The BIG Reality Check topic, part IV

I just had my first LD today (i had some a few times in my life, but accidentaly) and acheived it through reality checks, it was amazing :tongue:
I started to get used to RCs in real life (looking at the hands and the digital clock) for 3 days and eventually did one on a dream.
I looked at my hands, one of them started to melt an the other only had 3 fingers :eek: i almost freaked out but then i realized “of course, it’s happening because i must be dreaming!!!” then i became lucid, like magic!!! I decided also to do the digital watch RC. I looked at it seemed to be fine, but i looked away an then looked back, and the time had changed. I did it 3-4 times, was actually kind of funny.
Then i started to do some of that LD stuff like flying, jumping high, telekinesis and so on. Hope it happens more times /o/

Great. And how did you do RC in real life? Looking at your hands and saying your are not dreaming since they look normal?

Waving in front of one’s eyes is really not mentioned anywhere, even though that it is in my opininion the most reliable RC imaginable. Since eyes can’t really see your hands if you wave too fast IRL, in a lucid dream you actually see over your entire “screen” with a trail of the hand.

Yes, it’s something like that. In real life i just look at them for a few seconds an realize how pretty solid they are and only move when i want to (yeah, of course ¬¬) but in the dream they were melting, distorted, missing fingers, and were somewhat blurry too, like they were made partially of smoke. etc. At least for me, the hands RC worked VERY well.
I also do the digital watch RC, maybe more than with the hands, but that’s because i’m used to having the watch with me all the time for years. Actually in the dream the numbers were fine, but they changed drastically when i looked back.

Today I kept forgetting to do RC’s, so when I was keeping my journal, I decided to write “RC” on my hand so I’d remember. :wink:

The RCs I always use are either holding my nose shut and seeing if I can still breath, or sticking my finger through my hand. The nose one is the easiest and best one in my opinion. They both feel REALLY weird when you do em in a dream.

Lucky Lizard King.

The nose one never works for me, either i cant breath or i cant and just dont notice what i am doing. the hand one used to work when i first started ld many years ago and now it just melts . very cool tho.

I used to ues The clock and watch it spin wonderful to see.

Lol, you all probably know about the lightswitch technique. But doing reality checks in a normal dream is somewhat impossible for me, I either enter the dream lucid, or something makes me lucid that’s beyond my control. But even in a lucid dream, I could not shut off lights in a room. I tried switches, I tried telekinesis, using my mind to break the bulbs, I tried telling it to shut off, and I tried to rip the light fixture from the ceiling…but…at that point a voice came from the lights and was very angry with me, and I ended up fleeing in fear.

Make it habit to hold your nose shut and try to breathe through it. Works the best for me and feels really weird in a dream. Without using RCs you won’t be confident enough that you are dreaming.

So how do you remember doing a RC in the morning, after you got up?

you could just put a letter in an enevelope that says “Do a RC” and open it before you go to bed and when you wake up

I’ll try it. Hope I don’t forget to look at the letter, cause I think it’s important to make a RC right after awakening.

if you know that muscle you close when you swallow, just close that and see if you’re still breathing. Hopefully you know what I’m talking about…

I’m having a slight problem with RC’s. Most of my dreams involve people trying to kill me, so I don’t have the mental capacity to do an RC. All of my energies are focused solely on surviving. Anyone have any ideas on how to combat this? I plan to try to program myself to gain lucidity when I dream of danger, but I’m concerned that that may create issues with my waking life.

the pluggging nose RC works perfectly. i started remembering to do RC’s 2 days ago and i had a dream last night and i remembered to plug my nose and i could still breathe, IT FELT SOOOOOOO WEIRD!

Instead of that, try to program yourself like that: When someone or something chases me, I will become lucid.

I decided that I would wear my digital watch to bed from now on. I’ve been meaning to keep it on when I got to bed, but I’m in a total habit of taking it off. I’m going to use it as the FA-Buster. Whenever I wake up during the night or the morning, I’ll flip the indiglo on and see what the time is, wait for it to go off, then press it again and see what “new” time shows up. I think this should work well since it’ll be right in my face, and i won’t have to move around too much to look at it. I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

Yeah, it’s like the same muscle you use when going underwater without plugging your nose with your fingers.

I’d suggest that its better to be able to remember without any visual cues. LaBerge offers a great exercise in EWLD to improve your prospective memory. I did it, and it really helped. You write down about 5 targets on cards, one card per day for a week. Wake up, read the card, memorize the targets. Whenever you notice a target (say, when you’re in a bathroom, or when you see blinking lights) that should prompt you to RC. It works by association rather than visual cues, if you know what I mean. I got better at it and it was weird to have these targets in the back of my mind, notice one, and instantly think “RC.” With that improvement, you can write down targets before you go to bed, and when you notice them in the dream – BAM! You’ll think “RC.” Good luck!

I read in this forum something about “hole in the wall” ore something… Please someone tell me more about this RC.