Thread: how did i fail a reality check?

Originally Posted by no-name

You realized you were dreaming. You were lucid.

I hate when people say that without consideration!
he wasn't really lucid, if so, then he wouldn't post the question on this forum!
when people doubt, it's always about low lucidity or a false lucid dream....

to moosebomber...
search in the forum for "False Lucid Dream"

If you understood that it was a dream, then you were lucid. It's quite possible to dream that you are lucid (see Mariano's obsession with so called 'false-lucid dreams' to be further confused on this simple subject), but I'm wondering if your idea of a lucid dream is not the basic definition of a lucid dream? As long as you realize it's a dream, you're lucid- no matter of un-vivid, unrealistic, low-control, and low logic you yourself are. Did you actually know that you were in a dream? If so you were lucid dreaming. If you did not, you were not lucid dreaming. It sounds like you got to that hazy questioning point, hence the reality check, so you probably really were lucid, especially since you said you were thinking and telling yourself this after a RC.

Remember, RCs can fail. Always try to use memory checks and at least a few RCs. A failed RC does not mean that you are not in a dream, so never assume it does (though it sounds like you didn't let yourself be fooled). Make sure to thoroughly establish that you are in real life before giving up.

it's not a obsession..
we can know that we are dreaming...
then we can understand we are dreaming and come lucid(no matter how much of awareness..like you said)...