Thread: RC not working, mind tricking me

Originally Posted by Scionox

Sounds like you are doing RCs in waking life on auto and without actually doubting reality, and in fact, you are sure that you are not dreaming, which is completely wrong way of doing them! It's not the action of reality check itself that makes us lucid, it"s the awareness and questioning mindset that we gain while doing them IWL what makes us lucid in dream.
When you do reality check, completely believe that it may be a dream, then look around for anything suspicious and dream sign, then do the reality check itself and put emotions into it, like "Wow, am i dreaming?", and expect it to work, and finally, never ever think "Nah, not dreaming" or anything similar after doing reality check.
Check out this thread too: http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/13212...ods-dilds.html

What then do you do when you look around in WL and find nothing suspicious or out of the ordinary? Do you imagine the presence of a dream sign? One challenging place I find is the subway -- advertisements with writing are everywhere, and they're all perfectly stable, should I imagine that the letters are dancing around?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

What then do you do when you look around in WL and find nothing suspicious or out of the ordinary? Do you imagine the presence of a dream sign? One challenging place I find is the subway -- advertisements with writing are everywhere, and they're all perfectly stable, should I imagine that the letters are dancing around?

Continue believing that you might be dreaming and do reality check itself. The fact that you looked and searched for dream signs itself will increase your awareness. Also the idea with expecting letters to be different is good if that's your RC.

Originally Posted by Irreo

Another problem is that if I'm semi-lucid, I'm not smart enough to think about dream signs. One example is what I posted about the window blind not being as I left it, and a white cord instead of black... I just accepted them. But still though I was "awake" after doing the RC. So it's kinda weird, frustrating, and stupid

What you mean by semi-lucid?... Also sounds like your awareness was high enough to notice them, but you were not in questioning mindset, keep practicing reality checks and actually questioning reality and i am sure it will get better once your general awareness will go up and you get into questioning mindset.

Originally Posted by Scionox

What you mean by semi-lucid?... Also sounds like your awareness was high enough to notice them, but you were not in questioning mindset, keep practicing reality checks and actually questioning reality and i am sure it will get better once your general awareness will go up and you get into questioning mindset.

Maybe it's not the proper term. For me being lucid is when I wake up inside the dream, meaning its myself there, being able to recall things from my waking life or take decisions very related to real life. For instance one of my to-do things when I have a LD worth it (for now only small experiences) is to visit a lonely beach at a summer night with a stand where they sell oysters and have a dozen of them. And in the last fake awakening I catched I created a mirror in my wall and though "I will end up on that beach I'm always thinking about" (well it didn't happen, but that's another story )

And with semi-lucid I meant that I'm supposed to be lucid, meaning it's myself in the dream and not just some other character or something I'm not (normal dream), like I was the other day while trying my WILD (and I was really dreaming), but I wasn't "lucid" enough to be aware of all those dream signs, so in my understanding I assume that I wasn't fully lucid... It was me, but not at all... I guess I sound confusing.