Thread: Reality Checking in YOUR Dream Universe

This thread deals with ideas given to me largely from BillyBob's perspective, as I have interpreted it from his many guides. Namely, the Infinite Universes of Lucid Dreaming, which he says should be read with Mastering Your Dreams for better understanding.

If you're lazy and don't want to read it, he explains that what you experience in all dreams is based on schemata (which, in a very hurried rush way of explanation are your own "expectations" of what the world should be), and when you change the "dream world" you are merely manipulating them. So, in essence... Lucid Dreams actually are limited only by two things. You (example being, you believe you can't turn on light switches, so you can't), and the time we spend there.

I will start my own discussion by saying that I myself am no Lucid expert. I only started getting reacquainted with the idea of Lucid dreaming last night... the first time I took interest in LDing, I didn't see the wealth of information here at Dream Views.

I have never had a Lucid Dream. I hardly remember normal ones (but since my time reading all this great stuff, I did remember one dream so far that had Jack Nicholson in it... but I digress...).

This discussion isn't to argue against BillyBob's concepts. If you want to do that, find one of his posts. We are going to assume that we create (and by the same token, destroy) any limits in a Lucid Dream, for this thread.

So, if this is true... how does one Reality Check? What if in my dream, digital watches stay the same when I double take? What if light switches do work?

Things can get a bit complicated there, but the most obvious answer to me is that if I do something against normal reality, I'll know I'm dreaming. But if these concepts are true... could we indeed create our own unique reality check? Could we influence our schemata in some way so that, whatever we choose we want to do to check for a dream will work within the dream state?

I would appreciate anyone's experiences with unique reality checks, or with reality checks not working in this thread. Any more ideas relating to this subject would be great too. Sometimes answers are just more questions.

I'd also like there to be newbs like me struggle with this, along with some more experienced LDers helping us along the way. Perhaps BillyBob could make an appearance, since this question is based in his ideas.