RC Passing

[Turkeh]

I haven’t been around for a bit because I really need to get on with doing work on my dissertation and coursework (right moan over) but I have been managing to keep up with my lucid dreaming. However some strange stuff has been going on, my dreams now are very vivid but as a consequence things that used to work now don’t. I’ve found that my finger though hand RC no longer works at all. At first I thought it was just messing up but last night I tried putting it through the floor as well as my hand and neither worked. I assume this is because 1) I have an accurate model in my mind for what should happen when I do a hand RC 2) The reality of my dreams leads me on a subconscious level to totally believe it is not possible to phase objects through one another. 3) Reality checking using this method in situations where I am not dreaming has made me believe that it will pass all the time when I think things are real. 4) Im actulay just messing things up and even though its happened a lot im just not taking enough notice :-) The only thing I’ve managed to find that works so far is standing up and falling over then seeing if I fall as fast and it hurts as much as I think it should. Suffice to say this is a bad reality check and I only did it to make absolutely certain I was dreaming before doing something life threatening. I’ve heard posts mention the passing of RC’s from time to time and I just wonder if people who find they become unreliable give up using them all together or just adopt different ones?

[nightowl]

if i were you..i would just get another one...but thats just my opinion

[Turkeh]

Im thinking the nose one. The falling one actulay proved itself to be fairly usefull last night as I fell off somthing and thought hang on im not falling fast enough but it wasent enough to induce a decent level of lucidity just stoped me being realy scared :-/ Cheers for the input anyways :-)

[Zaphod]

I'd definitely suggest changing to the "breathing through pinched nose" one. I've tried many others (including the finger through the palm) and the only one that has worked 100% of the time has been the nose one. That is all I ever use now. Good luck