Flying in a dream is an opportunity to experience freedom, a weightless body, and a power that is impossible to experience while awake. Because you can fly while dreaming, you feel that you have the ability to do the impossible. In order to be able to fly in a dream on your own accord, start practicing lucid dreaming.
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Part 1 of 4: Practicing in the Awake State
Step 1. Imagine that you are flying
Focus on things that have to do with flying activities. Watch movies with characters or subjects that can fly, for example: superhumans who can soar through the air, birds, and people who use equipment to fly. Look at pictures of natural landscapes while imagining you are flying in them. Focus on an open area in the sky and visualize what it would be like to fly in the wild at will.
- Close your eyes while imagining your body soaring high into the sky leaving the earth.
- Take a few minutes a day to imagine you are flying, for example: visualize jumping on a trampoline, playing a sled ride that moves up at high speed, or jumping into a swimming pool off the board like a jumper.
- Before going to bed at night, play a video game with a character that can fly. This will make it easier for you to experience lucid dreams or at least the images in the video can be a source of ideas so you can fly in your dreams.
Step 2. Record your dreams in a journal
Try to remember the events in the dream so that you can control the things that happen while dreaming. As soon as you wake up, try to remember the dream and then immediately record it. Read a journal every few days and see if you have any dreams with the same theme.
- When imagining flying, visualize that you are flying in the location where the scene occurs most often in dreams.
- Start in the starting position for your usual flight and then imagine your body floating or being ejected into the air.
Step 3. Check to make sure you are dreaming
In the awake state, check to make sure you are awake. This method seems useless, but the habit of checking while awake allows you to check reality while dreaming. You can only be fully aware when you are dreaming if you can confirm that you are dreaming. Check by jumping or flying.
- Another way to check reality is to look at the clock twice in one minute. If you are dreaming, the clock almost always shows a different time, even if you look at it twice in less than 1 minute intervals.
- If you can't fly yet, check to see if you're capable of unreasonable physical actions, such as sticking your fingers in a pillow.
Part 2 of 4: Expressing Desire Before Sleeping
Step 1. Decide what you want
After practicing visualizing, remembering dreams, and checking reality, focus on how you want to fly. If you've ever dreamed of flying, you may want to fly the same way, for example: soaring like an eagle, soaring into the sky like a gas balloon, or swimming in the air. Imagine how you want to fly and where you want to go.
Don't set a deadline when your wish must come true. The first lucid dream may occur days or months later. Continue to practice calmly and consistently. Use how to practice one by one until it works
Step 2. Say your wish just before going to bed
After lying down in bed, tell yourself over and over that you want to soar, fly, or soar into the sky while you sleep, for example: “I want to fly when I dream” or “I am aware when I dream and then, I will fly.” Say your wish in your heart over and over again calmly and confidently punctuated by visualization.
Step 3. Imagine the dream you want
Visualize you are asleep while dreaming and realize that you are dreaming, for example by checking reality or looking for something odd. Imagine that you are flying while observing carefully everything you want to see.
- Try to imagine that you are flying in a lucid dream and say that wish over and over in your head. Do these two ways alternately.
- If you fall asleep, the chances of having a lucid dream increase.
Part 3 of 4: Fly While Dreaming Consciously
Step 1. Realize that you are dreaming
Look around for clues to anything out of the ordinary to make sure you're dreaming. Do a reality check, for example by looking at the clock or trying to fly. Ask yourself are you dreaming? If the check fails, this means that you are dreaming. Don't get too excited because you might wake up.
Remember that people who have had only a few lucid dreams usually wake up more easily. Practice continuing the lucid dream by staying focused on the activity in the dream, for example: constantly imagining you are swimming in the air or flying
Step 2. Time to land in a dream
Try to figure out where you are as you keep flying around. This will help you experience physical sensations that will improve your lucid dreaming ability. Interact with nature, for example: cycling, running, smelling flowers, touching objects, or moving things.
Step 3. Practice drifting
Jump into the air and see if you can float. Try jumping over high objects and then flying again. Once you're able to fly, move left and right in various postures as a trick to ensure that you're successful. People who have had only a few lucid dreams have a hard time believing that they "can" fly.
- When you want to fly, maybe you will float a little and then come down again. Lack of confidence is common when you are not fully dreaming lucid.
- Remind yourself that this is a dream and you can fly because you are dreaming.
- Don't despair if you wake up in a lucid dream. The first lucid dream is a good sign that you can already fly.
Step 4. Fly
You only have the "ability" to fly wherever you please only if you can dream fully consciously, that is, if you can make sure you're dreaming, can interact with nature, and feel confident that you can fly. If you want to soar into the sky, put your feet on the ground or start with a run. If you're in a room, fly around the room and then out the window. Go into space if necessary.
- While flying, be prepared to face various obstacles, for example: trees or power lines by hovering over them or through them.
- If you start to float down like you're about to fall, remind yourself that you can fly in your dreams.
- Know that you may wake up, but never get hurt because this is just a dream.
Step 5. Keep dreaming
To keep dreaming lucid, focus on enjoying the experience of flying and nature. Dreams will be interrupted if your thoughts are distracted. Focus your attention by looking at the earth or sea far below or by looking up at the stars in the sky. Make the most of this opportunity to observe various things during flight, for example: how does it feel to fly, what is the air temperature up there, what are the colors around you, what does it feel like to fly through the clouds?
Part 4 of 4: Flying in “WILD” Conditions
Step 1. Try to get your dream right away
If you are able to dream consciously, are able to remember dreams, and are used to checking reality, you may be ready to dream consciously in another form called “wake-initiated lucid dreaming (WILD). This can be experienced if you fall asleep with the urge to dream consciously. In order to experience "WILD," try to relax and direct your thoughts so that you stay awake until you fall asleep.
Flying is a special experience during lucid dreaming, but it feels even more special in “WILD” so it is often equated with traveling outside the body
Step 2. Get up early in the morning and then go back to sleep
Set an alarm so that it goes off 90 minutes before you wake up in the morning. Go to bed at night as usual. Get up when the alarm goes off. If you have a dream, write it down in a journal. Wait 90 minutes before going back to sleep. While waiting, read dream experience notes or articles about lucid dreams.
- When you go back to sleep, find the most comfortable lying position and then take deep, calm and regular breaths while relaxing.
- Say your wish over and over again: “I want to dream right away” or another sentence with the same meaning.
- Imagine the dream you just had. If you wake up, continue the dream earlier.
- Connecting to sleep in the morning is the best trigger for experiencing "WILD".
Step 3. Feel your body go back to sleep
Be aware of everything you are going through until you fall back asleep without trying to speed up or control the process. Close your eyes gently. Pay attention to every image that appears and interact if possible. Feel the limbs getting heavier and the rhythm of the heartbeat becoming calmer.
Step 4. Fly when sleep paralysis occurs
Sleep paralysis often occurs as you begin to fall asleep. This condition makes you feel as if you are awake, but unable to move. Know that this is the first sign of sleep paralysis so you don't have to worry about it. Although unpleasant, this condition is a moment of transition to lucid dreaming if used properly.
- At this time, perhaps you will experience a frightening event in your dream. Remind yourself that you are dreaming and then ignore it.
- If you experience sleep paralysis, try moving your fingers and toes.
- Fly away from the body. If sleep paralysis makes you "WILD," fly around the room.
Step 5. Fly fast
“WILD” is possible simply by noticing the image flashing in the eyelids. While lying down and observing the thought that gives rise to the image, pay close attention to everything down to the smallest detail in each image. When looking at a natural landscape, imagine that you are in it flying, walking, touching objects while telling yourself that you are dreaming.
