Thread: Dream spinning

Hey Sully

read your post...I just had a False Awakening about 10mins ago when i was laying down to take a nap..i wasn't Lucid either..and i have never done a Dream Spin in my life..im kinda like wigged out about it cuz i dont know what its gonna be like when it happens lol...but if you could explain maybe what it feels and looks like, that would be cool...

thanks

dj jones



"Am I Dreaming...........?"

Yeah I've either woken up completely or had a false awakening every time I dream spin. Think its because I get too excited once I become lucid and run around like a headless chicken. Then when the dream starts fading I start spinning. I'm sure if I took it calmly I wouldnt wake up though.

Hehe yeah, too much excitement will definitely lower your chances. You can also try other things, like looking down on the ground you're standing on, shaking your head, etc. Just focus on the vividness and realism of ALL your senses. Spinning is nice, cause you can feel the wind on your arms and all that stuff.

Hey, wouldn't it be funny if someone thought a real awakening was a false one for some reason, and decided to dream spin?

lol that would be great. i could just see someones mom walking in on them lol

Hi Sully,
I'm not sure what to tell you, dream spinning is what got me my first lucid dream. What you could try is to picture a place where you want to be while you dream spin. Ideally you should land there, at least that's how it happened for me.
Good Luck!

haha thanks for the input, yeah ill try some of those ideas. I usually have a lot of sucess with the rub hands and shout verbal commands, but sometimes it takes FOREVER to get the vision clear, and it feels like i sense things around me, not so much seeing them (kinda like daredevil in the movies, i cant explain it, must be a dream sense or someting, its kinda cool in a way). Ill try the spinning a few more times, and if i still have no sucess with it ill let it go.

and to answer one of your questions, For me when i spin im going really really fast in circles, kinda like im running in circlces like a dog trying to bite his own tail but with my hands out to my sides, hard to explain. It usually gets everrything blurry like your moving in a jet and then the feeling of waking up usually comes. sometimes it takes a few seconds to slow down too!

Really running in circles? Usually When I dream spin its like just spinning around 360 kinda like you do in real life when you're trying to make yourself dizzy.

Originally posted by ShadowNightWing
Really running in circles? Usually When I dream spin its like just spinning around 360 kinda like you do in real life when you're trying to make yourself dizzy.

Yeah thats basically pretty much what i do, bad phrasing i guess lol

When I tried dream spinning my first time, I woke up.

Now I just yell out "increase Clarity" and that helps.I dont try dream spinning anymore now im trying out alternate methods instead of dream spinning.

I have used dream spinning when I feel myself becoming consious from too much interaction in a lucid dream. I can feel my dream world disolving around me and I stop what I am doing in the lucid state and start spinning and I can feel my consiousness efforts drift away. Very similar to fainting and I Can return to the spot in the dream where I left off. It is a very powerful process to conquer and one must have a powerful bridge between consious and subconcious mind in order to have this ability. IMO, it is one of the most useful tools of lucid dreaming. All too often lucid dreams end when too much activity is exerted in the dream to remain in control.