Thread: Reality Check False Negatives

You should have several fool-proof reality checks. Whether its looking at your hands, trying to put them through each other, jumping, checking a digital clock or looking for a change in complex patterns/imagery or chunk of text, mixing them should give you a generally good idea where you are. Also trying to remember how you got to a certain place, wherever you are standing/sitting, back track your thoughts. In a dream, you generally -- I like the term I read earlier on the forum, clearly from a gamer -- spawn almost randomly in places, you just appear at the start of the dream.

If someone mixed reality for a dream, that would be very dangerous. Although I don't know how that applies to the sleep walker and lucid dreaming.

Whilst doing the reality check you are suppose to the same in your head. So while you are pinching your nose (or whatever your RC is) you should be asking youself some important questions. Such as

How did I get here?

What am I doing?

Is this a dream?

Hopefully once you have asked yourself them sort of questions you should be fully aware if you're dreaming or not.

I am not aware of anyone mistaking waking life for a dream. Not at least during the day. Perhaps it's possible to be confused when you have just woken though.