I'd never really thought about it, but looking back, that aspect of 'doing RC's so much you accidentally carry them over to dreams' was something that I never made use of in my lucid life. In my case, when I get lucid, I often (not to say always, because I'm not completely sure), have the feeling that I'm dreaming first - for any reason what-so-ever - and then, and only then, I make a reality check, because sometimes things just seem a little too real, and a reality check is the thing that really tells me if I'm actually dreaming or not. I think I wrote about this previously on this forum, hold on...
*Checks forum*
Yes, I think this is it, and it matches my current view of things even better than I was expecting (it is kind of an old post):
http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...ml#post2172684
In it, I explain my views on routine reality checks, and how I believe a much better way to go about things is to do routine awareness checks, if you will. It isn't a big post anyway.
I'd like to also add that ultimately - for someone who's very experienced with dreams and dreaming - I speculate you'd need to use reality checks to distinguish between dreams and awake life, or if the dream's 'aura' or 'feel' would be enough for an experienced dreamer to pick up on it; I haven't reached that state, so I can't tell.
Anyway, hope this helped.
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