Quote Originally Posted by xspectrum View Post
So, last night in my dream, I began to notice some pretty crazy stuff like light shows in my school. I remember thinking to myself, "I should do a reality check to make sure I'm not in a dream,". I pinched my nose and tried to breath in through my nose. I couldn't breathe. What happened? I thought that the nose-pinch RC was pretty much fool proof.
Oh I hate that, and I sympathize completely. I have a dream sign that always fails me. I have never ever ever seen a tornado in real life, but I dream about them all the time. So when I dream about one, I'll do a reality check (like finger through palm), and it fails, so I think "THIS time it's really a tornado, cool." Then I wake up pissed. But the finger through palm check never fails in my other dreams, just the damnable tornado dreams. I have, however, had other reality checks fail here and there, so I came up with one that worked with me so often, that I always use it. And it helps me lock in my lucidity if the LD is weak or fading. I look into a mirror.

You just made me decide that I am going to do the mirror thing instead of the finger thing next time I have a tornado dream. So find a check that gives you more success. We can so beat this. Good luck!