Quick question about Reality Checks.

**lazytitan** · 03-27-2014 03:46 AM

I don't know if its because I am still knew to this but I don't understand how Reality Checks help. I understand the purpose but they way I dream normally I don't know how it will help. I have never woke from a dream and felt like I was there. Its always been more like a memory that just magically was in my head now. Its hard to describe would would say its like having a whole movie in your head but you never actually watched.

I know what I dreamed about but it never felt like I was actually there. So if I ever did a reality check in my dream wouldn't I only remember about doing it once I woke up? I have always thought I had a good memory for my dreams even before doing a Dream Journal. I have some crazy awesome dreams and share them often with my friends and family. When I write in my journal I feel like I remember quite a bit but only after I wake up.

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense was harder then I thought to explain it but basically if I only know about my dream once I wake up how would doing a check help inside a dream?

Also

When doing check I read here never tell yourself you are awake but how do you not think that once you do a reality check and everything works? I try to do them often and always ask myself "am I sleeping" or "What was I doing 5 mins ago" but soon as i can pass my checks it feels impossible to not think I am awake.

**seank12** · 03-27-2014 03:59 AM

The point of the reality checks is so that they transfer into your dreams. When you get in a habit of doing reality checks in waking life, you will do them in your dreams, and then realize that you're dreaming. For the first time, you will experience the dream as it happens, instead of it just magically becoming a memory.

**gab** · 03-27-2014 04:38 AM

You won't do reality check in your non-lucid dream on purpose. It will just happen, you will get an urge, your subconscience will do it for you.

But first, you will have a tiny bit of awareness. This you will have from questioning your reality in waking life, just before you RC. The questioning of reality, the "wow, what if this is a dream" will give you this awareness in your regular dream and you will RC spontaneously. By the time you RC, you will already be fully aware and lucid and RC will only confirm what you already know, or partially, and RC will get you there the rest of the way.

So RCs are important. But the awareness question, when you question your reality and you believe that you could be in a dream at that very moment, is even more important. Because that's what gets you lucid.

http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...hecks-rcs.html