Thread: Won't rc in public

Something that costs me lucid dreams is i find something odd, see a dreamsign, or just decide i want to do a reality check but i won't because i am in public. Last night for example i am in a car with old friends when odd things start happening so i want to perform a reality check but i won't because i am in public.

Who else has this problem?

Not personally, no. The reality checks I use can be done descretely. For example, I quickly look down at my hands and count my fingers, no one notices and things just go on like normal.

My reality-checks don't even require movement, so they're quite easy to do. Are you ashamed by people thinking you're weird for doing a reality-check, or what?

Hey there,

Personally I don't do a reality check that requires some sort of physical action. I just ask myself if I'm dreaming, and look around me with a critical eye, see if everything is consistent, look for oddities, and what not.

I figure when I'm awake, I always *know* I'm not dreaming (like I have some sort of sense for it), but when I'm dreaming, I'm often not sure. So, with that knowledge, my reality check is simply: unless I know for certain I'm not dreaming, I *am* dreaming

I guess though in your case, perhaps you could opt for two different types of reality check? One which you usually do and one in case of being in public? The most important thing after all is to ask yourself whether or not you're dreaming, right? Not the actual type of check.

Just my 2 cents,

-Redrivertears-

Yeah you don't have to sit there and hold your nose or try to stick your finger through your palm or anything. Just observe your surroundings and decide whether or not your dreaming, and be able to have an explanation for your decision.

I do that awareness check but if i see a oddity sometimes i automatically become lucid but sometimes i require a reality check. I know there are other reality checks i can do but i don't want to change them. And yes i do feel like an idiot doing a reality check when people are watching because in Wales lucid dreaming a is very unknown agenda and people will think i am insane or something. Imagine this you are walking down the street and you see somebody trying to put their hand through their palm, and trying to fly. If i go around doing that before i know it i will locked up in a nut house.

I think i'll just stick to the awareness checks, i get enough strange looks doing those.

This is one of the reasons i have not been able to do very well with reality checks, i don't know about any of you lot but i hate looking like a complete prat in public, i remember because i was in school and i held my nose and someone asked me why i was holding my nose and i said "i was just seeing how long i could hold my breath for", i then slowly walked away lol. Its a tough one though, i think if you did a reality check within your mind and not physically it may work for you.