I liked this, because I read a lot on different reality checks and I read something charley Morley said about some Reality checks not being true for different people. |
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So last night I had my first MILD after a week since I began trying. I had 9 dreams collected in my dream journal and I had already begun noticing some dream signs so last night, after waking up in the middle of the night, I visualized myself doing some reality checks in one of the places where I often find myself in my dreams. |
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Last edited by Valdast94; 02-05-2014 at 10:23 AM.
I liked this, because I read a lot on different reality checks and I read something charley Morley said about some Reality checks not being true for different people. |
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Yeah, I made a guess: maybe it depends on the learning style. |
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Last edited by Valdast94; 02-05-2014 at 11:14 AM.
Personally if i do a reality check its the nose plug one. Once this didnt work for me either, (in your dream blocking your nose will have no effect on your breathing,) but one time i did struggle to breathe when doing it. I don't know if maybe i was sleeping funny at the time. |
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Sometimes an RC wont work. That's why it's good to have at least 2-3. |
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Ok, so I need to question if I am dreaming or not on deeper level when practicing RC in the waking world, thanks for the tips! |
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LD lore has it that finger-through-palm is less reliable than the nose-pinch. I've only every done nose pinch and hand-check in a dream and both worked fine, but nose pinch for me is so very clear. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I could suggest that you could try other RCs too |
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I got an idea, why not use a top for a RC? Like in the movie inception. |
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Thanks man, great tips, especially the ones referring to DC, I'll use them |
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Hmm, nose pinch takes like 1-2 seconds max, spinning a top may be fun, but: you have to find some "flat surface," pull out the top from somewhere, and then stand there and watch it spin for a while. And it might still fall over .. if you want to spend your dream time watching a top spin, go ahead... |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I never had much success with finger-through-palm either. I think the trouble is that it's too hard to imagine, realistically, what it would feel like. With nose pinch, you know what both outcomes feel like in waking life. I think counting fingers is a more reliable backup than finger-through-palm. |
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I am sure about illusion. I am not so sure about reality.
I've had that experience too. I think that by getting used to RCs in real life, you kinda expect them not to work. The mind is a powerful thing, and will reflect your expectations subtler than you'd think. If you do an RC whilst awake and of course note that your thumb does not go through your palm, your dreaming mind mirrors that experience. You have in fact learned and conditioned yourself to know that your finger can not go through your palm. I found it more efficient to study your dreams in order to find your personal RCs or signs that you are dreaming. some reoccuring image, some habit that will clearly show you that you can't be awake. I for instance find myself often in my parents house and trained myself to know that I must be dreaming the instance that I am there. Of course, if you suddenly have that overwhelming sensation that you are dreaming, despite finding no prove to it, and then become indeed lucid, feels way cooler and more powerful |
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Oh, that's a good tip that I found to be very useful, like Gab suggested: in your waking life you have to assume you are dreaming, or at least you have to assume that that may be a dream and when you do RC's (I turned to "how did I get here?/What was doing 1 hour ago?" and the nose pinch ones) you really intend them to work and you end the whole thing with a mantra. |
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Meditation + Creative Visualization + Lucid Dreaming = Achieve anything you want
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