Thread: Failed reality checks

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 maxy126

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

As i said ^^

the best reality check by far is attempting to remember waking up that morning. If you can't remember past 5 minutes ago, you're dreaming for sure

If reality checks fail but it does feel like a dream somhow then try to do som things that are considerd impossible in reality like telekinesis, teleport, make somthing appear or disappear, change the color of the sky etc etc Anything

I agree that all reality checks can fail, they just usually don't. Even the nose one has failed for me a couple of times. A good reality check is jumping and trying to fly. I usually try three to five different ones until I'm sure I'm dreaming or not.

Originally Posted by MSUPokerGod

the best reality check by far is attempting to remember waking up that morning. If you can't remember past 5 minutes ago, you're dreaming for sure

If you were dreaming that would take an awful lot of thinking power though, which would probably wake you up ! But if you didn't mind waking up then yeh, that would be the best .

Remember, if there is any question to whether or not you are dreaming, then you are dreaming.

i always count my fingers, it usually works. Last night i looked at my hands in the dream and i saw i had only 4 fingers. and its a really easy reality check do do when your awake.

Originally Posted by jongiambi

i always count my fingers, it usually works. Last night i looked at my hands in the dream and i saw i had only 4 fingers. and its a really easy reality check do do when your awake.

whoooooaa that exact thing happened to me last night... its actually freaky a little bit, but the excitement of knowing its for sure a dream overpowers the freakyness ^_^

If you were dreaming that would take an awful lot of thinking power though, which would probably wake you up ! But if you didn't mind waking up then yeh, that would be the best .

remembering what you were doing a little while ago takes a lot of thinking power? Is that cause it activates the memory part of your brain (hippocampus) and this isn't usually activated? or are you just theorizing?

Originally Posted by MSUPokerGod

whoooooaa that exact thing happened to me last night... its actually freaky a little bit, but the excitement of knowing its for sure a dream overpowers the freakyness ^_^



remembering what you were doing a little while ago takes a lot of thinking power? Is that cause it activates the memory part of your brain (hippocampus) and this isn't usually activated? or are you just theorizing?

It takes next to no thinking power you look at your hands when your awake and in the dream you look by habit and see your hands look wavy or have less or more fingers and you become lucid.

Originally Posted by jongiambi

It takes next to no thinking power you look at your hands when your awake and in the dream you look by habit and see your hands look wavy or have less or more fingers and you become lucid.

well yeah but this thread is about failed reality checks, I'm assuming that the hands one is common enough that this thread wouldn't exist if it were indeed a completely foolproof test... as remembering waking up certainly is

while we're on the topic... I also like the technique of examining something closely to see if its texture is consistent. This is also a technique used to extend the lucid dream if you are indeed in one, I remember seeing on these forums (don't remember exactly where). Try to pick something complicated... I'm looking at the wood grain of my loft for example, a bunch of small swirls and dots that remain completely constant when I stare at them.