doing Reality checks during the day increases odds of a lucid?

**ultima kid** · 08-02-2009 03:47 PM

hey, i was wondering if doing reality checks during the day will increase the odds of a lucid at night? im starting to get into the habit of pinching myself.

**Shift** · 08-02-2009 03:49 PM

Yes, it absolutely does, though I recommend that you don't rely on the pinching as pain is sometimes absent but very often present in dreams, and having only one reality check can cause you to miss lucids as one failing may mean you miss a lucid opportunity, whereas having a couple of backups might let you catch it and also means you're spending more time and effort thinking and questioning during your RCs. Have you read the tutorial? If not, click the teeth in my signature they'll link you to it.

**Sugarglider11** · 08-02-2009 04:14 PM

as shift shift said don't rely on pinching yourself, in my opinion it is the worst reality check as it can easily fail. You feel pain when you pinch yourself in reality so you will more than likely feel pain in a dream when you pinch yourself. I suggest using the nose pinch reality check, the one where you pinch your nose and try to breath through it, if you can breath your dreaming. I love that reality check because it cannot fail unless you are sick with a stuffed nose.

And yes, doing reality checks should increase your chances of a lucid dream, probably not from the reality checks themselves but they make you question reality more often. In most of my lucid dreams I only used a reality check to make sure I was dreaming after I was already lucid.