A lot of reality checks don't work for me. As I've paid more attention to lucidity, I find that my hands are more often rendered accurately in dreams, so that check doesn't work. I can read better in dreams now than I could two months ago. I can sometimes feel physical resistance when I touch something. At the same time, I've looked at my hand and laughed to see only one finger. I laughed and thought, "Now that's just too far off!" and I suddenly grew two more fingers.

I find myself already convinced that it's a dreamworld from my personal dreamsigns, like the presence of a friend from 20 years ago, and then I do "reality checks" just for fun as a way to explore the dreamworld itself. They become simple experiments for curiosity' sake just to understand the dream world better.