Thread: Reality Test failed in a dream

As long as you know you're dreaming, it's a lucid dream. Try the nose pinch RC, just pinch your nose and try to breathe through it.

Thanks for the advice!, it seems a lot of people like the nose pinch RC. If you use more than one RC test during the day, can that muck things up? Is it
best to stay with one?

It's actually better to do more than one each time you remember to RC, since in a dream, especially yours up there, one can fail. The nose pinch one hardly ever fails since in a dream, your body asleep in bed is still breathing.

Thanks again for the tip, I will also try that one.

Look at your hands that's my favorite,it for me seems to be the most effective. You'll notice there's gonna more/less than 5 fingers and its gonna be very deformed. It's not as scary as you think, first time I did that one in a dream I was like that's really not that weird. Of all the weird things that happen in your dreams deformitys don't really matter to you. Strange huh. I recommend doing this one because the Breathing one sometimes fails or you don't register it properly, I don't even notice im breathing in dreams.

As lucid invader said look at your hands for mine they are'nt deforemed but I try and stretch them out and the go all blurry and out of focus, another one I like to use is the text reaility check, look at a piece of text and look back in a dream 9/10 times it changes. However as said before do not rely on one reality check because sometimes it acts as it does in reality when you are in the dream state, good luck

usually ld's are pretty unmistakable you'll know one if your having one. a burst of realization not by an evaluation when you wake up. The best for me is jumping since everytime i do it it feels im floating back in to my bed.
I have lots of dreams ABOUT ld but sometimes those will trigger the ld itself. goodluck to you.

happy dreaming

Originally Posted by gopolks

Thanks for the advice!, it seems a lot of people like the nose pinch RC. If you use more than one RC test during the day, can that muck things up? Is it
best to stay with one?

I guest the nose pinch RC is the favorite of many people (include me) because it seems to be the most reliable and easiest RC. You only need one hand and a nose to do this RC and it takes a second to know if you are dreaming, never fail. You can use many RC tests, but I think it's not necessary. I personally use only nose pinch RC and it's super effective!

I don't always get a burst of realization when I wake up is weird, In fact I had this one dream when I was little that was so vivid even when I woke up I thought it actually happened, Course I could have been hallucinating also because I did alot when I was way young. I thought I broke One of my fingers and I didn't remember that if I went to the hospital or not but I just accepted it as my reality. It came up in conversation once and they said it never happened which really was hard for me to accept. I still can't accept it didn't happen.
I don't think I've ever had a reality test fail.

Kind of off topic but...
I had this experience where I was in my room. I was really dizzy and everything felt strange. I knew I wasn't awake, it felt dreamish. But I felt rather unwell, a bit sick and fatigued. I looked at my analog clock twice, but the time wouldn't change. I did the finger RC but it was normal. I was greatly confused. The whole room looked blurry but realistic. Everything, even the finer details that I usually don't dream about, were there. Then I suddenly started moving towards my bed, slowly twisting to a laying position.

OBE? Who knows. Either way I don't recommend it ha.

I still wonder why Reality Checks actually fail during OBE-type dreams. Guess it proves that your supposed rationality and logic during OBE-type dreams are not that strict at all.

Nonetheless, I tried bending a spoon that I slept with last night, and I couldn't. I assumed I was still awake, but luckily my alarm (which beeps only four times), initiated a false awakening where I could then bend the spoon.

Originally Posted by Quark

I still wonder why Reality Checks actually fail during OBE-type dreams. Guess it proves that your supposed rationality and logic during OBE-type dreams are not that strict at all.

Nonetheless, I tried bending a spoon that I slept with last night, and I couldn't. I assumed I was still awake, but luckily my alarm (which beeps only four times), initiated a false awakening where I could then bend the spoon.

do you try the Nose pinch reality check? I think all OBEs arel LDs only.

Originally Posted by whitemagician91

do you try the Nose pinch reality check? I think all OBEs arel LDs only.

Yeah, I think the same.

Anyways, I have heard that RCs might not work while you are dreaming. I don't know the reason, but changing the RC or having multiple ones should help, I think.

Originally Posted by CyperAleksi

Yeah, I think the same.

Anyways, I have heard that RCs might not work while you are dreaming. I don't know the reason, but changing the RC or having multiple ones should help, I think.

for me, the Nose Pinch RC always work!

Originally Posted by whitemagician91

for me, the Nose Pinch RC always work!

Yeah, I guess you just have to find one that works out for you. I myself use digital clock.

Originally Posted by whitemagician91

do you try the Nose pinch reality check? I think all OBEs arel LDs only.

Originally Posted by CyperAleksi

Yeah, I think the same.

Anyways, I have heard that RCs might not work while you are dreaming. I don't know the reason, but changing the RC or having multiple ones should help, I think.

I only differentiate OBEs from Lucid Dreams by their mundaneness and stillness: If I wake up in my room with nothing spectacular occurring, and it feels difficult to alter the fundamental physics of my experience, then it's an OBE to me. If, however, I wake up and am overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of what I'm experiencing in a non-locally identifiable place, then it's an LD to me.

The nose pinch requires too much movement - If I'm wrong, then I've largely ruined my chances at inducing a W.I.L.D. I guess this isn't a problem if you tend to favour DILD.

No reality checks are 100% foolproof. As you said in your original post, by the time you perform the reality check, you normally already know you are dreaming.

Originally Posted by Quark

I only differentiate OBEs from Lucid Dreams by their mundaneness and stillness: If I wake up in my room with nothing spectacular occurring, and it feels difficult to alter the fundamental physics of my experience, then it's an OBE to me. If, however, I wake up and am overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of what I'm experiencing in a non-locally identifiable place, then it's an LD to me.

The nose pinch requires too much movement - If I'm wrong, then I've largely ruined my chances at inducing a W.I.L.D. I guess this isn't a problem if you tend to favour DILD.

right, I never succeed in WILD method. All my LDs are DILD so I like the nose pinch RC. However, I have a question. as in your OBEs, can I do st fancy or only walk around your house?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

No reality checks are 100% foolproof. As you said in your original post, by the time you perform the reality check, you normally already know you are dreaming.

People don't want to be lucid. People want to be conscious enough to be able to do things. That minor spark that gives you the urge to do an RC will fade if the RC doesn't work right. I once did an RC and counted 6 fingers and thought that 6 was the normal number and I continued dreaming normally.

Interestuing, Im waiting for the weekend to try, where my mind can relax.

Originally Posted by Loaf

P I once did an RC and counted 6 fingers and thought that 6 was the normal number and I continued dreaming normally.

very funny, lol