Quote Originally Posted by Raspberry View Post

Remember, you're gonna need to look for a reason to RC. This will increase your overall awareness and you'll be more questioning when in your dreams. This is how RCing works, although it's very misunderstood as "the more I rc the more I'll randomly do it in a dream and become lucid".

No, what you want is a questioning attitude and increased awareness so that you recognise things in your dreams that shouldn't be there or happen, and then RC and get lucid
Are you sure you're 15? This was a pretty lucid (pun intended) and novel clarification of the general RC technique that hadn't occurred to me. My general take on things is that--like many people will explain--awareness is the key, and that reality checking is just a concrete means to bring one's attention back to the present experience. (So technically, reality checking is unnecessary if you have another means of cultivating a lasting high-level awareness throughout the day.) The question then becomes: how do I keep my RC's from becoming a rote, meaningless ritual? And how do I remember to do them in the first place?

Actively SEEKING excuses to RC (e.g. by observing strange phenomena) makes a good point and sounds like solid advice. I tip my hat to that.

-BR