Thread: Why wont I do an RC in my dream??

I do them atleast 10 times a day in RL. I keep a dream journal, writing down atleast 2 dreams a day that I remember. But I still won't have a lucid dream. Am I doing something wrong? I've been trying to have a lucid dream for atleast 6 weeks now.

I think that you are trying too hard, try some meditation and maybe try a different kind of reality check next time. Instead of saying it to yourself in a dream, take time to look around and notice what shouldn't really be there. If I am too tired I won't LD, when I drank I wouldn't LD, if I am stressed I won't either. Try the MP3's you can find in lucid aids. They produced results for me.

What kinds of RC's are you doing and what is triggering them? By that I mean, do you have a set time of the day or event you base the RC's off or is it spontaneous as you find something out of place or you just think to do it?

What works for me: I keep asking my self "am I dreaming?" then I do a RC, I do it eigther totally random or I do it when I see a dream sign or something just out of the ordinary happening. Let me take an example from a RL experience; I was at the gym, and I had some gym pants I took on, then when I took them on somehow the part inside the pants and my inner pockets where missing. I noticed this when I was gonna put my mobile phone in my pocket and it just ended up where my legs was. And I could see my boxer trough the empty pockets. So I am thinking "This was wierd, maybe this is a dream. Is this a dream?" and I first look at my hands, nothing wierd about my hands, then plug my nose with my hand and try to breath, can't breath. I then conclude that I am not breathing. So when I dream there is a chance that something familliar will happen and it will trigger LD and I will do a RC. I also do more than 10 a day though, I do a lot of them.

The dream journal: Try to analyze your dreams and try to find a dream sign, something that keeps happening in your dreams. It can eigther be a feeling, something that happens, a dream theme, a DC... It can basicly be anything. And then you need to train your self to do a RC when this will happen in your dream, and you will most likely do it when this happens again.

And don't just think about that you want to have a LD. visualize what you're going to do when you become lucid. Just having the thought of having a LD won't do you any good if you don't know what you want to do when you become lucid in a dream.

Waking up 1 hour before usual, then staying up for 30-60 min relaxing and thinking about dreaming, writing in your journal, watching/reading dream related stuff. And think that you're going to have a lucid dream then visualizing it before you go back to sleep and thinking "I am going to have a lucid dream, I am going to become lucid in my dream and I will remember it when I wake up". (WBTB) It's basicly the most effective way to get a LD for a beginner imo since you will think of LD and fall right into REM sleep (most likely).

write the letters RC on your wrist and do a reality check every time you see it. when first starting out you should be fanatical about reality checking, hundreds of times a day, not ten. once you get more experience you can bring it down a little, i don't do them at all.

Honestly, 10 times a day is not really a whole lot. It's 12:41 PM and I've already done about 9 today. Are you just doing them habitually, the physical behavior, or are you also increasing your awareness? I find it's best to focus on the latter, then you don't even have to do RCs but you'll just also get lucid spontaneously.