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im trying to figure this out.
How can you think to check whether or not your in a dream,
in a dream?
This is what im having the most trouble finding answers to.
How can you think to check while asleep?
How can you be in control of yourself while you are unconscious?
Is there a method to it?
That's a very good question. My thought process must be similar to yours, because no matter how much I tried to get myself in the habit of doing RCs in real life, that habit never carried over into my dreams. The only time I do RCs in dreams is when I'm already at least partially lucid.
However, other people report being able to get that habit of doing RCs to integrate into their dreams, and gain lucidity from that alone.
Like so many other things in relation to dreaming, I believe it varies from person to person. Perhaps if I worked harder at RCs I could get them to carry over, but I worked on it for several weeks with no luck, so I stuck with other methods that seemed to work better for me.
Yeah, most of the time, RCs don't work so well with me. Most people say that if you practice them in waking life, you will be able to practice them in your dreams. I think this is true for some, as Tygr said, but for others, it doesn't. Don't worry. You can find another way to gain lucidity.
I'm only a noob, but the only lucid dream I've had has been from performing a RC (two days ago), and I was not lucid beforehand. Therefore, most of this post will be from a theoretical standpoint--take it or leave it.
The behavior of people in dreams is usually not the same as it is in real life. Habits, for example, don't seem to carry over unless they are the subject of a dream. You are in an altered state of conciusness, and you are most likely not going to remember to perform a RC all the time. I tried to induct lucid dreams by practicing RCs all the time, and it never worked. I would look at clocks and flip lightswitches constantly, to no avail. Can anyone ever remember doing something like chewing on fingernails, tapping their feet, or performing any other mundane habit in a dream?
I have a hunch that the key lies in the altering of beliefs, which you carry into your drieams, about the accuracy and reality of the world around you. You need to logically accept the possibility that at any moment, there is a good chance you are only dreaming, which is entirely true, and exciting. You logically have no reasonable certainty that you are awake right now, think on this.
What I am trying to do is, anytime I am sitting down somewhere, relxing or doing work, I'll think "How do I know I'm awake?", and then I'll prove this to myself by doing a RC. More importantly, if ANYTHING even remotely strange happens, I immediately do a RC. If someone says something that strikes me as unusual in a converstation, I'll do a RC with a clock or even a lightswitch. In short, the conditioned response to a feeling of weirdness, doubt, or strangeness needs to become doing a reality check, since all these feelings occur to some degree in most dreams.