Thread: Help With Reality Checks And Dream Recall Stuff Plzzzz

Originally Posted by koshni66

I hear ppl on the forums talking about it all the time...but if ur not lucid in the dream then HOW are you suppose to consciosly check if its real or not....doesnt make sense to me....can sum1 explain? and tell me how to do it...? im still trying to improve dream recall, and auto suggestion seems to be the best i get like 2 dreams(parts of) a night that way...my only problem is that since im writing in the dark i sumtimes uknownling write over a previous dream or just over the same sentence and cant read what i wrote later....soooo PLZ HELP ME!!

If you get into a habit of checking reality every time something weird happens, or you get a weird feeling then it will work its way into your dreams.

The other night in fact, I was in my dream, and something weird was going on. I was thinking to myself "This must be a dream!" and doing loads of noseRCs, but they all failed, so I was never lucid. I need to get used to doing more comprehensive ones in RL, so they work themselves into my dreams.

As for recall,once you awaken from a dream, you should lie awake, concentrating on your dream memory for a minute or so, then wake up fully and write it down. When you wake up you should turn on a light, and not have to get out of bed to get to your DJ. This way, the light will not knock the memory out of you, and you should have much more legible handwriting.

Hope I could help.

Yo Koshni!

Reality Checking

Looks like you need help with Reality Checking, ahh, the old common trick into making yourself realize you're dreaming. It works in this way: When you are in a dream and you don't know you're dreaming, you see your grand mother is literally a dog. You don't know you're dreaming so you do a Reality Check. You look at your hands and see if they're any different than normal, this is because our brain doesn't ever generate our hands properly in our dream, so 90% of the time they're abnormal, and if they are, you know the dream is what it is.

As for the rest which is 10%, other Reality Checks can be done in order to check your reality. Take this as an example, the room all around you is dark, and you changed your light bulb yesterday, dream or not. There's a vampire zombie guy behind you, you're scared, but you want to know you're dreaming, so you test the light. Most of the time electrical devices such as light switches and lamps don't work, so if the light doesn't work or there's something wrong with it, you're most likely to be dreaming.

But don't get me wrong, you don't really need to spent that much time in the dream to know you're dreaming. For instance, when you're dreaming and you question your reality, your subconscious (aka you're inner voice/self) basically knows lucidity. Reality Checking is for if you want to double check for definite, but if you're a beginner, ignore what I said about double checking, as it'll be important for you to start off with, like an adult holding your hand whilst trying to balance on walking on a thin rope.[/COLOR]

Dream Recall

Now we come to Dream Recall, this is good for our dreams because it helps us remember our dreams in general. This is why very important for helping us remember our dreams. And here's the bonus, it can help you naturally become lucid.

Here's a tip, when Jimmy wakes up in the normal, he says "I don't want to get out of bed", but then he picks up his pad whist sitting in bed and jots down a few keywords about the dream. When he's been to the toilet to do the stuff, he's forgotten his dream. He looks at the keywords he wrote and automatically remembers maybe his whole dream, maybe over time. Why? Because little Jimmy's mind remembered the words and so he can write down his dream.

There's a forum section on here called "Dream Journal" which is exactly what this is for, typing our dreams. I'll give links below:

Here's more Dream Recall help - Click
And here's more Reality Checking help and some examples - Click
Dream Journal Section is something you may want to look at too - Click

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