Thread: Funny or strange reality checks

Originally Posted by AscendedSleeper

One time when I just got lucid my first thought was for some reason to head-bang a wall as hard as I possibly could (as a form of reality check). I guess it works, because if I am still conscious after several hits I am definitely dreaming. It hurt a lot, and made me so disoriented that I almost threw up (in the dream).

I recommend against slamming your head deliberately into hard objects either in dreams or waking life.

This is exactly what I did in my first lucid dream. As soon as I realised I was dreaming I started to jump head-first into a wall again and again until I woke up. I still don't know why I did that.

A little while ago, when I had just learned about lucid dreaming, I had another lucid dream for the first time in many years. I wanted to make sure I was really dreaming, so I decided to try to do the only thing you can do when you're sleeping: waking up.
That has got to be the most stupid way I wasted a lucid dream.