Thread: I forgot to do a reality check yesterday, will that lower my chances?

You should be fine. missing one day isn't tooooo bad.

Just RCs is actually a pretty bad way to lucid, I hope you are tagging some more on there as well. It is a good thing, but doesn't produce great results if it is alone. If you need some help, just PM me. There are lots of good techniques out there that I can point you to.

Best to do several per day - I do every 90 minutes - and do a series of 2 or 3 each time. I count my fingers, plug my nose, and ask myself, how did I get here?

I used to do just one check sometimes but then I found myself doing one in the dream and the result was sometimes realistic or was explained away somehow. I missed several chances at becoming lucid because of that!

Don't worry, it's just one day. I had days where i missed my lucid schedule for one reason or another and it did not affected anything in long term as far as i know.

Yeah don't worry about it at all. The important thing is you stay in the lucid mindset. If you have trouble remembering to RC, you can wear a rubber band or bracelet on your wrist, and everytime you see or feel or notice it, you can RC. Good luck!

Thanks everyone!

Messing up for one day isn't going to ruin your chances forever. Just try to get in the habit of remembering to do it. It might help to have some kind of alarm that goes off every hour or so to remind you to do RCs. If you have an iPhone/iPod Touch, there's a specific app for it called Lucidity. Also, as others have said, make sure you are trying other methods in combination with doing RCs. Hope that helps!