Why wont I do an RC in my dream??

[Sol-R Nemesis]

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.

[shannyball]

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.

[Mr_Jinsue]

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?

[Neko-san]

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).

[ninja9578]

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.

[Shift]

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.