Best reality checks? I pass mine...

Hello everybody!

Has anybody got some real good reality checks? I've got the problem of increasingly passing mine in dreams, as my dreams seem to adapt to my RCs. I don't even bother looking into mirrors anymore (they show a perfectly nice reflection, no double reflections or distorted faces or stuff...), when I read and reread a few sentences in a dream, more often than not they remain exactly the same, the watch technique fails too... in short, my dreams have become so realistic that I very rarely can tell that they are dreams with the reality checks I know :(

Any help would be really appreciated, as I can't WILD anymore, either (my girlfriend moved in, and I imagine she'd be pissed off if I tried ;) ).

Thanks a lot in advance,
-Wojtek

I havnt had a real lucid dream yet, but I usually just look for anything slightly off and think about it. Also look at the clock, look away, and look back at it.

the nose holding technique seems to work pretty well.

I cant believe the triple digital/analog RC can ever fail ! :)

light switches are also VERY effective.

Thanks for the info, I'll try the nose holding :) Unfortunately, I hardly ever come across 2 clocks at the same time. I'll try the light switches too, though I remember having dreams of late in which I used light switches, and they worked perfectly well :(

I think that one of the best fail-safe ways is the nose holding technique. xD I've had one of my only RC-induced LD from it. xD

I prefer to squeeze my eyes. Thats been my RC since I was a natural, and I have no intention of ever abandoning it.

Since you already looking at mirrors for reality checks, you can try going through them instead.

Nose Pinching Techinique

I'm afraid of doing that because I'm not confortable with playing with my breath. My wife always makes some game about who lost the breath first and I end always having trouble to breath.

Also, some days ago I was having a perfect WILD when I noticed my breath was kinda strange and I had to interrupt the WILD to check if I was really breathing.

So, If I do the Nose Pintch RC, probably two thing will happen:

01 - I will lose my breath in real life
02 - In the dream, I will feel like losing my breath and will wake up.

I always try to think positive and think the opposite on this matter, but I don't know how much will power will overcome this weakness of mine.

I have said.

As you become more experianced and more aware with WILD's (as I have been improving greatly on within the past couple months), you'll find that you can sense everything, while still maintaining focus. This includes breathing. The first couple times I managed to stay aware on this, I relized, my breathing was completley in control of not by me. I also found that I can mess with it a bit while like this, but I can't stop it or break its rythm.. At times you may think, "hey, my breathing is weird.. when really its not".

The biggest problem you'll have is the fear.. I had great fear the first time i relized I was in a WILD.. the best part was, I didn't intend to be.. so this shocked the hell outta me and with the sleep paralysis and all, i honestly thought I was dying (couple this with the fact that sometimes you feel as if you are leaving your body or sinking through the bed, which really makes you scared". Now that I do understand it all however, i'm cool with it and I let it do its stuff. Nightmares are much the same way, I tend to have fun with them now.

Thanks for the encouragement, TheUnknown

Usually, mine was trying to fly, and if I'd lift off the ground, I was lucid. This has never failed for me, although recently I've started to believe that I had finally learned to fly in the real world (yes, I can finally do it! I've dreamt of this since I was little!!! Look, axe-weilding murderer-man with three arms, I can fly in real life! Muwahahahaha...ha... oh, this is a dream.)

The other night though, I was dreaming, and it occured to me to try the finger-through-palm technique, and it worked beautifully. I'd never even considered it before, but after reading the forum for a few weeks, it just popped into my head. Sweet, I'll keep this one up.

Strangely enough, I bilocated and was making passionate love with a DC while roaming the mall in Hong Kong at the same time, and when I went into the same room, I said hello to myself (getting it on on the floor). I found that I could switch control from body to body by changing the hemisphere of my brain... weird, eh? Right after that some lunatic screamed "I'm dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaming!" and leapt off the 100th floor balcony near us. Unfortunately, I'm not sure he was lucid at all, because he bounced off the balcony 10 floors down and continued to plummet, crying "No, I'm luuuuuuuuucid!"

So I guess not ALL reality checks are a good idea. Personally I've always feared the leaping off a building one, I just know I'll do it in real life someday accidentally.

I used to do the finger through palm technique but it adapted in my dreams and when I do try it, it just doesnt work and usually ruins my dream.

From now on I use the jumping technique, Jump and see if you stay in the air for a long period of time. I jump and face the ground and then I fall and seem to hover above the ground for a few seconds. Thats all the RC I need to know.

i think that reality checks are kind of silly. when are you checking, does that mean you are already lucid? because you are already conciously thinking to check if you are asleep? hmm i just think that simple things like the finger through the palm are kind of bogus, wouldn't your brain still think that that is not possible? ugh, so many questions

Try thinking about how you ended up in the situation you are in, if you can't remember you are probably deraming. I also use the nose holding technique, never fails for me.

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Originally posted by DooleyClovis
i think that reality checks are kind of silly. when are you checking, does that mean you are already lucid? because you are already conciously thinking to check if you are asleep?

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As I've said before, that's kind of how I feel. If I have enough presence of mind to question whether I might be dreaming, then it's easy to tell that I am (or not). However, I do go ahead and perform some kind of reality check at that point just to confirm it. I've never tried the finger-through-palm trick, but I've found that breathing through a pinched nose works very well. Or, since I can always fly in my dreams, I will just attempt to lift off the ground and float to affirm that I'm dreaming -- but please, no jumping off of tall buildings until you're positive! :P

its good to know that someone else agrees with how i feel about reality checks, crap i have a hard time becoming lucid

I always use the nose breathing technique, it has failed me before but only once :P but on the positive it has worked about 40 times and failed only once ;)

reality checks are essential, without them you would easily fall out of the lucidity that you have before you do them, here’s a small explanation of what I mean:

If I go to sleep and then suddenly find myself in a very realistic dream, (like say I was in my home in the dream, then I would probably just say oh I think I’m dreaming, then I would walk around in fear that maybe I’m not so I shouldn’t do anything that could harm me, but, I I see I’m in my home and then I do a simple reality check then that confirms my suspicions about being in a dream and I can do whatever I want knowing that nothing I do will have consequences, but, if I were to go asleep and suddenly gain control of my dream body and see a floating elephant riding on top of a mouse, then there would be no use for reality checks because I would already know without a doubt that "hey I have to be dreaming"

I hope that shows why reality checks are needed,

1. to have more freedom in your dreams knowing that your not just going on some assumption of yours
2. forgot to mention this above, but sometimes they serve to make the dream more vivid.