[Mind Resisting RCs?]

[Ellipsis]

I've read through a lot of posts about failed RCs and it got me thinking. Is it possible that the mind 'purposefully' resists reality checks? On some level we all understand that an RC leads to lucidity-- something our bodies seem pre-coded to deny us. Basically, I had my first failed DILD last night (that is, I almost did an RC, but failed). I was standing in a very odd place with my mother, and realized that the situation was a bit out of the ordinary. I thought, "Maybe I should do an RC..." but at that moment, my mom pushed me into the street in front of a car (as if that wasn't enough of an RC for me!). Whatever the outcome, it distracted me from doing the RC and from becoming lucid. So given the frequency of failed RCs, is it possible there is some psychological/biological mental resistance behind it?

[seeker28]

I think it is a deffinite possibility. I suspect that people whose minds resisit lucidity do so because of fear or because it is so unfamiliar. What do you think? BTW, I've never had a RC fail for me. But I have had a few times where something in the dream distracted me from becoming lucid. I wonder if maybe at times the mind is trying to prevent lucidity so it can do something in the dream it probably wouldn't get to if you became lucid. I'm a natural and LD almost every dream, so for me this is a real possibility.

[Ellipsis]

I think its more that the distraction prevents an RC, rather than the RC failing that is the issue. It seemed to me eerily convenient that my dream veered off the way it did JUST at the moment that I was about to do an RC.

[redclay92]

of the times i've remembered to do a rc in a dream(once) it failed. itried doing the one where try to stick your finger through your hand and my finger would not go through but then i fw back into the same dream and forgot all back.

[ninja9578]

That's very common when you first start out, I had plenty of failed reality checks when I was a newbie too

[Point]

I'm not inclined to think of the mind as some other "entity". Your mind is you yourself. Having said that I often feel sleepy in the dreams where I find something suspicious... doing a reality check feels like so much of an effort that I simply don't do it, or at least not properly. If I were less of a lazy type (or more enthusiastic about RCs) then I could have become lucid on several occasions. And that's what I'd call the mind resisting RCs. I'd also share my belief that we often know that we're dreaming but don't realize it -in the same way that you can see something yet not notice it. More than once in my dreams when I was trying to think of a way to get myself out of some mess I thought of "going lucid" as a solution. Then *poof*, lucid I was. What's more is that it felt like I turned lucid intentionally; like I shifted a mental gear. And there was also this dream where I was also in trouble and I stopped time ("Since, being in a dream I can do that.") without becoming lucid. Hence I'm not surprised at all that people who master MILD can get LDs every night.