RCs too much for sleeping mind?

Every time I have become lucid it has happened when I've already had a fairly strong suspicion that I'm lucid and the only role the RC plays is to confirm I'm lucid; I've never become lucid from randomly doing an RC (even though I've been doing them all day when awake).

I was wondering the task of doing an RC is too much to expect from the sleeping mind. Would it be better if you did a kind of "mutual RC" where you and another person in a dream RC each other - eg, nose pinch each other?

I'm thinking you would be more likely to do this mutual RC because you are seeing people all the time in dreams and this would act as a better trigger.

Along similar lines, I've noticed from many dreams that I am rarely aware of my own body. Before I start to use affirmations such as, "I'll RC in a dream and become lucid" would it be a good idea to use an affirmation such as, "I'll be aware of my own body" and once I develop this awareness in dreams I can move on to the next stage and use affirmations that condition me to do normal RCs?

I always become lucid by means of what you might call an 'awareness epiphany'. I just use RCs to confirm this, too.

I'd go about mutual RCing by examining (but not too closely :P) the people you're around in RL, and whenever you come across a stranger or someone you don't usually see, do an RC.

If you can't really seem to see where your body is, that's probably a clarity problem, not something you can correct in waking life except by eating choccy/bananas/greentea/whatever they're suggesting now. Just stabilize in-dream. And yes, for some people RCs are just like that, in which case I reccommend not doing them! Just every once in a while think "is this a dream?" and then "how do I know that?"

Normally, by the time I reality check, I'm already lucid. It just helps give me a minute to stabilize the dream and come to terms with things.

I believe that once you do reality checks in a certain pattern it may occur in your dream which is when you have the chance to do a RC and become lucid. It takes some practice though, I'm still working at it.