Thread: Any tips on doing reality checks during a dream

People say meditating helps them, and they normally use lots of different techniques. Any meditation helps because they're all about focusing. Try a mindfulness or awareness meditation, it especially helps if you do it right before you DILD or MILD or WILD.

A good meditation would just to be relax (you could do that many ways, best way is to notice that you relax on exhalation, and you can create a visual for it if you'd like. A common one would just be every breath out, think of black steam leaving your body, making you more relaxed) for a few minutes, then focus on your breathing. Don't try to alter it or anything, just notice it, focus on it. If any thoughts come into your head, just acknowledge them, let them pass, and focus on your breath. Make sure not to let your focus become passive, and drift off. And don't worry about whether or not you're doing it right, that won't help. Just focus and if you relax yourself well enough, it should be enjoyable. Then when you feel that it's been long enough (could be 5 minutes, could be 2 hours), look around the room and notice the vividness in everything, where everything is, things you haven't noticed before. If you meditate long enough, it'll seem like you've been looking around with closed eyes through your life. Act as if it's the first time you've ever seen.

Also, do an RC afterwards, it's common for people to meditate until they WILD, and an accidental WILD would be possible, and it will help with your RC and awareness in general. It's possible to do the meditation in any position, even laying down, but don't lay down and do it at night or you could easily drift off with tiredness.

EDIT: And btw any meditation where you just "space out" won't help anything. It could even be counter-productive, even if it gives relaxation effects. Real meditation should have focus, not lack of focus.