Switching my reality check technique, bad?

I've used one, and one reality check only for the past two years.
Pinching my nose and breathing through it.

I've got my only lucid dream thanks to this reality check.
However. I have a problem.
Thanks to my allergies <___ < I get a runny nose during summer, so doing my reality check is something I really really hate / can't do.

I've been thinking about changing it to another reality check (Open for suggestions :) I was thinking about looking at my hands, maybe counting the fingers or something, while asking myself wheter i'm dreaming).

Will changing my Reality Check reset all the work i've put into reality checking?
Can one reality check style be clearly better than the other one?

Sorry if this post is confusing. its 4 am :shock:

Thanks in advance! I'll try to finally get some sleep.
I'll read the possible replies first thing in the morning :bowdown:


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http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...31#post1057431

A guide and some reality checks.

I've been using my watch more. It seems to be pretty reliable so far. I've only used it in a dream a couple of times now. But each time it worked pretty well. The dream watch does some pretty weird shit, it's cool. :)

i think changing RC would reset all your work, but maybe a change is good, looking at your hands is easy and (for me anyway) has a greater impact in my head therefore better success rate for becoming lucid

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Originally Posted by slash112

i think changing RC would reset all your work, but maybe a change is good, looking at your hands is easy and (for me anyway) has a greater impact in my head therefore better success rate for becoming lucid

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yeah I thought it might do that.
I've been thinking about switching my rc for quite a while anyway, since I've really been too embarassed to do the nose rc in public. Looking at your hands doesnt seem as weird ;3

Thanks for a honest answer :)

I've been using the watch check, I even tried it in an LD to prove that it would work and yes it does, the numbers were rather silly!

edit: 100,000th post yay

i think the finger through the hand method is the way to go. it's discreet, effective, and just plain fun!

Personally I like to use a variety of reality checks. Looking at your hand is nice and discreet, but I've found that it doesn't always make me lucid. However, usually it confuses me enough when I count six fingers multiple times that I just give up and do a nose RC, then become lucid. Overall I'd say the nose RC gives me the highest chance of becoming lucid, followed by the watch RC and then the hand RC, but it probably varies from person to person.

I don't think changing your RC will "reset" the work you have done. Most RCs work pretty much the same way. As long as you remember to do RCs (which you've already trained yourself to do, I'm assuming) during the day, you'll be more likely to do them while you're dreaming. It's remembering to ask yourself if you're dreaming when something weird happens that's important, not what you do to check whether or not you're dreaming.