Does the nose RC ever fail?

**Super FZL** · 01-01-2008 07:12 PM

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?

**Wavefunction** · 01-01-2008 08:07 PM

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.

**Jdeadevil** · 01-01-2008 09:11 PM

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.

**Super FZL** · 01-01-2008 09:12 PM

I guess that reality checks are different for everyone.

**Jdeadevil** · 01-01-2008 09:26 PM

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

**Abra** · 01-01-2008 09:44 PM

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).

**Oros** · 01-04-2008 02:00 AM

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

**Metaphyz1k** · 01-04-2008 03:26 AM

It's usually rendered useless if you have a cold.

**acodemaster** · 01-07-2008 09:42 AM

Nose RC never fails for me. I even did it 2ce in a row once and it worked both times, even though i thought i was awake (I was actually dreaming)

**b12** · 01-07-2008 10:03 AM

It's my favorite too. Always works for me.

I mean, it won't work if you don't think it'll work.

**Metaphyz1k** · 01-08-2008 02:30 AM

Originally Posted by b12

I mean, it won't work if you don't think it'll work.

Exactly right, you cannot just mindlessly perform the reality check, assuming that it's not going to test negative. I've missed lucidity all too often by just assuming that I wouldn't be able to breathe if I nose pinched. When I mistakenly assume I'm awake, the reality check proves positive even though I am sleeping. Weird, but true. Think about what you are doing as you are RCing.

**HakktHazard** · 01-08-2008 02:41 AM

Sometimes when I do the nose reality check I can only breathe kinda out of my nose, but not completely. I don't become lucid when it happens.

**PNG_pyro** · 01-08-2008 02:47 AM

It failed for me the other day; (first time ever,) But I became lucid anyway. I generally do RC's to confirm that I'm dreaming; I generally know I'm lucid before I do them.

**ninja9578** · 01-08-2008 04:32 AM

I hate techniques like that. If you do them in public you look crazy. My memory reality check has never failed me. If I can't remember how I got some place (and I'm sober

) then I become lucid immediately.

**Swikity** · 01-08-2008 06:27 AM

Just remember that light switches dont work in dreams, even if you expect them to or not.

They usually just flicker then stay off/on.

That knowlage has caused lucidity for me the most.

**TempleGuard** · 01-08-2008 06:34 AM

I cant believe that it fails if you do it for at least 5 seconds. You are just not doing it right, I may not realise I am dreaming from the first second that I plug my nose, but when I keep trying for few seconds, I always succeed to breath.

**gthom** · 01-08-2008 04:28 PM

I had the nose pinch RC fail last night. I'm still surprised I didn't go lucid since I had a classic dream sign - on a plane experiencing mechanical difficulties - and considered whether I was dreaming. I did the nose check, but only very briefly and concluded I wasn't dreaming (or, more accurately, lost interest in why I was doing the RC to begin with).

I haven't ever had a RC work in a dream. I'll always use fuzzy dream logic to explain why the RC is just as it should be, or I'll get distracted. Technically, I guess I have done reality checks after it's already clicked that I'm dreaming, such as jumping in the air. But unless I'm already pretty certain that it's a dream, RC's haven't been successful for me yet.

**hercules71185** · 01-09-2008 04:27 AM

pinch test never fails. Or hand rubbing your face. Feels like you are plastered you can't feel your nose. lol. I'm inconspicuous in reality. I do my tests so quick and unseen I don't mind doing them in public. Maybe if I'm on stage I won't.. But, then again I might because I'd wanna know why I'm there.

**Ryuartyi** · 01-10-2008 04:43 AM

The nose pinch has failed me. A meteor was crashing down to Earth and I was trying to find a way to stop it. I did the nose check since I swore I was dreaming and it failed. I freaked out realizing I was about to die and woke up.

**Kromoh** · 01-10-2008 04:53 AM

never failed for me, unlike so many other RCs

my suggestion is: either do two RCs, or... I mean, if you are htinking of doing a RC then just take it momentarily as a dream, so that you keep conscious. You can later confirm if you're awake, once conscious ^^

**lagunagirl** · 01-10-2008 06:04 AM

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)

**pixiedust** · 01-10-2008 06:22 AM

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?

**Blargh** · 01-10-2008 09:56 AM

Originally Posted by Metaphyz1k

It's usually rendered useless if you have a cold.

I know, It's my favourite RC and has lead me to a couple of lucids before but I have a cold now

**xristosx** · 01-10-2008 01:37 PM

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