Thread: Reality Checks- Why do they work?

I never really thought about it but it just struck me. If lucid dreams replicate reality so well, why can I breath through my pinched nose or put my finger through my palm?

You know you are dreaming and that everything around you is just a thought. You un-attach yourself from the preconceptions you have made to things in reality.

Because your real body is breathing, not your dream body. You can't do anything in a dream to stop or change your breathing.

that makes sense I guess
can anyone explain the finger through the palm rc, or the lightswitch one

The breathing one is the only one I would trust. The lightswitch one only works because lightswitches usually dont work in dreams idk why. I guess the finger through palm one only works if you think it will work.

Some say that the light switch one works because it is difficult to alter how light scatters. Where you are sitting, look around the room. See how different parts of the same object look different because of the amount of light hitting them? I haven't had enough experience LDing to say for sure that it is difficult to change light, but it is apparently hard enough to use as a RC.