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whispa
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 Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject: The BIG Reality Check Topic [part III] |
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[mod] This is part III of the BIG Reality Check topic.
Part I can be found here.
Part II can be found here.
Please post all your RC questions, techniques, etc here. Other RC topics will be locked and directed to this topic. [/mod]
I started reading this topic right from the beginning last night(the first 3 or 4 pages) and got some vivid lucid dreams this morning  RC's were on my mind a lot more. The hand RC never lets me down  I'm interested in trying 'lucid living' now.
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Neruo
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject: |
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I do remeber looking at my hand this one dream, but what I recall it looked normal. I at least Thought it was normal.
It's an intresting paradox to do RC's. RIght now I am 100% sure I am not dreaming, becouse my dreams are never like my 'normal' vision (that, and I am using an electronic device/pressing buttons/reading). Yet RC's only work if you do them IRL too, becouse in a dream everything looks normal.
I think I will just try to find and use my dreamsigns. I kind of adopted orange as my dreamsign, becouse I saw it in 2 of the 10 dreams I recalled (when first writing them down). Everything I see something really orange I do an RC.
Is it smart to 'adopt' a dreamsign so quickly? Maybe I will see orange in my dreams more often now becouse I think about it more in the day?
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StEvE21
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Ive been using red as a trigger for me to do a RC, and I also wrote a little red "C" on my hand. This still has not worked after weeks.   
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Neruo
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| StEvE21 wrote: |
| Ive been using red as a trigger for me to do a RC, and I also wrote a little red "C" on my hand. This still has not worked after weeks. |
Becouse you don't see red in your dreams? Red kind of overflows you IRL. I allready began to get annoyed with all the orange on the way to school ^__^
Maybe try random RC's again steve..or a different RC-trigger. Or does red really have a dreamsign-meaning to you?
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StEvE21
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Red is not a special dream sign of mine, but im using it because it is a common colour. I also thought that subconsciously I would dream about red more than i did before, because it is on my mind more than usual.
I am doing RC randomly too.
I want WILD to be my main method of LDing, so once I get the hang of it I can forget about doing RC.
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Neruo
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm, WILD is relaxt, RC-ing does make me feel a bit weird, all this just to have a cool dream?
But I think even if you would be able to do WILD RC-ing would be usefull.
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Basilus West
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Neruo wrote: |
| Is it smart to 'adopt' a dreamsign so quickly? |
I don't see any problem. If you think it's a good dreamsign. By the way, you can change it when you want.
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| Ive been using red as a trigger for me to do a RC, and I also wrote a little red "C" on my hand. This still has not worked after weeks. |
How many weeks? Did you notice something strange about the red colour in your normal dreams?
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StEvE21
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: |
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Almost 3 weeks now for red, and 1-2 weeks for the "C"
And I dont remember seeing anything red in my dreams...This is the opposite of what i expected to happen. I thought I would begin to see more red, not less. I dont think this will work for me, i'll just go back to random RCs with lucid living
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Basilus West
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:07 am Post subject: |
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| i'll just go back to random RCs with lucid living |
I think it a good idea. Remember you have to question the reality when you perform a RC ("Am I dreaming?") and you have to expect it to work IRL. Don't just do it automatically.
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Neruo
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Basilus West wrote: |
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| i'll just go back to random RCs with lucid living |
I think it a good idea. Remember you have to question the reality when you perform a RC ("Am I dreaming?") and you have to expect it to work IRL. Don't just do it automatically. |
That's the hard part. If I do RC's IRL I never really question or I am dreaming, becouse I know for sure I am not, otherwise everything wouldn't be so 'clear'...
But then if you do it in your dreams you allso don't think about it enough and you just ignore it <=( \
I guess I have to try harder.
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Danielsan
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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*does RC*
no dream :o
just took a nap, but i have to improve my DR cause i dont remember anything
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gabbe
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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I did something realy stupid a couple nights ago,I had a very vivid dream. I was on a train, and looked at a mirror. I decided to do a RC ... So I looked at my teeth, they looked perfectly normal, ok this isnīt a dream i said to myself. 
Iīve never done such a RC.. but i probaly got it from reading about teeth falling out as a DS.
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Danielsan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:25 am Post subject: |
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i think the best method is to pinch your on cheeks. i do this pretty often in my dreams, sometimes i control it cause i notice something is wrong but sometimes i just do it without any reason. Maybe its a dreamsign :O or maybe its just cause i do RCs pretty often in RL also :o.
Well, and after i pinched my cheeks and i feel nothing (like my cheek was numb) i am like: "hey I'm dreaming!" and it pretty often leads to LDs then.
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Petter
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Thats pretty short time from making up a RC to trying it out !! 
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Altered Perception
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| I set the RC picture in the shop as my background for my PSP. Everytime I go to the menu I remember to RC.
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