Interesting about the "spinning around" causing the dream to last longer. When I find myself in a lucid dream, I have to keep moving - especially with my eyes - otherwise the scenery starts to fade and I wake up. It's as if I need to keep repainting the scene with my eyes.
I'm not sure where my lucid dreams fall in the high-low consciousness scale. I will say, though (the first time I've ever made this known) that with lucid dreams during my adolescent years when hormones were raging, I knew that the attractive female neighbor wasn't real, and so it was "ok" to fly to her place and have my way with her.
On a different note, I've noticed that when I've had a period of consistent and intense meditation sessions, I tend to have lucid dreams. Not sure why, but maybe it has to do with the focus on my own consciousness.
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