Thread: How do YOU check reality

My usual RC is the nose pinch, but I generally try to focus more on awareness. I try to 'feel' the environment to see if I get a "this feels like a dream" vibe.

A good one if you wake from a dream is counting your fingers without looking.
I've caught a fair number of false awakenings that way.

Otherwise I usually keep a scribble of the letters RC somewhere close.

I always go for the palm check. I also observe my surroundings, but sometimes I forget to in my dreams and I don't become lucid. Last night it happened, checked my hands and they were fine.

the rc thats given me the most successfully lds is one ive never seen listed any where. what i do is i pause, take in my surroundings or more whats directly in front of me and then look away for a moment then look back, i normally do this a couple of times. if its a dream then almost always when i look back the entire dream scene will have changed. sometimes there are only mild changes on the first glance but by about the third check things would of changed enough for me to realize im dreaming

I generally don't have a set pattern to my reality checks. I follow the 'reality check if you feel weird or see something out of the ordinary' method. If I see anything weird or out of the ordinary, or just feel kind of strange, I check the number of fingers I have, look at a clock, look away, then look back, and then genuinely question reality. Doing this everyday seems to help me get better recall and lucids. ^^

I use the look at the clock and nose pinch. but have only used the clock in a dream. Sometimes, I'll look at the clock and it will say something like 9:02, then I'll look away and look back and it will say 9:01.