Thread: Spinning as a Method of Stabilizing/Lengthening the dream: Misinformation?

I know that this has been brought up before, but it's been quite some time. And, with the continuous influx of new members, I thought it might be important to open the discussion again, so that people don't fall into the wrong habits, from the get-go.

Spinning. It's been ages since I've read through EtWoLD, but I believe it was told that spinning is a good way to prolong the dream and stabilize it, to keep one from waking up. I (and I believe many others) find this to be, for the most part, a risky technique to adopt. I find it much more useful as a way of changing the scene, because the spinning sensation is so erratic, that it's very hard to pull that same dream back together, with clarity, once you've blurred the scene out of your head in order to 'spin.'

I find looking at / rubbing one's hands, or surrounding objects, as a much more reliable method, because it actually gets you to engage multiple dream world 'senses,' at once, keeping you concentrated on the dream content, and helping to filter out any distractions or sensations from the waking world. Looking back over some of the previous forum discussions, it seems that the majority seems to have trouble with using spinning to keep their lucidity or stay in the dream, so I figured we'd try to get some more accurate numbers on its success rate.

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