Quote Originally Posted by Liquidaque View Post
I find it to be quite the opposite (though this may just be me). A RC during the day is completely pointless for any other reason then habit. When I do a RC during the day, it's very obvious to me that I'm awake. I just don't have the same mentality as in a non-lucid dream, so I do it in hopes I will do it in a dream as well--as I'm also sure I'm awake in dreams (that don't become lucid). The RC gets you to do a RC in a dream--by habit--plain and simple. As I continue to evolve as an oneironaut, more and more of my dreams don't even involve a RC... I simply realize that I'm dreaming, usually shoot up into the sky, and start my LD. A RC in WL does indeed raise your awareness in a dream (though I find that to be very minimal), however; you cannot say that making a RC a habit, to the point that you do it habitually in a dream, isn't going to cause more lucid dreams. I've had about 300 LDs (that I can recall--I know there has been much more) since my first, sometime in early 2012; and I can tell you with an appropriate amount of certainty, that a RC will get you lucid, almost every time.



Most of the way... more like part... even if it's most, you are already admitting the importance of this subject.
Well, I'll have to go with Sageous and the generally prevailing wisdom on this one (appeal to authority ). I almost never do RCs in dreams, and never have. If it works for you, more power to you.

I do understand you, and I also actually *do* believe in the habit part being effective, but at a very low percentage, and only when the RC is accompanied by serious questioning of state.