Quote Originally Posted by gab View Post
I understand it's hard to believe that you are dreaming when you know you are not.

But if you had a lucid dream before, when RCing during day, try to recall, even just for one second, that surprise you felt when you realized you dreaming. Think about how realistic your dream was and what if you are dreaming right now, but you will never know, until you RC.

If you just waiting for your first lucid, read some threads or dream journals where people describe, how realistic it all looked. Sometimes even more realistic and detailed and vivid than waking life.

Just try and think about the possibility, that this waking life is actually a dream. That's what Australian aborigenees believe. And you can find this idea in some budhists books, like Sleep and Dream Yoga.

But than again, not all RCs work for everybody. That's why it's good to practice at least 3-4 of them. Happy dreams
I do that all the time but when it comes to that reality check, it fails me everytime. the problem is the fact that it can even be difficult to do in Lucid Dreams so of course it wil be even harder in a non lucid one. I chose that one cause it seemed like the easiest and most simplest one to do at the time but it has been highly unreliable at times. I've recently switched to the blowing out of mouth RC because that RC doesn't need belief in order to work. it will work everytime no matter if you believe it will or not. I think the most reliable RC are the ones that work off of typical dream mechanics instead of off ones belief like the pinching nose technique.