I agree with Shift. "The purpose of a reality check is to test whether or not you're in a dream."
A reality check is not necessarily a tool which one uses to become lucid. It's more of tool to confirm or test whether a certain event was what we call: real or imagined. Some people are more aware of their surroundings than others, as Shift states "Lots of people don't require a 'physical' reality check- they can review their memory and realize that the timeline of recent events makes no sense..."
A common example, mentioned by Acala, is being naked in public. At first glance everything seems normal. People are stopped at street corners--maybe people you've seen somewhere else,--cars are passing by, you're late for work, or school and you need to hand in an important paper.
It's a normal day, just like any other hurried and emotionally oppressed day. You need to be somewhere quick, there's no time to stop and take a breather. You rush out the door to the bus and notice something strange. [The bus is more crowded than usual and many peers are staring at me, oh well, they all have projects to turn in as well, I'm--I'm forgetting something...oh, my coat, and my shoes!? I can't be late, no one is going to notice anyways.]
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As several thoughts and emotions are firing in your brain, relaying possible actions and outcomes of this single event, you forget that you saw mail car was delivering mail at 6:30 in the morning. You forget that the brand of dedorant you used this morning was not 'Old Spice' but 'ol'Sport'. You missed the yellow robin outside the kitchen window. You didn't notice how clean your room was, or that your furniture had been re-arranged. You don't realize that the music you hear on the bus is the same from the music in your MP3. No, instead you need to make it to school on time to impress your friends, teachers and family with a half-assed term paper.
And then the alarm goes off. wtf
Nix the dream journal. I need to snooze this one... If I go back sleep I know I can go lucid, I was soo close. All this only to be distracted by another dream(s) and a fast-fading recollection of what was once such a vivid dream with many opportunities.
Take a step back.
Look around you.
Make it a habit of continually asking yourself questions...perhaps you'll find some answers.
Talk to all entities and be interested in what they have to say, you never know when information they teach may come in handy.
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