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I've made myself a poster with the words ARE YOU DREAMING? In huge letters above my bed, so I can do reality checks while in bed, without my glasses on. But I'm wondering, how effective are reality checks right after you wake up? Or would this be more useful as a WBTB thing? What I'm wondering is: what is the best time to do a RC?
Depends on you.
Personally, I found by keeping a journal (6 days now, not long) and from memory of older dreams that 90% of my dreams have something to do with school, even if it's just a brief mention. So whenever I see someone from school or something like that in the first time in an hour or so, I do a quick RC.
I've found through keeping a dream journal that I have a false awakening about once every three or four nights, so I now do them immediately after waking up.
Because I'm facinated by the notion of being a bi-sexual vegan hippie ...
I have a few lucids per week, and I don't do reality checks at all. I have found them
worthless - for me. I have also found dreamsigns more or less worthless.
By practicing awareness in non-wakeful states (i.e. - awareness in deep mediation, or awareness
under the influence of salvinorin A for example) I have developed a better ability to acquire
awareness in my dreamspace.
I have been really pushing people to try Tibetan dream yoga (the classic interpretagtion, not the write
up in the tutorials section of this web site). I just think this is much more powerful than the more
wesgtern type approaches.
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ditto, minus the Salvia, and the veganism
But I'm still interested in RCs and have a theory that if they do work for you, then they may work BETTER if you tune them to your learning/ percieving mode (see links in sig.)
I have done RCs in a dream but only AFTER I know I'm dreaming - to confirm it - also because its funny to push your finger through your hand etc.