Thread: How can I force myself to do my checks in my dream?

I think maybe there is a mix up here. I think Puffin was right. Reality checks don't induce Lucidity. Potential Lucidity can do reality checks but you have to have something give you the trigger to do them.

I think the question in the original post here is not so much about reality checks as to how to find a Lucidity trigger.

To me, I think it is important that the subconscious dreaming mind and the Lucid part of the mind are wanting to work together, and play together. The mutual enemy of both I think is Fear.

DreamVail,

Yes that was my original question. I had another dream lastnight, I had so much detail in the dream, I recorded it. Its strange I was so aware in this dream to get so much detail and to even almost feel what the other DC was thinking but still there was no trigger for me to do a RC. I thought it was so normal though nothing about it was D: The activities were normal, but I wasn't normal nor was the location. I guess I lose time in dreams. If the environment looks normal, such as a familiar location as as child, even though I'm an adult and haven't been to this location in years my brain doesn't find it abnormal. If though I see a floating cat my brain will think, hey is this real?

Is the whole point of recording dreams so you can get all the details of the dream? Does recording dreams help you analyze your next dream better as well or is it simply to remember your dreams in more detail?

Yes, reality checks do not usually get you lucid, becuase most of the time you don't really remember to do them out of nowhere in a dream. they do however make you more aware of your surroundings, awareness in waking reality over an extended period of time leads to awareness at the subconcscious level and in turn in dreams, and when you become aware in your dreams, that is when you become lucid and THEN perform the reality check. So to the OP, you should not be so focused on remembering to do RC in dreams, you should focus on becoming aware of your surroundings in your dreams.

Totally, after reading some tutorials and a lot of Puffin's guides it makes sense now! thanks

I am not sure if there is a way to train the mind to have what I guess people here call Dream Induced Lucidity. I started having Lucid Dreams from out of nowhere, and at first I hated having them, because something odd would happen in the dream and I would know and realize it was a dream, and I wanted to wake up and leave the dream, but I couldn't. Maybe I became conscious of it being a dream because I didn't like what was happening in those dreams. I felt like the dreams were incarcerating me.

After a lot of dreams like that that I did not like at all, and often times having false awakenings, I actually was afraid to go back to sleep sometimes. That is when I somehow learned to do a reality check. I am not sure how I learned it but if I look at my LED clock during the dream and I am still dreaming, I cannot see the clock and tell the time. Another thing that clues me sometimes is there is some sort of writing and I really cannot fully read it, I am in a dream. There is something else too. If I am really lost and do not know where I am, I am in a dream still.

After a good long while, I did learn to become aware of the fact of being in a dream, and that I really could have a whole lot of control. Not complete control, because I think if you gain complete control, you end the dream and just become conscious, and the consciousness alone hasn't the same ability to defeat time and space and gravity.

I really did a complete turn around from not wanting to be in those dreams, to really really enjoying them. At first it seemed they were incarcerating me, but then they seemed to be freeing me from subconscious fears and consciously created self boundaries.

-Autosuggestion (I find this the most helpful)

-Writing on telling you that you will RC in a dream post-it notes and stick it where you can see them.

-Write RC or a symbol on the back of your hand to remind you to do RC in a dream.