Best Reality Check

my order of checks:
1.) look at hands
2.) count fingers on the hand
3.) try to press finger through palm
4.) pull on skin on the edge of my thumb to see if it stretches
5.) pinch my hand hard to see if it hurts
6.) try to press my tongue through the roof of my mouth
7.) try to press my tongue through my teeth
8.) close one eye to check the existence of my nose
9.) pinch my nose and try to breath

if those all pass you're in reality, if any fail you've either seriously injured yourself or you're in a dream :P

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I'm a Finger-through-Palm person. It's the easiest one for me to do in a dream. When I do it, it feels so awesome, like your finger is melting into your hand. Sometimes the hand I put the finger through will look like it has ripples in it. :)

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Originally Posted by Schmaven

When I do reality checks, I usually just go through all 4 of these. It doesn't take very long, and you can get away with doing them in public without anyone noticing. Personally, I do 4 of them in case I'm actually dreaming and manage to come up with a reason why I have 6 fingers or w/e.

- Randomly trying to put your fingers through stuff is the easiest one to do I think. Just whatever your fingers touch, try to have them go through whatever it is. If it works, you're dreaming. You can also try putting your fingers through your hands. I've had the most success with getting lucid from this one.

- Noticing that your nose exists. You don't have to actually look at it, it's usually just a phantom nose when you're looking at other stuff. This one is probably one of the easiest to do.

- Seeing how many fingers you have on each hand. All it takes is a second to check. This one has unexpected results for me every time. Once I had really weird looking claw fingers and realized I was dreaming.

- Holding your breath as you normally hold your breath, and at the same time, try to breath in and out. Unless you've had a tracheotomy, this should be impossible unless you're in a dream. I've only used this one so far to prove to myself I'm not dreaming.

Yeah the looking at your fingers always works for me, strange thing though once i had six fingers but here's the strange thing, on my right hand which is the only i look at when i remember to the last two fingers are always bent to the left. So whenever i look at my fingers there are always more than usual and i always get lucid.