Thread: Does the nose RC ever fail?

After a long time, the mind starts to make dreams more realistic and logical. For example, after a while of finger counting, your mind will get the number of fingers right in the dream. Does this same logic apply with the nose RC?

It can fail sometimes, even if you're not experienced. However I think you actually feel your body's normal breathing in the dream, and so no matter what you do to your dream body, you can usually still feel your real body breathing.

It always fails with me - I've never successed in the nose reality check. Unless I'm already lucid and truly expecting to breath out my nose. I've never breathed through my nose in a dream while asking myself.

I guess that reality checks are different for everyone.

Hehe, the hand reality check also fails everytime for me.

Sure. Usually, you forget that "I can breathe" means you are dreaming. That's how it fails most of the time.

Other times, you are breathing out of your mouth, and completely miss it!

But still, it's a very, very reliable check (the most reliable I have).

Originally Posted by Jdeadevil

Hehe, the hand reality check also fails everytime for me.

it's my favorite. very strange one. sometimes i got 6 fingers... sometimes my long finger is the shortes and so on. very nice on when it works

Originally Posted by Jdeadevil

It always fails with me - I've never successed in the nose reality check. Unless I'm already lucid and truly expecting to breath out my nose. I've never breathed through my nose in a dream while asking myself.

really? its my main RC, it's worked for me everytime

has anyone had the pinch test fail. Or rub or scratch yourself? Its easy to cover up in reality if you just scratch your arm.

Failed for me once.
I dont do it though. I look at my arms mostly. Worked every time.

it has only failed for me once, but that was only because in the dream I was dead set on the fact that I was wide awake (even though i obviously wasn't)

I was dreaming last night that I was watching a fireworks show when some crazy redneck ATF agent pulled out his pistol and started firing into the sky and scaring everyone. I was with my bf, and we took off, but we got separated somehow, so I pulled out my cell to call him, and argh.. it wouldn't work! My cell never works right in dreams, is it like that for anyone else? If so, perhaps that could be used for a reality check - you wouldn't have to actually call anyone - just try punching in the number. It never works for me - for instance last night I was trying to dial my bf's number and it was saying all kinds of wierd things like 1-800 -flying-test, and lots of text mixed with numbers, and I was so frustrated, finally I thought "I've called him recently, I'll just go to last calls made and hit dial", and then I woke up.

Another thing that never works is plumbing - the other night I turned on a faucet to get some water but a wall had been built around the faucet and the faucet actually emptied water INTO the wall, and I was worried I'd just caused thousands of dollars of damage to the house, lol. What is it with mechanical things not working in dreams?