Thread: Is Lucid dreaming Reality checks similar to Insanity/going crazy?

I must admit that I don't do a lot of RC checks IWL. If I do then it is the 'classic' nose-pinch check. I might do one outside, etc. if I see something out of the 'norm' for example [Sarcasm] like when an energy company lowers their prices just before the cold winter![/Sarcasm] - RC NOW!

Joking aside, I think the time when an RC is mandatory is when you wake up/get out of your bed (IWL.) Hopefully this has the net effect of being carried over into your dreaming world where you can pick up on realising false awakenings.

For example my DJ word cloud has the word 'Bedroom' displayed quite prominent in bold - thus I would say it is a common theme. I guess it is for many other dreamers too.

In your bedroom you don't have to answer to anybody, except your other half maybe, or the cat; so you can RC away to your heart's content.

Originally Posted by StephL

To go at it from psychedelics would be something very fruitful as well, I think - but that is indeed mostly connected to extremely much action to get the allowances even for neuro-scientists, and esp. with human subjects - that more towards Highlander.

I know Thomas Yuschak wrote an excellent book regarding certain supplements on the actions of the main key neurotransmitters of the brain, etc. I dunno about psychedelics. I'd have thought the leaning would be toward nootropics and the brain myself, athough it is a topic for another day maybe.

Originally Posted by StephL

Might be, a change in thinking is coming along - but America forces first order substance regulations on other countries, which do commerce with them - as a primary source of problems.

Phama (with a capital 'P.')
Politics, (sex, and religion.) My advice - steer clear if you can!

Originally Posted by Highlander

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Joking aside, I think the time when an RC is mandatory is when you wake up/get out of your bed (IWL.) Hopefully this has the net effect of being carried over into your dreaming world where you can pick up on realising false awakenings.

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I know Thomas Yuschak wrote an excellent book regarding certain supplements on the actions of the main key neurotransmitters of the brain, etc. I dunno about psychedelics. I'd have thought the leaning would be toward nootropics and the brain myself, athough it is a topic for another day maybe.



Phama (with a capital 'P.')
Politics, (sex, and religion.) My advice - steer clear if you can!

Oh - I do steer clear - and I did not mean it in connection with LD.
You should not even "only" be a neuro-scientist, but best one with a reputation beyond doubt, if you go into this subject.
And - yeah - nootropics are interesting - and esp. with LD - but - we do not really expect marvellously different things to be measured, when a subject on nootropics is put into MRI, while otherwise - even without any own experiences - it should interest and does interest neuro-science, what could be maybe seen..
Totally off topic, though.

I have a nice "automatic" RC with my I-phone dictation function for dream-journalling - doesn´t work in a false awakening..
Maybe not enough, though - maybe one day it does work..?
And thanks for the book-tip!