Reality Checks are not full proof. |
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The other day I had a very vivid dream and I somewhat knew that I was dreaming. After eating a doughnut(not IRL) I remembered to do a reality check. I counted my fingers about three times but they all came out to be ten fingers everytime. I tried to see if my thumb would go through my hand but it didn't. Why didn't my reality checks work? |
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Reality Checks are not full proof. |
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My Dream Journal
Current Lucid count for 2008: 28
"Men cry not for themselves, but for their comrades."
The fingers RC is not good. The best one is either pinching your nose shut and trying to breath through, or by extension, placing your hand over your mouth and trying to breath through that. |
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I do the nose RC every once in awhile but in my dreams I always forget that one for some reason. I should probably use the nose RC more often if finger RC don't work for me. |
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Yea the nose check failed me once after a false awakening, and I didn't do any other checks. I think putting one hand through the other is one of the most flawed of the reality checks. |
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Once upon a time a disciple went to his guru and asked him, 'Guru, what is life?' To which the guru replies, after much thinking, 'My Son, life is like a fountain.' The disciple is outraged. 'Is that the best you can do? Is that what you call wisdom?' 'All right,' says the guru; 'don't get excited. So maybe it's not like a fountain.'
LDs of 2008: 50, WILD: 3
LDs of 2009: 1, WILD: 0 (resolution: 100 LDs)
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