Thread: My reality checks are not working......

For reality checks to actually work, you must really question your reality as you are performing them, otherwise you are just going through the motions. The trick is to pay careful attention as you do them and come to a definite conclusion ("yes, I'm dreaming" or "no, I'm not dreaming"). Also, biting your tongue to see if you feel pain is not reliable because I know from experience that it is possible to feel pain in dreams. My goto RC is the nose plug one.

K I think this is the case when I perform my reality checks I will question reality a bit more lol sounds obvious i should have been able to figure it out myself. Thanks for the advice and yes the reality checks had been working previously

Not sure if mentioned yet, but I believe something important in relationship to reality checks is that you should actually do them occasionally in true reality, just for the hell of it. That will make it much more likely that you'll be inspired to do so in a dream, even if all seems normal.

The reason this is important is that it seems to create a stronger contrast between reality and the dream world and it'll most likely be more apparent when something "isn't right".

I started out (in reality) doing the stare at text and stare back RC.

Just the mere act of questioning reality in reality from time to time can be powerful. I've only had about 10 LD's so far, but I've never made it to the point of performing a actual reality check to confirm that I was dreaming, as soon as I questioned it in the dream I just knew.

Recently, during an LD (already lucid), I noticed a newspaper and decided to see if the text really changes and wow, it definitely changes state quite drastically. The letters seemed alive and extremely dynamic.