this one works very well for me. but i can’t do it in public… and you’ll find out why when i descrive it.
putting my hand in my armpit (or someplace in my pants…) is good RC for me. In RL of course i’ll feel hair. But in my dreams the only hair that i usually have is on my head.
I usually have no ability to run at all in dreams, especially if I am trying to get away from someone or something. I get that “wading through water” feeling, and suddenly become very tired. Thus, anytime I feel like doing a RC, I just jog in place for a second or two. If my legs don’t move incredibly slowly, I must be awake. (Though this isn’t really foolproof, sometimes I can move normally when dreaming, but it usually works.) I’ve had the teeth loss thing happen to me before too, but it’s incredibly rare as I usually don’t worry about my teeth. I think that’s only ever happened in my dreams 2 or 3 times.
trying to morph into pure energy isn’t really something you can discretely do IRL to train yourself haha
im pretty sure he meant checks you can do IRL to train yourself to do in a dream.
things other people around you won’t give you weird looks for.
and not really things that just happen to you in the dream, things you think of to check and then do
this works if you have a piano: walk up to the piano and move one finger and press each key, if it goes in scale order like it should you are awake. if the sound is all screwed up, your in a dream
One RC I’ve done a few times is to draw on myself with marker, (I drew it once on my leg and a couple of times on the palm of my hand) I write the letters “RC” and every time I see them I do a reality check, it’s worked every time except once. (The night it didn’t work I didn’t remember any dreams so, yeah. ) It’s not very discreet so I wouldn’t recommend using that anywhere outside of your own home, but if you’re like me and have no life and never leave the house anyway I think it should work quite well for you.
Another one I use a lot is attempting to use telekinesis, come on, no one can tell you’re trying that. You have to picture the thing you want to move very vividly though, you can’t just think, “Move!” without visualizing anything at all. You sort of have to suspend disbelief and expect it to actually work, otherwise you’ll get the same result in a dream as you would in WL.
I’m trying out something new where everyday I draw a tiny star on my left palm with ink and periodically I will look at it and try to make it move on my skin. If it does, I’m obviously in a dream
Well, you probably shouldn’t try this one unless you’re feeling very very uncertain of your environment- try knocking something over or throwing an object in the air. The physics in dreams are sometimes not the greatest and sometimes objects do the strangest things. Once you see a vase hit the ground and bounce higher than it’s dropped (it might be a dream). The most unusual glitch I have found was a mop that would not go down and would only rest at the previous highest placement.
I just woke up this morning and went through my daily routine and then at about 10:00 AM (I’m on spring break) I was writing myself a note to put on my pillow for an experiment and while I was holding on to that sharpie, I realized “Hey, maybe I can mark myself and that would induce a lucid dream.” let me know if it works!
What you will need
A sharpie or any regular permanent marker (its crucial that its permanent)
A watch (Just recommended you don’t absolutely have to have a watch)
Your body
Permission from yourself to draw on your arm
Steps
Take the marker
Mark yourself in some way
To make this totally effective, wear a watch and mark it next to that(I wear a watch). If you do not own or want to wear a watch then make a mark on your writing hand or the hand that you do the most stuff with (this will probably make your hands more distorted in your dreams).
How it works
This works as a reality check because in your dreams you probably wont see it at all. This should give you the perfect opportunity to go lucid! please try this. I already did it join me will you? thanks!
Haha, there are, like, six types of reality checks I’ve learned. I’ve tried four of them I believe.
Breathing - Favorite - tried almost every lucid dream
Time/Text (the one you mentioned has the same basic concept) - Least favorite - the time changes to something so bizzare it startles me
(For example, in one of my dreams, I looked at the digital clock, it said 8:45AM. I looked away, and looked back; it changed to 00:01:45.666666666667 AM.)
Pinch pain - Most subtle, tried when other RC’s didn’t work
Clapping hands - Not tried yet - From what I’ve heard in dreams the hands will usually break in some way
Pushing right index finger through left hand - Second favorite - It’s a very weird sensation when you can see and feel the finger go through your hand
Looking at hands - Third Favorite - Usually in dreams the hand will appear very messed up
(For example, in one dream I did this RC and both of my middle fingers were flickering and both my ring fingers were twice as long + they were twisted around my pinky fingers)