I used to do reality checks but i remember myself being with a watch all the time and having adjusted it to tick every 20 minutes. It was a bit frustrating.
A, something else then: If i do a reality check, but not try to read a paper, do a super jump, change the environment e.t.c., just to wonder if i am in a dream or not. Does this work too?
I thought something about timing: I will set my mobile phone to vibrate every 30 minutes. I will realise then it’s time to do a reality check, and i won’t disturb the people around me…
I usually don’t do RCs, and I had a LD last night. My second ever :]
All I did was read some about LDing right before going to sleep, keeping my mind filled with it until falling asleep. Then in a dream a DC told me it was… That’s right, a dream. And boom, lucid.
So yes, DILDs are possible without RCs :>
RCs are totatally unnessary, BUT they help! Just do a bunch RCs while your getting ready to go to sleep, and do an RC when ever somthing weird happens.
Hi wanderer, I know how you’re feeling, usually when you are going about your day, there are a dozen things on your mind(esp. in college) and it’s not that you don’t have time to do RCs, you just don’t have the mental free time to commit to LDing several times during the day. I often don’t even think about LDing until I am lying in bed or looking at the forum, so basically I hardly ever use reality checks.
This doesn’t hurt my lucid dreams much though, I find that when enough LDs have been experienced, one will be able to easily differentiate between the real world and the dream world. I did this just last night(after a 1.5 month dry spell), so it’s not like you will get ‘rusty’ if you don’t have an LD for a while.
The only real obstacle is that this takes a great deal of commitment to achieve. I am now able to consistently become lucid at will(I don’t always want to be lucid though) after a year of practice. The hardest part is getting your foot in the door, so to speak, by having enough LDs that you will begin to recognize the signs(you may have to use RCs to get these initial lucid dreams though). Once you get used to it, it will pretty much become second nature(you’ll know that you’ve probably reached this point when you don’t get excited anymore when you realize that it’s a dream).
Well i use MILD with almost no RCs, they never helped me really. The technique is working just fine for me and i only use RCs when i suspect im dreaming and want to make sure and increase lucidity. It depends on the person but it’s certain that RCs are not a must in LDing - they just help you out.
you don’t have to take RCs so seriously. Just if you come to think of it, have a look at your hand or something, read a piece of text twice. or just reflect, are things normal right now? You don’t have to make a big deal of it.
I used wild, and had an OBE style dream, where I entered the dream where I was lying. Knowing I was dream, I went out of my room to a third storey window to fly off, but as I was climbing out I thought I’d better make sure, so I did two reality checks. They mislead me. They told me I wasn’t dreaming, so I actually went down a floor and climbed out on to a the roof to fly of, just in case I wasn’t dreaming. I was dreaming; I flew off, and I’ve never been able to to that in real life (and I have tried).
My experience is once you start to get a lot of LD’s (through practise), you start to get them without any effort (so no RC’s needed as well). Getting to that point is the real problem of course.
As of today, I have never tried of making RCs a habit, and I think I will keep on doing that, because they are not crucial for me.
I only use them to extend the length of my lucid dreams.
And because I only use WILD to lucid dream.