Hi,
You've said that your doing reality checks in dreams and they become more often right.
Yet they don't trigger a lucidity?
I can try to help you yet stuff i'il say/said below is based on my assumings
If you could describe in slight detail how you are doing reality checks it could be quite easier, yet anyways off i try :yeah
And about quality of your lucid dreams
I suggest you reading up this tutorial:
Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
This tutorial allows you to learn how to extend your lucid dreams by stabilization techniques (Without stabilization lucid dreams might last a mere few minutes)
And it helps with increasing clarity of them aswell ;-)
Here's one of possible things that happens during your reality checking:
A. You do reality check and then just go back to what you were doing without thinking (Even if reality check shows that you are dreaming...)
B. You do reality check in the dream and:
1. You noticed that reality check proves that your dreaming yet you go back to your dream stuff without thinking
2. You noticed that reality check proves that your dreaming yet you doubt that it's possible and go back to stuff you were doing before
3. Reality Check proved that your in reality and you go back to stuff you were doing before in dream world and so go on.
Answers:
Case A:
- Your not mindful enough, when doing reality checks you must be doing them on it's own. Let's take for example how hard it was to drive a bike when you were young and let's take it now. You might be even able to drive it without holding a steer and control direction using merely legs and even while doing so talk to friend through phone? In this case driving a bike became simplified habit that currently barely requires conscious action to do. Same will happen to reality checks if you will do them mindlessly. I explained it quite poorly it's kinda hard to explain for me. If you will be confused about this i'il try to explain more or maybe some other person could explain instead :-P
Case B.1:
- Kinda related to mindfulness. After you finish doing reality check analyse the result it gave and think whether you are dreaming or not. After reading up all those stuff about lucid dreaming you will surely know what would that mean if you were able to breathe through closed nose or that you have six fingers (It would mean that your dreaming?). If reality check proves that your dreaming and your still doubtful about that then you can try some dream control stuff or other reality checks like amount of fingers?
Also when doing Dream Control stuff be confident that it will work because you are dreaming?
This tutorial will explain better than me how to control dreams:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-cont...-tutorial.html
Case B.2:
- Mentioned about this in above case. I belive i explained stuff there if not then feel free to scold me for that ;-)
Case B.3:
- This problem would be caused by lack of belif and confidence that reality check will work i guess? I myself rarely did reality checks yet i can tell you a thing dreams are based on our emotions, expectations and memory. If you will fear that shop manager will catch you stealing time travel machine then he will most likely do it and if you expect to be able to swallow three ice-cream balls at once then you might do it ;-)
The memory part is kinda tricky yet probably most effective part of dream control. It was called by BillyBob in his tutorial for dream control a passive control
You just lie to yourself that you stole from merchant ancient sword and you have it in your closet while fully beliving that you actually have it and that it's all truth and then you go to closed open it and bam it might be just there :-P
If you want reality checks to be effective then have confidence that they will work and prove that your dreaming when doing them. Fear or be happy that it might prove that your dreaming :P And here goes the memory part once more: Trick yourself into thinking fully that reality check will work for sure before doing it and then do it. I belive that's it about reality checks successfulness even if after that they will fail or just be not good enough i'd suggest switching rc to different one maybe?
Anyways if you were doing reality checks wrong then your most likely by now after reading all that thinking that you will have to practice again few weeks/months correctly reality checks before they will start to work like you want them to work in dreams. But worry not my friend. Our brain is not that harsh. In fact it is quite kind and flexible to our needs. Anyways enough that metaphors n' random stuff let's get to the work
All you need to do is to re-write/alter the part of memory in brain that has written in data of how to do reality checks. The rest aka habit of doing reality checks every once in a while or whenever you see something weird is in other place yet it redirects to segment of memory which is responsible for reality checks how to n' stuff.
It would be imo best to explain through programming example lol:
PHP Code:
*Somewhere in your memory code*
RealityChecks()
{
PutHandOnNose() // You put your hand on the nose
PlugNose() // You plug your nose
TryToBreathe() // You try to breathe
if(YouCanBreathe) // You see/check yourself whether you can breathe and if you can breathe then
{
IknowImDreaming = true // Then you know that your dreaming or more likely start to suspect that your dreaming
}
else // If you can't breathe through plugged nose
{
IknowImDreaming = false // You doubt that your dreaming and probably do few other reality checks or just go back to stuff you were doing before?
}
}
// That was the part of your memory that's responsible for knowing how to reality check let's say
// But it's not responsible for knowing when to do reality check
*Somewhere in your memory code*
DailyLife() // A Daily Life aka walking around, playing games or taking a shower
{
if(SeeSomethingWeird) // If you see something weird then
{
RealityChecks() // Then you will most likely decide to do a reality check
}
if(30MinutesPassedSinceLastRealityCheck) // Let's say you do reality check every thirty minutes so when the time passes you will remind yourself to
{
RealityChecks() // Do a reality check
}
}
/* So if you will change how you do reality checks then you won't probably need to wait
few weeks or months for it to start happen everytime you decide to do reality check in dream.
Afterall if stuff would work like this then people would need to wait weeks or months before doing their task in lucid dream.
BUT THATS NOT HOW BRAIN WORKS NOR THE MEMORY
We can set tasks few minutes before we fall asleep and enter lucid dream
But the trigger plays key role here
Something must make you do certain action
Aka seeing something weird = reality check
Seeing Something weird is pointer to reality check and does not contains whole reality check stuff. So it's fine i guess :P?
*/
I guess i just went too far with explanations :tongue:
Anyways now the part of re-writing reality check
The easiest way imo would be doing it through daydreaming
Here's example way of doing this with daydreaming:
Go to bed or some dark place where your comfy and relaxed
Start to daydream
Visualize yourself on the streets
You suddenly see flying ape with ak-47
And then your like wait. that's not possible. am i dreaming?
Then you perform the reality check
And here insert new schema of reality check and do it the new way you decided to do previously
Perform this stuff a few times till you feel like you've replaced old reality check with new one
You can rewrite the way you do reality checks by just living your waking life and when time comes to do reality check then do it the new way
It would be slower than daydreaming i belive?
Or you can just memorize how to do new way reality checks and set strong intention to do them like this in future.
I think i've explained most of stuff i wanted to
If you have any questions, doubts about lucid dreaming or my load of text then feel free to ask :yeah
And to be honest most of this stuff was based on my experience and small slice of theorizing
So i can't say that i'm 100% certain that everything was right
- Goodluck :laugh:
