During certain parts of the game, my character suddenly starts moving/turning around on his own. It usually applies to certain areas and causes minor annoyances, such as my character turning around and walking away from the hallway I'm trying to get him to enter. But it can also become a stressful hazard when my character just moves and spins around aimlessly in a place where there are traps and giant boulders that can kill me. I'm tired of having to wrestle with my own controls. Does this happen to anyone else?

Those are completely normal (and annoying) spinner traps, you'll be seeing more of them in the future, if you're currently at Dark Lantern...

Spinners are the worst. Mark them on your map.