It seems to me that reality checking is more prone to failure than given credit for. Toilet's experience must seem very contradictory to his expectations of how reality checking works, but to a seasoned lucid dreamer like yourself, you must find it unremarkable that he, or anyone, has experienced a failure to respond to reality checks.
Technically speaking, a reality check requires the person to visualize and expect the reality check to work. I suspect some beginners are not used to visualizing the impossible to occur, thus the reality checks fail on beginners.
As the beginning of wisdom is to "to know that you know nothing," so too the beginning of awakening (for lucidity) is to know that you are not awake. - Stephen LaBerge
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