experienced LDers: do u still RC?

[sluggo]

when I was first getting into LDing I did a lot of RCs in RL and while dreaming, and they really helped me get used to recognizing the dream state. lately though I haven't done any RC's for a while....I just seem to realize that I'm in a dream and I test it by flying. so for me personally RCs were like awesome training wheels to help learn how to LD and now I don't seem to need them. just wondering if that's common or if maybe I could increase the frequency of my LDs by starting to RC again.

[Metaphyz1k]

Well, I kind of developed of habit of performing reality checks during the day, so I still do so. If you find that you can successfully lucid dream without reality checking, then I suppose you could stop doing them. However, I wouldn't recommend doing so because after awhile, you may begin to notice that you are dreaming lucidly less frequently since you've stopped paying as much attention to it.

[~Erin~]

To be honest I never did them as frequently as I should have when I was starting out. Though, today I do them every so often. I look at the digital clock, I check the writting and gravity. It does help me with becoming lucid but I find other ways to help me also.

[MrBeelzy]

I have never induced a lucid dream from a reality check, try as I might to make it a habit of performing them. I still have at least two lucids a week, but it's either something blatantly off, or I just know.

[Oneironaut Zero]

I was never very dilligent with reality checking. I had my spurts, where I did them very often, but I'd usually just trail off and stop doing them, after a while. Now, I usually only reality check when something really weird happens and, whenever I get the mood to just RC out of nowhere, I'll try moving things with my mind, since telekinesis is about my favorite lucid power, and it almost always works, when I'm dreaming.

[Jamoca]

I would hardly call myself experienced, but... Yes, I do RCs all the time. It's pretty much a habit. I have become very much more in-tuned to my surroundings, and when anything strange happens I do a RC.

[imj]

when I was first getting into LDing I did a lot of RCs in RL and while dreaming, and they really helped me get used to recognizing the dream state. lately though I haven't done any RC's for a while....I just seem to realize that I'm in a dream and I test it by flying. so for me personally RCs were like awesome training wheels to help learn how to LD and now I don't seem to need them. just wondering if that's common or if maybe I could increase the frequency of my LDs by starting to RC again. Hi, no I don't need to do RCs anymore because I no longer have lucid dreams cause I'm such a pro at it..... I'm kidding . IMJ

[seeker28]

I don't RC very much. Mainly when things are weird or if I notice something that is a DS for me.