Spinning Saved My Butt Last Night

[LP11725]

Hey Guys Well, recently I have been having a problem, when ever I become lucid, my dream starts to fade rather quickly, I mean its like Boom Lucid Starts to get fuzzy, and the sound starts to distort, and I find the dream basically like just washing away..its like if I let it continue without doing anything, it would of caused me to wake up... I never had this problem before but I am working on trying to find why this is happening and fix it. I been LD'ing for a while now where this should be part of a beginners problem attaining lucidity but it shouldnt be happening to me at my level anyway...Dream Spinning is the only technique that I first learned about so it seems to always come to my mind first when trying to save my dream.. well last night fir the first time, DS'ing actually clearly worked very well for me, and it kind of had me laughing as I saw it working. Let me explain a little more, but most of you prob already experienced this before... Months ago when I first read about spinning, and tried it I would always spin like I would as a child as so it says to do, but I dont know maybe I was going too fast, or not doing it right because I couldnt really see anything because of the spinning, I would either kind of think it was working then wake up, this went on for a while. well last night..I was in this room or something, some kind of bedroom or hotel room, something in that nature, not sure how i got there but I became lucid, and moments later I felt the dream starting to collapse , and I spun once again, but this time it was really different.. I started to spin at a steady speed, not too slow, and not as fast like I did as a child...and at the same time, I just thought of how the room looked before it started to fade, and I kept spinning, and I found something amazing starting to happen, I am not sure if this is how it works or not but as im spinning as that nice steady speed and the room in my thoughts, I started to see pieces of the room replenish it self until the dream was fully stable again...it was crazy..like right when I started spinning, the dream was really small, and fuzzy and felt like it was gaining distance from me, then once I started spinning, it just slowly came back and got really bold again, and when I finally stopped, it looked better then it did before I spun... any thoughts? or is this the beauty of dream spinning?

[Moonlit_Jade]

That's the beauty of dream spinning, alright. The theory is when you spin around like that, your brain works to construct the room moving around you, thus stabilizing the dream. Pretty cool, huh? If you ever want an alternative, rubbing your hands together also works pretty well.

[Xyrin]

How does rubbing your hands work? Do you close your eyes in the dream?

[Moonlit_Jade]

How does rubbing your hands work? Do you close your eyes in the dream? Same principle. When you rub your hands in a dream, you aren't actually rubbing your hands. So in order to feel your hands rubbing together, your brain has to work to construct that. Make your brain construct any senses and it helps. If I stand around in the dream long enough and don't use my senses enough, it will end within a few seconds. I try not to close my eyes when I'm dreaming, otherwise one powerful sense, my sight, is gone. That makes it a lot harder to stay in the dream.

[LP11725]

That's the beauty of dream spinning, alright. The theory is when you spin around like that, your brain works to construct the room moving around you, thus stabilizing the dream. Pretty cool, huh? If you ever want an alternative, rubbing your hands together also works pretty well. Awesome, now that I actually saw it working, im sure it will be just as easy next time...and yes I heard about rubbing your hands together but I have not tried it yet...like I said, I tend to think of spinning first just because I guess I get a little nervous that the dream is guna end but I will indeed try this next time..thanks for the reply

[moonshine]

That's the beauty of dream spinning, alright. The theory is when you spin around like that, your brain works to construct the room moving around you, thus stabilizing the dream. Pretty cool, huh? If you ever want an alternative, rubbing your hands together also works pretty well. As far as I'm aware spinning is a means of scene changing too. Dreams fade and black out when you're waking up. By spinning, your mind has to focus on creating the spinning sensations. Which pulls you back into the dream.

[LP11725]

As far as I'm aware spinning is a means of scene changing too. Dreams fade and black out when you're waking up. By spinning, your mind has to focus on creating the spinning sensations. Which pulls you back into the dream. I was told when spinning, you can conjour any scene , and I simply wanted to stay in the one I was having, and I did

[ccrinbama]

Ah, thanks a lot for mentioning the speed at which you spun, that's a really useful bit of information that I'd never considered. Dream spinning has never worked for me before, but I always tried to spin super fast, like a child.

[LP11725]

Ah, thanks a lot for mentioning the speed at which you spun, that's a really useful bit of information that I'd never considered. Dream spinning has never worked for me before, but I always tried to spin super fast, like a child. Yea, It always failed for me too when I spun too fast...a calm steady spin seems to work alot better