Thread: RC help

Tons of odd things happen in waking life. Look for them:

If you are late, or fear being late.
If you see a friend/neighbor at an odd place (Wal-Mart, your workplace).
If someone says something random.
If someone talks about dreams.
If technology malfunctions (even if you missed a button on the microwave, or a webpage lags oddly).
If you keep hitting red lights while driving.
If you forget something, and suddenly remember (false memories are often created in dreams).
If you feel any emotion irrationally or strongly (stub a toe on a chair, but yell at your spouse).

I bet at least one of these semi-odd things happen in your life each day (reality check alongside them). If not, congratulations: you have a congruent, sensical, boring life.

this may also help:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=62589

First of all may i say thanks everyone for all of these replies. All of them helped me realize what i needed to do. Also, thank you Abra for that list, that REALLY helped me understand what to look for.

Thanks again everyone!!

Originally Posted by Abra

Tons of odd things happen in waking life. Look for them:

If you are late, or fear being late.
If you see a friend/neighbor at an odd place (Wal-Mart, your workplace).
If someone says something random.
If someone talks about dreams.
If technology malfunctions (even if you missed a button on the microwave, or a webpage lags oddly).
If you keep hitting red lights while driving.
If you forget something, and suddenly remember (false memories are often created in dreams).
If you feel any emotion irrationally or strongly (stub a toe on a chair, but yell at your spouse).

I bet at least one of these semi-odd things happen in your life each day (reality check alongside them). If not, congratulations: you have a congruent, sensical, boring life.

What if you just flow through with your dream and you are not vivid enough to pick these things?

thats true, hmm...i guess when you check for them so much in waking life, you start to see them in dreams more, but i really don't know.

Slightly off topic but, from time to time when I'm doing things or not really thinking of anything in waking life, I can recall dreams Ive had years ago, the feeling I had when I was in it, its surroundings, what happend and so on. I dont deliberately do it but it just kind of flows in to my conciousness (spelling?) Its weird, I have even recorded dreams from the night before when Im just about to go to sleep.

Had a weird one about trying to hide a dead horse in a dug out driveway :S the horse was kidding on for some reason too! All the while I didnt twig I was dreaming lol

damn dude, thats pretty freaking weird.

Originally Posted by DreamChaser

What if you just flow through with your dream and you are not vivid enough to pick these things?

That's why you try to get in the habit of doing reality checks when these things happen in waking life. Then you will hopefully just do a RC without thinking about it in the dream.

Since I've been doing reality checks, I get random impulses to do them while I'm awake. I've gotten the same impulses to do them in dreams too. I don't do RCs nearly as often as I should. Maybe 3 a week. But I've gotten 2 lucid dreams from reality checks even with my lame RC practice.