Thread: Can reality checks be just as effective without dream signs?

Originally Posted by LouaiB

True. And although it's an advantage to have dream signs to trigger a RC(this method relies on the prospective memory), performing RCs without DSs is still effective. You are still providing the subconscious with materials it can use to give you a LD( materials here being RCing), since the subconscious may choose RCing you did during the day to place inside your dream. So yes, it's still effective to do RCs without DSs, but coupling it with DSs will give you both the chance that your subconscious will incorporate a RC to your dream, and the chance that a DS might pass, trigerring your prospective memory to trigger your lucidity.
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Thanks, Louai!

Yes it makes sense. I’ve done reality checks in dreams where there were no oddities or dream signs present at all, but I still did them (didn’t become lucid from some of them though). I think it was simply the habit of frequently doing reality checks which caused them to occur in dreams. Having some dream signs would be an advantage, but they’re probably not that necessary.