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      8 failed RCs in 1 dream. Any advice?

      So it was a very vivid dream and here's what happened:

      I looked out the window and noticed something strange -- something suddenly disappeared, actually. I then thought “that’s odd, this seems like a good time to RC”. So I walked about the room for what felt like 2 or 3 minutes, doing every RC I could think of at the time:

      I first read some text, looked away and looked back -- it was exactly the same the second time and easily readable. I then thought “if this was a dream, surely there would be some kind of dream feeling” so I tried to detect anything of the sort, but nothing -- it felt just like reality (in fact I found myself thinking "I doubt a dream would feel as mundane and as 'real' as this"). So that didn’t work, either. I then tried the nose pinch, but when I pinched my nose, I couldn’t breathe (very odd, that!). I then decided to test how fluid things were as usually in dreams you can walk from one place to another in what feels like an “instant” sometimes. So I walked across the room, but again, it was just as fluid, just as stable as reality, even the sense of gravity in the dream was perfect. If that wasn’t enough, I then decided to look around the room to see if it looked how I remembered it -- it seemed to look exactly the same (of course, with lack of memory in the dream I guess it would’ve! ). At this point I was thinking “Of course this is reality!”. I then remembered reading something about how temperature can often be absent in dreams, so I decided to test that -- but the room felt genuinely cold. Just to be thorough, however, I tried one more (what I thought was a reliable) reality check of looking at something, looking away and checking it again to see if anything had changed. I looked across the room at a stack of books, and even chose a small logo in the corner of one of them -- I looked away, looked back expecting to see a completely different “scene” or whatever, but no -- the book was still in the same place with the logo and everything else completely unchanged (nothing around it seemed to have moved, either!). I thought, “yeah it’s reality alright”. Shortly after that, I woke up. I just couldn’t believe it!

      I’ve never experienced reality checks fail so spectacularly, especially with a good level of mindfulness when doing them (and all done so closely together). I felt quite aware and “present” in this dream, as well. It wasn’t a DC me doing the reality checks, it felt like “me”, i.e. I was self-aware enough to do proper reality checks, but as listed above, every one of them failed.

      Would you guys have any advice for next time, or recommend anything?

      Thanks!
      Last edited by Eamo24; 07-18-2015 at 12:34 PM.

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