Thread: Reality checks are only used at more "opposite" ends of the lucidity spectrum?

Originally Posted by ZoeE

Ah, thank you for clarifying.
I am just getting acquainted with, and learning about, these distinctions.

When you say it is interesting, which it undoubtedly is, do you incline to be disconcerted about your dream-self's lack of impulse (not lack of discipline, noted) to RC? I understand there is frustration, but only on waking and recall, yes?

I would say that reality checking is just a way to learn how to be aware. When you pracctise during the day to do reality checks, you start to associate this action with awareness. I used to count my fingers and see that I had 7 fingers on my hand I just said "Oh just like in the Bruce Almighty movie haha". It was not until I had recalled my dreams a lot and felt the difference of the real world (conscious thought) and the dream world (subconscious thought) that I started to become aware and "really" lucid.
So the awareness of the "state" is the important step, you don't even have to reality check, although it's a good tool.

For example how many of you have become lucid just because of you "felt" it was a dream?
I guess many of you would say yes, anyway you will soon have this experience too.

And to answer you ZoeE:

I haven't had a real full lucid dream where I go and explore adventures and all that fancy stuff either.
So far I have just been in different places and explored them, although I have been fully lucid in those moments. (Feels like reality)
But to kind of motivate you.. Stephen LaBerge, Robert Waggoner, Michael Raduga, etc. It took them YEARS to learn how to attain lucidity and then it took them even more YEARS to learn how to maintain that state perfectly.
Unfortunately it's not something that another person can explain to you how to do, you just have to keep pracctising and get experience and build your own knowledge. It took Robert Waggoner 25 years to learn it... Although he didn't had all the help that you can get here.

I have only pracctised for 2 years and I am already starting to learn how to maintain the state perfectly, and I can stay without stabilising. It's not about that, for me anyway. It's about maintaining the subconsious or dream focus, not by the objects or senses, by the way you THINK.
Hard to explain but that's how it's like for me. Now you have to discover how it is for YOU.

Although I still use stabilisation techniques sometimes, because it's a good association technique.