Thread: Failed reality check!

The only RC that I have done in a dream that was a success was with my watch. I glanced at it, as I do hundreds of times every day, and it looked normal, then I looked at it again for some reason, and the numbers were all messed up, and I thought that I might be dreaming, so I tried to make the watch display what I wanted, and it did. I became lucid! I have never tried the nose or hand-though hand RCs. However, before and after I WILD, and whenever I wake up, I do those two plus the watch RC. That's how I did the watch RC. I WILDed, got to SP, and fell asleep. Then I was in bed, so I did an RC, thinking I woke up, and that's how I became lucid. So now I will hopefully catch FAs, but I only have them when I try to WILD.
-FreakyDreamer

Really? People still wear watches?!?
Trying to read usually works for me. Usually unable to read much at all, much less to have it be repeatable.
I had a dream a couple years ago that was very unusual for me. In almost half of my dreams I know, to some degree, that I am dreaming but the dreams are still kind of scattered. But this one dream was super stable, and I totally knew I was in a LD (or OBE?). Things were stable and repeatable and I couldn't change things. Super real. I picked a fiber from a sisal or hemp rope and put it in my mouth and could feel the texture as I gnashed it between my front teeth, feel it slowly soften. I left a part of a room (separated by a drop cloth) and returned to find everything exactly as it was. There was a large (chest high) object I knew to be a pump. It had a domed top painted green. I spread my arms around it and concentrated on it and tried to change its paint color to red. But it stubbornly refused until after a prolonged attempt I got it to flicker red for a flash but otherwise everything was rock steady, unchangeable, testable, IRL-like down to the minute detail. Smell, taste, dust etc. And I was totally clear-headed, probably the only reason I knew it wasn't IRL.

Twice in a row now, my reality checks have failed. They weren't properly done, but I did look at my hands (no change) and briefly consider my situation. Unfortunately they all made reasonable sense.

It's been a reminder to sharpen up on my RCing. Also interesting is how reality checking seems to bring the entire dream world into extreme clarity.

Originally Posted by Skicanoe

Really? People still wear watches?!?

A watch is a wonderful Lucid Dreaming tool.

In my opinion, there isn't anything cooler than being able to wear a small device on my wrist, that not only tells me the time of day, but also the reality in which I'm currently immersed.

So, as a Lucid Dreamer, I'll be wearing mine until my final day.