Thread: Reality Checking...

Yeah I thought about taking it up, deciding between that and Taekwondo. I hear Hapkido's better.

Here's something I just remembered... I think it's advice from one of the tutorials on here, I can't quite remember.

Do a RC and then in your head come up with a logical reason for why you are or are not dreaming.

So if you do a nose RC and you can breathe, but you still think it's RL, then come up with a reason why you think it's still RL. With any luck you will realize that you're dreaming!

I've been trying to do that, the problem is, I never notice strange occurrences until an hour after the occur! I'll see something weird, and then think up a rationalization for why it happened, instead of immediately doing an RC. About an hour after I'll think, "Doh! I should have RCd when so-and-so happened!" It's pretty hard. I'm working on it, but it's tough to remember. Of course, if I can't remember in real life I'll never remember to RC in my dreams, haha.

To Jamoca

I kind of have the problem as well, but trust me, once you get in the habit of doing a RC immediately it really increases the chances of becoming lucid, at least for me. I hope that you have as much success with it as I've had lately. Let me know how you progress.

Yes that's interesting... I've never considered before that our brains might be trying to not let us make the realization! .... If that's true, I wonder why! .... Oooh...

Mes Tarrant:

What do you do to get lucid? What's your technique of doing RC's in real life? Can you please be as specific as possible including what you are thinking while you are doing the RC?

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Yes that's interesting... I've never considered before that our brains might be trying to not let us make the realization! .... If that's true, I wonder why! .... Oooh...

Only guess is so that we don't mix up what happens in a dream with the RL

Originally Posted by hapkidoman

Mes Tarrant:

What do you do to get lucid? What's your technique of doing RC's in real life? Can you please be as specific as possible including what you are thinking while you are doing the RC?

I just do them randomly these days. I think about lucid dreaming often but don't really put effort into practicing it, and as a result I get random lucids every now and then. It's because RL is sort of getting in the way at the moment!

Originally Posted by BigFan

Only guess is so that we don't mix up what happens in a dream with the RL

Ahh... but see.. it's when we don't realize that we are dreaming that we are most likely to mix up dreams with RL, right?

i just do just NP and looking at my hand and counting the fingers and i have at least 1 LD per week. One last night too

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

Ahh... but see.. it's when we don't realize that we are dreaming that we are most likely to mix up dreams with RL, right?

Partially agree. If we don't remember our dreams, then we won't mix them up with RL. Recently, I've had cases where I thought I did something in RL but it wasn't the case and I was pretty confused to what has transpired. If you remember your dreams, then you can write them down in a journal but if you remember one, but, forget to write it down or forget it altogether, then you'll have the same problem as I mentioned before

1. Hapkido is much better

2. I think that is an excellent suggestion. I will definitely give that a try tonight as well. Hopefully I can break through the barrier of realizing that I am in a dream and then go on to trying to control my dreams.

I don't know why, but I keep getting the feeling that something doesn't want me to realize I'm dreaming. It's as if our brains are programmed to not let us realize, like it's not natural.

But, it's way too fun not to try.