Thread: to find out if your dreaming.....bite your finger

when i dont know im dreaming when im thinking of it when im in a dream i nite my finger. if your dreaming it will feel like your biting sponge aka not really there.

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It may feel like biting a sponge to you, but I have a feeling that if I tried that it would feel quite real and I would wake up.

My first lucid dream was last night and its been a little over a month since first learning about lucid dreaming, and the reality check I used was plugging my nose and trying to breathe. I remember at first breathing then thinking to myself "Does this mean I'm asleep? Should I be able to breathe through my nose when it's plugged? Hmm... oh! No! Of course not! I must be dreaming!"

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It seems to me that this isn't really a very effective reality check for one reason: biting one's finger while awake isn't exactly a...simple or...positive action, so to speak, heh.

For example, I use the "finger through the palm" RC because it's simple and I can do it anywhere, whether there is anyone around or not and no matter what I'm doing where as biting my finger...well, that would look odd, feel odd and I really don't like biting myself, heheh.

Reality checks are meant as a habit, as I see it, to bring them from the waking state into the dream state and thus they need to be done in both states, which is the reasoning behind the above statements.

I tried biting my finger a few nights ago in a lucid dream. I don't know if it would be an effective RC... it felt strange. It kind of hurt a little bit, but it did feel spongy. I agree that it would be a bit weird doing is habitually.

Haha buit if you weren't dreaming it would hurt like hell! I stick to the standard ones

Yeah, So weird, I saw the RC 'Pinch yourself' NOWHERE. =)

as in: 'pinch me, I am dreaming' ^____^

*shrug* I have the nosepinch, I use it all the time and it never ever failed me before.

eh i just jump out of a window or trying jumping off of something, in real life I wouldnt and if i even attempt to do it, then i know im dreaming.

You're not supposed to try to make it *hurt* when you bite your finger! Sheesh, buncha masochists...

Originally posted by Callista
You're not supposed to try to make it *hurt* when you bite your finger! Sheesh, buncha masochists...

Damn then I bought that whip to do RC's all for nothing!

lolol j/k.

I did it, " it was all just like biting a sponge lol"
I used as a RC i was lying in my bed and i was hearing wear noises and i did a rc and it trigged a ld