DILD Help

[RDreams]

Ok so I've been on and off with Lucid dreaming for a few months now. My dream recall is pretty good (I can remember most all my dreams now) and I haven't done reality checking. My question is if there is a way to initiate a DILD without reality checks? Has anyone had success with techniques that they use that doesn't involve reality checks within the day?

[Puffin]

Reality checks are more for confirming that you're dreaming than anything else. You usually become lucid without them, in fact - you suddenly become lucid, or conscious in the dream, and then make sure that you're dreaming by doing a reality check. They're important in the sense that if you can't confirm that you're dreaming, you may lose that precious lucidity since you don't have a way to anchor your suspicions that it's a dream. There's a bunch of different kinds of RCs (so you can vary your methods a bit), but you should keep doing them even though they don't actually cause the awareness. After all, if you forget which RCs there are, you won't have a way to know whether you're sleeping or awake. The best way to go lucid through a DILD is to practice waking consciousness/lucidity. Really ask yourself if you could be dreaming. Here's two tutorials if you haven't checked them out yet. Puffin's DILD Guide Yoshi's ADA Tutorial Reality checks are rather important, so don't stop using them - you can change which ones you use, though!