Methods of Transportation

Having a large number of priorities, I'm usually away from where I want to be when I initially obtain lucidity. I have places to go and people to see, and it's important that I fulfil these priorities as quickly as possible. I don't know about you, but even after a few years of lucid dreaming, my awareness is short lived.

Somewhat like the waking world, there are different ways in which we can travel, some providing a faster service than others.

If our target is nearby, it's easy enough to just walk or run, although I once took a bicycle so I could cruise around the block. It was a bit of a pain, to be honest, as the bicycle kept steering widely to the left and the right. In the end, I figured I would have been better off just jumping or flying. Unfortunately for me, those thoughts never crossed my mind at the time.

When it comes to distant targets, it can become a little more challenging to get there, depending on your experience and levels of awareness. I wouldn't be surprised if the highly experienced could merely demand the change of location, snap their fingers, and they've arrived at their destination.

I tend to spin around in circles, imagining where I want to be as the dream begins to blur. It's a common method of transportation, though it doesn't always do such a good job as my own awareness begins to slip away with the initial dream.

Last night, in an attempt to reach a certain place, I tried to travel by stepping through a mirror. I know some people state their desired target, step through the mirror, and away they go. Another known method, one I'd love to try but have yet to get the chance, is to find or create a door, write the name of the location on it, and it's usually waiting on the other side. There was once a time when I did something similar, drawing a door so I could get out of a certain house. Frankly, if I had enough awareness to take everything into consideration (like in the waking world), I wouldn't have drawn a door on the wall to get outside... I would smashed the wall down, Hulk style!

How do you tend to travel in your lucid dreams? What methods of transportation do you value highly? What methods would you like to try?

[shadedragon]

Well, I don't often travel to much, but when I do its through links that I use association with and visualization. I enjoy changing othersdreams though with a technique I learned from dragons (my guardian's home realm) called Feren Kún (normally its used for assisting someone from escaping a dangerous trance, but by projecting energy on someone while they sleep, it may affect their dream or even change it)

[ribiq]

I usually fly/walk, but one time I wanted to try something different, so I waved my hand as though taking one big wipe across a chalk board, changing to a new scene immediately. Trying different methods is a good time

[shadedragon]

Just recently I had one and i tried a newer technique to me, which is by creating a door and stepping through it. This one had quite a twist on it, one door would take me to my middle school, the next to the ocean, the last to a little cabin with quite different experiences. Strange thing is that my mind began interpreting the dream without my control and continued throughout most of the dream, stopping here and there when I didn't recognize something and allowing me to guess at what it meant. it was quite a unique dream though. I have been trying to get back into Lucid dreaming but my mind hasn't been allowing me to since that one, but i will get in soon.

Try "spinning around" very fast with the intention of transportation. It works for me, and I know it does for others too, because I read it on some forum a while ago.