Make an effort to have "flying" dreams.

[Fire Walk With Me]

Joy generated in dreams is just as beneficial to the world as joy generated during waking hours :)

Ask your angels for flying dreams and don't interfere when they happen. Just enjoy :)

I won't go into lucid dreaming techniques as they can be abused and are not recommended to beginners, if there are actually any "beginners" here at all!! (At one time, I became addicted to lucid dreaming, and realized that I =hated= being awake because the "world" was far less controllable..!)

:hi:

[MorningGlow]

1. Joy generated in dreams

I absolutely LOVE to see MG Jr. laughing in his sleep. :D

I like flying in dreams as well, but sometimes it's the result of a stressful situation, which is not as enjoyable. (Like my guides are showing me what I'm capable of, to get out of a bad spot.)

[JanusAscending]

2. When I was younger, I used to fly often

in dreams. I miss it !! Some lucid dreams I've had recently, I don't want to wake up from; mostly about my late husband and parents. Then there are other days when I don't want to wake up at all! I should have stayed asleep this AM for example. Woke up to a cold house, and had to call the furnace repair man for the second time this season!!! It seems like I will be posting an Obituary for my furnace soon!! I'm hoping "New Opportunities", (our Ct. fuel assistance program) with follow through on their promise to replace furnaces for folks that need it! Their letter that tells you what you have coming each year says they will. I know they have paid for a furnace cleaning and tuning up each year since I've been eligable! Keeping my fingers and toes crossed for this one guys!

But oh, how I'd like to fly away!!! JA

[LWolf]

3. I haven't had a flying dream in decades,

but when I did, it wasn't joyful. There was always something chasing me, and I was always struggling, aware that my ability to fly could leave me at any moment, crashing me to the earth below.

I DID have a riding dream last night which brought some joy, in a strange way.

I was visiting a family stronghold from my childhood (which never existed, although there was a non-family base that no longer exists that was important to me,) and they surprised me by pointing out my first love, a little mustang mare, out in the pasture. She was my constant companion and best friend; she raised me, but has been gone now for about 15 years.

I raced out to the pasture, jumped aboard bareback, just like I always did, and spent the rest of my dream on her back. Different people, some completely unknown and some from my past that had no connection with the horse or the place appeared to talk to me, or ride with me...I kept pointing out that she still had the softest gaits, was the quickest, most responsive, bravest, most loyal horse I'd ever ridden. I tuned out the distractions and filled up with warmth, and connection, and joy to be with my old friend again.

I woke with tears, and a smile, on my face.

[northernlights]

4. what a wonderful dream, LWolf

I can't imagine a happier dream :hug: :cry: :hug:

[LWolf]

5. It was.

I don't know why she popped in to visit, but I'm glad she did.

[Flying Dream Blues]

6. What a great thread! :) I named myself

FlyingDreamBlues after that feeling I have when I wake up from one. I love flying in my dreams and have even lucidly tried to train myself to remember how to fly so I can do it when I'm awake. :) It's the greatest feeling of freedom, joy and that indescribable oneness that only comes in the best of dreams (for me, anyway.)

I haven't asked in a while, having sort of shut down my nighttime activities out of fear of getting information I'd rather not have, but I think I will ask for just that.

:hi:

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Wow, you never know who's on the DU...

:hi: :D

[liberalmuse]

7. Weird!

I hadn't even thought about my flying dreams for years until a couple nights ago, oddly enough, and then I see your post. I hadn't even thought to ask for one, but was simply trying to remember how I did it, because in these dreams, I know exactly how to fly, and I usually think how easy it is as my feet lift up from the ground. And yes, they are extremely joyful and free. My last flying dream was during a lucid dream about 12 years ago. I was lying in bed and then I heard a choir singing 'Hallelujah' (I'm atheist, or more accurately, agnostic, so that was weird) just before I was pulled up through a hole in my ceiling. I felt myself going through plaster, wood and insulation and ended up in this sort of huge gothic mansion where I flew through many rooms with really intricately designed wallpaper. I could swoop down and take a close look at the details in many of the objects in the rooms, which was cool. Then I met an tall, androgynous being in a completely white, bright room wearing a long, white robe who called himself 'A'. We spoke but I can't remember what we talked about. After that, I found myself a room full of mirrors and when I looked at my reflection, I saw a slightly stocky Polynesian girl with short curly black hair and a spattering of red spots across my nose and cheekbones (freckles?). It was the most amazing dream I ever had, and I woke up rather stunned. Usually when I fly it's in open space over a gorgeous ocean, or across green hills where I can swoop down and study the veins in the leaves on the trees. I usually turn away, then turn back to see if I can see the detail again and am surprised its still there. One time when I was flying, I could see people on the ground throwing sticks at me, but it wasn't unpleasant.

In one of my weirder dreams, I was a teradactyl, and my vision was really weird, meaning I didn't see objects like I normally do, though I could see my shadow on the ground below. Ah, how I love those flying dreams. I'm going to ask for one!

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. "...who called himself 'A'."

That is auspicious! Great dream, hope you have more like it!

[Celebration]

10. Okay I've had flying dreams

But I am always doing breaststroke in the sky! When I was ten I was on a swim team and swam breaststroke. I guess that is why?? In my dreams I think I even come up to breathe.

Once, in a dream, I swam all the way down the Mississippi River-- breaststroke of course. It seemed in the dream as if it was going to be difficult, but actually it was really, really easy. It was actually a great dream. It took about five minutes after I woke up to realize that I had not actually accomplished that.

[OneGrassRoot]

12. LOL!

That is so funny! Breaststroke in the sky. :)

Nice!

The only thing comparable for me is running. I am NOT a runner in real life...lol...but often times I'll dream that I am running and covering such a great distance, effortlessly, and it kind of feels like flying.

I guess that's a close as an uber grounded Virgo gets.

But, I shall ask tonight to have a REAL flying dream. :)

What's funny is that the only flying dreams I had (again, the last in grade school) involved me jumping FROM the school building and flying from there. I think that's pretty significant, as school -- academics -- was always a priority for me.

[OneGrassRoot]

11. Okay, you convinced me. I'm asking. :)

I haven't had a flying dream since grade school. Now I just fall, fall, fall........

:)

Maybe we'll all be flying together!!!

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

:grouphug:

[winyanstaz]

13. Flying is a very common way of moving on the inner planes...

along with Intending (wherein you just are there..sort of like an instantaneous teleporting) and so is levitating.
Intending to move on the inner planes makes me think of it as sticking a portion of your consciousness where you want it to be and it brings the rest of you along..:P
Once you start Lucid Dreaming..there are many things you can do...you can decide which way is "down", pass through walls..(even return to the physical plane and walk through "solid" physical walls)..you can levitate/hover and can levitate others simply by holding their hands...(reminds me of peter pan)..you can also shoot energy out your chakras and the energy centers in your hands and feet..and you can shapeshift, look at things like you had a super microscope in your eyes ..etc etc etc...
In fact..on the Inner-planes..you are only limited by yourself and your own imagination after you begin Lucid Dreaming.
It is said by some..that anything we learn to do on the inner planes we can learn to do on this plane.
That would be interesting and tons of fun because on the inner planes..I am superwoman :P...bwahahaaa...;)
It is also said to have power on any plane...you need to gain control and power on the plane "above"/finer rate of spiritual vibration.
We all have power at the rate we vibrate spiritually and "down"...NEVER "up". Gotta earn that.....
Tell yourself as you are falling asleep that the next time you find yourself flying in a dream that you will feel where the energy is coming out of your astral body at.
You will find it comes out of the solar plexus and feels almost like tendrils. I have felt it several times and when I manage to look at it..it reminds me of ropes of bundled up light fibers radiating out of my stomach area.
There is one warning I would give though :)
And that is...when you are learning to consciously levitate on the inner planes..dont try giving the earth a "tap" or push off on it..even if its just a tiny one..:P
You will shoot into space just like that rabbit in the rocket on bug's bunny cartoons....screaming your astral lungs out...and watching the houses and trees dwindle into tiny dots beneith your feet.
In fact..you might do all that same as I did..and manage to scare yourself right out of your nice lucid dream like I did as well.....:P heheh (insert mental image of winyanstaz screaming at the top of her astral lungs as she shoots off into space here)
Dont push..just let it happen gently..
I love the inner planes almost more than the physical planes as it is so much fun but it is all good.

[Fire Walk With Me]

21. Odd, that.

My mystery school teacher once asked me why I was not yet walking through walls. :)

[conscious evolution]

22. even if its just a tiny one..

I can attest to this.
But then again,I really like deep space.

[NJCher]

14. OK, what if you just laugh all night?

My husband says I do that.

Often.

Sometimes I wake up and I know I've been laughing. Even though I'm awake I continue to laugh and then I ask myself what I'm laughing about and I don't know so I find that amusing and laugh some more!


Cher

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Then you should start a thread and PLEASE tell us your secret

:D :hi:

[stellanoir]

15. I don't feel that one can make an effort to have flying dreams.

For me, they simply come and they go.

As a former Leumerian, I have them periodically.

I savor each and every single one.

I've only had one that I shared with another individual.

That was a total blast.

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. Coming and going is nice. You -can- make an effort to lucid dream, however

if you wish. All it takes is the will to have them, then the practice of being present without shattering it. Determine, truly determine, to have a flying dream, while lying in bed before you fall asleep. You can write it down in a journal at your bedside, each and every night. Use the red circle technique I mentioned in the Manifesting thread, to visualize the sentence (break it up into sections) "I WILL lucid dream/have a flying dream", which ever, within a fairly wide red circle, to lock it into your mind. Play with being aware of the hypnogogic state, and learn to slide into and out of it.

Being able to slide into and out of dreams is true practice. I haven't been able to wake and go back into a dream, although I am taught that it is possible.

You probably know these things and justifiably, don't care :)

[Kind of Blue]

16. Hi, FWWM. I stopped flying dreams for fear,

as Flying Blue Dreams said, of getting info I'm not ready for. I know I asked not to remember.

My dreams of flight entail a great whoosh through the day sky or night sky depending on when I sleep, and straight into space and I can hear a great murmuring of millions (billions?) of conversations, then definitely what sounds like lots of different radio stations coming in and out, then a beautiful angelic chorus or sweet music I've never heard before - as in liberalmuse's flights - then a landing on top of a high tower or back in my living room that's so brightly lit and a loving man appears, he always looks like a very good friend of mine from my college years.

Well, when I land on the tower in the sky I'm always greeted by my high school buddies who surround me in a circle of hugs and I'm so happy. Then they part and one of them always says, we have someone who needs to talk to you. The person (the last one was one of my grandmothers who has since passed) always appears in the circle in a squatting or low position then rises up and crying gives me bad news.

When I wind up in my comfy living room, I always have the most pleasant conversation with the guy, who I know is not my friend from long ago but I keep up the pretense. And we talk about my progress, it's like a checkup or something but he always makes me feel okay whether I've made strides or not. He never ever judges me and I cannot hide feelings from him, nor do I want to.

I asked not to remember because I don't enjoy the flight not knowing where I'll land and it makes me anxious. I'll have to really think about getting over that fear.

[Callie McAllie]

17. I honestly do not think I've ever had a flying dream

I never thought about it much, but looking at this thread it kind of makes me feel like the woman in the group who's never had an orgasm. Gee.

Probably the most memorable of the joyous dreams I have had, I was walking through this sort of Peter Max landscape with birds calling my name. I was a kid (Peter Max was more prevalent back then) and I had fallen, hit my head on the sidewalk and blacked out for a minute. The birds calling my name turned out to be my friend, who was calling to me in a panic trying to wake me up.

It was a great dream, though.

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. Oh sweetheart, don't worry about it. Re-read my OP and note that I gave it up in 1985

when I became addicted to it so badly that I =hated= my waking life. It has to be the icing on the cake, not the cake itself. And if you wish, simply ask your angels if it is appropriate for you, and if so, to guide you with ease and grace, and to protect you completely.

Asking for protection each and every time...that's really important, and I forgot to mention it in the OP...

[murielm99]

23. I remember flying dreams.

They were so real to me that when I woke up I was sure that they had really happened. To this day, I can see those dreams.

I didn't fly that high off the ground. I can remember looking down and seeing the brick sidewalks that were in my neighborhood. I was conscientious enough to stop at each stop sign. (Don't ask me why).

The closest thing I had to flying dreams when I was an adult was when my dog and I would share the same dreams. I KNOW I was having my dog's dreams. I had my arms around her neck, and I was streaming out behind her like a flag in a wind. She would run and run. Everything would be black and white.

For a brief period, I was having my oldest daughter's dreams, too. She was having mine. We talked about it. She was dreaming about things that concerned me, and I was dreaming about things that concerned her. I told her that I had had a dream about dating a young man who was selfish and used people. I was worried about not having had safe sex. She said that was her dream. She had dreamed something of mine which I cannot remember now.

Has anyone else ever experienced this?

I want my flying dreams back. They were a joy.