How do you fly in lucid dreams?

I'm quite new to lucid dreaming, I've been having them more regularly in the last week. Since flying is one of the most common things to do in a lucid dream, how do you do it? By this, I mean do you fly like superman, float around, run in the air, or any other methods. My personal favourite (The only one I seem to be able to do) is to run in the air.

the only thing i can is jumping with moon gravity.

my normal waking mind has a tendancy to get in the way. So ive taken up flying while sitting on a chair I make fly. Maybe I should change that to a flying carpet :D

When Im OBE thou.. I tend to often just float above the ground if Im moving along (or walk) thou I dont have any fears either then of floating out in space or moving throu the air.

Thanks for the replies! I'll have to try the chair one, sounds fun! :)

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My first memories of flying was not REALLY flying... more like how the Incredible Hulk jumps really high and far. Eventually, as time passed, I started flapping my arms like a bird in order to fly. Now-a-days, I just take off like Superman. It's been a slow, gradual learning for me over the many years.

Running, jumping, leaping, floating and then superman style. Now I am so impatient that I just will myself to go somewhere and keep pushing up the speed till I melt and just feel the rush

Ryan wrote: My first memories of flying was not REALLY flying... more like how the Incredible Hulk jumps really high and far. Eventually, as time passed, I started flapping my arms like a bird in order to fly. Now-a-days, I just take off like Superman. It's been a slow, gradual learning for me over the many years.

Even my first was quite like the incredible hulk. I was just moving in the air with high speed, I was just moving forwards , then sometimes a sudden sensation of falling, but overall it was very fun.

as a little child i've had several lucid- and/or flying dreams. even if you're not lucid, flying can be hard to acomplish.. so you can trick yourself to get there. here is an example:

there is one flying-dream i remember very clearly (i'll write this in the present-tense, just like i'd do in a dream-journal, for better imagination). i had this dream when i was about eight years old i think:

i am outside at a playground in our neighbourhood. winter has gone and as spring starts to show it's first signs, there still are some left over spots of snow here and there. in my hand i've got a plastic bag (you know, one of those cheap, almost weightless plastic bags you get in stores for fruit and stuff). so i go to one of those snow spots take some of that snow (it's not fluffy anymore, but hard and frozen) and put it into my bag. just a handful. then i grab the bottom of the bag and turn it upside down. logically the snow has to fall out but at this point suddenly the snow starts floating up, pulling me and my bag into the air! awesome! i hold on tightly and my flying-device takes me all around my hood. then i think about a friend's place and how i wish to go there, so my bag changes direction and i gently float all the way to his home.

the dream continues but i'll stop here because i guess you got the point: i managed to fly, by finding something that could and held on to it. maybe snow is not the best idea since it usually can't fly but i think if you made up some object that CAN fly, it will be easier for you to do the same as i did. like, i don't know, some mini-robot-fly you put into your pocket or probably even better: magic gloves or an ironman suit!

an other idea is to find a control panel an just turn down the gravity. i guess that could work too for a start (i've never done that but i will! :D)

For me I love jumping of any high place, looking down, no hesitation, arms outstretched and jump. Read about the kids jumping,if they can do why not you. :)

I am standing at a huge crater jump into it and fly across and land next to 5 kids between 4 to 12 years. The ask if the could also fly, I say yes if you are sure you can you will fly, just be absolutely sure, I don’t want you to land in the bottom. I fly back over the crater, and on my side and behind 5 kids follow me, what a sight. The little one is flying ,but is getting low, no problem two of the elder kids fly down and make sure the little one is OK, and all three fly up to us. We land on the street next to houses and the parents, who are very proud of their flying kids. So am I.

I still don't know why people want to fly so much. There is so much more you can do with your 'feet' firmly planted on the 'ground'. (I put it in quotations because in a lucid dream when you truly think about it, there is no up or down or gravity. It's all in you head.) And without flying, lucid dreams are remarkable nonetheless.

HAGART wrote: And without flying, lucid dreams are remarkable nonetheless.

of course they are! no doubt.. but... did you ever fly in a lucid dream? i think if you did, you'd know why ;)

Most of the time I just jump really high and eventually gravity pulls me back down. I've done the arm flapping thing too and it works but feels odd. One time I was flying like superman with my arms outstreched, but my body was still in a standing position and that felt ridiculous too. I've even summoned a dream aid which helps and I float as if standing on a magic carpet, which is similar to the 'chair' technique. But I can't really fly persay, perhaps levitate is a better description. But if you want to travel to a place you see in the distance, I just look at it and will myself to be there and I end up teleporting there. Perhaps my fear of heights and falling is stopping me.

When flying short distances, I usually swim in the air. :lol: However I also take off like a rocket with my arms down my sides, fists clenched.

It's such a great feeling to jump off a high building and just before you hit the ground, you change direction and fly horizontally!

I've never actually experienced flying in a LD before, but I would say any of the above said methods will work. Just be creative about it and work with your dreams' logic.

for me, it has always been straight forward and simple. i thought that this was the only way to fly and never thought twice.

well in the beginning in my lucid dreams, i would hop around like i was on the moon but to actually fly, i just stand, give a little hop or jump, and flap my arms. my hands would tend to catch the air, feeling like i was grabbing a physical object. it is extremely hard for me to get started. i cant even imagine how being like superman must feel like.

HAGART wrote: I still don't know why people want to fly so much.

Heheh, there's not a whole lot I'd rather do than fly...

Please see a new post, posted earlier today, the 14th called 'Dreaming. Is THAT IT?' I refer to flying in it. No one ever flies anywhere. There is no one to do that. In a dream? Being the dreamers we are, we get to be 'featured' flying, and it feels as real as it does, given imagination. From first person, the scenery moves in the opposite direction, towards 'you', giving the impression of moving forward. This is testable. Eventually, you might be featured thousands of feet up, looking down a cliff side. Once it's realized there's nothing going beyond the dream itself, why not take a nose dive, head first and go straight for the ground. Chances are you're either featured waking up thinking, boy, that was a close one or you naturally veer out like you see birds do or a fighter jet, just as you're about to hit the ground. The first time will be that thrill 'of your life' that may have you chasing again and again, until it just becomes another happening in the dream....

One time I was flying in a dream and it was just the illusion of flying. I saw houses beneath me, but when I got close I realized they were actually a flat image that seemed 3D due to creative shadowing and the angles at the corners gave the impression of a perspective drawing, but it was actually 2D. Other times it feels more real, but sometimes it only seems like we are 'featured' flying and we are just imagining it. Perhaps I was analyzing it too much and that is why I experienced that.

absintheminded wrote: Please see a new post, posted earlier today, the 14th called 'Dreaming. Is THAT IT?' I refer to flying in it. No one ever flies anywhere. There is no one to do that. In a dream? Being the dreamers we are, we get to be 'featured' flying, and it feels as real as it does, given imagination. From first person, the scenery moves in the opposite direction, towards 'you', giving the impression of moving forward.

I think this is correct. We have the sense of movement but it is the scenery that is moving. Sometimes I experience this in waking life too. The effect is the same though. As far as you are concerned, there is movement through some kind of media. I wonder if we are experiencing the movement of "information" that we then process into images, etc.

As for flying, in dreams it seems to be more natural than walking. I often have combination of floating, falling and flying. But the best part is how great it feels, that state of pure existence you feel, defying gravity, not knowing which way is up or down or even where you are. It makes it easy to focus on just that pure state of being there.

What I find the most interesting in dreams is not the fantastic, like flying, but rather the ordinary like how exactly perfect is the taste of that dream sandwich you just ate.

HAGART wrote: Most of the time I just jump really high and eventually gravity pulls me back down. I've done the arm flapping thing too and it works but feels odd. One time I was flying like superman with my arms outstreched, but my body was still in a standing position and that felt ridiculous too. I've even summoned a dream aid which helps and I float as if standing on a magic carpet, which is similar to the 'chair' technique. But I can't really fly persay, perhaps levitate is a better description. But if you want to travel to a place you see in the distance, I just look at it and will myself to be there and I end up teleporting there. Perhaps my fear of heights and falling is stopping me.

You experiencing it so much like I do. I can levitate in dreams without issues (actually I did that without any fear or issue in yesterdays LD... and often do do that).. its just the flying thing which is an issue to me.

Another thing which could of put me off of flying is (other then the fall I had which hurt).. is one day I was flying and flew so fast it scared me. The sound of travelling so fast became this loud roaring noise and the force of the wind hitting me.. was very unnerving and may of even hurt a little.

I have thou comfortably flew too (so do know how great it can feel too)... wind blowing my hair out and feeling free (on that occassion I did fly like superman). But generally I dont fly. (Ive never tried the flapping my arms thing to fly.. I'd feel stupid to myself doing that so wouldnt find that fun.. so dont desire trying to fly that way. If I fly. its got to be like superman does so I can really enjoy it).

absintheminded wrote: Once it's realized there's nothing going beyond the dream itself, why not take a nose dive, head first and go straight for the ground. Chances are you're either featured waking up thinking, boy, that was a close one or you naturally veer out like you see birds do or a fighter jet, just as you're about to hit the ground. The first time will be that thrill 'of your life' that may have you chasing again and again, until it just becomes another happening in the dream....

The fright of something like that .. usually tends to just wake me up (if I dont hit the concrete) rather then find my dream body veer out like a bird.

Everyone has different experiences with this stuff.. some find it easy while others dont due to hang ups we have about it. I cant even enjoy the rides at the side shows as they scare me nowdays even thou I know they wont hurt me. They just send my adrenaline too high so they arent at all enjoyable.

lucidinthe sky wrote: What I find the most interesting in dreams is not the fantastic, like flying, but rather the ordinary like how exactly perfect is the taste of that dream sandwich you just ate.

same here :D

lucidinthe sky wrote: What I find the most interesting in dreams is not the fantastic, like flying, but rather the ordinary like how exactly perfect is the taste of that dream sandwich you just ate.

This is exactly what dreaming is about- dropping into the world of ultimate realism and taking your inner sense of feeling and seeing normal and simplistic everyday experiences, yet in very amazing detail, into a whole new level each time. On the other hand, out-of-the-ordinary experiencing can also spark as much perfection as ordinary ones do. I really do like the best of both worlds, but I can still acknowledge your opinion.