An overlooked RC step

[VagalTone]

Hi, just a reminder ! Whenever you RC, don´t forget to imagine and ask yourself what if you were really dreaming, and imagine what you could do. That helps to solve the « now what ? what to do ? » problem of becoming lucid and adds a special dreamy taste and fun. I would say a good RC has 2 moments: 1) direct RC test, dreaming or not, 2) visualization of a positive RC and a simple thing to do ( even if no - thing) Don´t forget the second one!!

[PercyLucid]

Great advice I usually take of flying and while flying, I think in what I have to do. Thank you!!

[Eamo24]

Good idea. Yeah I think it's good to try and have some LD goals in the back of your mind. Usually if i become lucid I think "what now? Don't wake up!" It's good to have some kinds of ideas of what to do straight after becoming lucid as well, like stabilizing etc.

[TravisE]

Sounds like a good idea. I also usually always have some ongoing idea or plan of what to do in the next LDs, so I don't normally have this problem, though occasionally I forget that I was supposed to do anything in particular and end up impulsively falling back to some “default” activity, such as flying.

[insideout]

This is a good reminder. Often when I become lucid in a dream, I don't remember any goals I had planned to do.

[AstralMango]

Excellent idea!

[FryingMan]

Rehearsing your "just got lucid moment" is really valuable for establishing a habit in your LDs of slowing down, looking around, thinking about goals. I don't always do it, though, for *every* RC, because I do a lot of RCs .

[VagalTone]

Oh and of course some people might find it useful to invert these 2 steps, in the sense that first you cultivate some suspicion that you are dreaming and pay attention to your environment and yourself, visualize any intention you have, etc. and then you gradually undermine the suspicion through RC.