Spinning

[rosephase]

Last night I remembered to spin for the first time in a lucid dream, it was amazing it felt so good. But right afterwards I had a false awaking. Has anyone else had this problem? In suggestions for spinning to work the way it should?

[Chatter-Box]

I have tried spinning before with no luck, maybe I should give it another chance since so many people have sucsess with it. False awakenings I heard are sometimes very realistic too. Spinning + FA = very vivid dream (possibly), hopefully lucid though. Good luck with future spinning!

[PenguinLord13]

Though I haven't tried it, from what I have seen, people very often will either wake up or have an FA while spinning. It can be very helpful, but many times it fails.

[The Cusp]

Spinning sucks. Period. Of all the reports of people actually doing it, half end in waking up, and the majority of the rest have mixed results. The key to spinning is that the feeling of motion will help anchor you in the dream if you feel you are waking up. But overall it's too disorienting. Running, jumping, flying, fighting, just about any intense physical activity will work just as well

[Coolv]

For me, shouting "lucidity x 1000" sucks. I never do it anymore because I can remember at least two sepearte occasions when I woke up right after saying that. One time, I was in a stable LD but woke up when I yelled that out.

[disabled_account_2]

Dont spin! Instead, close your eyes, place your palm over your eyes, turn around while they are closed and as you turn imagine the place you want to get summoned at. When you remove your palm, start feeling the place and its sounds, listen and sense, even smell. Now open your eyes and you have been transferred. Easy eh? I never fail doing this. You must remember to imagine well, visualise/remember the place you want to spawn into. Try it tonight.

[NeAvO]

Spinning has good and bad sides to it. The good is it can help stabalise the lucid and improve realism but the bad is that it can teleport you or even give you FAs. So its really a 50-50 chance of doing some thing good really. [EDIT] Oh and rub your hands like Shadowrunner said but don't close your eyes as opening them can wake you up as it could open your real eyes.[EDIT]

[disabled_account_2]

Thanks for the addition NeAvO. I am sure there are many people that shut their eyes for waking up from nightmares, blinking. In that case maybe its a better idea to just hold your hands over your eyes as he also said =). Personally I have to struggle to wake up for real. I'll either have to die or shake my head to wake up, so if you're a person that wont wake up that easy, I suggest you try and do what I wrote, just for fun.

[dollsteak]

I tried the spinning technique once. It sucked. I was trying to summon one of my friends, but ended up waking up with a POUNDING headache.. And I don't even get headaches much. Ruined a perfectly good LD

[Somnio Forte]

Hm...you did something wrong, maybe? That's really not what should happen.

[Sythix]

I don't like spinning either, nor do I like closing my eyes (as it feels so weird and usually end up waking up.) What I do to increase the vividness of a lucid dream is sit down as soon as I'm lucid and start to feel my hands and rub them together. Press the tip of your tongue up against the roof of your mouth will increase vividness as well. Then I go onto carefully gaze over my environment, looking at every single detail. This may seem as if you're wasting your lucid dream - but believe me you're not! With practice all your lucid dreams will become as vivid and you won't need to do it anymore, and then you can work on other things like increasing the time of a lucid dream - extending one minute to one hour of dream time! Another good thing to do is stare at an object in a lucid dream, the dream will begin to vibrate with intense vividness after a few seconds and you'll be able to enjoy your lucid dream with ultra-reality!

[ModestMouse]

My last LD which is the first i've been able to stay table in for a few minutes I did spin, but I only did it once because as I spun everything went black so I had to get everything to come back again, and I didn't want to lose the scene, so I played it safe with hand rubbing, worked great.

[Meidi]

Last night I remembered to spin for the first time in a lucid dream, it was amazing it felt so good. But right afterwards I had a false awaking. Has anyone else had this problem? In suggestions for spinning to work the way it should? [/b] I did the exact same thing a couple of nights ago! I was having a lucid dream that was kind of fading and I remembered dream spinning, so I started spinning...but I kinda watched myself from a third person view and I thought "well, this ain't working" and I had a false awakening.

[Xanous]

I don't like spinning either, nor do I like closing my eyes (as it feels so weird and usually end up waking up.) What I do to increase the vividness of a lucid dream is sit down as soon as I'm lucid and start to feel my hands and rub them together. Press the tip of your tongue up against the roof of your mouth will increase vividness as well. Then I go onto carefully gaze over my environment, looking at every single detail. This may seem as if you're wasting your lucid dream - but believe me you're not! With practice all your lucid dreams will become as vivid and you won't need to do it anymore, and then you can work on other things like increasing the time of a lucid dream - extending one minute to one hour of dream time! Another good thing to do is stare at an object in a lucid dream, the dream will begin to vibrate with intense vividness after a few seconds and you'll be able to enjoy your lucid dream with ultra-reality! [/b] Spinning is cool and fun but I still wake up. I will try to remember to do this next time. I did try to focus on a person the last time but I ruined it because I got aroused!

[courtney]

Last night I remembered to spin for the first time in a lucid dream, it was amazing it felt so good. But right afterwards I had a false awaking. Has anyone else had this problem? In suggestions for spinning to work the way it should? [/b] I spun in a dream one time. It's kind of pathetic, really. I was in a borderline nightmare, and i spun to get out of it. I'll describe my dream as best as I can for you. So well it started out that I was driving around in a school on a little bike with cherries as the wheels on it. There were many people riding bikes as well, with an assortment of wheels- such as oranges, chocolate, apples.. etc. All of a sudden, everyone scatters and the wide hallways that we were riding around in turned skinny and it was like I was running through a narrow maze. Everyone disappeared and suddenly I was left all alone. I saw a narrow wooden door and leaped inside of it. I sat on some chair, later realizing that it was a toilet. I sat there for awhile, and after what seemed like 2 seconds, someone started violently banging and hitting and punching the door. The voice was yelling at me, but I couldn't understand what they were saying. I was sitting on the toilet with my feet up against the door so that the intruder couldn't get in and attack me. I was prettymuch just in a typical smallsmallSMALL bathroom with a really tall door and all that was really in the bathroom was a toilet in which I was sitting on it. After awhile, I realized that this can't be happening and that I was dreaming. I opened the door and stood face to face with a nun. She stared at me and gave me dirty, piercing eyes. A slight frown. I walked past her and down a narrow hall with doors on each side everywhere. She was following me. I knew it was a dream, but the thought of her following me kind of creeped me out. I knew she couldn't hurt me, but I just didn't want another nightmare. I closed my eyes and turned around three times. When I opened them again I was standing on the back of a boat, with acrobats above me, attached to ropes and flying in the air. My mother was behind me, and she told me no to go too high, I didn't listen. Before I knew it, I was getting pulled up, higher and higher and higher. The waves below looked like little wisps of smoke. Slowly, I started to come back down to the boat and I landed on the edge of it. I jumped down in the normal part of the boat and then I woke up. A weird dream, yes I know. I'm not very good at describing things, so I'm sorry if none of it makes sense..

[Meidi]

Every time I spin it feels like I'm spinning under water, like it doesn't go fast enough so then I stop, and I get confused as to what to do. Argh! Maybe clapping/rubbing hands is simply better?

[skywatcher]

I don't like spinning either, nor do I like closing my eyes (as it feels so weird and usually end up waking up.) What I do to increase the vividness of a lucid dream is sit down as soon as I'm lucid and start to feel my hands and rub them together. Press the tip of your tongue up against the roof of your mouth will increase vividness as well. Then I go onto carefully gaze over my environment, looking at every single detail. This may seem as if you're wasting your lucid dream - but believe me you're not! With practice all your lucid dreams will become as vivid and you won't need to do it anymore, and then you can work on other things like increasing the time of a lucid dream - extending one minute to one hour of dream time! Another good thing to do is stare at an object in a lucid dream, the dream will begin to vibrate with intense vividness after a few seconds and you'll be able to enjoy your lucid dream with ultra-reality! [/b] This sounds like good advice. Spinning doesn't work for me either. Every time, it results in an FA. The last time I tried it, I even told myself to be careful because it might result in an FA but it happened anyway. Doh!

[lechat]

I tried spinning two times and two times it brought me back to the reality. No more spinning....

[MexicanDreamer]

Once a DC told me that the most effective technique was to spin (eyes open) and try to do something else at the same time (reading a book , rubbing hands , etc ). When I tried it the dream became very very vivid . Only tried it once tho , it would be cool to know if anyone else gets good results with this .

[MaryLynne]

I tried spinning my first few dreams, and it worked well for me. As soon as it started to fade, I spun around - it was weird, like trying to spin when you are drunk. The scene stabilized, and I could go on. Now I don't bother with it, because I don't have trouble anymore staying lucid if I can manage to get there. Maybe it is because of what someone said about any activity keeps your focused. As soon as I'm lucid now, I take off flying. Even if I decide ahead of time I want to try something else, as soon as I realize I'm dreaming all I want to do is fly. MLS Ohio

[Lucidbulbs]

I tried spinning twice and I can say this with clear certainity- Spinning sucks. I normally have very vivid dreams and when I tried spinning, since I wanted to ensure that I was going to stay asleep, I did do not wake up but I lost my lucidity for the remainder of the dream (or possibly the next one?) regardless of my little mantra I was muttering, "it's all a dream." The second time I did it, the same results, and my dreams were not as vivid as they normally were/are (and I have very vivid dreams) All I can say is, if you're using spinning to keep your clarity in the dream, just yell out 'clarity now' as silly as it may seem, it actually works (probably yelling out 'make dream vivid now' would work as long as you believed in it, after all, that's where the powers of a lucid dream lie in, belief)