Thread: Reality Checks - RCs

Originally Posted by Nove13

Newbie's question :
Do you guys draw dream sign in your mind when u do Reality check? How about have more than one dream signs ? lets say 7 dream signs? How the result if we compare it with perform RC without thinking dream sign?
Thank you btw,

My take on this: when you're doing a reality check, you want your full concentration on the check itself. You have one and only one goal at this point: determine your state in a quick, clear way. When you're doing a reality check, your awareness is already raised and the notion of "hey this could be a dream" has already been reached in your mind, you don't need more "thinking," you need quick action: the RC. The RC has one and only one purpose: to fully determine your state.

Taking a moment several times throughout the waking day (or as often as you want as long as you can maintain the concentration and perform it honestly and thoughtfully) to reflect upon your state, your environment, your memories, thoughts, etc. is called a "critical reflection" moment. Those are the times where you can think about dream signs, and analyze your environment to decide if it is "dream-like" or not. It's a good idea to do an RC at those moments. But critical reflection is not the same as an RC, even though they are closely related.

Dream sign review is also good to do right before bed.

When doing an RC and when the result indicates "awake," do not think "I'm not dreaming." Instead, I like to think "Hmm (interesting). The next time I'm dreaming, I remember to recognize that I'm dreaming."

And sometimes (just to make sure I don't get habituated to the 'waking' result) I do a 'dreaming RC' where I pretend to receive the dreaming result and then go through my 'just got lucid' ritual.

thx for your reply. Its very helping
Another newbie's question :
at ur first LD, u did RC n realized u were dreaming or u realized u were dreaming first then u did RC for make sure. This just for first LD. Mybe at your level now you will realized you r dreaming without RC.

Originally Posted by Nove13

thx for your reply. Its very helping
Another newbie's question :
at ur first LD, u did RC n realized u were dreaming or u realized u were dreaming first then u did RC for make sure. This just for first LD. Mybe at your level now you will realized you r dreaming without RC.

In my first and indeed most of my early LDs I got lucid just be realizing it was a dream (I didn't even do an RC to check). However I did do RCs in the dream after initial lucidity to maintain lucidity. Recently I find myself needing to RC to get fully lucid, interesting!