The BIG Reality Check Topic [part III]

No but it’s a good idea :content:
I don’t normally do RCs I just become lucid when someone threatens me in my dream

I was at another site and when the subject of lucid dreaming came up, one of the participants said they use it because it is inconspicuous.(spelling?)

Topic merged into the BIG RC topic

Latly I have been missing some big time dreamsigns, like this one friend I have, kim, she’s in like every second dream I have or her car is, so everytime I see her, reality check, but last night I was dreaming I was in school ds right there, and I looked out the window and her car was driving at the school and it hit the wall and cracked it and she got out and climed in the window and sat in her desk and took out her books like nothing happened, so right away I pluged my nose and tried to breath and I couldnt so I didint think I was dreaming then it kinda faded.

Then I fell asleep again and I was in a diffrent class, and its summer so I shouldnt be there, and I was on a computer and my teacher yelled my name and said “Are you dreaming in my class?” which was odd cause I was perfectly aware and knew I was awake so I tried to look at the clock but someone one was taking it down from the wall to change the battery when I looked so I just forgot about it.

Its really making me angry I am missing these because the dreams are soo vivid too and I am so close to being in control then the reality checks dont work.

The biting lip thing seems cool and won’t make you look silly while doing it in real life.

In my dreams I’ve never RCed, I just realise I’m dreaming and enjoy being lucid. I think I just do them during the day so I think about LDing a lot and therefore have them.

Stantheman, Im not an expert, but I think you should adopt some new RC. It is good to have more than 1, incase they fail. Usually ones that require you to search for something, such as a mirror, or clock, are harder than simply looking at your hands.

When you plug your nose, you have to “expect” to breath despite plugging it (IRL). This is because if you just plug your nose, and see that you can’t breath, it will go into your dreams as “When I plug my nose, I don’t breath”. I think…Am i close? Sorry for my uncertaintiy, Im new to this, but have a basic understandings of things.

I practice my RC’s as best I can, I usually do a series of 4 or 5 to make sure I do a few back ups in my dreams. I usually start out seeing if I can see my nose, then check if I can breat, check my hands, then I bite my tongue, and if there’s a light switch available, I’ll flick it on and off.

My problem is that in my dreams, I’m typically looking at everything in a third person view. I’m usually never an actual character in my dream, it’s usually just a movie for me. So, how am I supposed to perform reality checks in my dreams?

Could I just be mistaking a third person view with not being able to see my nose? So, in other words I don’t know that I’m actually in a first person view.

Yeah, my dreams are often not in normal view… I can see myself doing stuff. I’ve found that doing RC’s with another person and doing them together when you are together helps because in your dream you’ll most likely do the same thing. My sister is a pain and a help. -Mocha is Crazy— @_@

And Shakujou, I’ll try doing more than one when I WILD or go to sleep, it seems to be worth my while.

shakujou, if you don’t see yourself as an external character, it’s exactly like IRL thus it seems to me that you are in a first person view. Hence I don’t think it will be very difficult to perform RC’s.

Do you mean that you never do any act in your dream and it’s just like watching the TV? I find this very surprising. Do you write down your dreams? Do you have a DJ?

I guess he’s talking about a low awareness; such a low awareness that it’s like you are the guy that is sleeping and the dream-you is a totally different person. I have that too. I think it’s not a good basic for LDing, but you can achieve it anyway.

Most the time it seems like I’m just viewing a movie. But like the dream I wrote out in my DJ, I was a character in it.

My DJ

I’ve only been recalling for about two weeks now, so I don’t really know how my dreams typically work yet, now that I think about it.

From your dream entry, it looks like an everybody’s dream. You’re acting in it, you have sensations, so you should be able to perform a RC.

I have a foolproof reality check that has worked for me nearly all of the time: I look at the digital watch on my wrist, turn my head away and think of random numbers I look at the watch again if it changed significantly or displays non time like 78:98 I know I’m dreaming

Lol… something funny happened today.

I kept having these dreams in which a girl called me on the phone. Always in completely different scenes. I thought “oh this is just a dream, she would never call me” the first time and didn’t get lucid. The next time I thought “this is a dream” and got lucid. And today she called me IRL. It was even more funny. I was calling her ex-boyfriend, my phone didn’t work. Just when I hung on, the phone rang and I went on and she was it. I immidiately did 256 RCs, but I wasn’t lucid. What does that mean? :eh:

Coincidence if you ask me… or If i beleived in it, Precongnition of a unimportant event… lol

Yeah, “what does that mean?” basically was a joke, because everything always “means” something. :content: But why should it not be something? I’m staying open for teh spiritual possibilitys. :peek:

For me, the Hand RC is a DILD’ers heaven. It’s very reliable, fast, and also can be fun. I also do the same thing with feet sometimes. I just splatter it around when I see a strange occurance or randomly, and it works. I also have bad vision, (12/20 at least) and that works as an RC>

I am bad at using rc:s. I even recall dreams where the most stupid would have understood they where dreaming.

for example: I was at McDonalds and had ordered a pie or something. I looked at the clock and it was something like 03.15. then I looked away and looked back again to see how long it took to get my pie. then the clock showed 20.48 or something. My reaction was “Sataninthestreet those McDonalds- folks are slow!” :ack: :ding:

I’ve developed a RC technique that works great for me and is relatively easy to do. It’s nothing new, but combines several existing RCs.

You ask yourself 3 questions:

  • Where am I? Have I been there before, and does the place look like usual?
  • How did I get there? Where have I been before?
  • What am I doing here, and does that make sense?

I had an LD today using this kind of reality check.

Yes, it’s a good technique, those mental RC’s have been developped many years ago by Pr Paul Tholey as a part of his critical-reflexive method, I think.

i know this one sounds crazy, but i heard someone tell me this one: put your fingers in your nose and grab the first thing you feel and pull it out, if it isnt something normally in a nose your dreaming O_o.

Just thought id shout that one out there, i generally stick with the clocks or breathing through fingers.