My 4th LD! I woke myself with spinning AGAIN!

[Willowsidhe]

I can't believe i had another lucid last night. That's two in two nights and four total since January. I'm so excited! I suppose if i actually tried, i could have them even more often. Anyway, i tried spinning AGAIN and woke myself. I don't know what i'm doing besides trying too hard, i guess. The strange thing is, i don't remember the moment i became lucid. I just was. I was showing my sister a video game that i'm making in my spare time and we were looking at a map of a port town i just designed on the computer screen. "Wow. That's beautiful!" she said. (The graphics are pretty crappy and i wouldn't call it beautiful but she thought so in my dream. hehe.) "I know," i said, "Do you wanna go there?" She nodded and she climbed on my back piggy back style and we sort of jumped into the screen. All of a sudden, we were IN the game, only the graphics were not crappy 2D anymore but REAL. We were standing on the ledge of a window on the second story of a building in an alley. It's raining and the sky is dark. My sister is still clinging to my back and i say, "Do you want me to jump?" "NO!" she yells. "It's okay," i say, "I can do anything here but you are making me a little nervous. Get off my back for a second." She gets down and i open a window i suddenly realize we are standing in front of. "Come on," i say and she grabs onto me. I jump in the window and float through the room. It's a messy place, filled with couches and blankets, rugs and big fat pillows. I put my sister down and say, "Well, where do you want to go? We can go anywhere we want because this is a dream." I don't wait for her to answer, i just go to the center of the room and decide i'm going to start spinning. I say aloud, "When i finish spinning, we will be somewhere awesome." I didn't want to be too specific for fear it wouldn't work. I start to spin and i get the same tingliing feeling i usually get right before i wake up, usually when i become lucid. I make only a few revolutions and i am immediately wide awake. This is the second time i have awakened by spinning. Next time, i think i'll try verbally controlling the dream by saying "Increase vividness!" or some such thing. I think i just rushed in and tried to teleport myself somewhere and i should have spent more time stabilizing the dream scene i was in already. Well, i can't help but be excited, though. This was the longest LD yet! Woohoo!

[Clairity]

i said, "Do you wanna go there?" She nodded and she climbed on my back piggy back style and we sort of jumped into the screen. How cool is that! Congrats on your 4th LD!

[Moonbeam]

Congratulations on your success! I think I'd avoid the spinning for a while, it it wakes you up. It is interesting to shout commands; you should definitely try that. Rubbing your hand together can help stabilize the dream, or paying attention to details.

[ruff23]

ive had a lil success with afirmations, also with hand rubbing, but the best success ive had is when i realise im in a dream i try forget i am actualy in a dream by trying to keep active and using my new powers like flying ect. I wish there was some kind of drug that when you are very pro at startign a lucid dream you could induce a slight coma to keep you in a sleep state and then imagen the possiablities to fully embrace your awakness int he dream... wow get what i mean?