Hey Alex, to DreamViews.

The reality checks you tried often do work. The problem is that when we are in a dream oftentimes we will make up excuses for why the RC passed, like you did with thinking it changed from time to date. One good rule to go by is that if you are questioning whether you are awake or dreaming then you are probably dreaming. I realize that if you are doing alot of RCs during the daytime so that it is just like an automatic thing then maybe that doesn't apply as much. I have only ever done RCs once I already know I'm dreaming to test what everyone talks about on these forums lol. Usually I will just look around and be able to tell if I am dreaming whether than relying on a certain test.