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It seems that reality checks are either not habitual enough to be performed in a dream, or so habitual that even their performance in a dream will not induce lucidity, and that there is a rare in-between where they are actually effective, which is usually when one would have become lucid anyway, and is just "making sure". In this sense reality checks are good stabilization methods more than anything else. That's the way I see it.
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What are you talking about? Everyone said pretty much the opposite. Yeah, you can make them habitual, or you can make them non habitual, but the point is that you are not trying to make it a habit to try and plug your nose etc, you are making it a habit to check reality as often as possible. ADA is pretty much the same thing as an all day reality check.
Most of the time pointless for me.
99.9% of the value of reality tests is your attitude when doing them! If you don't take it seriously when awake then you wont when dreaming. So yes, they can be pointless if you let them be, otherwise they are one of the most important things you can do to get lucid.
Right. The important point here is that the reality check is secondary to the important part: awareness. If you are exclusively using reality checks as your lucid dreaming method with DILD then you will not have much success because of the reasons I mentioned. Questioning reality constantly and habitually, as in ADA, is a great way to become lucid, and can be considered a reality check. However, performing the actual physical reality check to accompany this will not help nearly as much as being aware.Quote:
Yeah, you can make them habitual, or you can make them non habitual, but the point is that you are not trying to make it a habit to try and plug your nose etc, you are making it a habit to check reality as often as possible. ADA is pretty much the same thing as an all day reality check.
Absolutely. Again, the reality check is secondary to the ability to be aware, and only a small part of "the trick" to having a DILD.Quote:
99.9% of the value of reality tests is your attitude when doing them! If you don't take it seriously when awake then you wont when dreaming. So yes, they can be pointless if you let them be, otherwise they are one of the most important things you can do to get lucid.