I am always using the pinch nose check and it is the most effective for me. But you could try many others like read a sentence twice or watch a clock. |
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So my favorite RC (which I voluntarily got addicted to), the hands is giving me false positives (happened twice in two lucid dream attempts in a row). |
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I am always using the pinch nose check and it is the most effective for me. But you could try many others like read a sentence twice or watch a clock. |
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
LD's: 171 (133 DILD, 2 WILD, 36 DEILD)
Nights in a row with atleast 1 Lucid Dream: 3
Most dreams remembered in 1 night: 16
Dreams recalled: 1308
The clock read 3:00 AM and it was night time. Pretty acceptable. |
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You have to check the clock twice. |
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
LD's: 171 (133 DILD, 2 WILD, 36 DEILD)
Nights in a row with atleast 1 Lucid Dream: 3
Most dreams remembered in 1 night: 16
Dreams recalled: 1308
It was my iPod touch (digital) clock, I always keep it next to my bed. |
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Wow, that's weird. Never seen anyone saying that nose check doesn't work... |
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That is frustrating. Sometimes you are just screwed no matter what you try. |
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Happened to me that my nose check didn't work but it works like 95%. |
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
LD's: 171 (133 DILD, 2 WILD, 36 DEILD)
Nights in a row with atleast 1 Lucid Dream: 3
Most dreams remembered in 1 night: 16
Dreams recalled: 1308
The nose pinch failed for me last night!!!! I thought it was infallible! |
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I was just going to post a topic about this same thing! |
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Now, having read this and similar threads on physical RC and knowing that even such a reliable thing as nose pinch can fail, I go back to concentrating on mental reality checks and developing lucid dreaming mindset...which is so difficult, especially because I have terribly bad short-term memory in terms of remembering "how I got here" and "what was I just doing". Sometimes when I watch TV show or a film, even if I'm really interested in it, as soon as commercial starts I forget what I've been watching for the last hour, so I have to ask someone about it...friends and parents think it's funny tough |
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Do you know how you can improve this? |
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
LD's: 171 (133 DILD, 2 WILD, 36 DEILD)
Nights in a row with atleast 1 Lucid Dream: 3
Most dreams remembered in 1 night: 16
Dreams recalled: 1308
Not really...I'm trying to work on my awareness constantly, but it's not the same, I guess... Those, at the first sight simple and obvious questions take a lot of efforts to answer. It's strange though, because I have good overall memory - long-term and short-term, when it comes to studying, for example. |
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Have you tried to remember things from the end to the beginning? |
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“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.”
LD's: 171 (133 DILD, 2 WILD, 36 DEILD)
Nights in a row with atleast 1 Lucid Dream: 3
Most dreams remembered in 1 night: 16
Dreams recalled: 1308
Yes, that's what I do. I remember last action, feeling, thought, whatever and then follow to the reason of that. Otherwise it's almost impossible to remember... |
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I have no idea about any of this, but maybe you should try believing in the chance that you can breath through your nose, this is always possible. |
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Flip light switches or look through a book. |
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Moved to Attaining Lucidity |
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Think reason for that being is most of us do reality checks mindlessly,without really coming to thought, and questioning if we are awake |
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The idea is to remain in a constant state of departure while always arriving..
Well, |
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I think the nose pinch is unarguably one of the best reality checks....well for at least the majority of dreamers on here. |
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DILD: 150 | DEILD: 8 | WILD: 20
I've been doing nose pinch RCs because it's the best RC of all till I had a LD a few weeks ago - I had FA and then did nose RC as normal, but IT DID NOT WORK so I just went to bed and passed out |
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I think that you should expect it to work. You have to think and imagine that it will happen. If you pinch your nose, really think about being able to breathe. If you poke your hands, really imagine them going through. I also had this problem after a few weeks of lucid dreaming, and I was told it would greatly help if you put much thought and expectation into it. |
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