Just wondering which techniques you oneironaunts out there find to be more successful in sustaining dreams? When I try spinning it normally destabilises the dream but allows me to enter a completely new dream scene (which I don’t always wish to happen!). During the last couple of LDs I’ve been rubbing my hands which doesn’t have the above mentioned problem but the dream does tend to loose its intensity… so then I proceeded to rub my hands while spinning and saying over and over “the next scene will be a dream” and it usually works although my lucidity may vanish! Anyway, does anyone know of any other techniques in prolonging dreams and has anyone else tried both techniques simultaneously?
I’ve tried spinning but I always seem to spin all over the dreamscene and end up in a new one. I rather look at textures observe the area around me, the dream becomes clearer and seems to last longer
I’ve done spinning once and it seemed to prolong it. Actually it prolonged it more than any one, even though the dream seemed to only last 15 seconds (sadly, my record.) Most of the time when I become lucid it becomes so incredibly vivid that I can’t help not to look at textures like the hardwood floor (mmm, still remember that one) or embossed print on the bottom of a glass bottle. That holds it a little longer too.
I use hand rubbing, combined with focussing on objects and thinking to become as lucid as possible.
I’ve tried a number of stabilising techneqiues, but i find focusing on something while repeating to myself that i am dreaming works quite nicely… though i also find that you have to really believe it will work, no matter what method you try…
I don’t really do either… though I have done the rub hand thing a coupla times (though, only really at the begining of a dream if I fear I may wake up).
I find looking at and touching an object (anything will do) and consider how realistic it looks/feels works incrdibly well.
You can focus on your hands from time to time. Rubbing them is more useful when you loose visuals.
I don’t like rubbing my hands in LDs - the feeling that I get is so intense that I wake up; this happened to me several times.
I prefer just to move my eyes under my eyelids a bit faster than when I look round. This helps both to stabilise my dreams once I realise that I am dreaming and to re-enter new ones after I black out.
For me it’s definately hand-rubbing. I have real problems trying to spin realistically in my lucids but rubbing my hands together hard enough to really feel the friction nearly always keeps me in the dream.
Spinning has worked for me well. When the dream faded it was like looking at a scene and closing your eyes and noticing the outlines of everything in the room. like if you focus on the computer screen then close your eyes you’ll see it fade in the dark.