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.
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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”?
Before I started LD’ing I had problem staying on the ground in the dreams. Now the problem is to come up in the air. Ironic But flying is the nicest experience I ever had. Only in the air I am free
No flying here at all. I’ve been a LD’er for nearly the entirety of my life now, with two shared dreams, but I am strictly grounded. Even the airplanes I board don’t get off the ground.
One type I managed to turn into a dragon and skimmed above the ground by half a foot. Well, a half dragon. Or just a really pathetic one.
When I was much younger and did competitive swimming in real life, the only way I could fly in my LDs was by swimming through the air, but I couldn’t get too much height or speed from this method. Flying became a breeze when I saw how they did it in Dragonball Z the first time I saw it. I learned how to emit energy that kind of pushes you through the air. Nowdays, it is not a problem at all as flying works whenever I require it to by just leaping off the ground and going. If I want to increase speed or travel longer distances over a shorter period of time, I fly up much higher vertically off the ground before going horizontally.
At first, flying was a little difficult, because I was flapping my arms like crazy to try to fly, and all I would do was just kinda of glide. Then I thought about how a bird would do it, and flapped my arms every once in awhile, and it works really well.