Thread: Not having to do an rc to have an ld

It was probably just awareness
Reality Checks are mostly used to confirm if you are dreaming or not

Example:
1. Your walking around a street, nothing seems weird or off
2. Suddenly you see monkey in flying delorean
3. Your suspecting that your dreaming due to awareness
4. You do reality check mindfully
5. You know for sure that it's a dream

Sometimes i happend to have in dreams heightened awareness due to failed WILD
I've just noticed something weird and didn't do even reality check and just had a fun in ld

I rarely do a reality check when becoming lucid. The way my mind seems to work, I just become lucid spontaneously.

Most of my lucid dreams come spontaneously, without any reality checks. A couple dreams have become lucid only because of RCs, but they are the minority for me. Maybe I'm not doing them right lol.

I've never gotten lucid using an RC only, there was always a spark that happened before doing the RC.

RCs are not the only way to become lucid, nor do they seem to be the most common. They're simply a tool. In some dreams, you just simply know without having to check that it's a dream. Other times, the situation may seem so real that a reality check is the only way to be certain. I have had both scenarios to occur almost equally.

It's true, you don't need to do RC's in a dream to become lucid - but it's important to keep doing them during waking hours to sharpen your awareness. They're kind of symbolic in a way - it's use a symbol that you're really thinking about your state of consciousness and questioning whether you're awake or dreaming. If you don't so this enough while awake then you're less likely to achieve liquidity. So be sure to keep up the daytime practice. Then doing RCs to confirm you're dreaming when you think you are will add to your awareness in a dream when you do find yourself lucid.

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

It's true, you don't need to do RC's in a dream to become lucid - but it's important to keep doing them during waking hours to sharpen your awareness. They're kind of symbolic in a way - it's use a symbol that you're really thinking about your state of consciousness and questioning whether you're awake or dreaming. If you don't so this enough while awake then you're less likely to achieve liquidity. So be sure to keep up the daytime practice. Then doing RCs to confirm you're dreaming when you think you are will add to your awareness in a dream when you do find yourself lucid.

Better tell all the business men there's a new way to achieve liquidity

fricken autocorrect!!!

Originally Posted by Darkmatters

It's true, you don't need to do RC's in a dream to become lucid - but it's important to keep doing them during waking hours to sharpen your awareness. They're kind of symbolic in a way - it's use a symbol that you're really thinking about your state of consciousness and questioning whether you're awake or dreaming. If you don't so this enough while awake then you're less likely to achieve liquidity. So be sure to keep up the daytime practice. Then doing RCs to confirm you're dreaming when you think you are will add to your awareness in a dream when you do find yourself lucid.

This, 100%.

In order to get good at LDing you need to do most of the work while awake.

I have been becoming lucid just by awareness in dreams, by just knowing, but yeah consistent RCs are the most reliable way to have consistent lucid dreams. When I first started out I was doing RCs most days and ended up doing RCs in dreams. So I'd definitely agree that the work is done while awake!

Originally Posted by MisakaMikoto

It was probably just awareness
Reality Checks are mostly used to confirm if you are dreaming or not

Example:
1. Your walking around a street, nothing seems weird or off
2. Suddenly you see monkey in flying delorean
3. Your suspecting that your dreaming due to awareness
4. You do reality check mindfully
5. You know for sure that it's a dream

Sometimes i happend to have in dreams heightened awareness due to failed WILD
I've just noticed something weird and didn't do even reality check and just had a fun in ld

I know about reality checks and what they are for. For some reason I can't seem to do WILD. I'm sort of new to this but what exactly should I do? Can I open my eyes? What can I do and what can I not do?