Thread: I've Found My Method!

Originally Posted by BohmaN

Nobody has answered my question yet so I'll just repeat myself since I think it's important.

I wonder why it works so well if all your dreams are outdoors? :S Mine are too usually. If being indoors is not a dreamsign, why RC while indoors?
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Well, it didn't work for me. Because I lot of my dreams are outdoors, and when I'm inside I don't often go through doors, I just go to a different room.

Pick something outdoors. Like what I said in my post (walking).

What about strangers? I mean do a RC everytime you see someone you don't know?

Or maybe everytime you look at the sky?

It doesn't have to be doorways.

Hey people,

I too am wondering what to base my RCs on. I know most of my dreams involve school based scenarios, but when I'm at school in real life it's too busy to remember to RC all the time.
I tried writing RC on my hand, but somehow I doubt that I'd have it written on my hand in a dream.
Even then, I doubt I would look at my hand either...

Any ideas?


Ps, I've heard that RCs count more if you first say you are in a dream and the RC prooves you're in real life.

And is it really quantity, not quaility? (it's just that if I kep reminding myself to RC all the time, I'd go crazy... that and I forget to do them...)

Originally Posted by person

Hey people,

I too am wondering what to base my RCs on. I know most of my dreams involve school based scenarios, but when I'm at school in real life it's too busy to remember to RC all the time.
I tried writing RC on my hand, but somehow I doubt that I'd have it written on my hand in a dream.
Even then, I doubt I would look at my hand either...

Any ideas?
Ps, I've heard that RCs count more if you first say you are in a dream and the RC prooves you're in real life.

And is it really quantity, not quaility? (it's just that if I kep reminding myself to RC all the time, I'd go crazy... that and I forget to do them...)
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You don't have to look at your hand to *do* a RC. But if you had it written on your hand, it would give you a chance to look at something else to do a RC. In school, I was constantly checking the clock. I still today check the clock ALL of the time, so that's when I mostly do my RC's. So if you want to, write 'RC' on your hand, then when you happen to notice it, do a RC by looking at a clock.

And if you don't do RC's all of the time as it is, what makes you think you'd 'go crazy'? IMO, YES it is "quantity" that counts over quality. The more you check to make sure you're LD IRL, the more you'll check while you're dreaming, and then the more you'll have a LD. It doesn't make you "crazy", it simply becomes a habit after a while. Soon you don't even really think about it, you just *do* it.

The issue that I'm having with a lot of these methods is... you'll be in public while doing this. I don't want to be labeled as the wierd guy who picks his nose a lot. Thus, why I do it while exiting/entering a room... it happens a lot in dreams and its inconspicuous. In fact, if there are people in the room I usually just use a mental one. It takes longer, but with less effort. It just seems to me, adding more RCs would help for people that it isn't already helping, but I'm doing fine with what I'm doing now.

Oh, and if the door is closed when I come to it, I imagine something on the other side and try to press my hand through it before I grab the nob. This works especially well when your about to enter a restaurant or a public building.

PS: takin' b6 tonight

Thanks for your reply.
I didn't mean I would actually go crazy though just a figure of speech.

Originally Posted by metcalfracing

then I do a mental check.


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what kind of mental check do you use. because i've done them in dreams and they failed. maybe im doing them wrong

Originally Posted by Amidreaming

what kind of mental check do you use. because i've done them in dreams and they failed. maybe im doing them wrong
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Mental checks aren't as reliable as physical checks, and they may fail more often. I think the more reliable mental checks are those like looking at a clock and seeing if the numbers change oddly when you look away and look back, or looking at text and seeing if it changes oddly when you look back. Also, try looking at the back of your hands, looking for any oddities there, and if there are any oddities, make sure you can logically explain them completely, as if you can't you're probably dreaming and should do another more conclusive test. Also, when you RC, make sure that you do it very carefully and thoroughly, so that you do not make a dumb mistake like "I have eighteen fingers like always, not dreaming", and then wake up pissed off (though it probably will be a little less obvious than that).

I don't know... looking around the room, while figuring out where you are and how you got there works alot... and with the addition of deciphering who should be here with you, its rather reliable... If I get any indication of something seeming out of place, I do a physical one, asap.

Haha... for all those struggling with this technique... I found something that might help...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f9zHD6-f_YI

After this, you'll understand perfectly... trust me.

Are you kidding me? i hate that show, i watched like 30seconds of it..

... Ya, actually, I was kidding you. This is sort of a joke thread, afterall.

I have an idea for subtly modifying this method to get around both the problem of doing reliable RCs in public, and also the possibility that most of your dreams are out-doors.

Instead of saying that you will do an RC every time you enter a room, say instead that you will do an RC for every room that you are in. In other words, if I'm in the kitchen and I walk into the dining room, I'm now "obligated," as it were, to perform an RC before I exit that room - preferably right away, but not necessarily. If I'm in a public place, I can either wait until I don't feel embarrassed to do the nose RC, or otherwise discretely examine my hands and see if I can push them through each other - remember, a good RC requires both that you seriously consider that you might be dreaming, and also that you perform a tangible test. Likewise, if I walk outside or I walk inside, that counts as changing location, as well as, say, entering or exiting a car, or a significant change of location while outside (you could add or remove from that list depending on what you think is necessary).

While the delay in performing an RC may seem unwise at first, I have a feeling that after doing this for a while you will eventually begin to get a mental "itch" every time you enter a new room, that can only be scratched by RCing. I can compare it to the fact that every time I go to the bathroom, afterwards my hands feel dirty until I wash them - even if they're not dirty at all - which makes it so that I never forget to wash my hands before exiting a bathroom.

That was perhaps a not very elegant analogy, but it fits the bill.

thats what I do, every time I find myself in a new place I RC.

Good idea metcalfracing, I read on The Lucidity Institute's forum that they do a similar thing during their lucidity bootcamps.

To increase awareness, everytime they walk through a doorway they are supposed to think 'doors of perception' and/or touch the doorway, keeping a tally through the day of how many they missed.

That's just supposed to increase awareness, so doing a reality check would be even better I'd imagine.

However I'm lazy, touching the doorway sounds easier!

Very Interresting. I see very well how this Could work.

For you perhaps it is best to do an RC uppon entering a Room, since you say you frequently leave and enter different rooms in your Dreams.

Maybe we can think of things that are even more common in Dreams.
For me that'd have to be:
-Being with friends (RCing everytime I meet a friend)
-When you're in a place you haven't been before (happens all the time in my dreams)
-When I'm at some event/festival/party (happens all the time in my dreams)
-When I feel Fear; From only a little fear to extreme anxiety (Fear is very common in Dreams)
etc...

How about that? Can some of you help me expand this list? What things/actions/situations/sensations/emotions..etc do you encounter in basically every dream?

A very good idea, I think I will try it out for 2 weeks or so. Thanks

Recently I noticed that often in the morning I had my bladder full, and every now and then it entered my dreams. In my dreams I was pissing (not mechanically, only dreaming about it) I'm sure it's pretty common anyways. So I decided to RC every time I piss. This actually worked for me, 2 days after starting just drink a bit in the evening and it will work wonders. I've had 3 lucids in one week after starting this.

Room entering one is great aswell I would imagine, as entering a room is more common than pissing