Thread: y spin?

Originally Posted by psiiiijay

is there a good reason for it? y dont i just close my eyes and wish for it to happen? (going to try it tonight..)

What are you talking about? You know it's easier for people to understand when you speak in full sentences. Why spin to gain control? Why spin to enter a dream? What?

Well From what I read in Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming. Stephen Laberge discovered that spinning helped him to stay in the dream. So that's the main reason for it. But there was a side effect. Sometimes spinning caused the dream scene to change. So sometimes people try changing scenes that way.

Personally, I have not had much success with spinning. It's never changed a scene for me, and it even woke me up once. But it can be fun to play with now and then. Once I got so dizzy I stumbled into a wall.

Problem with closing your eyes is that it cuts off stimuli, leading to a high percent chance of waking up or going into a false awakening.

It is possible to close your eyes and change scenes by visualizing a new one.

But I hear a lot of people do wake up when they try it. You could try doing something like rubbing your hands together when your eyes are closed.

It's worth experimenting with. I did try it once. I almost got to a new scene, but I was running at the time, and I kept opening my eyes to see where I was going lol. And I gave up after a little bit.

But once in a non-Lucid, I was able to change scenes several times by closing my eyes and visualizing a new one. So it's got to be possible while Lucid as well.

Never tried spinning, which may be why I don't see the point. If I want to change scenes, I just change scenes, but I guess I'll have to try spinning sometime for the sake of science!

If I feel a dream begining to fade I find that spinning will pull me back into it.

I tried spinning the other night and it woke me up! Is there a certain way you spin? I span fairly fast, everything went blurry then dark, then I found myself in bed.

Originally Posted by AlexLou

Never tried spinning, which may be why I don't see the point. If I want to change scenes, I just change scenes, but I guess I'll have to try spinning sometime for the sake of science!

Me too. I'll probably try spinning tonight.

Originally Posted by The Narrator

I tried spinning the other night and it woke me up! Is there a certain way you spin? I span fairly fast, everything went blurry then dark, then I found myself in bed.

No, nothing special about it. I don't know, occasionally I will try something with the dream body and the physical body will respond and that will usually wake me up. Any chance that this is what happened with you? Maybe your dream spin caused your physical body to jerk?