Thread: Becoming Lucid WITHOUT using reality checks

The subconscious effect which becomes engrained by the process of consciously doing reality checks is more important than the checks themselves. Merely the act of checking if you are in a dream. You don't need a reality check in the common understanding of the word because you simply know you are awake when you are awake, so if your less than certain - you are dreaming. Either that or put the drink down. Reality checks in my opinion only really come into the equation, that's after once you've experienced lucidity a few times before, is in sleep paralysis or WILD. You want to be able to check your progress in sleep paralysis to see if you have transitioned to the dream body. Preferrably one without moving, unless you break the sleep paralysis state. Depending on the intensity of detail you might need a reality check, because sometimes it is so real in a WILD that you believe that you are simply walking around. Experience pretty much negates the need, but they can only help I think, even if you don't physically do anything.

Sometimes I find that I need to start off certain senses. Often I can see and hear, but touch is gone, or sound is not there. So I sort of have to do certain checks to make sure i'm properly aware. Not so much to see if I am lucid though, just to check the extent to which I am.