Help with stabilizing a lucid dream. (Spinning technique)

**Dodge** · 05-22-2011 03:26 AM

(just realised this might have been the wrong place to post this, sorry!)

Last night I came close to having my first full lucid dream. (I've came close twice before, but I actually was lucid for a bit this time).

I was lying in bed, just awoken from a dream, but didn't move and tried to become lucid. I felt SP kick in. And I kept going in and out of the dream, like when I came very close to being lucid, or perhaps actually gaining lucidity, I would get very excited and I could feel my heart pounding very fast.

I remembered that people say to spin around. So I did, and it helped me gain some stability. And the fact it worked so well and quickly surprised me. But when I was spinning, I thought a few things. Like how long do I have to spin for? How long do most people spin? Also, I think I was trying to rush into the lucid dream, when I realised I was about to become lucid, I just wanted to try stuff straight away. When spinning around, I remember my dream character was standing in the room, and I was trying to explain why I was spinning (to give the dream sense).

Also I changed the setting a few times, I couldn't decide where I wanted to be. I don't think my dream was ever very vivid. (at least to the extent people seem to experience).

I also tried to hold objects, I just visualised them in my hand and tried to focus on them. Bascially I tried to seperate myself from my sleeping body. Which also seemed to work a bit.

I cant remember how it ended, I think I either woke up and lost SP and went back to sleep, or maybe the lucid dream just collapsed and went on to have a normal dream.

So basically I want to know:
-How long do people often spin for?
-What do you think when you spin? Do you try and make sense of the spinning, do you try and continue the dream in your thoughts?

Edit: also I remembered, at times in my lucid dream it was as if the whole dream was moving away from me. Like as if I was zooming out? Hard to describe, but Im guessing that was part of the dream collapsing?

**Dodge** · 05-22-2011 03:32 AM

I have had a quick read of some other threads now, I guess I should try looking at my hands and trying to stimulate many senses.

**Reclypso** · 05-22-2011 09:07 AM

Spinning isn't mainly for stability it's for changing your dream scene to something more desirable. Just rub your hands together a lot and do reality checks, those worked for me had a 20 minute dream on my first lucid.

**WhatIsX** · 05-22-2011 12:48 PM

spinning insofar as you see more of the dream scene should induce more stability.

**Puffin** · 05-22-2011 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by Reclypso

Spinning isn't mainly for stability it's for changing your dream scene to something more desirable. Just rub your hands together a lot and do reality checks, those worked for me had a 20 minute dream on my first lucid.

Spinning is great for stabilization - you slowly turn in a circle and look around, which forces your mind to create more parts of the dream scene, thus taking your attention off real life and focusing it on what's around you.

But it also works for teleportation!

You can spin for five or six seconds, relatively slowly if you're wanting to stabilize the dream. If you want to teleport, you can spin faster but keep your attention on your surroundings. Failure to do that could wake you up. While spinning in an attempt to teleport, think of the new location and the viewpoint you're currently looking at it from. For example, if you're spinning on the ground of a school, looking at the upper parts of the walls and you want to teleport to a cliff, imagine being near the edge of the cliff and looking up at the sky.

Visualization is important if you want to teleport.

**iliketoshred** · 05-23-2011 12:39 AM

when i spun in a lucid dream for the first time, it stablized my dream and it also brought clarity also, i could see the dew in my front lawn and watch the sun rising from dawn.

**Dodge** · 05-23-2011 01:46 PM

Thanks for the replys, and wow I'm an idiot.

When I thought of spinning I just spun around quite quickly, making everything a blur. But you just spin around slowly taking everything in? That makes sense, when I think about it my settings was quite 2D, though I didn't really have time to do much and actually walk around or anything.

How vivid can LDs get? Just like real life? Or close to?