Doing Rcs

I have stepped up my daily Reality Checks lately and have noticed something that makes doing RCs more bearable. When I become lucid it is usually from having the mind set of questioning the current reality. I instinctualy know that I am dreaming before I can think to do an RC.

RCs definitely help you become lucid but instead of trying to convince myself that I am or am not dreaming. I answer the question by instuctualy knowing. I guess I have been paying attention to my dreams long enough that I just know.

So when I do a RC. I ask myself "Am I dreaming". I will in a non verbal way become aware of my surrondings and my body. Then I will say "No, not yet" and continue about my day. Also I dont do RC every 15 mins or something crazy like. Every hour is fine. Sometimes more if I think about it or something odd happens.

I wonder if I am alone in this kind of reasoning.

You are not alone! I like to call them "reality surveys" rather than "reality checks", because calling it a survey implies a series of checks rather than any one test. The goal is, as you said, to question your reality. That means doing whatever checks are appropriate for the situation. I have started to become lucid as a general awareness of the dream state as well, rather than just from doing reality checks. The combination of reality checks, and awareness of personal dream signs, is making me more readily aware of my dream state.

I'm in the same boat with you guys, I never really do RCs in the dream. Practicing RCs while awake just helps me practice questioning reality and being aware.

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.