REALITY CHECKS!

[liquid]

Hey guys, Ive read a lot about reality checks, things such as checking a watch, looking at your hands, etc. until it becomes such a habit youll eventually perform these actions in a dream to determine whether your dreaming or not. Im not going to describe what a reality check is or how to do one because im guessing 99% of you know what it is. But I was just wondering how many people actually do reality checks in there dreams.

[GestaltAlteration]

I never really do them in real Life.. I keep forgetting, thus they dont work for me yet :P

[Tim]

i do reality checks throughout the day. and in my dreams, whenever i have a lucid dream it starts with me looking at a clock, the clock going crazy, then me looking at my hands to be sure. clocks and my hands are the two reality checks that work for me.

[Silver Sphere]

I used to RC as many as a dozen or more times a day, but it never seemed to do me any good. I had my first good lucid dream after I'd pretty much given up on RCs, so now I only bother when I remember.

I did use RCs to become lucid in a dream once, but only after I already suspected it was a dream. It actually took a few minutes before I convinced myself it was a dream... it was looking at a digital clock that did it.

[Serinanth]

they usualy dont work for me. I get the same response here as in the dream world, usualy its a dream sign that tips me off.

[nerve]

i never do RCs. i don't do any techniques. yet i have an LD about twice a week. i may share how later. and, both football and bowling suck imo.

[Timotheus]

Soccer rules ! :D

[liquid]

Soccer does rule, and I hate football, I just thought it would sound...american.(no offense)

But i love bowling!

[dougdrums]

Hockey and Broomball... http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/lick.gif

[O'nus]

I don't often do reality checks anymore really.

Often now I simply just lucid dream.. often I have WILD's.

The problem with the way I have always been lucid dreaming is that I will have a dream that I'm lucid dreaming, but it's not a real lucid dream. I'm just thinking in my dream that it is and doing what I would probably do, but it's not actually lucid. So yeah.. that's confusing, but how it works for me.

Reality checks work for most people because of how routine you make it to yourself that it comes into your dreams. Best suggested method.

~ Michael : O'nus

[A Lost Soul]

I just realized something...

Reading through the threads, I kept thinking to myself, reality checks, whatever, I don't need them. But I was at work the other night, and I had a serious epiphany. Everything around me was... fluffy. I don't know how to explain it. You know what I mean--dream-like. My body and my miind felt supersensitive to everything. At first I thought I was suffering vertigo again, but then it hit me.

I couldn't tell whether I was dreaming or really there.

I got a little annoying, panicky feeling in my stomach. I ran to my coworker, a Wiccan friend of mine who wouldn't think I was a retard, and I asked her to be honest: Was I really there, or was I dreaming? She looked at me funny, and then she grinned. "If you're dreaming then I'm sharing it," she said. I laughed and calmed down a bit. I looked at a bunch of things around me, to see if anything was out of place. Everything in the lab was in its usual spot. The clock was ticking away (slowly, as usual) and everyone was going about their business. I looked at my friend and said, "If I am dreaming right now, I'll be so pissed!" She asked me why and I answered, "Because I don't want to work twice in one night!"

After a few minutes, I went back to my section of the lab and got back to work (developing all your naughty pictures :-P ). It was so weird though. I've never had that happen quite so strongly before. It was like deja vu, which is actually quite common for me, but a bazillion times worse. So I thought about it: What was my reality check? What was it that made me finally realize which world I was in? Also, how do you all go about this in 'real life' and has anything like this ever happened to you (while you were awake?)

[Seeker]

This is something that has been on my mind for a number of years now. The line between waking and dreaming is becoming more and more fuzzy as time goes by and I have more LDs.
All of you that read Carlos's Art of Dreaming will remember at the end just after he intended Carol(?) forward that he kind of lost it and wound up in a park somewhere in Mexico.
It's really scary, but the episode sounds very similar to a complete psychotic break. :(

[nerve]

Originally posted by A Lost Soul


(developing all your naughty pictures :-P ).


:shock: you didn't happen to see the ones of....nevermind...

:lol:

[Second Attention]

I honestly don't think there is a difference between dreams and reality, still. I've had more fucked up shit happen to me while awake then while asleep. Not to mention that I almost constantly feel, and or see, strange things. How can you check for something that your not sure what it is? And as far as Carlos goes, he's full of bs, but his writing is still a good story.

[nerve]

anyway Lost Soul, that is very interesting. i've had days where i feel like i'm in a dream., even though everything is perfectly normal. it's really freaky...i felt intence that day...

[liquid]

intense

[Serinanth]

I was driving home the other night from a friends house... it was late, foggy too, the way the fog wafted over and around my car caught my attention. And then It started freaking me out, I got that weird feeling whenever I experience the epiphany of lucidity, and i though oh shit no no no no, not in this place... not now. Thankfully there was a red light I stopped at and had a chance to calm myself down, it really started wigging me out. I went home went to bed.. and woke up somewhwere else.

I dont think there is a difference either.

[azwe_echo]

Same with me. I often notice that usually nothing in particular ever really changes or happens to make me get in these moods.. but I do often get in a certain state of mind after reading about lucidity, intensely focusing and training for lucidity, etc...and when I get like this I often see normally-ordinary things through a whole new scope. Like right now, in study hall...being on this board and reading stuff...I just look around and realize how no one ever acknowledges my presence. Normally I'd think nothing of it, as I don't have any friends in this class, but when I get in this enlightened sort of mood I just really intensely focus on these things. It's bizarre; I can just stare and no one ever turns to look at me or anything.. I'd compare it to Scrooge when he's in the past/future and no one can see him...