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• Part 1 of 4: Advice from Parwiz Khan
• Part 2 of 4: Go to sleep with a purpose
• Part 3 of 4: Flying during lucid dreaming
• Part 4 of 4: Flying in a WILD

Flying during a dream gives a feeling of freedom, weightlessness and strength that is difficult to reproduce when awake. Being able to fly in your dreams can make you feel like you can do the impossible, and with some practice in the art of lucid dreaming, you can learn to fly in your dreams at will.

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Part 1 of 4: Advice from Parwiz Khan

1. Visualize the flight. Surround yourself with images of flying in all kinds of forms. Watch movies of different ways to fly: flying superheroes, birds and people flying in machines. Look at aerial photos and imagine flying over the depicted scenes. Look at images of space, and try to imagine flying effortlessly through the entire void.
   • Close your eyes and imagine yourself floating above the landscape below.
   • Spend a few minutes each day imagining sensations related to the flight. Imagine bouncing on a trampoline, jumping up on a roller coaster and jumping off a diving board.
   • Play video games in which your character can fly. Playing video games can help you have lucid dreams, and even if not, the images will give you ideas for dreams you can fly in.
2. Write your dreams in a journal. Remembering your dreams will help you build an awareness of them, which in turn will help you direct them more. As soon as you wake up from a dream, take a moment to remember and write down your dreams. Read your dream journal every few days, taking note of repeating themes.
   • If you visualize yourself flying, try to imagine flying over the scenes you most often dream of.
   • Start in a position that is common in your dreams, and imagine yourself floating or jumping in the air.
3. Check if you are dreaming. During the day, when it occurs to you, you check whether you are really awake. It may feel obvious that you are, but checking this while you are awake will help you do it better in your dreams. You can only be completely clear in a dream if you are sure that you are dreaming. Check this by trying to float or fly.
   • You can also check this by looking at your watch twice within a minute. Time is rarely the same twice in dreams.
   • If you haven't managed to float yet, check if you can do something else that is physically impossible, such as push your fingers through a pillow.

Part 2 of 4: Go to sleep with a purpose

1. Have a goal in mind. Once you have practiced visualization, dream recall, and reality control, you can focus on a particular way of flying. If you have flown before in your dreams, you can try to repeat that way of flying. Have you soared like an eagle? Floating like a bubble? Swam through the air? Imagine how you are going to fly, and where.
   • Don't set a timeline for your goal. It may take a few days to a few months for you to have your first lucid dream. Once you start trying, go ahead and try one method at a time.
2. Indicate what your goal is before you go to sleep. If your goal is to float, fly, or take off in your sleep, repeat that to yourself once you are in bed. For example, say, "I am going to fly in my dream" or "If I dream I will notice, and if I notice, I will fly". State your goal in your mind, calmly and clearly. Alternate this with visualization.
3. Fantasize your desired dream. Imagine falling asleep and having a dream. Imagine realizing that you are dreaming, perhaps by doing a reality check or by noticing something strange in the landscape. Then picture yourself flying and imagine every detail you would see.
   • Try to alternate imagining your lucid flying dreams and reciting your goal.
   • Falling asleep doing this will increase the chances of having a lucid dream.

Part 3 of 4: Flying during lucid dreaming

1. Realize that you are dreaming. Look around for signs of strangeness such as it appears in dreams. Do a reality check, such as looking at your watch or trying to float. Are you dreaming? If your reality check fails, tell yourself you are dreaming. Don't get too excited or you could wake up.
   • You may wake up very quickly after the first few times you are aware of a dream. Practice staying in the dream by focusing on actions in the dream, such as swimming or, yes, flying.
2. Ground yourself in the dream. Notice where you are and try to move through it. Doing something active is a good way to make the dream more vivid because you notice physical sensations. Try to interact with the landscape. Ride a bike, run, and try to smell, touch, and move things.
3. Practice floating. Jump in the air and see if you float. You can try to jump and fly away. Once you can float, try moving left, right, and in different poses. The trick is to expect it to work. In your first few lucid dreams, you may have some difficulty believing in your "ability" to fly.
   • You could even float a bit and then drop. This crisis of confidence is not uncommon if you are not dreaming completely clear.
   • Remind yourself that it is a dream and that you can fly because it is a dream.
   • Don't be discouraged when you wake up from the effort of staying clear. A first clear dream is a good prospect for future flights.
4. Fly. Once you are completely clear or lucid (confident that you are dreaming, able to interact with the landscape, confident that you are capable of flying), you should be able to fly as you wish . Push yourself from the ground to the sky, or run up. When you are in a room, fly around the room and then out the window. Set a course for space if you are ambitious.
   • You may run into obstacles such as trees or power lines. Every time you do that, practice floating around it, or just go through it.
   • When you start to fall, remind yourself that you can fly in your dream.
   • Remember that you can wake up, but nothing can happen to you. It's just a dream.
5. Stay in the dream. To stay aware of the dream, focus on the flying and the scenery. If your mind wanders, so will your dream. Keep your eyes on the earth or the sea below, or the stars around you. Try to challenge yourself to notice as much as possible about flying: how does it feel, what is the temperature, what is the color of the landscape, how does it feel when you fly through a cloud?

Part 4 of 4: Flying in a WILD

1. Learn to start dreaming immediately. If you have practiced lucid dreaming, are good at remembering your dreams, and used to controlling reality, you should be able to practice a rarer form of lucid dreaming called wake-initiated lucid dreaming (WILD). experience. This is when you fall asleep with the intention of directly dreaming consciously. When you enter a WILD, try to relax and stay mindful enough to be aware of the process of falling asleep.
   • Flying is characteristic of lucid dreams, but it is even more characteristic in WILDs, and are often compared to out-of-body experiences (BLDs).
2. Wake up early and take a nap. Set an alarm to wake you up 90 minutes before the normal time you get up. Go to bed around your normal time and get up when your alarm rings. If you had a dream, write it down. Stay up for another 90 minutes and then go back to bed. You can read your dream diary or read other texts about lucid dreaming during this time if you wish.
   • Lie in a comfortable position in bed and relax with a deep, slow breath.
   • Repeat your goal. "I'm going straight into a dream," or some variation thereof.
   • Imagine a recent dream. If you woke up from a dream, try to return to that dream.
   • Morning naps of this kind are the most reliable triggers for WILDs.
3. Feel yourself falling back to sleep. Stay attentive to any part of the process of falling asleep, but try not to rush or control it. Keep your eyes slightly closed. Be aware of any images that may appear and play with them if you can. Feel your limbs grow heavy and your heart rate slow.
4. Fly out of sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis occurs when your body begins to fall asleep and makes you feel awake in your own bed but unable to move. Recognize the first signs of sleep paralysis to avoid getting scared if it happens. Sleep paralysis can be unpleasant, but it is actually a useful starting point for lucid dreams, if used properly.
   • You could dream of a scary presence in your room during sleep paralysis. Remind yourself that you are dreaming and send it away.
   • If you want to get out of sleep paralysis, constantly move your fingers and toes.
   • Float out of your body. If you go into a WILD due to sleep paralysis, you can fly through your own room.
5. Fly immediately. You can enter a WILD just by looking at the images that run across your eyelids. As you lie there watching your mind form images, you start looking for details. When you see a scene, put yourself in the center of the scene. Start flying or walking, touch things and tell yourself you are dreaming.
   • When you start to wake up, tell yourself you can keep flying. It's your dream.