Originally Posted by
Memm
Thanks for the support. If "Am I dreaming?" makes you automatically answer the question, then try posing a different question such as "Could I be dreaming?", which to me sounds a bit more open-ended. But use whatever works for you.
Our brain contains a conscious and unconscious model of the world, and language is how we express it. On the reverse side, what language we hear or use is also input for the brain. That's how hypnosis works, for example. So getting the input right is important, even if you're the one making that input.
I've heard this from many people on here, but also from my own experience, but RCs have never made me lucid. Not once. I use RCs to check if I'm really dreaming (though after 10+ years of this I don't even need to, it's obvious when I'm dreaming), but they never MADE me lucid. What has made me lucid has always simply realising I might be in a dream, just that idea alone. RCs are just to make sure I don't jump off a roof in real life or something...