How to Fly in Your Dreams

How to Fly in Your Dreams

Flying during a dream carries an amazing sense of liberty,
weightlessness, and power that is hard to replicate in
waking life. Being able to fly in your dreams can give you a
sense of doing the impossible, and with some practice in the
art of lucid dreaming, you can learn to fly in your dreams
at will.

!! Steps !!

The sky is the limit! Consider the purpose of flying in your dreams.
Flying is a liberating feeling and not something that comes naturally
to humans, so the ability to fly in a dream allows you to transcend
everyday life. Flying can often be an ideal dream metaphor for
release or freedom after you've experienced an emotional
breakthrough, allowing you soar above hardships and mental blockages
of the past.[1] Given that the sky has no limit, this can be
indicative that you don't feel constrained and that you're looking
down on everything from a refreshed, new perspective that lets you
see things differently.

* Flying dreams are considered to be normal dreams and they are
usually associated with extremely positive and exhilarating
feelings, with some dreamers reporting a "high" after a flying
dream that lasts for several days following.[2]

Understand that to induce flying in your dreams, you usually need to
be aware of the fact that you're dreaming. This is a phenomenon
known as lucid dreaming. Flying usually requires low levels of
lucidity, which means that you may only be partially aware that you
are in a dream, not that you fully understand that you are actually
in bed and asleep.[3]

* Flying dreams are excellent dream subjects for lucid dreaming as
voluntary control of a flying dream is already a strong feature of
such a dream.[4]

* Read How to lucid dream for more information.

While you're still awake, try to keep alert to the fact that you're
dreaming until you fall into sleep paralysis and eventually sleep.
Keeping your awareness level high before sleep can and will help you
remain aware that you are dreaming once you enter REM sleep.

Tell yourself that you're dreaming, and think of a story that
involves flying. Your dream should mimic the story in your mind.

Once you're lucid dreaming, try the following method for encouraging
your dreaming self to fly:[5]

* Jump and get a little higher every time until you can fly.

* Step up invisible stairs.

* Give yourself wings to fly with.

* Materialize a jet pack or flying skateboard to use. Or, try to
jump off a tall building.[6]

Use external stimuli. In some cases, it can be possible to use
external stimuli to change the direction of a dream. One dream
investigator raised or lowered the hospital bed of dreaming test
subjects and upon awakening, some of them reported dreams of falling
or flying.[7] Obviously, the reliability of this method is not
certain and even the ability to do this can be challenging unless
you're mechanically minded or have a dutiful friend who stays awake
and tries to help you. All the same, if you can think of ways to
manipulate your external environment safely, this might be another
method for inducing flying dreams.

* An easier external stimulus is imagery. Some dreamers use imagery
to encourage dreaming, such as posters or pictures of objects like
rockets, planes, helicopters, parachutes, hang-gliders, etc.
Looking at these intently, or perhaps landscapes taken from the
air or space, just before sleep, can be another way to program
your dreaming mind.

Interpret your flying dreams. While a lucid dream is driven
principally by you, dreaming of flying generally can have myriad
interpretations and the landscape and accompanying elements will
have an impact on the overall interpretation. If you'd like to
interpret a flying dream, then the following suggested
interpretations might be of interest:

* If you've been flying during the day, then it's probably a
by-product of your hang-gliding, helicopter, or light aircraft
experience.[8]

* Flying dreams that have you stopped by power lines, or you're
barely able to get off the ground, can indicate that something
you're trying to get going in real life is limited by your
ability, or other things.[9]

* Flying freely and with great pleasure can indicate a wide range of
emotions, feelings, and possibilities, such as: escapism; facing
the future with confidence; getting in touch with your inner self
(spirituality); no longer being held back by prior hardships or
blockages.[10]

* If you're using a contraption to fly with, such as a bed, chair,
machine, etc., it could suggest that while you're feeling
adventurous, you're still either cautious or you're wanting to
keep secure ties with home and family.[11]

* Flying dreams can indicate a compensation for feelings of
inferiority in daily life, or as an opportunity to get on top of
things so that you can sort your priorities and assess where
things currently stand in your life.[12]

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!! Tips !!

* Believe you can do it, and know how to do it. Immersing yourself
into the world of lucid dreams will make your probability of
dreaming much, much higher.

* Implement daily reality checks into your life. This means that
during various parts of the day, keep yourself aware that you are
in your waking life. Do this by looking at a clock and looking
back again, because in a dream, it will never be the same. It may
look distorted or have weird characteristics.

* Look in the mirror often, in dreams and real life. In a dream,
your face will almost always be distorted in various ways.

* Be patient. It takes a lot of practice, and mostly involves
immersing yourself into the culture of lucidity.

!! Warnings !!

* If you jump off a building and don't know what you are doing, you
may fall and wake up.

* To fly in dreams actually requires to believe. If you do not fully
believe you are dreaming or that you can do this, you will most
likely wake yourself up trying to do so.

* Try to think of your dream as a story, not as thinking in the
moment. Make up the story as you go and if all goes well, your
dreams will follow that path.

* If you're a sleepwalker, dreaming of jumping off something can be
very dangerous as you may be doing it in reality. Seek medical
help if you experience sleepwalking.

* If a flying dream ends violently with a fall, it might indicate a
level of insecurity in your life despite the feeling of freedom
the flying brought you.[13] Flying too far and losing touch with
reality is also a warning dream.[14]

!! Things You'll Need !!

* Quiet and comfortable sleeping space

* External stimuli if wished, e.g., posters, models of flight, etc.

* Dream interpretation manual

!! Related WikiHows !!

* How to Lucid Dream

* How to Control Your Dreams

* How to Have the Dreams You Want

* How to Sleep Better

* How to Wake Up Without an Alarm Clock

!! Sources And Citations !!

* http://www.lucidity.com/LucidDreamingFAQ2.html – research source

* http://www.lucidipedia.com/library/index.php?wakka=Flying –
research source

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