Quote Originally Posted by Iriba View Post
So i guess i am doing the right thing, i stop what i am doing and analyze what is around me.
i guess it's just a question of habit now

I perform RCs while i am not lucid, and if i see something weird, like 7 fingers
in each hand, i keep dreaming like it was something normal lol.
I start each of my RCs and mantras (during day) with a question that stops me from doing whatever I'm doing. I ask myself "wow, am I dreaming? This could be (is) a dream". And I believe that to be the truth. I look around me and expect something to happen, as if it could in a dream. Then I do RCs and mantras.

Then, when you are in regular dream, this startling "wow, am I dreaming" feeling hits you and you become aware and lucid, or you get an urge to RC and to confirm. But by the time I finish RCs, most of the time I already know I'm dreaming. Awareness question in Collection of techniques for DILD.

If you don't have enough awareness, than even if you decide to RC and see 7 fingers, not even that gets you lucid. First comes awareness, than you either know without RC, or RC confirms. Or you just decide to RC before jumping off the balcony