Thread: Do your Reality Checks PASS, even when dreaming!?

Try the one where you close your nose and try to breath through it. It has never failed for me unlike many other reality checks.

Originally posted by hate
Try the one where you close your nose and try to breath through it. It has never failed for me unlike many other reality checks.

Yeah that's the best one it never fails!! I love that one and it's a great feeling when you breathe through the closed nose.

Originally posted by bassaddict
F However 2 nights ago I tried pushing my fingers through a window and it bounced off as you'd expect in real life

After a few months that one started failing for me even though I used it as a test in my first ever LD

Originally posted by hate
Try the one where you close your nose and try to breath through it. It has never failed for me unlike many other reality checks.

How does that one work? Do you pinch your nose with your fingers in the dream and continue to breathe? Or just try squeezing your nostrils shut by itself?

Either way, sounds like one i should try

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Try the one where you close your nose and try to breath through it. It has never failed for me unlike many other reality checks.

How does that one work? Do you pinch your nose with your fingers in the dream and continue to breathe?[/b]

Exactly. I think the trick is that your mind can't cheat you, because in real life your nose is still open and you can breath free. It has never failed for me.

I don't think it works like that. Your assuming you breath at the same rate inside the dream as your body is outside the dream. I think they are separate though. I kind of doubt you can effect your breathing while inside a dream. If it did talking or running around would wake you up because it changes your breathing.

If your right however, maybe thats why lucid dreams can be unstable. Your breathing to much and waking your body up.

RCs dont always work that well for everybody. Regular RCs dont work at all for me. The best kind of "RC" is simple general awareness. Your environment can easily tell you if you are dreaming. Doing an "RC" could be to ask you who you are, what you are doing right now and why exactly, where you are..what dayit is..does that make sense, is your environment making sense with what you have been doing in the near past? Stuff like that. That might seem like a lot but you can put it as 'general awareness' which is more of a feeling then literally going about asking all those questions. it takes abit more practice but its effective. to me it is at least ^_^