Different styles of flying

Personally, most of the time I either ‘float’ along air currents staring at the stars, or I fly facing forward:
A bit like this, minus the bubble:

It is hard to explain the action of flying… you just DO it.
I often propel myself through a window using the ledge, feeling a beautiful liquid feeling as I soar through…
However the most bizarre method I have ever used is flying in an armchair… until it broke down and I used a flimsy plastic chair lol.

Bizarrely I found for a long time that I could only ‘fly’ when ‘seated’ as if flying an invisible helicopter. I’ve since become of aware of the Freudian nature of such dreams which from reading fit with my experience! That said I have also had superman style flying experiences though more often than not these day’s instead of flying like a ‘bird’ I will ‘say’ to the ‘dream’, take me too that hill top or building and I’ll find myself conveyed to and deposited on the same!

I always use swimming to take off, and then most of the times I switch to spreading my arms to glide around. I hadn’t thought about a lot of these methods for flying, I’ll have to try them next time!

Tonight I flew after I asked my driver to fire me in the air with an ejector seat :lol: And finally reached the 50 lucid dreams

I most often fly in a dream method of swimming. I make movements and legs with my hands - I’m swimming in the air.

If I want to fly in a LD i allways jump through a window in a skyscraper :happy: No joke! I love the feeling when the glass breaks and you are in the air. If I fly its like having a wingsuit or sth. like that haha

I discovered a unique way to make flying easy for myself ðŸ˜

Beforehand, in almost all of my lucid dreams so far, flying has been the first thing to try to just settle into the lucidity of the dream. But I always struggled, because I was stubborn and insisted on using the “do nothing” technique; unfortunately, my mind would always let the idea of gravity sneak back in and I would be falling after only raising myself a few feet in the air.

The last time I LD’ed, again gravity was keeping me down. Im not sure what gave me the idea but this time, I half closed my eyes, so that I could partially see what I was dreaming but also had much more focus on my mind. From there, I simply imagined myself to be very light. I was immediately up and flying, which surprised me so that I opened my eyes wide, at which point I kind of got “stuck” where I was floating, so I narrowed my sight again, felt myself as light as a feather and weeeee, away I went! Full control, zero resistance. What a blast!

I am new to lucid dreams but flying has been so easy and natural so far. Has anyone flown really fast or far (like Superman)?

Awesome!
As much as I hate to say it…
The easiest way to fly for me is to flap my arms and do a superman launch.
When I am totally lucid, I generally use pure willpower with no mechanical motions to fly.

Or do anything else for that matter.
The problem I have noticed is that pure willpower requires intense effort. It’s as if the fabric of the dream is resisting you.
Over the years I have got better at it. But it is still effort.

The easiest is to run and jump off of something high and then soar and fly.
It still takes a bit off willpower used as a thrust to keep it going.

Fun to talk with folks that know what I am talking about.

Welcome bacuss! The forum truly is a great place to share ideas and find inspiration for lucid dreaming. Enjoy!

I totally agree, its amazing how difficult it can be just to convince the dream (aka, your mind) that you can fly. But I think its a great practice though! It will help you in general in dream control and understanding.

Happy dreaming!

For a long time the only way I found I could fly in dreams was by imagining I was sitting in an invisible helicopter! I’d ‘sit’ and make to operate an invisible collective lever in order to fly and up I would go!

All other attempts would fail or or I’d find myself barely able to get off the ground. Its now no longer the case as it is with some other aspects of my lucid dreaming experience which have changed over the years.

Interestingly in Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ he has some specific points to make about dreams that involve hovering which was a frequent feature of the the same once I was airborne!

Nowadays I find myself able to fly in a variety of ways but still often struggle to get high above the ground. I’ll gain altitude but not be able to maintain it. However occasionally I’ll had dreams were I fly through clouds (even feeling the water vapour on my face) and then above the same.

Personally speaking now when lucid I often find the best way of flying somewhere is to ‘say’ to the dream ‘take me to the top of that hill’ or whatever and ‘magically’ I’ll find myself lifted and transported to the same!

i like this idea! ive flown plenty of helicopters in dreams so the leap to invisible helicopter seems natural to me.

I am new just wanting to say hi!

Hi, new member here; love this site…learning lots of new stuff.
I used to have tons of flying dreams in my youth, soaring over mountains and down into valleys with arms spread out, bird-style. As I’ve gotten older, those have been replaced by passing through walls and levitating throughout the neighborhood.
On occasion, I’ve levitated up into space and seen all the stellar formations and stars out there - has anyone else made it up into space like that?

What i just found out worked for me was flying with a broomstick :content: i havent had many lucid dreams but a few (6-7) and i am writing this post as i just finished noting the dream in my dream journal. It worked like a charm, it was as natural as walking. However it wasnt the kind of broomstick i imagined haha it was a mop, but it did its job

New member here- I’m not sure if this quite qualifies as flying but it seems like gravity in my dreams is altered, to about 3/4 or so when I try to move. I’ve managed to grow dragonfly-like wings at least twice and fly by flapping my arms several times. In addition there would by gliding after jumping from a high place, I guess, and assistance from something like an invisible jetpack from my shoulder-blades. I haven’t had much luck summoning any flying assists in ND 's or DILD 's besides just flapping my arms. I haven’t had much luck summoning many objects besides a knife from my back pocket either, so any info on creation of objects or shaping of the environment would be appreciated.

When I had flying dreams it was because I thought I was an archangel. So I truly believed I could fly and so I did.

I found i can only really fly well when im sleeping with my hands above my head in real life.

How to take off.

  1. You have to believe you can fly, its a mind set and people are inherently scared of heights. Don’t ruin the expierence cause you got to high to fast.

2.BIRD TECHNIQUE- Stick out your arms, and i thought of a bird and started flapping and floating, stopped to a slow land, do that and get higher and higher.

3.Jumping technique - Look down at your feet and jump hard, remember the feeling in your legs and just repeat, hard to get use to.

  1. Will - I just want to fly, I believe I can fly, hard to get but easy to float when you dont want to walk around town or or go super fast, but combined with the 3. Can produce insane speed.

Style of flying… v

Be a flying seaslug and you fly by beeing underwater jumping into slipstreams

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