Thread: Do Reality Checks, its a proved method that affects everyone?

Originally Posted by Yahiko

Puffin's description of becoming lucid apply's to my personal experiences. First you become lucid than you use a reality check to make sure you are lucid. But i have encountered a dream where i did allot of reality checks including.

Looking at your hands counting you fingers and look if they are strange
Looking in a mirror and looking if something is strange about the reflection of yourself
Asking yourself how did i came here wat was i doing...
Pinching your nose and closing your mouth and then try to breath trough it

After doing all of these i still didn't became lucid all of them have failed. This proves for at least me that there is no foolproof way of knowing you are dreaming.

Do not get me wrong, reality checks can be a powerful method, but not for every dream..

That's happened to me before, too. I do reality checks in a non-lucid...
They're probably because of day residue, or what you thought about or did during the day. Like when you watch a movie and the characters or plot makes its way into your dreams.