Thread: If Do Reality Check(hands)repeatedly all day long, Big chance will lucid??

It's not only about RCs. You are supposed to dream of RC. Basically, more=bigger chance, and also use intentions. I personally train my self-awareness, prospective memory, MILD, WILD and DEILD. RCs aren't so important. I only use them because of their basic purpose, to determine the current state.
In your case, do MILD and use intentions about doing RCs in a dream, but personally I urge you to use the techniques I use.
Good luck

When I have done that, where I was constantly doing RCs throughout the day and not just a few times but maybe a hundred/day at the peak, it increased my # of lucid dreams by a lot. But there was also a side effect for me, and I'm not saying it's going to happen to you but it might. I started to constantly see reality as just another dream, because I was always wondering if it was a dream by doing the reality checks. What I think this is approaching is a persistent awareness as to whether you are in the dreaming or waking world. The habit of 100+ RCs a day just provides a constant reminder to be aware of whether or not I am dreaming. Not even gonna lie though, doing that many RCs got really exhausting both mentally and physically. I think there are better methods for maintaining awareness throughout the day and I really hope that someone else can share one because I know that I, personally, would be very interested in an alternative to RCs or just giving intent before bed/DILDs (which is what I currently do).

My experience: I've experimented with doing RCs to the point of obsession. It worked the first day I had the idea, but it didn't work after that and an increase in effort had no effect. That's just my experience of it though.

It's really a concept of fundamentals. See this thread:
http://www.dreamviews.com/wild/12557...mentals-q.html

It's not really the quantity, but the quality.

If you do them absentmindedly, then they won't really work.

But if you think or believe that you are indeed dreaming every time when you RC, then this feeling "man, I'm dreaming" will start happening in your regular dreams.

If you just see an RC in your non-lucid dream without the feeling "I'm dreaming", then you will dismiss it as you do everyhing else in a non-lucid dream.

It's the "wow, I'm dreaming" feeling that will get you either lucid right away, or will give you the urge to do RC. But by then, you already have some awareness, because you are thinking "I'm dreaming". Often time, by the time you start your RC or when you finish it, you already know you are dreaming and RC will only confirm it.

It's the "wow, I'm dreaming" , that will stop you in your tracks during day, gives you butterflies in your stomach and sends shivers down your spine feeling. THAT get's you lucid.

So just do as many, as you can do meaningfully. Find defferent occasions for RCs. http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...hecks-rcs.html

Good luck, voBy. I know you are going to have more LDs

I've been making a big mistake with RCs for some time. And it's to do them as a normal task. This ends up doing them the same way while dreaming, and the will probably succeed (meaning the reality check passes, this is, you are NOT dreaming).

When doing an RC you have to REALLY doubt you are in the real world, meaning you have to think there is a high possibility of being dreaming, specially knowing how normal everything looks inside, but weird and absurd once you wake up.

A couple weeks ago I had this strange situation. I went to my mom's to have lunch. I usually call using the outside ringer and she replies "yes?", and after saying "it's me", she opens the door. Then I just take the elevator and go up home. This day I arrived at the out door and... guess what. It was ANOTHER door. I was like... wtf... anyway, I ringed, no one replied and the door opened. While I was walking towards the elevator I had this strange feeling... I went inside, pushed 7th floor and... all this silence... the new door... no-one replying the ringer... I even felt a bit dizzy. I seriously though of being dreaming. I looked at my hands, tried to breath holding my nose... every test was positive, I HAD to be awake.

And I was... this day I learned how a reality test should feel. You have to stop for a moment and look around you, think hard if something is not normal, also remember yourself that inside dreams things always look normal, and again think, remember what you did that morning, how you arrived there, look at your hands...

Lately, with the help of a cellphone app which does notifications, I started doing a couple of RCs from time to time, one of them being look at my hands. Yesterday I woke up and stood up from bed, and suddenly I remembered my RCs... I looked at my hand, it looked normal. But I though.. "hey, do it correctly"... Thought it could really be a dream. Looked at my other hand... 6 fingers! I counted to make sure... yeah... 6 fingers. Anyway it was one of my shitty short LDs, and lasted only some seconds, the time it took me to walk to the living room and explore a bit while trying to stabilize with no luck.

So yea, looking at your hands from time to time, BUT doing it properly, may help you. Also my advice is everytime you wake up you do a RC, so you will catch all false awakenings.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

My experience: I've experimented with doing RCs to the point of obsession. It worked the first day I had the idea, but That's just my experience of it though.

Usually the "first day effect" is heightened excitement associated with something new related to LDing. Some call this the "placebo" effect.

it didn't work after that and an increase in effort had no effect.

Really? How many months did you practice (seriously, conscientiously, every day) before deciding it had no effect? How many times per day? Did you do physical as well as mental RCs? Did you each time really truly wonder about your state and try your hardest to prove to yourself what state you were in? Did you also work on dream recall? Visualization / expectation? Night-time techniques? Because LD practice involves more than just RCs. However, even given that, if you did a steady, consistent, frequent stream of quality RCs for months with zero results I'd be very surprised.

RC induction technique is not really effective way how to achieve lucidity... unless you would do it focused few times right before asleep and during wbtb right before asleep, try and tell the results

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Usually the "first day effect" is heightened excitement associated with something new related to LDing. Some call this the "placebo" effect.



Really? How many months did you practice (seriously, conscientiously, every day) before deciding it had no effect? How many times per day? Did you do physical as well as mental RCs? Did you each time really truly wonder about your state and try your hardest to prove to yourself what state you were in? Did you also work on dream recall? Visualization / expectation? Night-time techniques? Because LD practice involves more than just RCs. However, even given that, if you did a steady, consistent, frequent stream of quality RCs for months with zero results I'd be very surprised.

I was satisfied that the amount of effort I was putting in wasn't worth it for the amount of LDs I was getting in return.