dream spinning

[altagu]

hi, im new here, and ive been using dreamviews for the past few months with decent progress. last night, i had a short lucid dream, and i attempted dream spinning, but it appeared that my coordination in my dream was terrible, as i almost fell over and could only spin slowly... can anybody help me with this?

[The Cusp]

Lol, believe me, you don't want to spin fast. It's too disorienting and you can't focus on your surroundings. Everything requires your attention to exist in dreams, so if you can't concentrate on your surrounding, the fall apart and you wake up. What exactly are you trying to accomplish by spinning anyways? Running or jumping does the same thing, but it's less likely to wake you up.

[altagu]

I saw the dream spinning on the dreamviews site, so i figured i'd try it. i'll try running and jumping next time i have an LD

[apocalypse]

Spinning your body in the dream or by rubbing your hands is used sometimes to help you prolong the dream. It's not for everyone & many members here have mixed opinions of using it. it is meant to prevent you from feeling the sensation of lying in bed. Take care while spinning. Remind yourself even as you spin that you are dreaming. Try to rub your hands, or something else if it doesn't work for you.

[time traveler]

The few times that I have had a proper lucid dream I found the best way was to cause as much commotion in the dream as possible and do my best to break things and knock them over. Yelling also works well for me.

[Filimonki]

Well, get up from your computer, and spin two rounds around. This is exactly the way you should spin in your dream! Nothing less, nothing more. I don't really understand why it's more difficult for you, when I did it in my first LD, it felt as natural as when you spin in real life..! But anyways, everything is practise, this is too. Dream spinning is first of all a good tool that you use when the dream gets blurry. If you find it hard to spin you could try rubbing you're hands against other surfaces in your dream. Other people use it if they want to create a new dreamscape or an object. Just spin and think about what you want to see when you stop spinning. Good luck!

[altagu]

alright, thanks for the suggestions everybody, i'll try and put these to use.

[Fitz]

I still use spinning as one of the dream stabilizing techniques. I tend to forget that rubbing hands does the trick even better (so much that I even gained superclear sight at night in my dream). Sometimes spinning indeed only causes me to wake up, but it's also a good way to change the scenery - exactly because if you don't focus on it, it de-stabilizes and is prone to change. What I do is look up at the sky, so that I don't focus on anything around me, then spin, and voila - I find myself in a slightly/very different place. It's not perfect, it doesn't TELEPORT me, but it changes the place I'm in. I even managed to change the season - from summer to winter - that way. So it's useful, I think. What exactly does running or jumping do, though? In my experience, all running does is wake me up, because my body seems to respond to it just like it would in real life, i.e. raised heart-rate. Jumping helps me start flying, but that's it. And when I shout, my voice is always muffled. It sounds as if I'm really shouting in real life and it's muffled by the pillow or muscle paralysis. Anyone else experience that?