most of the time i am WILDing and using RCs to only reaffirm i am dreaming. usually, the hand-RC (5 fingers) works best for me. but my most recent DILD scares the crap out of me in retrospect because of how real it was.

i came out of a previous DILD where i ended up back in bed and I was lucid already (an RC worked in that one). i reawoke and my wife called me in the dream, i got up out of bed and she was ironing. i checked my fingers to confirm i was in a dream and sure enough, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5! hmmmm... i tell you, it was way too real... she told me my sister was upstairs and i called her name. no one answered. only then did i say "ahha! it is a dream". but there was no way i was going to jump through the wall this time!

this was the first time i was lucid already and an RC didn't work to reaffirm, and it kinda freaked me out. it made me question reality in ways i cannot really explain.