Thread: Some help with reality checks

Hello,
I have experienced LDs (or semi LDs) and out of body experiences in the past,but all randomly. I cant figure out how I had them.

I am trying to learn to have LD's when i want to. The major obstacle I am facing is reality checks,the ones we have to do when awake.
I have read regarding this on several occasions,one cannot do a reality check in dream if one is not in the habit of doing it while awake.So,what kind of reality checks should I be doing while awake? If its been posted before on the forums,please guide me to it. Your personal suggestions and hints are most welcome too.

Thanks

Hold your nose and breath through it.
If you can breath through it whilst holding it, you're dreaming. Make this a habit.
Once it's a habit, you will one day do it in a dream and realise you're dreaming.

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The tutorials section is kind of screwed up right now, but still worth checking out.

Doing reality checks is really enhanced by keeping a Dream Journal and learning to recognize dreamsigns - events, people and things that recur in your dreams. Then you do a reality check (like the pinched nose) any time you encounter those things in real life.

Eventually you will start reality-checking when you encounter them in your dreams, too. That's when the fun starts!

thanks for the advice
I checked out the tutorials section,really helpful
One thing i didnt find there was how often do i do them?
I mean one doesnt count their fingers too often to check if they are dreaming or not. IS there some frequency of doing these checks during the day?

Originally Posted by dwingrider

thanks for the advice
I checked out the tutorials section,really helpful
One thing i didnt find there was how often do i do them?
I mean one doesnt count their fingers too often to check if they are dreaming or not. IS there some frequency of doing these checks during the day?

There's no pat answer for that. The idea is to routinely remember to do a reality check, but not to make it so routine that you are doing it in an absent-minded manner.

The idea of journaling is to find dream signs that will remind you to RC. My father and shopping malls are two of my dreamsigns - they show up over and over again in my dreams, so any time I encounter either I RC. If you check the time a lot in your dreams, or dream of using the bathroom or anything like that, then you start doing reality checks any timy you do or encounter those things in real life.

School is my main Dreamsign. Sucks because I go to school everyday. Not gonna seem abnormal in a dream..