Thread: How many Reality Checks do YOU do?

Originally Posted by shaun95

I only do 2-3 reality checks each day , i tend to work on my awareness more then do reality checks every 2 minutes.

that is funn that is my first task to

Whenever I try RC's in a dream, they always fail. I don't know why. I really do question reality when I do them, rather than just do them mechanically. But when I do them in dreams (which I do quite often anymore) they always tell me that I am awake. Even if I do them in lucid dreams.

Now my focus is more on questioning reality and trying to tell if I'm awake or dreaming without the aid of predesigned RC's. For example, I look around to see if anything is out of place, and ask myself what I was just doing and how I got here. I try to keep in mind constantly the idea that this could all be a dream, and then try to answer the question as best as I can. And I don't stop until the question is fully answered, even if it means closing my eyes as a last resort (which would wake me up or change the scene if I were dreaming). I realize these things are RC's in a way, but I don't focus on "doing a reality check" as much as on actually trying to see if I'm dreaming or not.

I have more lucid dreams if I can keep in mind the whole day that I may be in a dream at any time. I have begun to train my mind to think of a dream as the first explanation for something out of the ordinary, rather than the last. Even if I see an old friend, my first thought now is "I wonder if I'm dreaming" because 9 times out of 10 when I see an old friend I am dreaming.