If you spin around a lot and you don't get dizzy, you're probably in a dream. |
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Checking your watch, looking at both hands, holding your breath.... if I wanted to do a reality check to test the reality of the situation I'm in, it would have to be glaringly obvious to test reality or have to be something that would benefit me in some way. |
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not entirely true. i've been surprised when i realized i was dreaming because the dream i was having prior to becomng lucid, sometimes is something normal like waking up in the morning, or driving somewhere. |
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Last edited by lucidspark64; 04-23-2009 at 05:02 PM.
The point of doing reality checks is so that they become a habit, and if the habit carries on to a dream, you get a DILD. |
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Different things work for different people which basically means, no "good" RC, and yes you have to make RC an habit for it to work, and generally question reality along with the RC for it to be mroe effective. |
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I dont have a really "set" reality check. and I use a lot of weird ones that Ive never read about. When Im dreaming I dont really stop and think about what I read on Dreamviews. |
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Shoot yourself in the head with a 9mm. if you live, you're dreaming. |
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I think I might be alone in this, but I don't RC outside of dreams. Sure, I've done the one and only RC I use, once or twice, IWL, but I never made a habit of it. Hell, I don't even RC after waking up, unless I think I'm dreaming. The RC is just confirmation. |
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try drag your finger if your finger expands then your understand that you are dreaming and you become lucid |
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IF YOU COMBINE YOUR WAKING RATIONAL ABILITIES WITH YOUR INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF YOUR DREAMS YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING...
Just click on the evil grins in my signature. It's really not difficult. You'll look like an even bigger idiot for not putting in some incredibly simple effort and learning to lucid dream on a lucid dreaming website where thousands of people vouch for the effectiveness of it. The fact that you're thinking about this and dream yoga means you understand that it's legit. So just do some RCs, and you'll be LDing in no time. |
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Last edited by Shift; 04-29-2009 at 03:44 AM.
The hard part for me is knowing when to reality check in a dream. The only time when I question myself if I’m dreaming is when something unusual happens. I say to myself, what a minute am I dreaming? Then I do a reality check to make sure that I am dreaming. It is a simple reality check that I do, and it works every time I do it in a dream. I do the jump technique and I fill myself go up about 10 feet in the air and then slowly float back down to the ground then I know for sure that I am dreaming. |
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I use the checking hands method mainly. |
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Plug your nose and try to breathe. If you can then you're dreaming. |
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lol it's not about breathing through your mouth....just hold on to your nose and blow....normally your ears will pop or something...in a dream you just blow. You can have your mouth wide open and still do the RC. You just need to make sure you blow like you're clearing the pressure in your head. |
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Last edited by Akono; 05-01-2009 at 11:12 PM.
I think it looks weird to try and plug your nose in public, or any of the other reality checks such as spinning or jumping....so you may have to save those for more private times. |
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This is what I've been doing the last couple months. I don't really like the finger through the palm one even though it's given me my best lucid. I can still RC with the nose in bed and not wake up like I would with the palm and finger. |
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Last edited by Tweek; 05-04-2009 at 08:55 AM.
Every single time I find the plugging your nose and trying to breathe is the most efficient. I've heard your breathing in LDs corresponds with your real body's breathing, so its a pretty surefire test. |
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I use my watch as a reality check. It's digital and if I'm in a dream the face rarely shows actual numbers, and the one time there were numbers it was something like 38:23. |
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