Thread: Whats Your Favorite....?

Hey you forgot looking at text! Thats what i do and it works every time.

I compare clocks with my wristwatch - also works every time!

I just try to use my cell phone

Originally posted by Passage
I just try to use my cell phone *

Yeah, that's another one of mine, too. I can never dial the right numbers!

Looking at my hands. In dreams my hands look always freaky and have additional fingers.
In one dream I had 6 fingers on each hand and I spend about 5 minutes trying to count them before I realised I was dreaming

When I was beginning I used to stick my hand through objects, it worked pretty well too. And one time I got lucid by looking at a clock.

My usual way is to hold my nose and breathe but a new way that I have found is to try to talk with my mouth shut.

Hey, it works for me.


- Axis

I perfer just to look at my hands. It's pretty much certain that they will look wierd, ans also if you are doing RCs in real life it doesn't seem so strange to other people.

In my last dream I was in a swimming pool. I was running big circles on the bottom. I was wondering how I could hold my breath and have such a good grip of the floor. DOH! Maybe I even thought about dreaming but came to the conclusion of not dreaming lol And I thought that breathing underwater was a good technique...

Clocks, watches, nose plug, and finger thru hand.

I LOVE the idea of the cell phone, thanks PASSAGE.

Might even try to fly, sounds good too!


Mike

Because flying comes easy for me in my lucids I tend to prefer that.
It is the best when you are fairly convinced you are awake and you RC....and WOOO! You begin to float/fly.

Plugging the nose is my fav. It feels so weird. Trying to read something also works good for me too.

Well... Nose is the most sucessful. That's pretty much fact: almost everyone says so. It's also randomly gotten me lucid a few times too, including my first ever controlled lucid which I had a few days ago; so kudos to it for that.

Although... my favourite to do, and I've only done it once, is the finger-through-hand.

You just push, and push, and it's kinda like rubber... and then you break through, and it's so cool! ^_^

I've also used the looking at hands method, and that worked once... my fingers were all long and stretched.

However, in my controlled lucid, when I shouted 'clarity!' and looked at my hands, they were completely normal... so it won't always be sucessful.

I always look at my hands. It also makes the dream so much clearer.

I don't like to use those techniques, because they have failed too many times . Just looking around and ask myself a few questions (does this situation makes sense to me? Are the surroundings right? Are these people at the right place here?) works a lot better for me.
But I'll try the nose thing. Could be an interesting feeling.

So far the only one that has worked for me is the nose pinch one, it feels weird breathing through a blocked nose.

I do the finger through hand first, but then always do nose one and it never messes up, so ill say thats my fav

I look at the object for a second time. If it has any change then I will proceed with the hand looking and finger counting RC.

eg: I am in the class room. I look at the teacher. Yes, he/she is there. I look through the window to outside. And again focus on teacher. If it is a dream, the teacher will appear different or say something different. Some times the whole scenario must have changed. If it is not, i will look through the window again and check whether it is the same outside there. If it is same, i stop RC and will try later.

This works fine since you will have to do a physical reality check only after you doubt it is a dream. And you dont look foolish infront of others every 15 minutes.

My usual technique is trying to remember where I've been and what I've been doing for the last few minutes. Where have I come from and how did I get here? Am I in my normal place, doing what I normally do? This is fast, effortless, and capitalizes on the fact that memory is defective during dreams. Another technique I may use is trying to double a two or three digit number.

After realizing that I am dreaming, I should do a physical reality check. Else I will not become lucid. My mind will find some reason to support the fact that I am dreaming and I will take it as a usual thing. Physical reality check is a must for me. It also helps to improve the level of lucidity.