or maybe just flick your hands and expect a wall to fall down.!
this is a good topic
actually when you feel like doing an RC, you should try to do exactly what you would do if you are dreaming
like, hmmmm, i want to fly, so you try to levitate, or hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, can i make this cup float in the air? or things like that, so its always creative.
sometimes I do the finger through hand but it kind of hurts IRL, it seems goofy to do.
i used to do the nose thing,
sometimes i try to change colors, like, look away from my monitor, imagine its blue, then look back.
1: RCs you do UNCONSCIOUSLY in your dream (because you’re used to doing them in your waking life) and consequently become lucid thanks to them.
2: RCs you perform AFTER becoming lucid (after saying “I must be dreaming”) to be sure that you are REALY dreaming and hence become fully lucid.
This topic is about the first category. RCs that will help become lucid. RCs that can become a habit that will manifest in the dream world.
Personnaly, I don’t think trying to summon a “magical purple lawn gnome” is a good habit to cultivate
My friend can bend elements in his dreams so a reality check that he does is snap his fingers and see if fire appears like a lighter floating about his hand. Apparently it works every time but once. He also plays with his cell phone. It usually does not work in dreams.
Same here! My first LD, I lost my teeth 2 times and I thougt ‘Hey I must be dreaming because I can’t lose them 2 times!’
A RC I do a lot… A good friend of me I just saw once but I dream a lot 'bout him, so I think a lot about that… “If I see him again, I dream!” And indeed, I had a lucid dream because of him
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