Thread: Reality Checks - RCs

[Edit: I think I have answered my own question, so no need to read all this below unless you want to...basically I know how I should proceed for now ]

Gab, VagalTone, Sageous, or anyone with input. I am looking for any suggestions to tweak my RC work IWL. The adjustment above translated quickly to at least the semi-lucid part of what became an LD but there are two challenges to work through that came up. Quick background: I use the "Awoken" app on android for a truly random reminder and chose a dreamlike reminder tone. Reminder comes on 14 random times in a 14 hour window between 8am-10pm. It also a separate dream clue setting to have the same sound go off during your sleep, that I have set to 6 times between 5am to 6:55am (I have heard it once during what I assume was a dream state since the sound was magnified and odd but thought I was awake at the time. This was actually the same night and was some time before I had this LD). I also RC in other situations. I am currently using a float RC and then looking at hand/counting fingers. I enjoy doing the float RC, IWL. I look up towards the ceiling or sky and simulate/visualize floating(imagining that the RC will work) and it almost feels like I am getting closer and closer to the ceiling(or zooming in the focus)...it is somewhat fun but nothing like in an LD of course. In my last LD the float RC didn't work so I went back to one I had been using regularly lately - the finger through palm - and it didn't work. This caused me to go to what I would think was semi-lucid before getting back on track by doing a 3rd one - the pinched nose breathing one - and it worked. I even did it two more times just to make sure I was truly holding my nose pinched since the first two RC's not working threw me off in the dream. DJ entry, if interested. Issue #1, RC's not confirming a dream within the dream possibly due to the way I do my RC in waking life - feels somewhat real but I know that I am not actually floating IWL and that may have translated into the dream as well. Issue #2, I always just take off flying but in this dream after confirming with the 3rd RC that I was dreaming, I intended to float and then take off flying but did not float. I rectified this by just taking off flying like I normally do without any doubt. This is the first time I was intending to fly but had trouble(trouble floating to be more accurate), since at least I was a child...though I did start the intent to fly by floating which is different than normal. I am guessing that I started this time with a float because of my float RC IWL or because I wanted to check it again since it didn't work earlier in the dream...I don't recall my thinking at that time except that I wanted to show my son's DC that I could fly.