Any tips on doing reality checks during a dream

**DreamHacker** · 07-30-2010 08:36 AM

Hey guy"s I have been working on MILDs but if any of you have any tips on reality checks in dreams to help you become lucid let me know thanks and any tips on MILDing thanks

**penfaces117** · 07-31-2010 10:41 PM

Im fairly new as well but what I do is do reality checks randomly throughout the day, also some times planned reality checks help as well. Doing this everyday will hopefully carry over into the dream world

**DreamHacker** · 07-31-2010 10:44 PM

cool thanks

**Mancon** · 07-31-2010 10:53 PM

Yeah! What kind of reality check do you do? I pinch my nose and try to breath through it. If I can't then im awake...if I can i'm in a dream. Also look at your hands throughout the day because they often look weird in dreams.

**SteadyState** · 07-31-2010 11:34 PM

Yeah, I do the nose pinch check pretty often.
You may want to try WILDing, that was the technique I had the most success with when I first began.

**DreamHacker** · 08-01-2010 03:42 AM

Ya I do the nose pinch, forcing finger through palm, looking and my hands, and looking at digital clocks to see if there is any weird times like 13:67 or something

**shiraniaori** · 08-01-2010 03:59 AM

Make sure to remember that if a light switch doesn't work, your dreaming, if you can't read text, your dreaming. If some electric device isn't working, your prolly dreaming. Make sure to do a reality check whenever any of those happen (those can be used as reality checks by themselves).

When you RC, make sure to assert that you are dreaming if it works. Also try to expect it to work, otherwise an RC can sometimes fail (used to happen to me often).

When you MILD try different mantras. I've found that just saying "I should do an RC" (present tense) seems to help out a lot. Meditating often helps people to remember to do an RC in their sleep.

Other than that, try tons of different induction techniques, some work better for people than others. Some people find WILDing impossible, some people find it carelessly easy. If your having troubles with MILDing/DILDing, try writing down what your intention is (to do an RC, to remember dreams etc) before you sleep.

Other than that, stopping randomly wherever you are and looking around, asking how you got there helps keep awareness, and can carry into your dreams, and is an RC on it's own.

**DreamHacker** · 08-01-2010 04:33 AM

cool thanks. when you say meditate do you mean staying still and not thinking about anything or is there other techniques thanks again by the way

**shiraniaori** · 08-01-2010 04:48 AM

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.