Thread: Favorite Reality Checks

What are your favorite reality checks?

I want to know some that I can use.

I do the:
Hand Check
Nose Pinching Check
Text/Time Change Check
and Strange Occurrence Check

What else is there, what is most effective?

Nose pinching. Number one RC, hands down.

My nose is always there, while a clock or writing might not be, and with hands, I might be iffy. If I can breath, It's just BAM! If I can't breath, it's just not bam!

And whenever I do get a strange occurence, I will always double check with a nose.

Finger counting.

The ones i use are that one, looking at the hands, and observation of my surroundings.

Haven't used reality checks for a while but today i have done some which will hopefully bring a dild without having to use my technique. I normally have great success when i use reality checks. (like lots of them)

I was wondering wtf was going on then because i posted then i looked again and i hadn't posted. (got me excited, i thought i might have been dreaming)

Fingers counting
Watch check
Hand pinching check
World check (checking the ppl around me, the time and all that)
But I recently forgoth to do those. Well here you go... Nop i'm not dreaming

Nose pinching. Number one RC, hands down.

My nose is always there, while a clock or writing might not be, and with hands, I might be iffy. If I can breath, It's just BAM! If I can't breath, it's just not bam!

And whenever I do get a strange occurence, I will always double check with a nose.

i agree. even when i there is a strange occurence, i always check with the nose rc. especially when im about to try somthing dangerous, like jumping off cliffs, or breathing under water, or attacking someone etc. all the other rcs can be explained well, mostly anyway. Especially with dream logic. but the nose rc is exactly this

If I can breath, It's just BAM! If I can't breath, it's just not bam!

The digital watch and finger reality checks have always been the ones I've depended on, although I suppose they'd work better if I actually did them...

I like to pinchey my nose too. people stare when you do it with bad timing...

Nose pinch when alone, hand check when in public (I flex a finger back, or poke a finger through, and sometimes count).

I also tend to check my fish for abnormalities, and ask myself how I got to wherever I am (if the answer was "I was sleeping last," I am dreaming).

Reality checking when going through every kind of door or entrance..

the only reality checks which have worked for me have been to do with extreme terror / sense of threat and very often death

i once checked my bleeding ears and felt they weren't liquidy.....



"am i really dying or is this a dream???"

has been the only one which has triggered it for me... i havent lucid shennaiganned very often..... but it's always to do with dying in dreams