I have trouble staying lucid. Does spinning really work?

**Tabasttayw** · 08-16-2010 04:04 AM

I had heard if you start to wake up, spinning can help you stay in your dream. Can anybody varify this, or does anybody have thoughts on this?

**Elucive** · 08-16-2010 04:13 AM

Yes, it works. But of course you have to believe it will work. Expectations are everything. In my case, staring at my hands and touching things work much better.

**Tabasttayw** · 08-16-2010 04:29 AM

Thanks!

**UberTom9999** · 08-16-2010 04:33 AM

I had a lucid dream last night - it was very unstable, as I didn't attain lucidity until towards the end. However, I found that concentrating on gravity works wonders. Focus on the force that's pulling your feet toward the ground in the dream - it's one thing that exists only in the dream and not in real life, and I found that it anchored my consciousness quite well. The trick of examining my hands didn't work for me, and I haven't tried spinning, but the gravity trick seemed to work extremely well.

**OldNutter** · 08-16-2010 04:37 AM

Spinning worked fine for me... Or maybe it was swinging my hand into the chair while I was spinning, but one of the two worked.

**Tabasttayw** · 08-16-2010 04:42 AM

Spinning could be related to it. Apparently motion in general will do the trick. But u have to make sure that while ur lucid, u move ur dream body, not ur physical one. That's what I have trouble with. Once I realize it's a dream, I slowly wake up, so if I move, it may actually be my real body, and possibly wake me up even more quickly.

**OldNutter** · 08-16-2010 04:44 AM

Apparently rubbing your hands together works really well.

**Puffin** · 08-16-2010 04:46 AM

Spinning can help if done slowly (doing it too fast will just blur the scenery and destabilize the dream). It also helps to stop what you're doing and really try to gather as much awareness as you can, and say to yourself "I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming".

**mparker** · 08-16-2010 04:46 AM

Spinning wakes me up

But rubbing hands or generally just touching things and feeling things works pretty well for me

**Elucive** · 08-16-2010 05:20 AM

I like you guys.

**Tabasttayw** · 08-16-2010 02:18 PM

I could see rubbing my hands together... And even if my physical body did it, what damage could I really do? Thanks everybody!

**scrumpy** · 08-16-2010 02:27 PM

I've done all of the above but what has helped the most for me is doing my regular RC's, especially the nose plug one - I use it like breathing into a paper bag to calm me down. I have no idea why this works.