Quote Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught View Post
Hello, Gab.

Is it possible to act reality checks on emotions?for example if you was feeling a certain feeling you could do RC? So if the RC is based of an emotion then when your dreaming and you feel that certain emotion could you possible become lucid?
YES!!!

EMOTIONS are far more important to reality checks than physical act of doing a reality check. Counting fingers, pushing thumb through palm are only a vehicle, something we can attach our emotions to.

That's why many people report that they got lucid and they didn't even need to do a RC. That's because the emotions (OMG I am dreaming) gives us a hint of awareness in a non-lucid dream and by then most of us knows we are dreaming. But from practicing the RCs - we get an urge to RC - thumb/nose/fingers... and that confirms our lucidity.

So those that claim "I got lucid out of nowhere, didn't even need to RC and that proves RCs are not needed" don't realize, that emotions got them lucid. And they didn't need anything to confirm. But most of us do need some kind of a confirmation.