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      How can I do a Reality Check if...

      I'm never near anything that is similar to the standard reality checks. I have never, ever been in a familiar place in my dreams, ever, so using a place to reality check won't work. I don't see text or my hands. I don't turn on light switches or use electrical appliances. Will the whole reality check thing just not ever work for me?
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      You can't possibly say "...never, ever..." when you're talking about dreams. That sort of attitude will get you nowhere.

      Have you tried the nose RC? Honestly that's the only one I ever need to do.

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      Quote Originally Posted by kcat220 View Post
      I have never, ever been in a familiar place in my dreams, ever, so using a place to reality check won't work.
      Why don't you just do a RC whenever you're in an unfamiliar place?
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      i mean as a reality check.
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      I was just trying to say that my dreams are alwyas in some place my mind made up...sorry if it sounded like a defiant 3-year-old.
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      OK, yours is a special case. If you cannot recreate your dream signs while awake, recreate them by daydreaming.

      Take a few minutes, use your imagination to recreate the scenes as vividly as possible. Really try. When you have succeeded in recreating the scene, keep still with your eyes closed and imagine yourself doing a reality check. Then open your eyes and perform the reality check once more.
      you must be the change you wish to see in the world...
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      Seeker is right.
      Try this too. Hold your hands out front of you. Really look at them.
      Now close your eyes with them still held in front of you. Picture them still there.
      Open your eyes and see them. Close them and see them again in your imagination.
      Remember the feeling of holding your arms and hands up and seeing them with your eyes closed.
      If you can't feel the weight of your arms and hands move them up and down a little. Anything to feel them there.
      If you do this a few tmes a day it should help.
      Remember sometimes the slightest thing you see in the day, even the most insignificant can be the subject of your dreams.
      I am lucky, I am in front of a computer and use a Saltcube online timer to do a reality check every 30 mins.
      Last edited by DreamChaser; 11-08-2007 at 10:19 AM.
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      im sorry, I refuse to believe you NEVER have dreams in surroundings you know in real life.

      look, it probably would take some adjusting to...but maybe take a quick read at

      http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=34263

      it teaches just "general observation". If you are in some unfamiliar place...you will be able to work it out if you become an good observer as taught by that technique.

      Although, it is pretty intense if you are new to the lucid idea. Just thought it could help

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      I understand your frustrations, I typically am not in familiar surroundings either. In my dream, it's my house, but it's somewhere I've completely made up in my head--never seen it before or anything. Sometimes I come across clocks, but usually I ask someone or something what time it is - and they'll show me a clock or a watch and then I know I'm dreaming because I can't read it. Same with text - I'll try to find something to read an when I can't read it I know I'm dreaming. I never have any "fantasy" type dreams, with strange creatures or aliens or robots and I'm never anywhere other than at home or school (yea, still get the school dreams even though I've been done for 12 years..) or at work. There are always normal people doing normal things, so these reality checks come easy to me. I think you'll find something that works for you, it's just mind over matter.

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      Quote Originally Posted by acctgirl69 View Post
      I understand your frustrations, I typically am not in familiar surroundings either. In my dream, it's my house, but it's somewhere I've completely made up in my head--never seen it before or anything. Sometimes I come across clocks, but usually I ask someone or something what time it is - and they'll show me a clock or a watch and then I know I'm dreaming because I can't read it. Same with text - I'll try to find something to read an when I can't read it I know I'm dreaming. I never have any "fantasy" type dreams, with strange creatures or aliens or robots and I'm never anywhere other than at home or school (yea, still get the school dreams even though I've been done for 12 years..) or at work. There are always normal people doing normal things, so these reality checks come easy to me. I think you'll find something that works for you, it's just mind over matter.
      If anyone is the same as me, the dreams are hazy and you don't even think to manually interact or find a clock etc.
      Any other suggestions.
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      What do you do, when you dont want to forget what you are gonna buy in a shop? Repeat it in your head.

      Repeat in your head, that you will look on your hands, and you will. And believe me... If you do this in a dream. You will recognize, that you are dreaming.

      But... Give your SUBCONSC. time to process your request. It doesnt have to come the night when you start.

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