Special powers while dreaming

[PokutoHokuto]

For people who know nothing about dreams I'm going to go by steps, for anyone with any experience you can just skip to the last step.

1) Do you dream often?
(often = at least once every few night sleeps, more than once in a single night would be a lot)
2) Do you usually remember what you dreamed?
3) Did you ever have a recurring dream?
4) Can you remember while dreaming what happened in the previous dreams?
(you could call that dream-only experience)
5) Did you ever have a dream where you could do stuff which is not possible in the real world?
(let's call those "doing impossible things" as "powers", within this thread)
6) Did you ever manage to control those dream powers?
7) Did you ever become aware you were dreaming while you were still dreaming?
(that's usually called "lucid dreaming" for short)
8) Did you ever manage to use your dream powers while lucid dreaming?

This thread is for talking about dream powers.
Dream powers here should be made distinct from just doing whatever while lucid dreaming, dream powers usually become defined and controllable before reaching the lucid dream state, and dream powers have their own recurring elements and memories tied with them, they are not just a once of a time weirdness. I'm trying to be very specific with defining what dream powers are, but you can talk about general lucid dreaming all the same.
What dream power/s do you have, how do you control them, how you managed to control them (if you remember that), and any story about using them while dreaming.

For who has never had any dream power, this thread can also work as a general thread about dreams. (but there is already one about that, so use that one instead for normal dreams) This thread is closely related to lucid dreaming, so that should remain the focus.



As it goes with dream reporting, no one can really know if a person really dreamed what they say or if they made shit up to look cool.
If you are going to just say bullshit, then your punishment for being a liar is going to come in your next dreams.

 

[PokutoHokuto]

For example, in my case:

1) yes
Sometimes I can have more dreams in the same night, that usually happens when I have trouble sleeping and wake up many times in the same night
My record was 10 or 11 dreams in a single night, can't remember, it became hard to count them toards the end. Really hate the heat during summer, makes it hard to sleep, and also hate the mosquitos (but that's regardless of it being night or day)
2) yes
The trick is to focus in the first seconds right after waking up, the more time passes the harder it becomes to remember, it all just slips away if you don't pin it down
3) yes
Mostly nightmares or just weird stuff
4) yes
Sometimes the dream memory is like locked and I remember about that only while dreaming but not when awake
5) yes
Floating, or flying, depends on the altitude/elevation but it's the same, usually I'm the only one in the dream who can do that, and usually the other people in the dream don't notice my floating or just don't care.
Passing through walls, had that dream few times, but it's more rare, and I wasn't the only one, but everyone in the dream could do that too, it was weird, like doors were just walls with a colored line to mark them as doors (I don't really remember the details, but it was clear which walls were "doors" and which were normal walls), and everyone just phased by the "wall doors" like it was normal.
6)
Floating: yes, the first times when I couldn't control that was also funny, lots of crashing, float up too high and then crash down, float forward too fast and can't stop and then crash on some wall
Passing through walls: no, every time I tried to control that it just stopped working, never figured that out. And for some reason it felt embarassing to be the only one to not be able to traverse walls when everyone else could.
7) yes, but it doesn't last long for me, usually only 5 or 10 seconds and then I wake up, I have to go wild in those few seconds to don't waste the opportunity
8) yes, floating

 

[yogurtman250]

Welcome back
I don't have special powers while dreaming I just dream of weird scenarios in my life.

 

[PokutoHokuto]

About floating in the air in my dreams

For short:
controlling floating in my case seems to be very delicate, any minimal push I make can have a great effect.
I control moving upward and downward by breathing, as if floating in water. There is a set quantity of air I have to hold to remain stationary, the more air I hold the higher I go but it also accelerates while lifting and there is no upper limit like there is instead when swimming, sort of like reverse gravity maybe, if I release all the air I just freefall.
Moving forward instead is done by will, don't really know how to explain that, it's as if I push myself forward. Moving forward also gains speed by acceleration, so I just push once and then glide.

Longer:
In hindsight I think I developed floating inside dreams because usually I can't run inside dreams.
When I try to run in a dream, my legs get very heavy, so much I can't even lift them, and the more I push forward the more my movement is stopped by something like a wall of air.
That inability to run inside dreams may be related to my body in the real world while I'm sleeping, because usually my legs are hindered by the sheets and the blanket, so maybe when I try to run in a dream my body is also trying to move, but it can't.
Walking in a dream instead never gave me any problem, no clue why, maybe it's just the intensity of the act which brings the real body to relate. And walking is low intensity, so there is no hindering by the real body.
So floating became an alternative way to move fast inside my dreams. Then something more.

Floating at first was just sliding on the floor while not touching the ground.
Sort of like slipping on ice? Or like riding a bike already up to speed? Similar but different, I think those real life experiences may have been the basis of that happening in a dream.
So floating at first could have been similar to skating on ice, but without skates, or like riding a bike but without any bike, just staing there in mid-air with similar movements forward, moving on the surface of the ground.

As a result, the first time I floated, I just gained too much speed, couldn't stop, and woke up after crashing on something.
Imagine like driving a car, speeding up full throttle, having no brakes, and what happens next. Just without the car, but with the same speed.
I think I crashed frontally while floating at least two times, in different dreams.

Some time later, I dreamed again about floating, but since moving forward was not doable (as I remembered about the previous crashes) I experimented in how to move upward.
I was lucky to have the same dream about floating in the same place for like two or three times, that gave me more opportunities to test. The place was near my house, in the garage.
For some reason this time the movement was related to something like swimming or floating balloons, I think it resembled more the latter, because when swimming there is at least a boundary where the air and the water meet, so you just stop upward to that boundary, while instead when floating in a dream there was no stopping boundary upward.
Anyway, to move up I had to fill my lungs with air and hold my breath.

The first time I was testing floating up inside the garage, I could lift up, and when I went too high the ceiling just stopped me. That was a good result, and I still remember waking up pleased about it.
The following times, in a different dream, but still in the same place, near the garage, I tried again to lift up, but this time I was outside the garage, in the open outside. I moved up again like before, but since this time there was no ceiling to stop me, I kept moving more and more upward, until I was higher than all the houses around me. At that point I tried to move down, so I released whatever I was doing to move up, only that at that time I just crashed down, and woke up not so pleased.
It took few more tries (different dreams) to understand the right amount of air to hold to control the speed of lift up, and how to go down slowly without falling. Going down works by just releasing a little of the air without releasing it all. With better reaction times it's also possible to break a fall, by lifting up for a short moment, so crashing down stopped being a worry after gaining better control of float.

Moving forward again became more natural after learning how to control moving up and down, since the problem with it was mostly only the quantity of push, and to don't push too much.
I think I have never learned how to stop moving forward while floating, not how to brake, nor how to move backward to halt. I just learned how to make use of that speed forward to glide in whichever direction I like.
If I really want to stop while floating horizontally, then I have to glide upward and then use the up/down movement to stop, since it's easier to control that way.

After gaining control of floating in the air, it happened randomly in some dreams, once it started I just already knew how to control it again.
Other times instead I started to float by intention, often when there was some nightmare or other unpleasant thing happening while dreaming. I just lifted up out of reach, and watched whatever was trying to mess with me, then just woke up.

The most enjoyable use of floating for me was flying just barely above trees, enough to see the leaves of the upper branches up close.