How to Fly in Your Dreams
 

I usually like to take a moment to check instructables.com for some neat ideas for everyday life... and recently a friend of mine pointed me towards another site such as this.

wikihow.com.

So, i went there... 5 minutes in... i get the vital steps to learn how to fly in your dreams:

http://www.wikihow.com/Fly-in-Your-Dreams
And of course, this comes with fair warning...

Related articles? Sure!

* 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

I won't spoil the website for you guys... think of it as the Stupid cousin of Tv tropes. With amazing articles about how to blink, how to fake sleep, how to How to Take Erotic Photos of Yourself, How to Be a Good Grandmother to a Teen Girl (!?)... and so on.

So, celebrate Wikihow on this thread. Share some articles you found interesting.

Or even better, talk about your dreams and how you control them. Any tips on how can i stop dying on my Metal Gear Solid Dreams?

I had a very interesting lucid dream once. I was close enough to being awake that I could feel my body, but it was still paralyzed - or not awake, or whatever. So in my dream, I felt stiff, and unable to move. At the same time, the more lucid I became, the closer I came to wakefulness, so I was trying to force my body to remain asleep. Because of just how lucid I was, I was able to experiment with a lot of things in a much more methodical manner. It was kind of like learning how to walk again. Among other things, I ended up being able to move my body by just "knowing" that I was moving my body.

The whole time it was like I was being pulled awake though, so eventually, it became less like a dream and more like I was just imagining something in my mind until I woke up completely. It's one of the stranger experiences I've had just because of how slowly I went through the process of waking up.

I've also had these waking dreams before where I become someone else. My friend thinks I'm disassociating and that I should see a neurologist.

I don't really 'fly' in my dreams as much as perpetually float around and midair-hop like a Super Mario Bros. blooper.

Semi-related:
Anybody ever wake up, and then get that feeling like you're being pushed deeper into the mattress, or that you're falling into the mattress?

I have that sometimes...

I often dream that I'm flying myself, using the jumping multiple times in a row until you are flying for real technique. And it usually comes with a ''test jump'' too, where my dream tells me I have to be able to jump over this brick wall to be able to fly completely. But when I'm trying to show to someone in my dream that I am capable of flying, my jumps become less an less high until I finally fail to take off whatsoever. That's usually when I wake up.

And Melfice, I often have that sinking feeling when I wake up sometimes, except, I don't know for you, but for me it's usually a very sudden and hard push, almost like a nervous tick and my body un-paralyses in one shot. This usually happens when I dream that I'm falling on my back from a high place or even when I'm dreaming that I'm falling out of my bed.

Another ''push-feeling wake-up'' related dream was when I dreamt I was being killed in an atomic explosion, but instead of being burnt to a crisp, I felt something push my chest until the pressure got gradually harder and harder, crushing me, forcing me to expel the oxygen from my lungs and to scream outloud. When I woke up, I was still screaming, but not as loud.

Melfice- It's known as sleep paralysis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis It's very common. I have yet to experience it myself.

Once I dreamt that my family was renovating our house. I checked the time in my dream and then woke up briefly. I checked my alarm clock and realized the time in my dream was off by about 20 minutes. Fell back asleep and continued the same dream, except I informed my family that there was no point in renovating our house as it was just a dream, as it couldn't possibly be real if the time was wrong. XD

I find an effective way to wake myself up is to pretend I'm falling backwards. This is usually how I force myself out of nightmares. If someone talks to me while I'm sleeping I'll respond, too, which sometimes leads to confusion later on. XD

Flying in dreams is easy.

Just tell physics "Ok, your in MY dream so you play be MY rules, then float around while all those little dream people down below watch terrified because you just jumped off the top of a building and didn't fall down.

You can also take this further and walk through walls or throw fire at people. Just be careful of people who don't seem surprised when you do this, because they know how to trap your dream self and if they catch you they'll hurt you BAD. You can get away from them if you just.... *Goes off into a long meaningless rant*

Interestingly, I used to have loads of dreams where not being able to fly was the main problem, but I seem to have gotten the hang of it because I hardly ever have those dreams now. :cool:

That happenned to me. And I am gonna come out and say it that I was freaking out when it happenned.

I started attempting lucid dreams last year and had some mild success. In the first one I started out in a nightmare, but ended up beating up the devil, but it wasn't until the second one that I actually tried flying. I was standing on my deck (while my dog was being attacked by imaginary wolves, mind you) and I said "hey, now would be a great time to give it a shot". I proceeded to run and dive over the railing and landed face first on the ground. Since then I've flown several times, but each time has taken a lot of effort. That stair-stepping thing usually does it.

I've also discovered a few things that have helped me get lucid more frequently. I tried a B6 supplement when I first heard about that on another forum and that night I went lucid, but I'm imagining it was more of a placebo effect than anything. One certain thing you can try is an intense workout shortly before bedtime. Since I started working out it hasn't failed.

I'm glad this sort of thing is finally catching on in the forum. I remember making a thread here a while ago about it but it died out too fast.

when i was younger that used to happen quite often. I'm actually quite sure that i caused it by accident several times.

I used to sleep in a completely dark room. Couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Also alone. So as i was getting sleepy, any little noise (as they do often happen in a quite night) would startle me a bit. From then on it wouldn't take much for me to be left scared shitless in my bed by having my full body paralyzed but my mind fully awaken.

To break free i had to forcibly move my arm, and it felt like it was 10x heavier.

But ever since i started sleeping in not-so-dark rooms and learned more and more about natural phenomena it never happened again!

My dreams are usually in the "Tense situation" category, I'm usually hunting or being hunted by something/someone. More often then not some degree of supernatural powers are involved. Actually issue that i could dream of some freaking ponies and fields of daisies from time to time...

Flight is a odd occurrence, but when it happens it's usually in the "Super Slow Motion Leap" category. I would jump, and simply float forward controlling speed, but rarely height.

Also death! Dreaming to die is weird... like really weird. The occasion that stuck with me the most is this one time i've dreamed of being shot in the back of the Head. It didn't hurt. I just felt like getting heavier, sleepier, number, getting closer to the ground... and then waking up. Really odd.

The other one was one of the my rare "1st person view" dreams (it's usually on the 3rd person.... go figure) where i was in some sort of Steel Factory, and i heard a soaring buzz. I looked to the side and just saw the Circular Blade flying into my face.

Then i woke up covered in sweat, and noticed that the 10 second dream had taken about 4 hours of my night.

Like i said... weird.