Seems that getting habit of RC after every awakening, is starting to have some benefits for me. But the following story shows how hard it is sometimes to differ FA from real awakening even if you succeed in doing many RCs. As my last LD mostly consisted by trying different RCs until i finally believed that i’m really in LD, i will post my last LD also here:
20th October
I had an annoying ND where i saw a person who annoys me IRL and did the same in my dream. In the end of the dream i thought something like: i wish i would see you in LD instead. I woke up. BUT this was FA
After FA i walked around in certain large garage, that was located in the second floor of a dorm and in FA i had memory that here i was sleeping and now i woke up. So i did RC to be sure (recently i started to make RCs every time i woke up from dream to reduce the chance of not recognizing FAs and now i had first time when it benefitted me). I plugged my nose and was able to breath. I did it several times and every time i was able to breath. So i walked around and wondered: what the heck? i’m sure i’m awake, but still RC shows me like i’m still sleeping! I even started to think that maybe my nose is usually infected by cold and right now i have one of those rarest moments, when i can breath through it no matter how carefully i plug it. But then it was still too weird, because you cannot breath through closed nose!
So i tried another RC with hands. I kept looking at them and looking away hoping that i will notice some difference. Althought sometimes they looked a bit paralyzed (similar to the situation when you sleep on your hand and it “dies”), but it was not THAT strange. And every time i counted 5 fingers in both hands. I was puzzled.
I also tried to fly. Even if i felt bit more confident that i can fly than IRL, i was unable to fly. So i kept doing other RC methods.
The garage was open and it was raining outside. So while i tried to figure out do i sleep, or not, i walked out. Rain was heavy. It was dark cloudy night and i think that i saw some lightnings in the far sky. I decided to remain dry and walked back inside.
In meantime i felt that the dream wants to go away (althought i did not recognized myself being in LD). But as i was really interested am i dreaming, or not i decided to continue it and it went on. To be more careful with hand-check i started to count my fingers with my other hand finger. This time i was successful and found more fingers than i should have! But i still was not convinced enough. So i went to wash my hands and looked at the boxes near the wash-basin. There were some labels with writings on them. I tried reading-method. I read the words, looked away and looked back. The words were the same. Then i decided to look away for a longer time, and it worked. The words were changed!
It finally convinced me that i’m really in LD! But i was not as confident to go straight outside to fly. I noticed two females and i went to them. One was beautiful bruenette, another was blonde, but she was looking OK too I felt arousal and wanted to try some group sex, hoping that this will be one of those rarest moments when someone fully succeeds to have sex in LD. I went to them and hugged the bruenette, while also rubbing gently the blonde with my other hand. One of them said that usually males do it with other males (or brothers do it with brothers). I smiled back and said that it’s actually not so. But then the LD faded away quickly and i had real awakening.
P.S. I’m pretty sure i did closed my eyes many times in LD and it was so natural that it did not at all hindered my LD (overally my LD’s are not bothered by eye blinkings, or closing my eyes anyway).
Edit P.P.S. Before looking at those words on boxes, i was about to search for some clock to use watch-RC method too. My mind was very busy on trying to figure out as many RC methods i can, except jumping from second floor and seeing can i fly, or not - i could injured myself if it really turned out to be RL