Am i doing this right?

[DomTheTitan11]

Sup.So i have recently taken up LD-ing again.I have been doing it for about a week or so.I have been keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks but i have not been meditating.Im still not sure if thats even necessary.My real question is about the way i do reality checks.Im not sure how to convey it so im just going to write down my thought process every time i do one. Also,i use my phones stop-watch app to time the moments when i do reality checks.Here i go. P.S.- Any advice on anything related to LD-ing would be greatly appreciated regardless of the question at hand. First,i ask "Am i dreaming?" and i look around the room I'm in.I check the time and date,look away and back again to see if it has changed.If nothing has changed significantly i move on.Now,the difficult part about my house is that my mom has a shit ton of unnecessary nick-nacks all over the shelves in almost all the rooms where we spend most of our time.Perfume bottles,fancy bowls,souveniers etc. and it seems like it would be a pain to examine all of those things so i just pick the bigger elements in the room and go with that.For example,Im in the living room,so i look at the couch and sofas.What kind are they,what collor,texture,how many people can fit,wether or not anyone is sitting in them(if so,who,do i know them,are they part of my family,friends from school?) and so on.After I'm done with that i look at the table.Same thing,collor,refflectivness,texture and material. I look at the cabinets and cupboards.Same.Then i look at the walls.I examine the collor,what material?Wood,bricks,stone,maybe concrete?I go over the surface of the nearest wall and feel the texture.I try to push my hand through it a couple of times.After i made sure its the room i thought it was i move on to the next RC.I try to turn on and off any lights that are near me.When im satisfied i move on.I look at my hands and feet,how many do i have,are there any extra limbs growing out anywhere?If it dont see anything i move on. I feel the texture of my skin,what collor,do i have any tatoos,weird shit sticking out etc.Then i look at the texture of my hands.I examine all the creases and run my hands over them.When im satisfied,i look at my hands and count my fingers.The way i count them is i have them all extended upwards and then i look at each one and keep looking as i lower them onto my palm where i double check the ammount i counted.Then i check 2 more times and move on.I try to push my index and middle finger through my palm a couple of times(i forgot to mention,every time i do these physical RC's,i imagine the scenario in my head where it works and i also try to imagine how it feels).Once satisfied,i move on.Then i try to strech my skin to see how far it will go.I move on.I do the pinching RC on both arms as an extra precaution.Then i do the one where you pinch your nose closed and try to breathe.After i do that and have double checked that my environment hasnt changed,i take a deep breath and say a mantra like:"I have to remember my dreams"(I'm working to get my recall back up) about 20 times and then open my eyes and go on my way. Now,sometimes in my dreams i play video games or i am a character from one,so i sometimes do a reality check where i check if im wearing some kind of armor,wether or not i have a Heads Up Display or not etc. Thats basicaly how i do reality checks.Now,i would like to get some advice on how to improve the way i do it.If anyone has ANY advice please feel free to share. Also,sometimes i have dreams where its more like im watching a movie and I am not actualy participating in the events.Im basicaly a passive observer,so advice on that would also be appreciated. Now,i tend to eat almonds and sunflower seeds almost every time before i go to sleep since they apparently have a lot of melatonin in them.If anyone has any other foods that they can recomend i would be gratefull. Cheers. :edit: - I forgot about this but i would like to know how i could deal with people interupting me while dong RC's by talking to me and distracting me, and doing them when there are a lot of people around me and it would be highly obvious if i start looking around randomly and banging my fist on shit to see if its solid or not and so on. I have ALLWAYS struggled with these,a bit less now but its still an issue.Tnx.

[SinisterDezz]

This sounds about right to me. You actually do a lot more than most people. Maybe tone it down a bit? Don't try so hard. Still try. Just not so hard. As far as people interrupting you, just ignore them. If that doesn't work, make them shut up. You could try to tell them what you are doing, and tell them not to bug you when you do it. I know exactly what you mean when people interrupt you. It happens to me at school and I just give them dirty looks