Hello!
I’ve been thinking about how different results can get when you do
dream spinning while lucid with your eyes closed / opened. From my
three lucid dreams I’ve had since I started 2 months ago, I tried
spinning on my second and third LD ( to try to change the scenery).
On my second LD i spun with my eyes closed (actually while I was
flying) but I woke up.
On my third LD I spun with my eyes opened standing on a lawn outside
my home. When I stopped everything looked normal but when I looked
behind me it was as if the “background” of the scenery was like standing
on a spaceship going at full speed and when I “jumped” into the
background I was standing on the spaceship. The scenery around me
now was entirely spacelike, no more lawn. Very hard to explain this
(especially with my not so good english )
It was as if the background was a movie theatre screen and I jumped
into it
I was just wondering if there’s a general difference when spinning with
eyes opened or closed? Isn’t closed eyes a bad idea since you would
want to get as much sensory input as possible when you dream to stay
lucid ?
I know I can’t really come to a certain conclusion since I’ve just tried
opened/closed eyes spinning once respectively so I seek wisdom from
wiser oneironauts !
If you close your eyes there’s a big chance that you will wake up, because you don’t get enough input from your senses. So you will probably start to feel your real body instead and wake up. I have tried spinning once and it worked somewhat well for me, it did make the dream a little more stable.
i have done both, eyes closed spinning i find that when i try to open my dream eyes back into the dream i end up opening my real eyes, when they are open normally dont find that the sence changes. but i dont wake up.
Yes I’d say this too. When you keep your eyes open, you have a sensory connection with the dream, thus decreasing the chances of waking up. Personally, spinning doesn’t work for me, no matter how I keep my eyes
Spinning with your eyes open is interesting because I’ve heard that it can
A) Stabilize your dreams
B) Change the setting
Those two kind of contradict each other, but it depends on how fast you’re spinning. If you spin slowly, you feel the sensation of motion, and that gives you more sensory input. If you spin fast enough, everything becomes a blur and you can change the setting.
I use spinning with my eyes closed to change the dream scene. The key here is not to open your eyes again, but to imagine the dreamscene and it will come together right before your eyes.
)
