Thread: reality check PASSED!

The nose plug reality check allways works for me Take your fingers and plug your nose and try to breathe through the nose strills, if you are dreaming you will still be able to breathe, if you are awake you can't. Well that's pretty obvious, but it's allways good with an explanation

Usually I wake up from a dream if I've realized I'm dreaming and I'm excited. If that happens to you try DEILD!

This is totally normal for the first few lucid dreams, it happens, and its frustrating. But don't think of it as a bad thing
just think of it that it means you are getting closer and closer to more lucids.

It's not always the amount of fingers you have, but also the detail of your hands aswell.

You have to believe there will be more then 10 fingers on your hand in order for it to work. If you just assume there will be 10 fingers, then there probably will be.

The simplest RC in dreamland is the gravity check. How high can you jump? In an LD it's very very high. Happy jumpin' !

Your brain loves to breathe... Breathing = living. So do the nose plug RC. It's failproof.

Another good one is to notice everything around where you are looking. As in right now, everything that isn't your screen in your vision. Each day try to see whats there without looking at it. Eventually in a dream you will think to do this, and most dreams start off really hazy or blurry, before stabilization.

I've had that happen to me a few times as well. Now I use three different reality checks every time.
I first count my fingers, then I try to push my finger through my palm and finally I pinch my nose to see if I can breathe.
That way if the first one you try doesn't work, you can still try the other ones.

Even the noseplug has failed me on occasion, but it's the most reliable by far. With any rc you have to really think about it, not just do the motions - and believe it's going to fail. Like Enjyu said, it can't hurt to do more than one.

It´s good to hear about types of reality checks but I have a real problem with them: I simply can´t remember doing one when I´m dreaming. It´s totally useless to me. Whenever I became lucid it was because something clicked during a weird or vivid dream. Also, I don´t really believe reality checks work because the moment you think of doing one you should either become lucid or wake up. Maybe simply by questioning reality without doing any specific tests either in a dream or in waking life should be the best check. If practice can get you to the point of not doubting at all that you are dreaming, then lucidity should come automatically.

That's half right. You are supposed to go about your day being skeptical. Then you test it by doing an R.C. If you just said "Gravity is fine and people are normal", then that won't work. You do the same things in your dreams. "We have to go up the blue mountain to get to Bruce Willis because he is fighting the Cookie monster? Sounds legit" is what you say and think in dreams.

You need the reality check in both to confirm- yes this is real or no this is a dream.

If we go deeper in discussing maybe the most efficient RC is to proove your waking reality is definitely real or in other words, to prove that your waking life is not a special type of dream with its particular rules of physics and patterns. I mean if we always think everything is one type of dream then lucidity will be automatic.

We do these kinds of R.C.s because they are quick, easy and subtle. We could, if we wanted, do an R.C that involved us trying to lift cars on the roadside or asking people weird questions expecting a random D.C. response.

But these would look weird so we do the easy, subtle ones which give the same effect. They prove that the laws of reality still apply and that this couldn't be a dream. If it were, they would fail.