How do YOU spin and rub your hands?

I was wondering this, since little details can make a difference.

How do you rub your hands?
Fast or slow movements?
Little or lots of pressure?
Back and forth movements or kind of a squeezing movements?

I usually do slow, lots of pressure and squeezing motions. I forget to try it different :shy: I wonder if any of these have better results at prolonging the dream. Does strong pressure work better (or worse) than quick friction? :confused:

And spinning. I’ve read it’s the best technique, but I’ve only succeeded once. I close my eyes when I spin. Counting to three and telling myself I’d open my eyes to a new dream scene didn’t work (opened eyes IWL :tongue: ). The only time it worked I spun for about 45 seconds until a dream scene was formed and I realized I could stop spinning. But usually I wake up while spinning. Should I keep my eyes open? How fast to spin?

How do you spin?? :smile:

I only spun once in my dream. It was my first Lucid dream where I actually knew what to do. I felt my dream “phasing out” so I rubbed my hands but stopped quickly because it wasnt working. So then I spun.

I held out my arms and quicky spun in a circle. I aws in my bedroom, and didn’t close my eyes. I was doing it for a few seconds when I lifted off the ground. :om: Sort of like a helicopter I guess :tongue: So I was floating there (still spinning) and I started to slow down. I was like 3-4 feet off my floor. For like two seconds I savored the floating feeling, without the spinning.

Then I fell :sadyes:

Then I tried to jump in the air and float again. It didn’t work :confused:

Then I woke up :crying: :cry: :sigh:

Then I got over it and said I’ll have another LD soon :spinning:

Closing your eyes will bring you quickly to an end of LD

I tried rubbing my hands and spinning but it never worked.
The other way is to shout “vision!” or “sharpness!” like a direcot of a film. That worked better for me.

I tried to spin today with my eyes open. It didn’t really work, BUT I didn’t wake up from it, so I guess that’s good :content:

My problem now, actually, is I wake up quickly, so there’s no time to do anything about it…

i have trouble increasing lucidity. rubbing my hands doesn’t work all the time, and spinning only works occasionally. i should probably practice it more. and i can close my eyes while spinning and i won’t wake up, but if i shout, for example “increase lucidity” i’ll wake up.