly!! It felt so natural, I could have sworn I was a bird in a past life.
EDIT::
I used the ‘superman’ technique, simply jumping up and deciding to go, but once I was up, I pulled my arms out like a little kid pretending to be a plane
i just had my first LD yesterday and ofcorus the first thing that comes to my find is flying but its hard tough i jumped rly high and then floated slowly down to the ground then i look up att a rly tall tree and try to reach the top and it worked i jumped even higher but then i fell tru all the branches and stuff and it kinda hurt hehe sry for my english
Well, due to me not having had a good LD yet, I’ve only flown a few seconds.
I had no problems with it though. I didn’t even think about it and just took off. Worked fine.
I can usually get off the ground, but sometimes I have trouble staying in the air. Most of the time, though, I have no difficulties. I fly superman style generally.
Remember that most of the time, what you expect will happen while dreaming.
You have made yourself expect that your SC likes you grounded.
Therefore it will happen.
Who sang that silly lyric “We don’t need no thought control”?