Thread: Some thoughts on Reality Checks

I think the act of practicing reality checks is actually practicing presence. The ability to notice things in the dream that are off, different, etc. Practicing reality checks during the day helps bring us into the practice of being present in our environment, and in dreams.

I guess the bypass would be all-day-awareness, or intense meditation practice. But, I think that reality checking is a great stepping stone that helps those of us who have very active, wandering minds.

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

I think the act of practicing reality checks is actually practicing presence. The ability to notice things in the dream that are off, different, etc. Practicing reality checks during the day helps bring us into the practice of being present in our environment, and in dreams.

I guess the bypass would be all-day-awareness, or intense meditation practice. But, I think that reality checking is a great stepping stone that helps those of us who have very active, wandering minds.

Back in my days when I first start having random AP's, I started practice RC's before even know what lucid dreaming is, of cource I didn't call them RC's yet. I draw three seals in three different places around my room and when I felt something is weird I checked them while trying to remember where I was before that and how I got there, I also done that when see something weird happening around me. After a month I started to have some experiences that doesn't look like an AP, when I search about them some time later I found about lucid dreaming, but these days I only practice techniques not RC's anymore. Maybe I must return to the roots to able to have more sudden lucidity moments "hey I'm dreaming"