Thread: Reality Check Moments

My finger-through-palm reality check sometimes decides to not work. So I gotta go check my phone and see if anything’s wonky. One time, my clock was like “screw it” and just disappeared altogether.

I looked in the mirror and noticed I had a full on beard... Yuck. lol.

And then realizing I've not interacted with a single person, in person. Except briefly a couple times having to make grocery runs. In over two months now.

Originally Posted by Caradon

And then realizing I've not interacted with a single person, in person. Except briefly a couple times having to make grocery runs. In over two months now.

That sounds tougher than what most of us are probably experiencing. Weird times, helps provide extra dream signs I guess.

My contribution is that, although not super weird, I see repeating numbers a lot when looking at the time or other places especially 1111 or 111 and I almost always do a reality check. Digital clocks or numbers are not one of my go-to reality checks though. I'll try to remember this thread next time I have a different type of dream sign which I think happens every day on average.

I actually really needed the break.

I keep seeing spiders. For a little bit there it seemed like every time I turned around there is another spider crawling around. I've been trying to remember to RC when I see any kinds of bugs, especially in the house or crawling on me or something.

Edit: Since I posted, gawd more spiders, everywhere. lol. WTF At least so far I've not had the frog invasion like last year. I actually felt really bad for the frogs getting trapped in the house. How are they going to survive with no water and little to eat. I kept trying to catch them and throw back out into the yard. At least they have spiders now...

Lately, instead of RC's, I have been doing "Stop The Flow" practice during the day.

As often as I can remember to, during whatever activity I am doing, I'll say (out loud if possible) "STOP THE FLOW!" When I do that all thoughts stop briefly. Then I look carefully at whatever is there in front of me, taking in every detail.

A few nights ago this bore fruit as I found myself examining the detail of grass growing around a ball I was picking up in a clear but non-lucid dream. The dream flow stopped, the grass disappeared, and lucidity bloomed fully.

Originally Posted by lenscaper

Lately, instead of RC's, I have been doing "Stop The Flow" practice during the day.

As often as I can remember to, during whatever activity I am doing, I'll say (out loud if possible) "STOP THE FLOW!" When I do that all thoughts stop briefly. Then I look carefully at whatever is there in front of me, taking in every detail.

A few nights ago this bore fruit as I found myself examining the detail of grass growing around a ball I was picking up in a clear but non-lucid dream. The dream flow stopped, the grass disappeared, and lucidity bloomed fully.

I like how you put it. "Stop the flow." Sounds similar to what I do with my awareness meditations. When I'm well focused on the task I try to stay in that frame of mind as much as possible. Occasionally what happens is I'll start doing it in a dream like you describe and not even get lucid. While slightly frustrating when that happens I still consider it a win. Anytime I think of dreaming in a dream I consider it a win weather I end up lucid or not. For me usually those kinds of close calls means a full blown lucid is soon is imminent.

Reality check moment: Yesterday morning I went to Walmart. And as I pull into the parking area I see there is some kind of crazy helicopter pilot low flying and swooping all around the parking lot in a helicopter. And one point he dive bombed right towards the Walmart building and for a second I thought he was going to slam the helicopter in the Walmart but the helicopter pulls up just before hitting the building swooping up over the roof. Then for a moment looks like he is trying to land on the roof of the building. Then swoops away and continues swooping all around the parking lot some more. To add to how surreal it was I had just finished watching the United93 movie on Netflix about the 911 plane hijackings. So seeing a crazy pilot could easily be a dream influenced by watching the movie.

Another reality check moment based on something I was watching on Netflix. I watched the first two episodes of World War 2 in HD. And first thing I see when I turn on my computer today is an article about someone that is out walking and stumbles upon a plane from World War 2 crashed on a beach that apparently somehow had never been found before. Coincidences like that are so strange. Would have been even more surreal had I been the one to find the plane after watching the show lol. Can you imagine? I'd be freaking out how weird that would feel. Just watch a show about world war 2 and go for a walk and find a crashed world war 2 plane.

Another Netflix reality check.

I'm watching an interesting documentary that popped up for me this morning. I come to a part in the show where they are talking about hypnotism. There is a hypnotist talking about how hypnotism works. I randomly decide to push pause here and I open another tab on my computer to look at another forum for a sec. The first thing I see is posts discussing hypnotism and discussion echoing what I was just watching on Netflix on the other tab. Suddenly dawns on me the weirdness of the coincidence when the two things were completely unrelated but ended up being the same subject and discussion. Why does this happen! lol

And then just now I look at my phone and it says there is a curfew being implemented in my area due to a state of emergency. I just assumed it was something virus related until I looked into it. Apparently riots going on and police were nearly completely overwhelmed and national guard is involved. WTF. Sounds like it's another case of someone wrongfully killed by the police and people going nuts over it.

Edit: Bizarre a cop just suffocated a guy to death in custody right in front onlookers on the street. He is already charged with murder. Psycho cop I guess, wow.

I didn't have my computer on so decided to look up DV on my phone which I usually never do. The text on the main forum page on my phone was all messed up when I looked at it. Sentences were overlapping each other so it looked all scrambled and hieroglyphic like.

A crack of thunder so loud it shook the house hard enough to knock a picture in a picture frame hanging from a nail on the wall off the wall and crashing to the floor, knocking over a couple of other things in the process.

A damn vine on my window again. I don't know how it keeps getting there since I never see it move ha ha. I keep yanking it down and away from the outside wall even. It doesn't move it just lays there. But all of a sudden, there it is again, back up on the window... Like it just lays there waiting for me to not be looking at it and then climbs back up the wall onto the window.

Dream: I had a dream last night about randomly taking sour cream from the fridge and then smearing it all over my face to get a reaction from my DCs. There is no explaining it. I just did it for the hell of it. I recall just standing in front of my down stairs bathroom, in the dream, and layered it all over my face with my fingers like I was putting on face cream. I went back into the kitchen and looked at my DCs.
My dream characters were shocked and a little disgusted. One went over and licked my face.
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So, today, someone (IN REAL LIFE) in my house decided to make Chicken Breast with sour cream, marinading, this was while I went up stairs, resting, (sore all over) when I came down, they told me that they found this recipe for the chicken, I had to do a RC and then I told them the dream that I had last night.
Their reaction was, "What did you think you were a marinading chicken?"

Originally Posted by Lang

Dream: I had a dream last night about randomly taking sour cream from the fridge and then smearing it all over my face to get a reaction from my DCs. There is no explaining it. I just did it for the hell of it. I recall just standing in front of my down stairs bathroom, in the dream, and layered it all over my face with my fingers like I was putting on face cream. I went back into the kitchen and looked at my DCs.
My dream characters were shocked and a little disgusted. One went over and licked my face.
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So, today, someone (IN REAL LIFE) in my house decided to make Chicken Breast with sour cream, marinading, this was while I went up stairs, resting, (sore all over) when I came down, they told me that they found this recipe for the chicken, I had to do a RC and then I told them the dream that I had last night.
Their reaction was, "What did you think you were a marinading chicken?"

I love doing random silly things to try and freak out dream characters in lucid dreams even though most of the time I don't get much reaction. Funny how the sour cream then showed up in waking life. So weird when that happens.

Originally Posted by Lang

Dream: I had a dream last night about randomly taking sour cream from the fridge and then smearing it all over my face to get a reaction from my DCs. There is no explaining it. I just did it for the hell of it. I recall just standing in front of my down stairs bathroom, in the dream, and layered it all over my face with my fingers like I was putting on face cream. I went back into the kitchen and looked at my DCs.
My dream characters were shocked and a little disgusted. One went over and licked my face.
---
So, today, someone (IN REAL LIFE) in my house decided to make Chicken Breast with sour cream, marinading, this was while I went up stairs, resting, (sore all over) when I came down, they told me that they found this recipe for the chicken, I had to do a RC and then I told them the dream that I had last night.
Their reaction was, "What did you think you were a marinading chicken?"

I had a similar experience yesterday. I had a really strange dream about seeing a miniature person swallowed by a normal sized person and traveling through their body. Later the same day I was watching a live stream of a musician playing a guitar and singing. In between songs the music starts talking about wanting to be a miniature person traveling through someone's body. And I was WTF I was just dreaming that. lol.

On Youtube I came across this page that said live stream piano. I'm watching it and it's just an awesome and beautiful piano music. All you see is two hands playing a piano that is glowing with green colored lights. I didn't think it was an actual live person playing just thought it was a live stream recording kind of like Metallica does with their concerts.

So I say in the chat. "Can you please play row your boat and twinkle little star?" Nothing happens so assuming it's recorded. So I type into the chat. "I would freak if the hands started playing twinkle little star all of a sudden then I would know it's real live hands playing." All of a sudden the hands start playing the most amazing and beautiful version of twinkle little star I ever heard ha ha ha ha. I couldn't believe it lol.

On Sunday night. (I had skipped recording dreams from that night) But Sunday night I had a rather mundane dream that this guy I know named Rick that in reality helps my step dad with cheap work on his rental properties. He has helped me with some plumbing work here. In my dream he showed up at my place to help work on some plumbing. Which I don't actually need right now. But last time he was here in reality he helped me put in a new faucet in my kitchen.

But anyways it was a rather mundane dream and I didn't feel like recording so I didn't. That day, though, after the dream (Monday) I was thinking about Rick. And I was wondering how much longer he might be alive to help my step dad. The reason I was thinking about that is because the guy has been a hard core drug user every since I've known of him, and he is older than I am. I'm almost 50 now. Rick has always been addicted to heroin and a meth head and probably doing every other dug under the sun. So I was just wondering if he would end up killing himself with all the drugs sometime in the near future.

So I was talking with my step dad last night and he mentions that Rick died. I'm thinking what? He says yeah a couple of days ago. I was like whoa that's weird because I was just thinking about Rick a couple of days ago and wondering how much longer he would be alive. Then I remembered the whole reason I was thinking about him is because he was in my dream. So looked in my journal to see what night that was I had the dream. So I tell my step dad that I was thinking about Rick on Monday because Sunday night I had a dream that he was here working on my plumbing. My step dad tells me Rick died Sunday night...

For me, I was sitting at my desk and I had a Monomorium minimum crawl on my forearm, and it pinched me like to say, "Are you dreaming?" Not much fear but, just a question? I had to do an RC after that in Real life. It didn't hurt that much but, I recall seeing it pinch me. I mean I do that in my dreams a lot. That is one of my dream control things but, not so much in reality. I must be so sweet!

I was just making a long thought out post about some meaningful/memorable lucid experiences I had. I have no idea what combination of buttons I must have accidentally hit in order to cause all this craziness on my screen. But my screen went all wonky and it was like I accidentally hacked into some hackers digital universe. I sat there forever trying to figure out how to save my post and get back to normality and simple forum posting. But ultimately ended up just backing out of it all and lost everything I was trying to write. lol. whatever.

Back in 2016 when, there was a brush fire at the farm where I lived, I recall asking my mom I'm dreaming. I know it sounds nuts, it made me stop for a moment to do Several RCs while I carried water to this put out this fire, it was at a time where the pipes were frozen but, there was no snow on the ground, it was dry that day. Luckily, there was some watering horse trough. We got most of it put out before the Fire department came but, there were some hot spots. It was a burn pile that went wrong. It was windy that day and they forgot to get a burn permit.
What was lost was a greenhouse and a boat, a skidoo, and their trailers. Most of the horse yard and some of the field was burn. You can smell plastic and burnt rubber..

Today, I went out to forest forage for reishi mushrooms, and I saw a buck. Reishi Mushrooms make a good tea and broth for soup btw.

Nice example Lang! I was just now downstairs and the lighting kept changing quickly and I did some thorough reality checks even though my mind was telling me that the sun was probably just going behind some clouds...we should never assume!

My f**ing computer is acting up again!! Errr!! I had to do an RC because I was frustrated by this stupid thing. I thought to myself, perhaps I fell asleep. I was kind of entertaining that thought earlier. It is about 6 years old and I'm having so many problems with it, at times I want to throw it across the room. Instead, I did an RC. I stopped and check the temp of both of my feet, (HOOF). Cool actually.

Originally Posted by Lang

My f**ing computer is acting up again!! Errr!! I had to do an RC because I was frustrated by this stupid thing. I thought to myself, perhaps I fell asleep. I was kind of entertaining that thought earlier. It is about 6 years old and I'm having so many problems with it, at times I want to throw it across the room. Instead, I did an RC. I stopped and check the temp of both of my feet, (HOOF). Cool actually.

I read somewhere those mushrooms are supposed to be good for dreams.

I was in the same boat with my old computer early January before my dogs health started going down hill and just after the world wide pandemic. I'm still wondering if it could have been the Corona my dog died from because maybe I had it and didn't know it and maybe she got it from me. Because I was super sick in early January like the worst cold of my life fever and all that and then she started getting sick before I was fully recovered and died within a couple days. At the time I assumed it was other things that finally caught up to her as she was nearly 18 years old and had a couple issues that could have eventually caught up to her but she was perfectly fine and showing no symptoms of anything until then. She started making weird coughing sound then wheezing then deteriorated so fast.

But anyways just before I started getting sick then losing my friend and then the entire world started going to hell I went out and bought a new computer. Dell Inspiron 7000 17 inch screen. At first I wasn't happy about spending so much on a new computer but after using it a little bit and seeing how much better it is than my old computer I was glad I did. The picture quality for watching Netflix is phenomenal at least compared to my old computer or my TV (I don't have anything 4k) But the picture is stunning. And it also does that fold over thing where you can use it like a touch screen tablet if you want to but I generally don't use it that way, and even though has a touch screen I don't want finger prints all over it so avoid touching the screen as much as possible. I've not even turned my TV on since I bought it in January. And after my friend died getting lost in Netflix was the only thing keeping me sane. But long story short if you have an old shitty computer it's totally worth it to get a new one if if you can because it's a world of difference.

And I keep having spiders everywhere it's driving me crazy lol. I don't know how I can have so many spiders constantly. I was just chasing one around my bathroom and it got away. I'm surprised I've not had any spider nightmares yet. I wouldn't say I have a phobia, or maybe one is developing lol. I'm not afraid of them but they creep me out and I don't want them crawling on me, especially when I'm sleeping. Yesterday I was sure I felt something land on and fall down the side of my neck and thought it must be a spider and jumped up trying to brush it off and pulled off my shirt freaking out lol. I never did see if it was an actually spider that fell on me.

Originally Posted by Caradon

And I keep having spiders everywhere it's driving me crazy lol. I don't know how I can have so many spiders constantly. I was just chasing one around my bathroom and it got away. I'm surprised I've not had any spider nightmares yet. I wouldn't say I have a phobia, or maybe one is developing lol. I'm not afraid of them but they creep me out and I don't want them crawling on me, especially when I'm sleeping. Yesterday I was sure I felt something land on and fall down the side of my neck and thought it must be a spider and jumped up trying to brush it off and pulled off my shirt freaking out lol. I never did see if it was an actually spider that fell on me.

You know I do everything in my power to save the spiders in the bathroom from dying from the shower water? Gah. You know they can't hurt you, right? And they eat bugs that get in the house. I would hate to get squashed. Now roaches on the other hand . . . they go in the toilet.

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

You know I do everything in my power to save the spiders in the bathroom from dying from the shower water? Gah. You know they can't hurt you, right? And they eat bugs that get in the house. I would hate to get squashed. Now roaches on the other hand . . . they go in the toilet.

Lol. I know but they're everywhere. I have taken a few outside before but there is way too many for that. It's war lol. They multiply fast. One time I let one live behind the toilet didn't think it was bothering anything until one day I look back there and it's swarming with spiders and I was like nope that's enough of that. I actually feel worse about the mice. But they take over fast when nothing is done about it. Too bad they can't just stay outside. But I live near the woods and it's a never ending stream of mice coming in especially in the fall and winter. You just can't let mice take over.

Originally Posted by Caradon

Lol. I know but they're everywhere. I have taken a few outside before but there is way too many for that. It's war lol. They multiply fast. One time I let one live behind the toilet didn't think it was bothering anything until one day I look back there and it's swarming with spiders and I was like nope that's enough of that. I actually feel worse about the mice. But they take over fast when nothing is done about it. Too bad they can't just stay outside. But I live near the woods and it's a never ending stream of mice coming in especially in the fall and winter. You just can't let mice take over.

No, you can't, and it is sad. Glad I don't have that problem. It's hard enough killing roaches. I let spiders live with me in the house. I don't mind. I call them my little buddies