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Got a very short LD last night, my subC had to trip me to remind me to spin, but I got an FA and thought it was real because my RC failed. Oh well.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Got a very short LD last night, my subC had to trip me to remind me to spin, but I got an FA and thought it was real because my RC failed. Oh well.

All right, congratulations on the lucid! Nice job remembering to spin... so did the spin plop you right back into your bed and you figured you'd just woken up? It's a tough break, but you'll be ready for it next time. On the plus side, it means your dream was nice and stable right through the spinning and didn't collapse.

When you began to spin, did you have a new scene in mind? Maybe next time it's worth trying to imagine the new location you wish to travel to. When you're not imagining any new location in particular, your mind may just fill in whatever is most readily at hand. In this case, perhaps it was your bedroom!

Anyway, just a thought. I'm glad to hear that recall is steady and that you're getting lucid!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

All right, congratulations on the lucid! Nice job remembering to spin... so did the spin plop you right back into your bed and you figured you'd just woken up? It's a tough break, but you'll be ready for it next time. On the plus side, it means your dream was nice and stable right through the spinning and didn't collapse.

When you began to spin, did you have a new scene in mind? Maybe next time it's worth trying to imagine the new location you wish to travel to. When you're not imagining any new location in particular, your mind may just fill in whatever is most readily at hand. In this case, perhaps it was your bedroom!

Anyway, just a thought. I'm glad to hear that recall is steady and that you're getting lucid!

Lol, actually...I'm on a horrible dry spell right now, with no recall at all for the last five days. I know it's because I haven't gotten as much sleep as I should have, so it'll be no problem, I'll be back in the thick of it by tonight.

What happened was I ended up in my bed very suspicious of my surroundings, did an RC by tracing the outline of my life line, which is usually curved in dreams, but jagged in real life. Feeling it now, it seems exactly the same as in that dream, so I went back to sleep and woke up for real. So is that how you teleport, by spinning and envisioning a new scene? I will have to try this, since teleportation is one of my goals.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Lol, actually...I'm on a horrible dry spell right now, with no recall at all for the last five days. I know it's because I haven't gotten as much sleep as I should have, so it'll be no problem, I'll be back in the thick of it by tonight.

Absolutely. Lack of sleep is often a serious recall killer (at least for me), so chances are that'll all right itself once you're getting enough sleep.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

So is that how you teleport, by spinning and envisioning a new scene? I will have to try this, since teleportation is one of my goals.

I have unintentionally done this once but never attempted it on purpose. It seems like a very good approach for a variety of reasons. By jumbling up both your visual sensations and the map of the world your hippocampus carries around, it should in theory make things much easier to rearrange.

My teleportation is a work in progress, but I've had the most success teleporting out of the void (those moments in a dream where everything has gone black.) From there I like to focus very close up on some detail of the new scene, such as how the floor will look and feel. Then I imagine myself rubbing that floor until it comes into visual focus. Then I imagine the new scene without looking up. Once I've spent a good bit of time imagining what the new environment will look like, then I raise my eyes and look around. This got me to the Colosseum.

I'm sure there are more efficient ways, but this is something that worked for me. I plan on experimenting with a lot of other approaches in the coming LDs. Let me know how the spinning goes if you get a chance to try it!