Reality Checks: You're Doing it Wrong

[Kyhaar]

2. If this check succeeds, I’m awake. If it fails, I’m asleep. This thought may seem to be implied, but trust me. Without clearly defining your dream goals you can easily forget why you are pinching your nose in the middle of a dream. Not considering FAs as being the same dream, becoming distracted is the number one cause of losing lucidity during a lucid, so you have to tell yourself how important the RC is, and how the results should be interpreted, before you do it! So true. I remember this dream in which I did a RC but ended up just showing all the other DC"s how I could pinch my nose and still breathe through it. They thought it was pretty sweet.

[CanceledCzech]

Dude, I woke up this morning without any lucids and knowing that something about my RCing was off, this is totally the reason why.

[Denny22]

I never do RCs through my day but rather do them when and if I feel out of place in a dream. I don't get DILDs often but when I feel something is out of place I try the nose plug RC always followed by checking my hands. So far it has worked but I'd never rely on it. If you do it through your day wouldn't you expect to fail the RC in a dream?

[spockman]

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. I fully agree. thanks! I never rlly thot about it that way but it makes a lot of sense! I hoped that it would. Yea I tried to stress this in the RC tutorial. Yeah, I recently read through your RC tutorial again- and I noticed. (: So true. I remember this dream in which I did a RC but ended up just showing all the other DC"s how I could pinch my nose and still breathe through it. They thought it was pretty sweet. Hehehe. Yeah, that's a major issue. Dude, I woke up this morning without any lucids and knowing that something about my RCing was off, this is totally the reason why. I hope that this works for you, then. I never do RCs through my day but rather do them when and if I feel out of place in a dream. I don't get DILDs often but when I feel something is out of place I try the nose plug RC always followed by checking my hands. So far it has worked but I'd never rely on it. If you do it through your day wouldn't you expect to fail the RC in a dream? Only if you fully expect to fail the RC in RL. I mean, if you are just going through the motions during your RCs and knowing that you will fail them- then you are right. It will likely fizzle due to your own expectations. But if you are legitimately questioning your surroundings and being oservant, then just because your RL RCs fail to proove that you are dreaming- you won't shrug them off during your dream.