Quote Originally Posted by fogelbise View Post
I would suggest to have the mindset that it will show that you are dreaming, both when practicing during the day and especially in a dream. If you assume that you are awake when doing RCs while awake, you are much more likely to assume that you are awake and rationalize away any RC that shows that you are dreaming during a dream. Try the mindset that "any moment could be a dream." After all, most people never suspect all of the crazy things that happen in dreamland…they are dreaming and completely unaware that they dreaming…so why can't you be dreaming right this moment (RC RC).

If you are already doing this, then we just need to raise awareness.
I do my RCs somewhat like that, with a neutral mindset and without any (intensional) assumption regarding the outcome. Although when doing multiple RCs (I usually look around and trying to explain where I am, what I am doing and why and after that I do a RC) it is hard to not already have a clue whether I am dreaming or not at the time I do the RC. But I try to suppress that clue until I have a real outcome.




Last night was a fantastic night for me
I had a very vivid and emotional dream after which I woke up and another very long and vivid dream.
Furthermore, I had the lucidest dream I have ever had yet. I was at a table outside a restaurant with my mother. Before we wanted to leave and take to the tram, I realized that we were moving despite not having left the table. I asked her why and she was unable to answer, so I looked at my hand and saw that I had odd-looking fingers and that there were too many of them. Being pretty aware now, I recalled that in this dream, I was able to do anything I want. Therefore, I try to stick my finger through my nose, which I can’t. I try to walk through the window of the tram we are inside now which I can’t. I remember what I wanted to do with my finger and my nose and plugged my nose to do something that is guaranteed to work within a dream. It was a weird feeling to breathe through my fingers, I was able to clearly feel my breath and remember that my waking body was lying in my bed. I looked around, people were staring at me because I was still standing on a seat in front of a window. I thought about what time and date it was and something wrong popped into my mind, which I realized but I also realized that it could be any time I want it to be. I wake up.

There wasn’t any sign that the dream was about to end, it just happened in an instant. Maybe a thought too much about the real world…
I did remind myself that I could do anything I want in a dream and tried it out but then forgot to do the other pegs I have. Probably because I did not often enough remind myself about my peg list IWL.