Thread: Spinning for Clarity?

So yeah, I'm a noob, and I searched but I'm not finding...

How do you do this clarifying spinning thing, technique-wise? Is the idea to spin around like a top? You know, "look Ma! I'm going to make myself dizzy and queasy" little kid style? Or is it more of a casual look around you?

I ask because I tried last night for the first time and things got much LESS lucid - instead I lapsed into a false awakening where I thought my attempted spinning had made me get physically turned around in bed - head where the feet should be! Also, not being a little kid, trying to spin around felt really unnatural.

Maybe I'm just getting lame in my old age -- worrying about being unnatural in a dream? WTF

I have never spun but I've heard that it often places you in a different scenario then the one that you were just in. Just remember to do your RCs after spinning =P

I have used dream spinning many times and only once have i remained dreaming afterwards so i don't use it anymore.

i just use verbal demands which is very effective for me.

We should ALL spin for Clairity!!!!

Oh...

Clarity. Um... yeah.

Never mind.

Originally Posted by pj

We should ALL spin for Clairity!!!!

Well said!

Originally Posted by pj

We should ALL spin for Clairity!!!!

I beg to disagree. Clarity should spin for us instead!

=)

Originally Posted by pj

We should ALL spin for Clairity!!!!

Oh...

Clarity. Um... yeah.

Never mind.

HOW did I know I was going to end up beinig a part of this thread?

Originally Posted by bro

Well said!

Way to go bro.. sort of a "cabbage patch" spin!

Originally Posted by arby

I beg to disagree. Clarity should spin for us instead!

=)

Tah-dah!!

Unfortunately the few times I've "spun" I ended up with everything going dark and my dream ending.

Originally Posted by Captain Apollo

So yeah, I'm a noob, and I searched but I'm not finding...

How do you do this clarifying spinning thing, technique-wise? Is the idea to spin around like a top? You know, "look Ma! I'm going to make myself dizzy and queasy" little kid style? Or is it more of a casual look around you?

I ask because I tried last night for the first time and things got much LESS lucid - instead I lapsed into a false awakening where I thought my attempted spinning had made me get physically turned around in bed - head where the feet should be! Also, not being a little kid, trying to spin around felt really unnatural.

Maybe I'm just getting lame in my old age -- worrying about being unnatural in a dream? WTF

Spin like you mean it. Like you want to make your self dizy. For whatever reason it helps when the world around you is graying out. When everything is loosing it's.... clairty.

I dunno why. I can't explain it. But it works.