Thread: Reality Checks

Wow Shift, even though it WAS a lot of text that was a really good explanation though. I never realized that upon doing RC's I would often just perform them real quick and go on with life.

Valuable info, thanks!

Ya, I was going to give some advice but all the RCs I do are basically included in there. But ya it's true that they can fail alot and I've had more success with nose-pinch myself too. I'll have to read through Shift's and deep-sleeps for some extra advice myself even though I know alot of it will always help so thanks for that.

I always perform a bunch at once so if it messes up I'll do a secondary or third one all in sequence and generally atleast one of them will wake me up even if others fail.

I hope this hasnt been suggested in another forum. (Or even stated somewhere in a site tutorial). In my real-life reality checks, I've started working my way through the entire thought process.

I'll look at some text and say to myself "This says (blah blah) I'm going to look away for a second, and if the text has changed when I look back, I'm dreaming". When I look back at the text I'll say "This still says (blah balh), but if it said anythign else, I'd be dreaming"

I'm going to start doing the same thought process for all the great reality checks that deepsleep provided.

I've only had 1 LD so far that I needed a reality check for. First I tried pushing my fingers through my other hand, but it didn't work, I think because I always planned on using that one, and I do it in real life sometimes. But when I looked at my hands it wasnt so much that there was extra fingers, they just look blurry and distorted. My question is why does this happen? I mean I look at my hands all the time, so shouldn't the brain know what they look like? I guess it has something to do with conditioning?