The BIG Reality Check topic, part IV

I just discovered a RC for me. It works if you wear glasses and it doesn’t look awkward in public. I just look to see if I’m wearing my glasses since I usually never wear them in dreams.

I normally try a million different RCs in my dream

I plug my nose
Look at my hands
Plug my nose
and then I look at my hands again

For some reason my hands are disformed in my dreams

the nose breathing is my personal favorite. I don’t use and true induction techniques, all i do is a couple RCs (nose breathing being my favorite.). As far as dependency and quickness go, the nose breathing one is by far the best in my oppinion. for me it works every time, and it’s fast and easy. I have tried reading text in dreams before, and either i wake up before i can complete it, or i just don’t have to focus to do it. and hands usually look the same for me.

Last night, I had my first lucid dream since joining the forum last week. I have had many LDs before, but began getting frustrated and confused with false awakenings and going in & out of lucidity. I learned about reality checks, and tried it last night. WOW was that neat! Once I realized I was dreaming, I tried to stick my right finger through my left hand. It wasn’t an easy pass-through, I really had to dig, almost like trying to poke a stick through heavy modeling clay. Once I did it, I was doing it the whole dream. All day today, I have the strangest feeling in the middle of my left hand. I must have been playing with my palm in my sleep. ??
Another cool thig about last night – this is the first dream in a long time that I actually had a conversation with a dream character about my lucid dreaming. Although I can’t remember exactly what he said, I can still picture what he looks like in my head. He was a cross between Adrian Grenier & Seth Rogan. Analyze that one!
Glad i was able to use a tip I learned here!

I recently (a week ago) started to do the finger-though-palm one, but I felt I was doing it too much and that I didn’t think about it really. Now I writed RC on my hand and on my leg. Each time I’ll see it, I’ll do some random RC I can think of. Also, when walking through a door, I’ll try to do a RC.
The only LD I had was using WILD, so I hope I’ll have some using RCs, too.

I do a reality check in a dream and nothing happens ?

Many times it happen that I do it in a dream and then nothing.

I tried different reality checks.

What could be the problems ?

Thank you in advance for your eventual help

Merged from Quest. :dragon:

This often seems to be caused by some sort of expectation that the RC is going to say you are awake. A way of combating that is to really question and give it some thought, if you are dreaming, when you do your RC. Doing the same RC over and over might also cause you to become used to it failing. So perhaps doing a few different RCs might help if you RC often. :smile:

Ive jsut started a DJ to help withdream recall, and ive been trying to do RCs too, but i never think of them druing the day. Is there any way to help make them a habit?

I did stick-your-finger-though-other-hands-palm relaity check in a lucid dream, and it failed! Or, rather, worked! Failed! Eeh…
Basicly, it didn’t do what it was supposted to do: The finger was stopped by the palm! So if I would ever do this RC in a ND, I wouldn’t get lucid!
Thankfully, the nose one worked, so I’ll use that one.

Sanky:
Thats exactly what happened to me. My finger didnt go thorugh my palm, but the air supply got through my plugged nose afterwards so… i dont bother with the hand-through-palm RC. As the nose one always works for me :content:

I’m not sure if this method was mentioned yet, but I read somewhere that you could write a large “A” on your palm that stands for “awake.” If you look at it in your dream and its there it might remind you to do a reality check. I hope that helps.

I actually don’t do much RCing. I like to do the levitation RC, but only after I’m lucid. The classic “examining surroundings” trick works with me too.

Reality checks can come in many differnt ways. In my first self induced lucid dream a poptart served as a reality check. :happy:

(Oh my first post on the English forum :3 )

RC’s make me angry as hell. ): I never succeed that way, especially the mirror-way doesn’t work.
I remember that last summer I was in a dream and I looked in a mirror to see if I still looked normal. Odd me would prove I was in a dream, I thought. First I did not see any reflection at all, so I went closer. Then I suddenly appeared, all bloody and gore like I’d been in some sort of accident. “Oh that’s me!” I though and I just dreamed on. Argh.

A few dreams later I looked into the mirror again. My body shapeshifted into someone else and still I decided the RC proved I was awake.

Even clocks don’t help! A few nights ago I was in a dream and looked at the clock. 3:00. I looked away and then looked again. 18:34. I looked away and looked again: --:–.
‘Oh hey my clock’s broke!’ Oh god, dream-me is so stupid!

for me even if i do a hundred RC IRL, i never do them in a dream. when i dream its like watching TV. i dont think about my choices i just do them

Can anybody help me…

The only time I’m reminded to do a RC is when I’m on LD4ALL but otherwise throughout the day I never remember. Any ideas? :rc: :rc: :rc: :rc: :rc: :rc:

@DR34M N0OB: you could try using a watch and setting it to go off every hour? or you could try to remember to do one everytime you go through a doorway. that works for me. or you could do one when you see a clock. or a tv. or your family/friends. or… ill stop now. but now that i think about it, the possibilities are close to endless

i had a LD this morning by reality checking. it was about time too. ive been RCing for the past month with continuously missed and failed DS’s, and it paid off! yay! the funny thing is that i didnt hear my phones alarm so i must have been in a really deep sleep.

I stared doing the nose RC…
I do irt a few times a day.
When i’m in bed,that phase of the slow waking up,in wich you’re half dreaming,half awake,i do it dozens of times.
I still can’t get lucid…

Really glad I found this site. I am a newbie, only been at this for 6 months, but it’s good to find a site to share my interests. I LD about once a week, and trying desperately to increase that number. The RC thing is great, as I first learned it in “the art of dreaming” by castaneda. I will continue to try the nose technique…if anyone has any tips I would love to hear them. Just being on this site helps my mind to condition itsself to dream more. I recall dreams every night now, as before maybe twice a week. Thanks to all for making this possible and sharing your experiences.
Josh
Please message me if you have any pointers that can help me become lucid at night…besides the ones I have already read. Everything helps!
Peace to all

ok so here is a RC that you only have to do once a day.
first. you know how when u were a kid, at least for me, whenever i had a LD i would first think wait! i was just in my bed. so then lalalalaa i would have a LD.
so whenever u get up in the morning aka out of your bed just be aware that u are getting up and if you want do a RC.
cause then when you are in a dream you will be like “wait i never got out of bed, im still sleeping!!”

on a side note. i do RC on a sheduled basis. and on a random basis. like whenever i look at a clock or what not. but i also do them, whenever i see the sun, the moon, my DS, and now whenever i wake up.:smile: