Thread: How to remember to RC?

I of course have normal dreams, and I've only had about 3 LD's in my 15 year old life, each waking soon after realizing I'm attained LD, from recognizing dead family members, or just randomly popping into one.

My question is, once you're in a dream, how can you possibly remember to do a RC, or anything else of that sort to attain LD state?

Also, this is tough to word. If there a way to recognize that you're dreaming? Not go LD, but to like remember a dream, as you're in it. As you dream every night, you just do not remember them, how do you know if you're dreaming, before you wake up?

In order to remember to do RC's in your dreams, you MUST do them often. I once read that you should do it once every 15 minutes in the beginning . I think that you should try to do them every hour, or, maybe at different times during the day, waking up is vital, to get those false awakenings to become lucid. Also, try to RC when you see or think something that would be a dream sign of yours, something that often is in your dreams. If you don't know your dream signs, then start a dream journal if you haven't already, and you will be able to find some dream signs after a few entrys.

Hopefully doing these things will help you remember to RC in your dreams, don't give up .

A DC is simply a Dream Character.

Originally Posted by lucidreamsavy

In order to remember to do RC's in your dreams, you MUST do them often. I once read that you should do it once every 15 minutes in the beginning . I think that you should try to do them every hour, or, maybe at different times during the day, waking up is vital, to get those false awakenings to become lucid. Also, try to RC when you see or think something that would be a dream sign of yours, something that often is in your dreams. If you don't know your dream signs, then start a dream journal if you haven't already, and you will be able to find some dream signs after a few entrys.

Hopefully doing these things will help you remember to RC in your dreams, don't give up .

A DC is simply a Dream Character.

So by doing RC in real life, it will most likely become a habit for dream life?

Originally Posted by dje123

So by doing RC in real life, it will most likely become a habit for dream life?

Well, even if you do RC's in real life, you aren't likely to do them often, but you'll be more likely to get them by doing A LOT.

Write "RC" on your hand. Works for me. It can also work for a dream sign, if it's not there, you're dreaming‼

I find ituseful to also stay quite aware during the day ! This is also a form of RC, but I like to take a moment every one in a while to read a sentence (just on a box or on the T.V. or something) or the digital clock and observe it, and think to myself "does this make sense?" and then look a it once more to make sure it doesn't change. It helped me to become lucid once because I looked at a digital clock and instead of displaying the time it had a picture on it! Good luck! I, like you, have only had 3 LDs to far!

Getting in the habit is the hardest part, believe me. But, as you go along, you'll find it gets easier to remember to RC, and you start relying less on aids, like post-it notes or writing on your hands. Getting in the habit of RCing without these aids is also a great way to train your prospective memory, which can also be used in becoming lucid. I use three RC's: memory, nose-pinch, and finger-through-palm. The last two are relatively self-explaining, but the first is one of the most surefire ones, in my opinion. Basically, if you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes or so ago, there is an excellent chance that you're dreaming.

Awareness is also key. As your dream journal grows and you start identifying dream signs (which don't have to be specific recurring elements, I may add), you'll be able to fine-tune when and where you reality check, and for what reasons. All of this will definitely help you to become lucid.

A closing note on the matter: do NOT do RC's absent-mindedly. ALWAYS assume that you're in a dream when you're actually doing them. If you glaze right over them and don't really pay attention/assume you aren't dreaming, then you will be quite unlikely to notice them when you actually ARE dreaming.

Yes. That is the idea. If it's a habit awake, your odds are much higher of doing the same thing within a dream. And it does make sense, just like other things that are normal in real life will occur in your dreams.

For example, I often dream I'm somewhere trying to call home. When I used to dream this years ago I tried to call from a pay phone. Now I use my cell phone.