Thread: Lucidity timing and RCs

The only way I've ever become lucid is spontaneous. A few other times that were different happened because I fell asleep without realizing it and kept thinking that the room was still mine, so I realized that I was already asleep by noticing the weirdness around.

That led me to some conclusions about lucid dreams that aren't necessarily correct, they just conform to my experience. I believed for years that all methods to induce lucid dreams are sort of fake, because you become lucid first, and then you use them. I.e. first you realize you're dreaming, and that leads to remembering that you were going to do an RC during sleep...

So I wanted to check my own assumptions.

Reality check users, please, tell me, when you do a reality check in your dream, do you already know you're in a dream, or is it a genuinely non-lucid dream? It just shocks me to think that somebody could remember to do an RC in a dream that wasn't lucid. I can't imagine that. How else would you remember to do it, if you didn't realize that it's a dream first. Ok, you may have it accidentally happen once a year, but people use RCs all the time.

P.S. By spontaneous I don't mean "out of the blue". You decide to be lucid and then it happens at night. Like a direct order to yourself. If don't decide that it should happen, it won't happen.