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      Red face My Reality Check failed me!

      So this is the first time this is happened I think so should I get a new reality check?

      Basically I was in a dream and this meteor hit the earth, then I was like to everybody in the dream a meteor just hit and they didn't seem to care much so I was like hmmm lucid dream perhaps so I pinched my nose and tried to breath...but I couldn't. This reality check usually works perfectly but for some reason it didn't this time! Or perhaps this was a premonition and not a dream, nahhh that's looking to deep into it.

      Your thoughts?

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      Well, a meteor hitting the earth is a pretty big deal.

      If I am doing a reality check because I think it is a dream I normally do a few RCs. No RC is 100%, so if one of them works 90% of the time, use one that works 80% of the times as well and the odds are really high that it will work. Some of my favorite RCs are things like "If I can use the force/fly/teleport this is a dream." Then try and use it like you do in your dreams. This will kick start your LDs and make them already where you want or doing something fun.

      Nose plug is pretty good. It has only failed once for me.

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      I know what that's like. I went to sleep one night and because my brother shows up in most of my dreams, so I thought he could help me become lucid once I was dreaming. So in a dream of mine he told me to look at the digital clock in my room. I looked at it and it was difficult to see the time. I focused more on it and then the time said "7:99". I looked away and then looked at it again and it said, "99:99". Then I looked away again and looked back at the clock and it said, "4:5". During the day I'll do this to see if the time changes, but this RC failed me. It happens.

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      Quote Originally Posted by BrandonBoss View Post
      Well, a meteor hitting the earth is a pretty big deal.

      If I am doing a reality check because I think it is a dream I normally do a few RCs. No RC is 100%, so if one of them works 90% of the time, use one that works 80% of the times as well and the odds are really high that it will work. Some of my favorite RCs are things like "If I can use the force/fly/teleport this is a dream." Then try and use it like you do in your dreams. This will kick start your LDs and make them already where you want or doing something fun.

      Nose plug is pretty good. It has only failed once for me.
      The meteor was like 100m in diameter and everyone looked calm I was going pretty crazy as you can imagine.
      Problem is my lucid dream flying is more of a float nowadays because of not practicing much, but yeah I'll try use more reality checks!

      Quote Originally Posted by OneirosOnkelos View Post
      I know what that's like. I went to sleep one night and because my brother shows up in most of my dreams, so I thought he could help me become lucid once I was dreaming. So in a dream of mine he told me to look at the digital clock in my room. I looked at it and it was difficult to see the time. I focused more on it and then the time said "7:99". I looked away and then looked at it again and it said, "99:99". Then I looked away again and looked back at the clock and it said, "4:5". During the day I'll do this to see if the time changes, but this RC failed me. It happens.
      I've heard the clock thing works well but I've never tried it. I hear looking at your hand is really good too but I have only during that during astral projection/OBE and it looked (almost) normal.

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      It's always good to have more than one RC just in case dream tries to trick you.

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      Looks like the dream about the meteorite came true


      Only joking it's just a coincidence but pretty interesting about the meteor shower in Russia :p

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      Wow, nice premonition dream Pineal

      You had a documented premonition dream. Very cool.

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      Seems like you had a sort of premonition considering a meteor hit somewhere in Russia. Reality checks are very reliable but now and again its possible they may not work. My advise is to use a selection of reality checks which I have been recently doing and it seems to be working well.

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      Wait - before people get all carried away about premonitions - wasn't there talk for a few days about a meteor that would come close to earth? Not the one that exploded over Russia, another one that's supposed to pass very close without hitting soon? Hearing about something like that on the news or somewhere would easily make a person dream about it. I'm just sayin'...

      Here it is - a post from Tommo dated feb 13th @ 12:04am: http://www.dreamviews.com/lounge/123...ml#post1990072

      That's about 8 hours before this op was made - enough time Pineal could have seen Tommo's post and then dreamed about the subject matter - or he could have heard about the same upcoming event on news or internet.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
      Wait - before people get all carried away about premonitions - wasn't there talk for a few days about a meteor that would come close to earth? Not the one that exploded over Russia, another one that's supposed to pass very close without hitting soon? Hearing about something like that on the news or somewhere would easily make a person dream about it. I'm just sayin'...

      Here it is - a post from Tommo dated feb 13th @ 12:04am: http://www.dreamviews.com/lounge/123...ml#post1990072

      That's about 8 hours before this op was made - enough time Pineal could have seen Tommo's post and then dreamed about the subject matter - or he could have heard about the same upcoming event on news or internet.
      Always so skeptical.

      I agree with you on this though. If he had had a dream of the meteor hitting Russia it would be another crazy matter. To me meteors in a dream aren't too rare (probably because of the song meteor shower by owl city) and with how much we all think about space (as oneironauts) it makes sense to dream about it.
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      Quote Originally Posted by BrandonBoss View Post
      Always so skeptical.



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      I think your major problem with RC is because you do it during the day too automatically and you used to do it so your brain remember that every thime you pinched your nose and tried to breath...you couldn't, because that's the truth (in real life). My advice to you is that before you do RC you should concentrate on world around you, you need to focus on things that are near by you, try look at it, touch it and ask yourself if it looks like it should. Also you can try to move things without touching, using only your willpower. Another way to consciousness is to think about whether. What the whether was few minutes ago and what's changed, is there any change ? Or think about you, what are you doing few minutes ago, were have you been, what were you doing, how you end up here ? You can do all this things instead of RC or before it. If you notice something suspicious you can do RC as a proof. A good practice is doing it during the day as well. It works for me.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Ninjaa View Post
      Seems like you had a sort of premonition considering a meteor hit somewhere in Russia. Reality checks are very reliable but now and again its possible they may not work. My advise is to use a selection of reality checks which I have been recently doing and it seems to be working well.
      I doubt it was an actual premonition dream, I see it as a coincidence

      Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post
      Wait - before people get all carried away about premonitions - wasn't there talk for a few days about a meteor that would come close to earth? Not the one that exploded over Russia, another one that's supposed to pass very close without hitting soon? Hearing about something like that on the news or somewhere would easily make a person dream about it. I'm just sayin'...

      Here it is - a post from Tommo dated feb 13th @ 12:04am: http://www.dreamviews.com/lounge/123...ml#post1990072

      That's about 8 hours before this op was made - enough time Pineal could have seen Tommo's post and then dreamed about the subject matter - or he could have heard about the same upcoming event on news or internet.
      Haha clever theory but I didn't hear about or see any posts or information on the other meteor till after the day of the dream, but I don't think it's a premonition dream seeing as I haven't had any of them ever. Although I was doing some Astral Projection/OBE practice before that night, but still I'm considering it a coincidence, because I've been having many strange dreams as of late!

      Quote Originally Posted by BrandonBoss View Post
      Always so skeptical.

      I agree with you on this though. If he had had a dream of the meteor hitting Russia it would be another crazy matter. To me meteors in a dream aren't too rare (probably because of the song meteor shower by owl city) and with how much we all think about space (as oneironauts) it makes sense to dream about it.
      Love Owl City man, probably get judged for that but all the songs seriously sends me to another place in my mind Anyway I wasn't aware of my location in the dream, so I'm pretty sure it's just a lucky coincidence! I'll post in this thread if I have another dream with a big event, then if it comes true I'll be pretty damn scared


      Quote Originally Posted by AbelMagwitch View Post
      I think your major problem with RC is because you do it during the day too automatically and you used to do it so your brain remember that every thime you pinched your nose and tried to breath...you couldn't, because that's the truth (in real life). My advice to you is that before you do RC you should concentrate on world around you, you need to focus on things that are near by you, try look at it, touch it and ask yourself if it looks like it should. Also you can try to move things without touching, using only your willpower. Another way to consciousness is to think about whether. What the whether was few minutes ago and what's changed, is there any change ? Or think about you, what are you doing few minutes ago, were have you been, what were you doing, how you end up here ? You can do all this things instead of RC or before it. If you notice something suspicious you can do RC as a proof. A good practice is doing it during the day as well. It works for me.
      Yeah thanks I've been working on concentrating on my surroundings all through the day and my dreams are so vivid it makes a big difference. I think it was just a once off as usually it never fails me. I only really do a RC when something strange happens, as I feel if I just do it all the time it's kind of pointless, because in my dreams I'll only do one when a strange event occurs!

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      looking at my hand hasn't failed me yet.
      Only problem is, sometimes in dreams I can't remember how many fingers I'm supposed to have, but when I open and close my hand and find the number changing, that does it definitely.

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      Same here about owl city. I listen to owl city/sky sailing all day to keep LDing on my mind. That guy is amazing.

      Quote Originally Posted by fonduman View Post
      looking at my hand hasn't failed me yet.
      Only problem is, sometimes in dreams I can't remember how many fingers I'm supposed to have, but when I open and close my hand and find the number changing, that does it definitely.
      I always have the same number of fingers. :/ my hands always just look off in some way or another. Like: giant fork taped to them. Front of them looks just like the back. Stuff like that. It is weird.

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      Quote Originally Posted by fonduman View Post
      looking at my hand hasn't failed me yet.
      Only problem is, sometimes in dreams I can't remember how many fingers I'm supposed to have, but when I open and close my hand and find the number changing, that does it definitely.
      Yeah only problem with that one is I'd feel it'd wake me up for some reason, the nose pinch is more subtle I think

      Quote Originally Posted by BrandonBoss View Post
      @pinael
      Same here about owl city. I listen to owl city/sky sailing all day to keep LDing on my mind. That guy is amazing.
      Sky Sailing you say, I wasn't aware of this till now. Will have a listen!

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      you need to make yourself believe it can happen.

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      759. Meteor attack and Pope’s resignation. (2/18/2013)

      9 days ago, in #758, I said, “The Feds used to send out a warning to intimidate people if they felt being offended.” That I was intimidated by an earthquake one day after I paid sales tax over my inventory. Similar event took place in Russia. This time it is a meteor striking instead of earthquake.

      Russian Politician Says Meteor Was U.S. Weapons Test

      Washington Post) February 16, 2013

      Russia’s controversial Liberal leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, has blamed Americans for today’s meteorite scare, local media report.

      Russian Politician Says Meteor Was U.S. Weapons Test | Russian Meteorite | Fox Nation

      The west corner of the island just above the epicenter is Aceh Province.

      In September 2004, Yudhoyono won the president election of Indonesia. It seemed he was a US asset and had a deal with US. In December that year, US tested two new weapons in Indonesia. All imitated natural disaster. One was the Great tsunami. The epicenter was near the Aceh Province of Indonesia, some 166,000 died in that area. Obviously it aimed at the Aceh rebels – Aceh Free Army which was fighting against the government. The rebels was hit hard by that disaster and had to compromise with the government with a peace agreement later. The other one was imitating a meteor explosion.

      Here is what I wrote at that time. The phenomenon is exactly the same like what happens in Russia:

      , "Meteor Explodes Over Jakarta
      Josh Pringle
      Sunday, December 19, 2004

      Astronomers say a meteor likely exploded over the Indonesian capital of Jakarta Sunday morning. Witnesses say there was a bright object with a tail of fire streaked across the sky, and then there was a loud explosion.

      Untitled Document "
      , "Unknown object falls on Indonesia

      Meteor or bomb? Officials not sure, no injuries known
      Jakarta, Indonesia (AP)
      ……

      I believe it was an experiment of space weapon. A practice of a missile cruised in space to hit the target on earth. ….”

      See whole article “356. Tsunami, flooding and meteorite (11/7/05)” at:
      How FBI monitor and murder people in Political/Government Forum

      I would say again that my speculation was very accurate. Eight years ago, I conclude it’s a weapon imitating meteor. Then what is it for to hit Russia this time?

      I think it is for War on Iran. One day before “the meteor falling”, Russia reached an agreement with Iran.

      Russia, Iran sign agreements to form “strategic partnership” as Russia sends warships to Iranian port.
      In Uncategorized on February 14, 2013

      Russia, Iran sign agreements to form “strategic partnership” as Russia sends warships to Iranian port. | Joel C. Rosenberg's Blog
      I allege the Feds are planning war in Mid-east (war on Iran or Syria) next month.(March) I think so not only for this “meteor attack” but also for the sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. As a Pope, he has to reject any war. That's not a favor to the Neocon, especially at the eve of a war. Under the pressure of "being passed away by poor health", he retreats. He doesn't want to be another John Paul II. Or another Chavez. Pope will leave on Feb. 28. So in March, the feds would lack a strong opponent in a designated war. (see, “302. Pope's death (Continue to 261-265) (4/7/05)”.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Darkmatters View Post

      That's about 8 hours before this op was made - enough time Pineal could have seen Tommo's post and then dreamed about the subject matter - or he could have heard about the same upcoming event on news or internet.
      Dead right! And we don't even need to wonder if Pineal heard or saw the warning. How many people around the world dream of meteors every single night? When no meteors crash into the planet all those people happily forget all about those dreams and rightly ascribe them to a healthy imagination. Like BrandonBoss said, we need more more detail in the dream (like it impacting Russia) before we even consider something like premonitions.

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