Thread: the clock RC is failproof!

Really, that one works less than half the time for me.

Good job, Kromoh. I had almost the same experience (I was in bed and my digital clock made no sense) but I blamed clock-failure. I wasn't really doing an RC, just trying to see if it was time to get up, but I should have noticed.

That's awesome that you found a RC that works so well for you. That's like me and the nose RC. Unfortunately, people are so different that RCs are pretty much never fail-proof for everyone across the board.

The only one that really works for me is the memory reality check.

I get real times that stay put too often to rely on the clock. I do the right thumb through left palm reality check mainly, but I find more and more lately that once I believe I'm lucid, I don't need a reality check as I'm seeing more easily now that my dreams have a unique quality to them that I can recognize. Still, if I'm going to do something that would be foolish in reality, I tend to do a reality check first, just to be certain.

I've seen a clock time change in a couple of dreams, but for the most part, I don't look at a clock or watch in my dreams. I would hope, though, that if I did see one now, that I would at least remember to think about the possibility that I'm dreaming.

For me, I used to use that RC a lot, but one time I tried it in a dream, and the numbers were the same both times I looked at it, and the time was 12:45. I have since abandoned that reality check, and I now only use the hand and nose RCs.