Doing reality checks during the day may lead to your doing them during sleep, however, if done right reality checks in general increase your awareness level both while waking and dreaming and make it more likely that you will become lucid in a dream. What do I mean by "if done right"? A reality check will most likely be effective only if you seriously question reality and seriously consider the option that you might be dreaming. If reality checks are performed automatically without much thought, they are more likely to be useless. Even if you really think that you are awake, try to never tell yourself that this is of course not a dream because that just reinforces the thinking like that, and then you will be even more likely to think that even if you were to perform a reality check during an actual dream.
That said, there are always exceptions to rules: I remember years ago going into a kitchen and thinking something like "well, I know I am awake, but might as well reality check" and despite this thinking which could have prevented the success of the reality check because my expectation was that it would not show a dream (and in dreams expectations usually lead to things happening as expected), so it would have served me right if that reality check had incorrectly shown that I was awake, but I got lucky, and it showed that I was dreaming - I was shocked! The resulting lucid dream was one of my most memorable ones, one of the few I still remember twenty years later.
However, I would recommend on not pushing one's luck as I did, and to not start a reality check expecting it to show awake state.
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