re: Flying in dreams?

Best book ever: "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" advises you not to escape danger, confront it.

Also has more tips than I can even begin to list here, such as how to induce lucid dreaming, how to stay in a dream (slowly spin in a circle), how to exit one (close your eyes in the dream and reopen them), telltale signs to know you are in one (such as seeing a clock, look away and look back and the time usually always changes quite a bit, also exercises to do in the daytime during waking hours such as constantly asking yourself if you are dreaming enough to the point of doing it in your sleep, ect. ect.)

I think the dude's name is Stephen LaBarge who wrote it. The book is fairly old, but still the state of the art on lucid dreaming. Excellent, excellent book for those who know they can lucid dream, or even if you want to learn how.

Lastly, again on the initial part of the post, you should confront your demons to get them worked out. Go up to them confidently, but not arrogantly. Why? To resolve them once and for all. A bad person, or situation dissolves into things like puffy clouds.
Also, says if you see a hole, instead of feeling fear, go in it. Find out what is there for you.
I've found this stuff actually works, too, just like so much else in the book.

When you start to do the things listed in the book, you find yourself more apt to lucid dream because you are questioning your dream. In other words when you open the fridge door and the bologna starts talking to you, normally, you'd just go with it and think it's normal but after you start to attempt to control your dreams, you obviously figure out you are in a lucid dream.

For me, I get pretty excited when I realize i'm lucid dreaming, so the slowly spin in place thing helps ground me. You can do anything in dreams, they are beyond time and space, you can fly, ect., so it's pretty exciting stuff.

And, it don't cost nothin.

Oh, and neither does the book. Here it is for free

Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming