Thread: Third Person Dreams and Reality Checks: What Should it Look Like?

I just encountered a philosophical quandary. I've recently started managing to do reality checks over the past month or so on a more regular basis. Although I've yet to have my first proper lucid dream, this has, within a month, helped me feel like I'm starting to scratch the surface, and that I'm getting close.

The reality checks that I normally do are finger-through-palm, breathing-through-nose, checking the clock/words in a book, and practicing some general awareness of my surroundings. Then it occurred to me that most of my dreams occur in the third person. Though sometimes they swap to a first-person view, I've noticed that I am usually watching a dream character who is assigned the label of "me", I then feel that character's emotions, and sometimes physical feelings too, despite seeing them through a "dream camera" so to speak.

Then I thought to myself, "If that's me, and I'm simply a camera, how will I do either of these reality checks?" I'm wondering, would I become aware, look down, and see my hands, and then be disassociated from the original character that the dream had assigned me to? Or would I be disembodied and unable to perform the check properly? Would the character perform the check for me, and then I could zoom into a first person view?

I'm not sure if this would seem an odd question to an experienced lucid dreamer, but I am genuinely curious about this.

Thanks!
- Liolar