There is some literature online about how to prevent the waking up effect when one becomes giddy/excited about the fact that they are lucid dreaming and can control it. One of these methods is "dream spinning": You spin around like a kid trying to get dizzy and then, in theory, you will be transformed to a new dream sequence without waking up (hopefully retaining the aspect of lucidity).
So last night when I was dreaming, it just so happened that I realized that I was dreaming, and, as usual, the surrounding started to fade away as I felt like I was going to wake up. So I'm like "dream spin!" And I imagine myself spinning. It doesn't do anything for the first couple of seconds. I think, maybe I should outstretch my arms to my sides, to increase the feeling of spinning that I'm feeling and BAM WHOA, it was so intense that I felt genuinely nauseous, and indeed the spinning "worked" in that it seemed to spin me into an alarmingly deep level of sleep, like in inception, only that unlike in inception, whenever I get to this layer of consciousness I feel like my heart is going beserk and spazzing anywhere between 0.5 to 5 beats per second! I tried to rub my hands (another method of sleep retention) but my hands were pinned/glued to my sides and I couldn't even bring them together! So obviously I didn't want to stay in this state (in case I die from heart attack), and didn't want to risk spinning myself even deeper into oblivion -- so I had no choice but to wake up.
Next time, I will try the hand-rubbing method without doing the spinning method. Supposedly it works just as well as the spinning, except instead of changing scenes, it will retain that scene/plot.
Then again, maybe I should just try dream spinning even more and even harder. Maybe I have to pass the stage of nausea and heart-rate confusion in order to move on to the next dream sequence...
My weird dream is I was a dog and this dog and me were in love right? So we planned our escape but he escaped and I didn't, then my owner kicked me and I just FLEW over the fence. Then me and my freind was there and we saw a bunny and I caught it and tried to kill it? After that my mom came to pick us up and I was magically in a place with cleared trees. And the dog I loved was in a hang glider with his frends. Then I skipped the rest of the dream because dream lodgic, and I had a puppy and it looked like grumpy cat. Then all the sudden I was in my room bUT everything was blue, and this guy with the voice of Wootmoo AJ was telling us about his invisible dog that wrapped itself around a tree and tripped him.
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