Thread: I am unable to reality check due to the nature of my dream

I think I don’t do reality checks because I dream as if I’m a presence rather than a person. I dream in 3rd and 2nd person mostly, so how am I supposed to remember to look at my hands or see if I’m breathing right, if I don’t consciously think about it because I have no body? It's always like I'm viewing my dream from somewhere else.

I'm really trying to make a habit of doing RC's. I do them at least 20 times a day, and it's getting easier to remember to do them. Are there any better reality checks to do, besides the:

1) hold your breathe
2) look at your hands
3) close one eye and look for your nose
4) look at the time
5) read something


I'm determined to go lucid, but I need to be able to do reality checks in my dreams first. WILD is out of the question based on my sleeping schedule.

I do not reality check because my dreams are too immersive. I don't care and love my dreams. They give me a new adventure every time. You'd be suprised and how awesome they can be. Plus to a extent sometimes I forget im even dreaming. I love the world too much to not join in the action.

So do you not try to LD then? The world and mind work in mysterious ways. When you try too hard at something you often fail, but when you finally give up and learn to take things easy then the good times come.

I find that when I give up on LDing then I tend to have one or two (yet uncontrolled), which spikes my interest to try to LD again, of which I can't and then it cycles!

My dreams are awesome, but I wish I could remember more about the details within them and be able to interact more. I know my dreams rock, but the moment I wake up I forget most of it. In fact, I usually don't even remember my dreams after I wake up, but throughout the next few hours remember bits and pieces. So it's not like I have to remember it fast or I'll forget, it's more like trying to remember what happened, which gets better over time.

But the details are long lost.

Originally Posted by nobodycares

I think I don’t do reality checks because I dream as if I’m a presence rather than a person. I dream in 3rd and 2nd person mostly, so how am I supposed to remember to look at my hands or see if I’m breathing right, if I don’t consciously think about it because I have no body? It's always like I'm viewing my dream from somewhere else.

I think you are missing the obvious. Trying to look at your hands as a reality check, serves it's purpose if the result is anything different than what you would see while awake. If you have no hands in your dreams, then during your reality check you can easily say "aha, no hands, must be a dream".

The usefulness of having reality checks in the first place, is to get you to start thinking consciously instead of losing yourself in the flow of the dream.

Originally Posted by starry eyes

I think you are missing the obvious. Trying to look at your hands as a reality check, serves it's purpose if the result is anything different than what you would see while awake. If you have no hands in your dreams, then during your reality check you can easily say "aha, no hands, must be a dream".

The usefulness of having reality checks in the first place, is to get you to start thinking consciously instead of losing yourself in the flow of the dream.

Yeah, and also, if you often view yourself in dreams rather than being yourself, that can become your own personal dreamsign. It might be hard but train yourself to realise that if your in 2nd or 3rd person, you are dreaming.