Thread: experienced LDers: do u still RC?

Well, I kind of developed of habit of performing reality checks during the day, so I still do so. If you find that you can successfully lucid dream without reality checking, then I suppose you could stop doing them. However, I wouldn't recommend doing so because after awhile, you may begin to notice that you are dreaming lucidly less frequently since you've stopped paying as much attention to it.

To be honest I never did them as frequently as I should have when I was starting out. Though, today I do them every so often. I look at the digital clock, I check the writting and gravity. It does help me with becoming lucid but I find other ways to help me also.

I have never induced a lucid dream from a reality check, try as I might to make it a habit of performing them. I still have at least two lucids a week, but it's either something blatantly off, or I just know.

I was never very dilligent with reality checking. I had my spurts, where I did them very often, but I'd usually just trail off and stop doing them, after a while.

Now, I usually only reality check when something really weird happens and, whenever I get the mood to just RC out of nowhere, I'll try moving things with my mind, since telekinesis is about my favorite lucid power, and it almost always works, when I'm dreaming.

I would hardly call myself experienced, but...

Yes, I do RCs all the time. It's pretty much a habit. I have become very much more in-tuned to my surroundings, and when anything strange happens I do a RC.

I've never actually done them but a few times. I tried that "read a book and if the letters are weird, or you can't understand it, you're dreaming" thing but when I opened a book, I was able to read it just fine. Usually the same way with signs, billboards, notebooks, etc... the words tend to flow together coherently, but the sentences themselves don't make much sense.



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i only usually do RCs when there is something weird going on

I no longer do reality checks. Those days I rely primarily on concentration, binaural beats, visualization and napping. They work fine enough for me.

By the way, the first lucid dream I have ever induced was a result of a self-remembrance rather than reality testing. I think that even as we dream a part of us knows that we do - all we have to do is to remember ourselves.

Originally Posted by Kacper

I no longer do reality checks. Those days I rely primarily on concentration, binaural beats, visualization and napping. They work fine enough for me.

By the way, the first lucid dream I have ever induced was a result of a self-remembrance rather than reality testing. I think that even as we dream a part of us knows that we do - all we have to do is to remember ourselves.

true. recall is the only thing I never practiced I've ALWAYS lucid dreamt. Even since I was young. as I stated before as young as 6. I know the age because where I was when I told my parents. It was an apartment I moved out of when I was 6 years old.
Our bodies do know when we are dreaming its a complete separate style of living. Most of the time we are in places we don't know about. Or with people we don't hang out with. But, this is because the DMT. Such a powerful psychedelic you release when you sleep. It actually makes you think its real. When its out causes a black out making you forget what it was. You can overcome it but, naturally it happens that way.

I do the nose-pinch reality check out of habit more than anything, and it does succeed to make me lucid more than anything else. I started of doing it whenever I remembered, and I continue to do so. I think of it sort of the same way I think of "The Game". Which I just lost haha.

So in short, Yes, I do still RC, maybe like 15 times daily.

I don't do RCs at all. I have an LD about once per week, or more or less depending on how much I want it. If I affirm that I will have one before I go to sleep, and I get more than 8 hours of sleep, I almost always will. The lucidity pops in randomly, which can happen either one of two ways.

1) Something wierd or extradinary happens and I go 'hey wait a minute', or

2) I just randomly become lucid for no reason at all while doing the most mundane thing. Like I'll be walking and all the sudden 'Hey what do you know, I'm in a dream. Let's go do some cool shit.'

I don't need to test for extraordinary circumstances to do a 'reality check'. There is always a definitive feeling I have when I am dreaming. The settings, the feeling, and the perspective in my dream world are much different than that of the waking world. All I have to do to realize I'm dreaming is gain enough consciousness to become aware, or to ask the question. If I have enough consciousness to do a reality check, then I don't need to do a reality check.

yes I do... I try to do it as much as possible so I don't forget

I'm trying to get in the habit of RCing once something out of the ordinary happens.
My recall is also improving. So i might have some more LD's soon.
Only 3 so far. 1 FILD and 2 DILD's.

wow, I just had a crazy dream. I took a nap with wilding in mind. I don't think it was technically a wild since I didn't realize I was dreaming till after I RC'd. My check is pinching my arm or touching my face. I decided to see what you were talking about with the pinching the nose thing. I tried it and I could BARELY breathe. weird. I wouldn't notice if I used it as a quick check. Is there a reason this didn't work? Maybe mental or just a random time it didn't work? I started to fade out pretty quick and tried the spinning thing but, I couldn't get it.. I missed... lol
so I woke up.. went to my computer and was talking to some one got up to go in the living room.. and then woke up for real. Does anyone else get this as often as me. I'm just now realizing it. Maybe its been like this forever maybe just now.
But, does anyone else wake up and still dreaming?

Originally Posted by sluggo

when I was first getting into LDing I did a lot of RCs in RL and while dreaming, and they really helped me get used to recognizing the dream state. lately though I haven't done any RC's for a while....I just seem to realize that I'm in a dream and I test it by flying. so for me personally RCs were like awesome training wheels to help learn how to LD and now I don't seem to need them. just wondering if that's common or if maybe I could increase the frequency of my LDs by starting to RC again.

Hi, no I don't need to do RCs anymore because I no longer have lucid dreams cause I'm such a pro at it..... I'm kidding .

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I don't RC very much. Mainly when things are weird or if I notice something that is a DS for me.