Thread: Failed reality checks

hmmmm??? the breathing RC actually really CANT fail! you must have a strong subconsciousness, because the breathing RC is just physically logical: when youre dreaming your bodys breathing automatically and when youre closing mouth and nose while dreaming and try to breath your real body will breath...

maybe your body really wasnt breathing in that moment. did you try it for longer? how long can you hold your breath, victorybear? try do it longer than you can hold your breath...

Originally Posted by Blitzwing

hmmmm??? the breathing RC actually really CANT fail! you must have a strong subconsciousness, because the breathing RC is just physically logical: when youre dreaming your bodys breathing automatically and when youre closing mouth and nose while dreaming and try to breath your real body will breath...

maybe your body really wasnt breathing in that moment. did you try it for longer? how long can you hold your breath, victorybear? try do it longer than you can hold your breath...

Yeah, you could be right. I can usually hold my breath for about a minute or so pretty easily, and in the dream, I think I tried it for about five seconds maybe. I probably should have done more than one type of reality check in that moment though, but I wasn't really thinking clearly.

Originally Posted by Blitzwing

hmmmm??? the breathing RC actually really CANT fail! you must have a strong subconsciousness, because the breathing RC is just physically logical: when youre dreaming your bodys breathing automatically and when youre closing mouth and nose while dreaming and try to breath your real body will breath...

maybe your body really wasnt breathing in that moment. did you try it for longer? how long can you hold your breath, victorybear? try do it longer than you can hold your breath...

It's failed for me before. I'm not convinced that breathing in dreams is always directly linked to RL breathing, or that experiencing breathing at all in dreams is even necessary.

Originally Posted by archdreamer

It's failed for me before. I'm not convinced that breathing in dreams is always directly linked to RL breathing, or that experiencing breathing at all in dreams is even necessary.

i dont know. could be true... BUT when breathing isnt necessary in your dream or dream and body breathing arnt connected, THAN the breathing RC worked! you get that? ^^ > when you dont need to breath it cant be reality, cause you need to breath (except you wanna die)!
or did I get you wrong? ^^

Originally Posted by Blitzwing

i dont know. could be true... BUT when breathing isnt necessary in your dream or dream and body breathing arnt connected, THAN the breathing RC worked! you get that? ^^ > when you dont need to breath it cant be reality, cause you need to breath (except you wanna die)!
or did I get you wrong? ^^

You'll always breathe in your dream if you can breathe in real life.

Dream worlds and reality are somewhat like parallel dimensions as your state of breathing in the real world directly affects your breathing in your dream.

The breathing reality check works so well for me that I've done it twice without intending to (as in it's part of the dream's storyline) and it still caused me to become lucid.

Oh the failed realioty checks... The common ones never work for me, my dreams are simply so logic <.<

i had 2 lucid dreams so far and i failed the finger thru palm rc when i was about to jump out my window plugged my nose and i could breathe so i just jumped down and floated always plug ure nose

Originally Posted by Blitzwing

hmmmm??? the breathing RC actually really CANT fail!

But sure it can. If you believe you can't breath, you simply can't. I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect RC. It's important that you expect an RC to fail in a dream (reality check failing = dreaming), if you don't, it most likely won't. Mechanically repeating RCs during the day without questioning the state will probably take you nowhere. You'd just do them in dreams the same way, mechanically and pointlessly. But if you question your state when doing an RC, I think you don't even have to fully execute it when dreaming. The act of questioning your state may already be enough to become lucid.

BOOOOOOOO! I failed the fingers through palm one last night :<