For me, anytime I want to escape SP, I just imagine movement (you can even practice in real life to get a sense of it, but it won't be as vivid unless your very focused). Usually I'll imagine summer-salting forward, or even standing up if I want to be somewhere specific (rarely have the idea to think of some place good, but I once transitioned from SP to running across my yard). You'll usually get a modest sense of this actually happening (like a really vivid thought), and at the apex of that sense, instead of imagining movement, actually move your body like you would in real life, and suddenly, your there, out of SP. Your awarness likes to pin it's self wherever it thinks your body currently is, in SP it has no real place to pin awarness too, so all your thoughts will be hazy scenes and tend to be very random and unstable, until you bring that dream body alive by actually moving it inside of your imagined scene, if you don't initiate movement your going to stay in SP where everything is unstable, and if you don't have some idea of where your body is (through that imagined movement/scene) your body will continue to pin it's awarness to your paralyzed waking body.
This is my theory on SP, and I know it wasn't necissary to explain it all out like that. But it helps to understand the concept so you can escape it however you like. You'll get used to SP the more you have it, for me, I've had it occur frequently throughout my life. I'm generally a pretty nervous person, but SP rarely scares me anymore, and it's fear that brings bad things in dreams, so I just smile and relax.
I think that's also why spinning works to stabilize the dream, it brings your awareness back to the dream body. I prefer to look at my hands or my feet though.
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