Thread: Your experience with Reality Checks (especially if you have done them a lot)

For me, they've been starting to carry over into dreams, actually. I had two LDs now triggered by habitual RCs.

No matter what method you use, remember that you honestly have to ask your self "Am I dreaming". Don't say "obviously I am awake" instantly because you think you are. Look around and look for things out of the ordinary. Think about all the times your mind tricked you in your dreams, and ask yourself "Is my mind tricking me now". Don't allow yourself to stop questioning reality until your certain beyond all doubt that you are awake.

I had a dream once where I looked at my hands and they were really deformed. I thought "I must be getting nerve damage" because I had taken a 100 mg dose of b6 before going to sleep. After that I just went on with my dream.

Make sure that you don't dismiss the idea that you could be dreaming just becuase you think that your not. If you do that you will see results.

I generally find that as soon as I start to question my state I zero in on the fact that I'm dreaming; So my reality checks are just me saying "dreaming" in my head.

My problem is taking any kind of initial first step to quesition reality within the dream

Start doing an RC every time something 'odd' happens or if you find your self thinking 'wtf?'

Pound those dream signs into your SC

Originally Posted by shotbirds

Start doing an RC every time something 'odd' happens or if you find your self thinking 'wtf?'

Pound those dream signs into your SC

That's not enough and it barely ever works. What you mind find odd IRL seems totally normal to you in a dream. I could have a parade of pink elepahnts running in front of me, IRL I'd do RCs for two hours while in a dream, it's all fine.
Do RCs all the time, make it a habit. I look at my hands for about 20 times a day, I mean, when waiting for the bus or something, what do you have to do other than RCing? It's not like that takes too much time or something. Do it whenever you get to mind "hey, I should make an RC".

Tonight I had another LD because of looking at my hands. It didn't last, but it triggered my "awaking" in the dream. RCs are for me the key to getting lucid and they really take no effort.

for a reality check, i wrote "You are Dreaming" on my hand. I thought this would work when i am in a dream i would either see it and realize i was dreaming or not see it there and realize that i am dreaming. Nothing has worked so far...

And another point to the conversation, i ended up having a dream where i was telling someone that i was taking some B6 (for dreaming) and it still didnt click that i was dreaming at the point.

I swear, Lucid Dreaming is so hard to get down. Only three Lucid Dreams, two of them with no Lucid Aids and the other one after watching Vanilla Sky. (haha)

Anyway, hopefully if i put more meaning into my RCs, I'll be able to recognize out of the ordinary things.

Originally Posted by DigitalNinjaLee

And another point to the conversation, i ended up having a dream where i was telling someone that i was taking some B6 (for dreaming) and it still didnt click that i was dreaming at the point.

Haha I've had a lot worse than that. I had a dream where I was telling my friend all about lucid dreaming and what not. I even showed her what the reality checks were but they all failed in that dream.

I find that only doing RCs when something odd happens is to few and far between for me. I was reading ETWOLD last night and after looking at Laberge's state testing method, I think I have found my own personally fool proof RC.

I am going to read something twice everytime I enter a new room(street signs for driving and walking). I think this will work great for me, since Im a student and I go from room to room all day long. Also in dreams you always change scenery. Doing RCs only when something weird happens is too unreliable for me, because I rarely find things odd.

IMO the best way to maximise your chance of a lucid dream is the practice of recalling your dreams immediately upon waking each morning and then continuing the story for a few minutes in your head as though you are still dreaming. When you do this you find your dreams become longer, more vivid and more real and eventually you have such clarity of mind you naturally become lucid. That's how I had my first completely incidental lucid dream. RCs work well in conjunction with this technique along with journaling.

with the experience above, i can usually pull that off. As in, thinking of possabilities then the dream continues with whatever i am thinking BUT it has never turned into a lucid dream sadly...

Hi.

I can snap my fingers. Sometimes I like to imagine that for every time I snap my fingers, a small flame appears upon my fingers immediately after the snap. I understand that in dreams anything is possible...

...Would it be considered a reasonable reality check to do the aforementioned action?

Originally Posted by LucidM!nds

Hi.

I can snap my fingers. Sometimes I like to imagine that for every time I snap my fingers, a small flame appears upon my fingers immediately after the snap. I understand that in dreams anything is possible...

...Would it be considered a reasonable reality check to do the aforementioned action?

Wow! Thats a really exciting reality check... I'm going to start doing that to mix it up a little. That would be so cool if it happened.

i've been really confused about RC's, when I joined the forum I was all about making them habitual which never really trigger any lucids but make me think damn alot about ld's which I belive increased my recall, I would wake up and instantly think about LD's and what I should do to get closer to having one. In short I think it help my motivation.
I also think this became incorporated into my dreams as my first lucid was trigger by me having a conversation about LD's and demonstrating that light switches dosen't work in dreams.
Now I don't do them unless somthing wierd happens because I heard that's the way to go, but I just don't know whats the best method.