Quote Originally Posted by spockman View Post
If there is no reason to do an RC other than you haven't done one in a few minutes, there is no reason why the RC will seem very important in the dream. ....

Many of your habits in the real world don't translate into the dream world. Especially the habits that require rational thought. ...

The whole nature of dream control is to find ways to go against the flow of the dream. Likewise, the nature of lucid induction is to break this 'just run with it' mind-set so that you can get into your conscious train of thought. just arbitrarily doing RCs does nothing to change how you think or even what you think about, so the common application of reality checks is not conducive to the root goal of lucid induction.
great, thanks for bringing this up. there have been many times i've become lucid without using any sort of RC - i just knew i was dreaming and like you said, i ceased that kind of passive mindset. this shift was brought about more as a result of making it a habit to question my surroundings and my awake/asleep state, rather than habitually going through the RC motions.

i definitely agree with you that disrupting the 'just run with it' mindset is the main idea behind all of this. the internal check is just as important if not more so than the external check - i think it translates better into your dreams.