Thread: Reality Checks

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.