So. . . How do YOU fly?

**MusicDragon** · 04-01-2012 03:21 PM

So in dreams, how do YOU attain flight? Do you float or flap your arms like wings? Do you have rockets?

I for one have to actually flap my arms like wings, and usually they do actually turn into wings. xD

**Oreo** · 04-01-2012 03:55 PM

I used to always just jump up and shoot myself into the air. I usually grow dragon wings out of my back now because I really like the feeling of flight when I have wings.

**MusicDragon** · 04-01-2012 04:32 PM

Yes I totally agree! I feel flight is better appreciated when you feel the wind underneath your dream wings. I feel that if I were to just float around, it wouldn't feel the same. That and I feel like I have more control over my flight. tip the wings a little and you turn, dip your wings and you descend, flap vigorously and you ascend. I love it.

**Evolventity** · 04-01-2012 09:48 PM

I expand my arms, usually flapping slowly, from either high structures or running and jumping. I'd love to fly as a European Dragon; it's one of my LD goals actually.

**MusicDragon** · 04-02-2012 12:02 AM

I've flown as a wyvern

**Bimpo** · 04-02-2012 03:51 AM

I remember I just jumped and glided, didn't even question my self whether it was a dream or what. Although, it was so vivid that when I woke up I was happy through out the morning because it felt sooooo real amazingly real even though I will never/had even experience something like that in real life

**Erii** · 04-02-2012 11:44 PM

Moved to Dream Control

**RainbowSigh** · 04-03-2012 02:12 AM

I usually have to have a running start, then I fly with my arms spread out to my sides and my legs spread out. Sometimes I either have to flap my arms a little to be stable or go higher, or I sometimes imagine I have faery wings or angel wings and those are keeping me in the sky.

**macasdude** · 04-03-2012 05:34 AM

weird.. i came to this site thinking i was pretty advanced with my lucid dreams but.. you people seem to be able to do more LOL! EVERY dream i have now is Lucid but i only get dreams about once a week.. i figured out a way to ALWAYS get a dream.. but i wouldn't recommend it because its unhealthy when used wrong. Also it might only work with my body chemistry. as for flying i just had another dream last night. i tried to fly again but i just cant get it to work.. i run forward and jump and sorta do a superman pose with both arms infront of me. i glide for a bit then lay on the ground. i saw a basketball goal and i started punching it thinking i can learn some new boxing techniques when i wake up then i tried to see if i can hit it real hard and knock it away but it didnt move... after that i climbed to the top of the goal and jumped off.. the goal was abnormally high once i got to the top and i got the ( roller coaster) feeling in my stomach when i jumped.. realizing that and that im dreaming showed me that i can get that feeling with out actually moving.. soooooooo i kept climbing and jumping off trying to memorize the feeling so i can do it at will when i wake up.. but after like the 5th jump i woke up its wierd because in my mind i told myself that if i get to excited in my dream or if my heart rate goes up it will wake me.. and i was trying mad hard not to wake up!

**mikeac** · 04-03-2012 06:34 AM

I usually just jump, and the air takes me to where I need to go. I sprout wings, but they move on their own accord. I'm a very passive flier, I spend most of my time in flight constructing different things to fly to/by/around, and my mind just takes me where I need to go.

**gab** · 04-03-2012 06:57 AM

In my regular dreams, since early childhood, I either jumped on something higher, like a fence, from there to the tree or street lamp and glide from there. Or, I was gliding just few inches off the ground and propelling myself with my hands like a surfer laying on the surfboard. Later on, I jumped in the air a couple of times flapping my arms, untill the air under my arms got thicker and was able to hold me up.
In my first LD, I flew like a superman, although I have never done it before. Since then, in 99% of my lucids, dreams starts with me hovering in the air in what I call the "ghost" style. Upright, where body goes, legs follow. Kind of like a hovering hummingbird. Never really think of flying, I start out already in the air

Loooove flying

Feels like that's my natural state.

**MusicDragon** · 04-03-2012 03:53 PM

Actually, once I start flying, I automatically become lucid and take control of the dream. I guess it's my dreamsign. However, flight is not always needed in order for me to become lucid. Sometimes, if I keep up with my dream journal and go to sleep with the intention of lucid dreaming, then I have a good chance of simply becoming lucid in a dream. As far as I can remember, I have flown in every one of my lucid dreams. I have found no better joy than flight ^w^

**Ibis** · 04-03-2012 08:35 PM

I prefer wings. It feels so free and wonderful, yet somehow possible according to the laws of psychics (they can be upright mean sometimes)
Having a hard time with my wings suddenly disappearing though

Just a crick gotta be worked out ..

**MusicDragon** · 04-03-2012 08:41 PM

Originally Posted by Ibis

I prefer wings. It feels so free and wonderful, yet somehow possible according to the laws of psychics (they can be upright mean sometimes)
Having a hard time with my wings suddenly disappearing though

Just a crick gotta be worked out ..

And what kind of wings do you fly with? Are they your arms or do they sprout from your back?

**MusicDragon** · 04-03-2012 08:40 PM

I used to have a terrible time steering and staying high in the air. sometimes I would just sink in the air towards the ground. It was kinda weird. I still had my wings but they would stop working, or I would actually get tired of flapping and my wings would drop like heavy stones. I think lucid dreaming allowed me overcome those little issues ^^ In fact, if I become lucid in a nightmare, flying is my usual mode of escape. It is wonderful. Wish it were like that in real life.

**Ibis** · 04-04-2012 07:10 PM

I've used arms once, but I like having them free. I didn't think I could manage growing wings, and therefore didn't bother either.
In the dreams where I have had wings (non-lucid) they have been white and bird like, from my back. Those are the best.

**Hwen** · 04-05-2012 02:42 PM

flying for me has tended to start like this:
i push off of a wall (most of my dreams take place inside my/a house) then i drift away like im in 0-g. then i sort of flap around for more control. (if you get the chance, DO try for zero gravity its so cool!)
once i flew on a Nimbus 2000 (broomstick, for those unfamiliar with Harry Potter) but i accidentally flew a little too high, and ended up looking back down at our galaxy

**AstroTravler** · 05-14-2012 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by Hwen

flying for me has tended to start like this:
i push off of a wall (most of my dreams take place inside my/a house) then i drift away like im in 0-g. then i sort of flap around for more control. (if you get the chance, DO try for zero gravity its so cool!)
once i flew on a Nimbus 2000 (broomstick, for those unfamiliar with Harry Potter) but i accidentally flew a little too high, and ended up looking back down at our galaxy

Wow! Is that a dream or astral projection? I'm interested in this experience

**Sam1r** · 04-05-2012 05:15 PM

Get some room as if Im an airplane then run off and jump.. though i need high ground to fly :p

**EarthInferno** · 04-05-2012 09:09 PM

See my dream journal entry, Flying 10/05/04. That pretty much explains how I fly.

at: www dreamviews com/blogs/earthinferno/old-dream-flying-10-05-04-31590/

**Kage64** · 04-06-2012 12:26 AM

i kinda just start by looking up at the sky and then "willing" myself to get up there (if that makes any sense lol) but in my case I usually instinctively flew to run away from something

**MusicDragon** · 04-06-2012 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Kage64

i kinda just start by looking up at the sky and then "willing" myself to get up there (if that makes any sense lol) but in my case I usually instinctively flew to run away from something

Same here. I use flying to escape from nightmares lol

**LucidDreamGod** · 04-07-2012 03:25 PM

This morning, when I wanted to fly, I just squatted down (well looking upwards), then slowly rose my body up and up until eventually my feet left the ground.

**USA** · 04-07-2012 04:21 PM

Well, in my first LD, I tried flying; I just jumped and jumped until I got a bit higher than a normal jump. I never actually flew though in that dream. Once I just randomly jumped extremely high into the clouds, and then I knew I would have to fly or fall, so I stuck my arm out like superman and flew around.