Thread: Reality check "thumb thru palm" strange feeling

Hello All,


I m still new to this (only 3 LDs) but I have a funny question I hope it wont look boring to you.

I found out my favorite reality check is the "thumb thru palm" test....but it s strange because I dont know if it feels the same for everyone here, but when I do it in a dream, I feel like all my palm is buzzling and get loaded with electricity, or vibrating like if the molecules would vibe and get loose between each others to let my thumb go thru the matter which is no longer solid but in some kind of vibrating state....

The feeling is quite amazing and nice....Notice that I never had the nerve to look down at my hand because I fear to be too surprised to see my thumb thru my hand so all the description is a feeling only.

My basic question is that i m curious to see how it feels like to you when you use the "thumb thru palm" RC in a dream? Is my description similar to what you feel? or you feel something totally different?

I m curious to get your insight.

Thumb/palm is probably my second most used RC.

From the beginning, it felt like my hand is from playdough. Very strange feeling. Later on, it started to feel more real and I acctually feel pain while doing it and once there was blood. I do look at my hand when I practice, so I do see my hand when RC in dreams too. Once I couldn't even finish RC because of pain. It felt so real. And today, I had trouble pushing it through, so I aborted, but I knew it would go through, if I continued.

But I don't feel any buzzing or anything else.

In my dreams, I slowly push my finger towards my hand and tell myself it'll go through. My brain just shoots the finger through my hand, which is pretty surprising for me.
You can also try to breath with your nose plugged and your mouth closed. Or you can try to push your finger through a solid object.

I put my hand through my palm only once. I felt my hand one second and the next second it was just going through air. Like my other hand was just in a different place. It was too dark for me to see anything.

My reality checks don't often work, but when I perform them I still somehow realise it is a dream. Once I tried the finger-through palm one when I was already lucid, to double check. I didn't feel anything, but I did take a look and my palm was rippling, like water. It looked pretty awesome.

I don't always perform reality checks, but when I do... I prefer just looking at my hands.

Very interesting to read all the feedback.....! it s funny to see how the same action creates a lot of different feeling for each person!

I learned my stuff before the internet or many of the books, so oddly I had never heard of this RC. I have never preformed the finger through the palm RC! Nothing against it, but I had never heard of it. My RCs are mostly mental awareness checks, like Brandon says, looking at my hands is an example.

When I pass through walls or ceilings it feels kind of like pushing past a shower screen or walking through spiderwebs.

I have become lucid 2 times by pushing my finger through my palm, but i never looked at my hands directly.
I just saw them in my peripheral vision. And the feeling is much like you describe.

This is one of my most trusted RCs right next to the nose plug RC! When I do this RC I have no feeling so I am forced to look at my hands. It is actually a pretty cool thing I see

Your description is actually a lot how I feel whenever I try to finger though palm. I do not use it often though. My favorite reality check is the 'nose plug' one. Where you plug your nose and try to breathe through it. I find it to be more reliable. I'm glad the finger through palm check is working for you though. I know exactly what you're talking about!

Mancon, I agree with you! The nose-plug RC is more reliable but I think the finger and palm RC is more fun to do IMO. Plus I can do the finger/palm RC in public hahaha!

Hey I m glad to see others got the same buzzing feeling I get with this RC. I actually like very much the feeling of the dissociating molecules

I should try the nose plug never tried that one....more because I have heavy allergies and my nose never work fine even in waking life!

Originally Posted by yanickma

my nose never work fine even in waking life!

Fot the nose-plug RC it is important that your airway isn't clogged or else it won't work! I've had it happen a few times and I even lost a few lucids. That's why I recommend having more than 1 RC that you can use.

Little off topic, but the RC that have never failed me is the classic "looking at hands and counting fingers" RC. Although my hands now look human, there is always an extra finger or two.

Originally Posted by gab

Little off topic, but the RC that have never failed me is the classic "looking at hands and counting fingers" RC. Although my hands now look human, there is always an extra finger or two.

I had always thought that the RC was just look at hands until I came here. I never count my fingers, I just look at my hands and there is always something wrong with them. I will have a few fingers way too short, at weird angles, or there is a huge plastic fork taped to my hand. It is actually my most reliable RC. I have used it for all of my LDs except two.

I think talking about this helped my actually...I just had my fourth LD dream last night and since the hand thru palm this time was not that convincing I tried the nose plug for the first time and it worked and as a bonus I found a light switch that failed so there was no mistake!

Glad that the nose-plug RC worked! Congrats on your 4th LD