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I used to do plug my nose as a RC but after a time it started to fail, even when I was already lucid and pluged my nose I couldn't breath. So now I'm looking for a new RC technique, I remember that I became lucid in a dream for looking the shadows of the objects and realizing that they were all wrong, in the size and in the trajectory. Does anybody have experience with shadow checking as an RC and know if its reliable?
That doesn't seem like it would be even as reliable as the classic RC's. It's too easy in a dream to make up weird reasons why things aren't right, like shadows etc... your mind will just supply some weird thought like "oh yeah that's right, on wednesdays sunlight doesn't obey the usual laws of nature - how could I forget!"
1. Looking at hands + Counting fingers
2. Nose plug
3. Thumb/palm
4. Gravity
5. Try to change something Very reliable
6. Switches
7. Reading
Don't forget to really believe they will work when you practicing them IWL.
Thanks, I will try to believe in the nose plug RC again the next time I try, probably what happened was that when it failed for the first time I lost faith in it and it started to fail frequently
Too complicated. Say you actually notice a shadow seems off in the dream. You then have to look up and search for the source of the light. You find the source. Now you look back down at the shadow to confirm the trajectory. The shadow will likely have changed its position to where you expected it to be after seeing the light source, resulting in a correct trajectory even if it really was incorrect the first time and your dumb dream mind might not notice the change.
So even if an incorrect shadow makes you question if it's a dream you still need to perform another reality check to confirm it.
It's fairly common to stop breathing momentarily in your sleep - it happens when we snore sometimes for instance. In fact snoring is essentially the throat/sinus passages closing and the air being forced through. When people say they did a nosepinch and actually couldn't breathe in a dream I always assume they must have experienced a moment of not being able to breathe and maybe that made them dream of doing an RC. It's pretty hard to imagine the two just coinciding randomly at the very moment you decide to do an RC. Though I suppose it's possible a person could dream that their breathing stopped without it actually stopping. That would feel very different from actually stopping it though - in fact I'm not sure it's possible really, since any time I've dreamed of being underwater I can always breathe normally. Sometimes I can't right at first, but then I suddenly take a deep gasping breath, and I think that experience actually sparks off a dream of being underwater in order to explain why I couldn't breathe for a moment.
It's important to use more than one RC - I like to combine the nosepinch with a fingerpalm and then maybe jump in the air and will myself not to come back down.
Hey, this night I found this shadow RC by coincidence and it was very effective.
I looked at my own shadow and tried to move my hand and do some movements. The shadow did totally different things than my dream body.
Quite good RC.