Reality Check didn't work in my dream.

[rookybeats]

I vaguely remember doing a reality check in one of my dreams last night. I didn't recall the dream though. It was very early in my sleep period, about 2-3 hours in. Is this why I don't remember it? I do have a dream journal, but i'm taking a break for now. Maybe that's why lol Anyway, I remember doing a nose RC, but I couldn't breathe, so I didn't go lucid.. Has anyone experienced this?

[mylucidworld]

Yes maybe because it was a dream in the early stages of sleep which are harder to recall and the dream journal may have had an effect as well. There also could be other factors. The reason the reality checks passed might have been because you don't take them seriously enough in real life, so therefore you expect them to pass in your dreams which results in that happening.

[rookybeats]

Yes maybe because it was a dream in the early stages of sleep which are harder to recall and the dream journal may have had an effect as well. There also could be other factors. The reason the reality checks passed might have been because you don't take them seriously enough in real life, so therefore you expect them to pass in your dreams which results in that happening. Hmm yeah I see your point. I'm on an induction break for a while, I'm losing sleep because of them. I'm not giving up on LD's though

[sugerme1]

thats SO bizzare that you posted this because I just woke up from this long nap an hour ago and my reality check, perhaps a really flawed one but I don't want to try to change it now, trying to push my fingers through my hand, didnt work until I got a cue that I was lucid from having 2 computers that I don't own on my bed. Well, yah, I guess I'm going to focus more on them when I do them now! It's weird you said this because its literally the FIRST post i clicked on

[rookybeats]

thats SO bizzare that you posted this because I just woke up from this long nap an hour ago and my reality check, perhaps a really flawed one but I don't want to try to change it now, trying to push my fingers through my hand, didnt work until I got a cue that I was lucid from having 2 computers that I don't own on my bed. Well, yah, I guess I'm going to focus more on them when I do them now! It's weird you said this because its literally the FIRST post i clicked on Weird

[b12]

That's why you gotta do multiple RCs. My first ever lucid, i held my nose randomly and could breathe so i got lucid. I then tried putting my finger through my palm (i was already lucid) and it didn't work. I looked at my hand and it was fine -- didn't look weird. Then i jumped and i was floating...freaking awesome. Also try closing one eye and looking for your nose. In a dream, it won't be there -- you don't pay enough attention during your waking hours to your nose, so when you're awake and do this RC you can see your nose but in your dreams your nose isn't there.

[Incomplete]

It happened to me last night. I tried to fly (several times) but I crashed. So I gave up. I was so mad at myself when I woke up....

[rookybeats]

Good luck tonight then

[Thylacoleo]

I vaguely remember doing a reality check in one of my dreams last night. I didn't recall the dream though. Has anyone experienced this? Yes. A day before Christmas Day in my dream I examined my hand in detail -- it seemed little odd, but it was not odd enough to trigger lucidity. For some reason it did trigger false awakening, though.

[Taosaur]

I find finger-thru-the-palm a little hit or miss. Last week I tried it after I was lucid because I wasn't *sure* anymore, and it didn't work, but then I thought, "I'm pretty sure I'm dreaming," and tried it again, and my finger went right through. Unreliable as it is, it's still my favorite RC

[CrimsonWolf]

That happened to me once. I did the RC of sticking my left hand through my right hand, but it didn't work. I remember being really disappointed and thinking to myself "I really thought this was a dream!" I then tried again out of desperation, and it didn't work as expected, but one of my fingers did turn transparent.

[caz457]

I don't actually seem to use RCs in my dreams to become lucid. I do RCs during the day, but in a dream, I just know that I'm dreaming and have no need for them. However, in my most recent LD (I wasn't very lucid at the start of it), I thought "Hey, I'm dreaming here, but I should probably do a RC just to make sure." I then started to pull some grass out the ground and I thought, "What the hell am I doing?" The dream then became more vivid and I was more lucid, but I thought that was very weird.