What's Spinning Like For You?

**Jesus of Suburbia** · 08-13-2011 05:55 AM

Spinning. It's a well-known technique for changing the situation and preventing yourself from waking up while in a lucid dream. In the dream, you start spinning, keep telling yourself that you're in a dream so you don't forget, and think about what you want the situation to change to.

My question is, when you spin in a lucid dream, what do you see? Last night I had my first lucid dream in a very long time (I don't even make a conscious effort anymore, though after being reminded how amazing it is, I will) and I spun quite a bit to change the situation. When I spun, I saw static, like that on a TV. You might know it as "snow". At one point it even had a channel at the corner of my vision to mimic a TV, because I was thinking about that.

tl;dr, What do you see when you spin in a lucid dream? I see TV static.

**MadMonkey** · 08-13-2011 07:00 AM

When I tried spinning it just looked normal and nothing changed. It might be worth another try since my dream control is much better now and see what happens next time.

**zebrah** · 08-13-2011 07:51 AM

I usually just see a blur of colors until a new dream scene forms.

**Mancon** · 08-13-2011 08:05 AM

When I turn everything goes a little blurry:

Then when I stop it gets all clear, and I am where I want to be.

**zebrah** · 08-13-2011 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Mancon

When I turn everything goes a little blurry:

Then when I stop it gets all clear, and I am where I want to be.

That's close to what I see but things are a bit more blurred together.

**Bobblehat** · 08-13-2011 08:45 AM

I stopped using it because every time I span I woke up. I read somewhere that you're only supposed to concentrate on the sensation of the spinning, rather than the visuals. Maybe that's where I went wrong.

**Marm** · 08-13-2011 10:45 AM

**Bobblehat** · 08-13-2011 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by ThePieMan

Sorry to be ignorant, but what is that and what does it add to the discussion?

**Jesus of Suburbia** · 08-13-2011 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

Sorry to be ignorant, but what is that and what does it add to the discussion?

You had no childhood.

**Sheddler** · 08-15-2011 07:51 AM

Well, I see something like this:

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**lawilahd** · 08-30-2011 09:16 AM

Spinning feels like it does normally in waking reality, and each time I have spinned in a dream, it never changed the dream scene, possibly because I never willed for it to do so.

**LuMikkel** · 08-30-2011 09:31 PM

The only time I remember spinning, I did a 180 and ended up looking the same direction as before somehow. Stuff was the same but people either appeared or disappeared.

What I saw was the same as you'd see in real life. Blur from not focusing due to the spin.

**Trivium** · 08-31-2011 06:43 AM

Is it weird i have done this without lucid dreaming? But i didn't keep the dream from ending, but it switched dreams.

**Queen Zukin** · 09-02-2011 03:17 AM

I used to use it as a means of teleportation. I spun hard, didn't realize that I had already reached my destination, and spun right into a pole. -.-

If there's a way to fail, my brain will find it.

**Puffin** · 09-02-2011 03:31 AM

I've never spun to change locations because it's quite easy to destabilize a lucid like that; I didn't want to waste a dream trying to get better at it, either. Besides, I wanted to keep my count regarding waking up prematurely at a 0. I spin slowly just to take in the details of my surroundings, in order to stabilize the dream.