Spinning woke me up

After a 15day recall dry spell.I woke up with this.I am walking down the street and realise that i am dreaming.Here is how.I always wear a ring on my index finger.From time to time during my waking life i unconciously use my thumb to feel the ring.In this dream i do this move with my thumb to feel the ring on my index without intention.But i cant feel it...its like i am feeling my skin.I am like what the hell!After that i look at my hand to check and i miss a finger.My pinky was no there.......The thing is the moment this happened the dream started to fade and i used the spinning technique and it did not work at all...Maybe i spinned to fast or too slow ? I mean does the way you spin matters?

I remember the first time I tried dream spinning (in my first LD nonetheless) It failed, I saw some bright lights and woke up right away. Dream spinning isn't guaranteed to work, particularly if you're just starting out.

I don't think the direction of your spin (clockwise or counter clockwise) matters.

I don't want to judge you based solely off the fact you have only 18 posts, but I'd guess you are fairly new to lucid dreaming. Just have confidence in yourself that your practice will pay off, I know it. :mrgreen: As I've gotten more advanced, there have been numerous times that dream spinning has and hasn't worked well in my experience. Some of it is probably just the fact that you're still learning the ropes of LDing, and some of it is just based on the way that different people's minds work. Dream spinning might work great for 95% of people, but it might be a detriment to the other 5% causing them to lose more of the dreams stability or wake up.

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Originally Posted by JadeGreen

I remember the first time I tried dream spinning (in my first LD nonetheless) It failed, I saw some bright lights and woke up right away. Dream spinning isn't guaranteed to work, particularly if you're just starting out.

I don't think the direction of your spin (clockwise or counter clockwise) matters.

I don't want to judge you based solely off the fact you have only 18 posts, but I'd guess you are fairly new to lucid dreaming. Just have confidence in yourself that your practice will pay off, I know it. :mrgreen: As I've gotten more advanced, there have been numerous times that dream spinning has and hasn't worked well in my experience. Some of it is probably just the fact that you're still learning the ropes of LDing, and some of it is just based on the way that different people's minds work. Dream spinning might work great for 95% of people, but it might be a detriment to the other 5% causing them to lose more of the dreams stability or wake up.

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You got that right mate.I am indeed new.This was just my second LD.in the first one i used the hands rubbing and it worked but i couldnt recall much of that dream...i couldnt even remember how i got lucid in first place.

Hey there,

In my experience, stabilizing, prolonging and grounding a dream is a matter of immersing yourself in the dream sensations. Try to see, hear, feel, touch the dream. Turning your awareness and attention to the dream will tend to ground it. Turning it away from the dream, on the other hand, will tend to end it.

Taken in that light, I always believe spinning to be a double edged proposition. On the one hand, it can work as a dream-grounding technique because the sensation of spinning is a dream sensation that will can have a solid claim on your awareness, effectively fixing your attention on the stimuli the dream is offering you (the feeling of spinning itself). Yet at the same time, it can fail to work (especially if you close your eyes) because you're cutting yourself off from your current dream surrounding, and ignoring all the other stimuli the dream has to offer. Additionally, you can get distracted by thoughts about spinning, about dream ending and how to prolong it, which draws your attention inward and away from your surroundings as well.

So if spinning works for you... yay. If not, next time try to simply ground your awareness in the here and now when you feel the dream ending. What can you still see? What can you hear? What can you touch and feel? Focusing on these things tend to swiftly ground and prolong the dream for me.

Just my 2 cents,

-Redrivertears-