Thread: Need help with the blinking reality check

Originally Posted by WildWolf1

I read about this technique somewhere else on this forum (don't know if I'm allowed to link to posts sorry) The OG thread mentions a guy named Shadowtech that achieved omnilucidity by applying this tech to both blinking and breathing. The point is to constantly monitor your breathing and blinking whether you are dreaming or not. When you no longer HAVE to breathe or blink (at least I don't have to in dreams), you know you are dreaming. What I'm confused about is what is meant by "monitor" your blinking and breathing. Is it criticality, awareness, or both?

I know the tech sounds overwhelming but it can't be as stressful as traditional ADA which requires constant focus on all sense minutiae. Also, it's possible that it gets easier with practice as it fades into the background of awareness.

Any method of checking in with the present moment and seeing if you’re dreaming could lead to lucidity, but the beauty is you don’t have to be persistently checking all day to get lucid. You just have to set an intention to remember to reality check at regular intervals, or when you notice something dreamlike.

Though I think it has some benefits I wouldn’t recommend ADA either for the same reason. I spent 6 months doing it and saw the habit carry over into my dreams, but because I wasn’t focusing on the question “am I dreaming right now” I didn’t become lucid often. It wasn’t until I focused more on the MILD technique and regular RCs that my lucid dreaming really took off.

I’m just speaking from my own experience of course. You could try it and have some success but there’s much simpler ways to do this and as it’s been said already, no reality check is effective all the time and the dream could easily replicate realistic blinking if you’re looking for it.

Also, as a side note, I’d be weary of anyone who claims they’ve achieved omnilucity. There are many who have been at this for decades and not achieved such a thing. With the right effort you can probably get very good at lucid dreaming but to be lucid every night in every dream is likely impossible or extremely rare and usually something people who want to exaggerate their abilities claim to be able to do.