Thread: All RCs Fails - loss of lucidity???

Perhaps consider incorporating the ADA (all day awareness) technique into your waking life in conjunction with your reality checks. The problem I find with reality checks as a whole is that it becomes routine. A reality check is only useful if there is already awareness of your surroundings. Dreams have a very distinct feeling to them. As you become more adept, you learn to recognise this feeling.

When I was at the peak of my lucid dreaming journey I found I could distinguish between dreams and reality by how it felt alone. I would still reality check now and then just to be sure, but only when I was seriously questioning my reality.

Originally Posted by GravesTC

Perhaps consider incorporating the ADA (all day awareness) technique into your waking life in conjunction with your reality checks. The problem I find with reality checks as a whole is that it becomes routine. A reality check is only useful if there is already awareness of your surroundings. Dreams have a very distinct feeling to them. As you become more adept, you learn to recognise this feeling.

When I was at the peak of my lucid dreaming journey I found I could distinguish between dreams and reality by how it felt alone. I would still reality check now and then just to be sure, but only when I was seriously questioning my reality.

That sounds true. After having performed RCs daily for close to a couple of months now, I have a hard time feeling like they aren't becoming routine sometimes. I really want to work on being able to distinguish the difference in feeling from waking life and dreams so I can have more lucids that way.

What do you attribute to you honing that sense of feeling the difference between the states to a point where you get lucid from it? Was it ADA or did you do other things as well?