So i am reading and hearing( in video tutorials) that you have to repeatedly do reality checks in your waking life and like ask yourself seriously if you're dreaming and like talk to yourself. I don't know but i feel like this is similar to what people with Schizophrenia or other Mental illness do, talk to their selves and really take it seriously.

I just don't want to get crazy from doing all this practice everyday like 20 + times a day doing reality checks. Or is this perfectly normal and it won't have any bad effects on my sanity?

Like right now i was doing realy checks, looking at my hands and asking my self "am i dreaming" "how do i know this is not a dream?" "oh look this house looks real, am i dreaming or not?" and stuff like that.

It feels kind of like now i'm doing what the Homeless people in the streets who have mental illneess do, like talk to their self as if it they were really talking to someone.

It also kind of seems doing reality checks repeatedly is like OCD.

Anyways, i'm ok if this doesn't lead to me getting mentally insane. But does it have any efects? or is perfectly normal?


Cause i't snot like me learning piano and talking to myself about what i'm doing. I'm actually doing something real. But when i'd be doing reality checks 100 times or whatever, talking about if i'm really dreaming or not. sounds like i'm going crazy.

Any thoughts?