Thread: Reality Checking in YOUR Dream Universe

Yes, schemas are what our dreams are built from.

I believe there is one fool proof reality check. Holding your nose and trying to breathe through it. Obviously if you are awake you will be physically holding it and you wont be able to breathe but if you are asleep you will not be physically holding it so you will be able to breathe.

That one is not fool-proof either. Sometimes if feels like you haven't gotten your nose all the way closed or something, and that's why you can breathe. It's like your mind finds weird explanations to try and keep you from becoming lucid sometimes.

This one is easy for me.

In 90% of my dreams, lucid or not, i can fly. So if im unsure, i just try to fly. This normally works.

But i mean...the very fact i am questioning reality is usually enough for me to realise its a dream. Sometimes i just know its a dream, infact, in the 2 lucids i have had, i didnt use reality checks, i just knew.

Originally Posted by Dizko

This one is easy for me.

In 90% of my dreams, lucid or not, i can fly. So if im unsure, i just try to fly. This normally works.

But i mean...the very fact i am questioning reality is usually enough for me to realise its a dream. Sometimes i just know its a dream, infact, in the 2 lucids i have had, i didnt use reality checks, i just knew.

thats exactly how all my DILDs pan out. If I can ask myself "could this be a dream" I pretty much just assume it is and skip the reality check and just try to fly instead which always works.