So the first reality check i have ever conducted in a dream did not make me lucid. An old friend that i had fallen out with was in my room, it was emotional, and i explained how they had been in dreams of late and i should check if i am dreaming now. so i tried to push my fingers through my other palm. fingers contacted palm.

My question (not doubting validity just want to improve my understanding). If you are genuinely conducting an RC in a dream then are you not lucid before you even conduct it? to want to check your reality means you have doubted the one you are in? so if it is just acting as confirmation then how do we promote or trigger the want to confirm through RC in the first place? any help would be splendid!

about 5 - 10 minutes later (upon this friend morphing into an ass-hole from an old job that i intensely dislike) i again consider i could be dreaming and this gave me the courage to stand up to him. ( i wont take you through the ensuing violence but his eyes were the hollow black of pure evil) but i was not lucid. kinda momentarily half lucid if that is even anything.

not at all disappointed this is all fresh activity for me and represents progress in the direction im aiming for.

word.