When you start trying to have lucid dreams, you will find yourself sometimes wondering whether you are really dreaming or not. To answer that question a reality check is an excellent way.
One thing you must keep in mind is that whenever you are not sure it is a dream you are probably already dreaming!
In the dream world, other rules apply than in waking life. This is what we take advantage of in a reality check.
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Always have 2 or 3 Reality Checks at hand - If you're doubting you can use the second and third one to be absolutely sure it's a dream.
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Here are several reality tests you can use:
Read something
Read something, look away and read it again. If you are dreaming the text will have changed. It will maybe not even be text at all but weird symbols.
Look at the time
Find a clock and tell the time. Then look away and look back again. If you are dreaming, the time will have changed.
In a dream clocks never tell the time right. Sometimes they will not even tell the time. The clock may have no hands for example. Digital clocks will have too much numbers or strange symbols on them.
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Hold your nose
Simple and effective. Hold your nose and try breathing through your fingers. If you can breathe you are dreaming.
Use your hands
Look at your hands and see if they look weird.
Alternately: try sticking a finger through your hand. If you succeed you are definately dreaming.
Try to levitate
Go on, just try it. Try to levitate from the ground and let yourself float. If you can do that you must be dreaming.
Try to switch on the light
Lichtswitches work erratically in dreams. Flip the nearest lightswitch. If you are dreaming the light won't work. Or it might work but will shine in a different color or less bright.
If you switch on a light and it works not like it should you have a big change it's a dream. Or a fuse has blown - so don't go jumping from high buildings yet.
Through the mirror
This one is my favorite. Try to stick your finger through a mirror, the window, or a wall. It gives a very strange tinkling feeling in your finger when it works as well as the utmost conviction that you are dreaming. And after that, just step through and see where you end up...