Please feel free to read my Dream Journal to get the full story of what happened last night.

But the quick story is this:

I have been having trouble sleeping lately. My hours have been all messed up, I've been going out, coming home late. Not going to bed until 3 or 4 am, laying in bed until 12 pm...

Bottom line is I haven't been sleeping well.

Last night I was staring into the blackness and decided to try something. If "spinning" could keep a Lucid Dream going longer then perhaps some type of "spinning" could help me attain lucidity?

Please keep in mind I had not slept at all that night and poorly the night before.

I imagined a circle like a galaxy in the blackness and started it spinning. It was a bit hard to do at first but eventually I was able to get it spinning very fast.

I then imagined that circle was a portal to my dream. Eventually I could actually see a tunnel and was able to imagine myself going through the tunnel and entered my dream state where I was lucid.

I was not able to keep the state going very long however it did work. It was a weird OOB/LD but it definitely happened.

I can not link this to a sleep state since I have been so screwed up lately and have no idea if that was the only reason this actually worked or not.

So has any one else tried this and been successful? Any thoughts, ideas or suggestions?

Let me know

Drake