Thread: Tell me what you would tell yourself if you had to start it all over!

Originally Posted by yost

Why thank you, canis. I have a question now. I've been RC'ing regularly for the last three days. About 1/2 of the way through yesterday, I stopped wanting to do them. It's been tiring to force myself to do 1 set of 5 checks twice every hour. Especially at school. Did you ever encounter this? I want to RC but don't know what to do. BTW, it's 1. Check any nearby text 3x. 2. Glance at my hands for screwups. 3. Count my fingers on each hand. 4. Try to breathe through my nose when holding it. 5. Try to put finger through left hand, then right.

You are probably doing too many in waking life if you mean that you do all 5 of those RCs, one time each, every hour. If I were doing all 5 of those each time it would quickly feel like a chore and quickly lose any meaning which could translate to them giving you the same result in a dream that they do in waking life...namely, convincing you that you are awake. I recommend choosing one or two that perhaps you already relate to lucid dreaming so that there is a little excitement just thinking about the RC...even still, sometimes you may feel like a break from RCs during certain hours of the day or a change to a different RC.

Spoiler for my example:

For myself, yesterday I took a break from my normal RC and instead focused on perspective and Sageous' RRC that I usually do along with my RC. When I do those 3 different things, each one feels like a unique process. My process takes about a minute but if I am busy I try to remember to do it later and I don't stress over it. As a reminder to myself, I use a *random* alarm on an app called Awoken for Android...a random reminder makes a difference. I find myself doing it without the reminder fairly often as well and if I just did it and the reminder pops up I may ignore it until next time. I also picked a alarm sound that sounds dream like to me called "organic."