Thread: I missed my reality check!

lol you should have looked back a few more times, no RC can work every time, so it is just normal.

No reason to beat yourself over it. My hand RC in my first LD didn't work but I just realized that I was dreaming, so, ya, it'll work, gotta give it sometime

I had to figure out reality checks that work for me. Twice, I've tried pushing my finger through my palm, and twice, it failed. Unfortunately, I can never remember to do more than one when dreaming (even though I have always, always done 3 or more when I learned about reality checks), so I had to come up with something that would work the first time.

Since I've been keeping my dream journal, I've noticed that whether I'm lucid or not, I can morph things in my dreams (change the appearance somehow).

So, that's my new test when I figure I might be dreaming. Can I stare at something and morph it?

I've also heard somewhere that analog watches - for whatever reason - tend to work properly in dreams. It's digital watches that "malfunction."

Hmm. Know what I think? In my opinion, if you're going to realise it's a dream, you will.
Otherwise, you're just dreaming that you did a reality check. I hardly ever gain the awareness to perform a reality check. Ya know what I mean?

So effectively, you dreamed that you did an RC which didn't work.
In reality, you would have realised that the scenario was completely weird, so I think, most of the time, you either know it's a dream or you don't.

In this case, you were just never meant to realise it was a dream.

Well I will continue to do my unreality checks and see if I can bring them into my sleep.
On a side note since I have started trying to actively become lucid by checking throughout the day I have been having wicked nightmares, a couple times a week. Not terrifying but I sure get the creeps thinking about them during the day.

I drowned once in a wooden ball....like an old bathysphere (submarine) but it had no controls.

And my sand spreader was clogged with body parts (chopped up faces)

If anything I'm a little more motivated to get lucid so I can stop these things when they happen.

Peterdreaming

The problem I'm having, is I pinch my nose and can't figure out wether I'm breathing or not because I have a snuffed nose in Real Life. Then I wake up and kick myself for not realizing I could indeed breath.