Thread: Spinning technique question

So while spinning should you keep your eyes open or closed?
Also can anyone explain exactly how to do it so it won't wake you up because that's what usually happens to me.

Keep your eyes open AT ALL TIMES during a dream; you need to be aware of your surroundings at all times so you don't wake.
The spinning itself, just spin in a circle rather slowly. Going too fast will streak the dream scenery and might cause you to wake up.

If you're wanting to change locations, try summoning a door or imagine the scenery changing around you as you spin; keep your eyes open though and just visualize things.

Great!Thanks Puffin

And while spinning you have to already start visualizing right?

Originally Posted by Andra

Great!Thanks Puffin

And while spinning you have to already start visualizing right?

If you want to teleport, yes.
But if you want to stay where you are, you don't really have to do anything but look around. It'll help your mind work to create more pieces of the location, helping to stabilize the dream.

Originally Posted by Puffin

If you want to teleport, yes.
But if you want to stay where you are, you don't really have to do anything but look around. It'll help your mind work to create more pieces of the location, helping to stabilize the dream.

yeah i agree. spin slowly, take in the details of your surroundings and rub your hands together are some of the best stabilisers. actually doing most tactile things are pretty good, although not that sometimes

spinning while you are flying can be alot of fun, and has seemed to sort of take me up a level, however it can be a bit destabilising if too quick

Originally Posted by whiterain

yeah i agree. spin slowly, take in the details of your surroundings and rub your hands together are some of the best stabilisers. actually doing most tactile things are pretty good, although not that sometimes

spinning while you are flying can be alot of fun, and has seemed to sort of take me up a level, however it can be a bit destabilising if too quick

Touching things with texture is one of the best things you can do to stabilize, as well as rubbing your hands together.

You usually visualize where you want to end up as you're spinning. Sometime it will NOT work, you might still be in the same location (being attacked by bees like I was) or it will actually bring you to the location you envisioned or something similar. But mostly you just spin and focus on something in your mind. I never really had time to think about keeping my eyes open or closed it happens so fast you don't really think about that aspect of it.