Thread: More success without reality checks

I personally only find Reality Checks to be useful if I am already Lucid and want to double check to make sure I am dreaming. When I am non lucid I never find myself doing any reality checks.

I almost never get lucid with reality checks. In fact I did a reality check while I was lucid that didn't work.

Now you've really confused me. How can you have a reality check "while lucid" that "didn't work". You mean it didn't tell you that you were lucid, but that you were already lucid? Doesn't make sense.

Most of my dreams I already start out Lucid, but I do a reality check just to make sure that I am lucid. For instance if I am about to freefall off of a 500 story building I will do a Nose Reality Check just to double check that I am still in a dream so I don't end up killing myself.

Originally Posted by KuRoSaKi

Most of my dreams I already start out Lucid, but I do a reality check just to make sure that I am lucid. For instance if I am about to freefall off of a 500 story building I will do a Nose Reality Check just to double check that I am still in a dream so I don't end up killing myself.

So that means that you're not sure if you're lucid or not, which means you're not actually lucid. It seems that you get lucid, and then quickly lose it.

I mean that last night I was questioning whether or not I was still dreaming because I couldn't grab my reflection in the mirror. I looked at my hands and they were crystal clear and wouldn't go through each other either. I couldn't walk into the mirror either. the only way I knew that I was dreaming was the i recalled flying just before.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I mean that last night I was questioning whether or not I was still dreaming ..

That means you weren't lucid at that time.

I was doing a ton of RC's and then stopped after getting frustrated just to have a LD a few nights later, ironically with the help of a RC.

Be safe about it. Don't jump out a window, levitate up first and then fly out the window like Peter Pan or Superman.
As you levitate you know it's safe and a dream.
The fact of jumping is the possible trouble spot.
Also if I didn't reality check on my 2nd LD and see my hands with wavy, wobbly fingers, I would probably had a vague normal dream.