Thread: I did a LOT of RCs last night....

Before I went to bed last night, I tried really hard to make it a habit to question my reality often, by looking at the clock, looking away, looking again, watching my hands, pinching my nose, etc, to induce one... in fact I was so one-track minded and desperate about it that I did RCs almost every other minute. I really hoped that it would succeed somehow when I fell asleep.

In my dream last night, I did nothing BUT RCs... but I STILL didn't become lucid. In fact, my dream recall this morning is so poor that I only have a fleeting memory of going through the RC motions and thinking critically......about something else. I dreamed about questioning dreams but only in a detached, half-conscious perspective. I honestly don't think my tired brain last night was capable of turning on, no matter how many RCs I did. Nothing about it was vivid or clear.

I can't stand not being able to have lucid dreams anymore... a few months ago I listened to a binaural beat track that was successful on two nights, but since then I've tried to replicate the results and I get nothing.

Maybe I'm thinking way too much about it, I don't know... it just makes me mad.

next time really expect to be in a dream! in real life..
when you do a RC, Try to really fell if you are in a dream or not.. I think you did to many.. just a few a day.. and tell your self "I will know when I am dreaming" or "I will relize I am dreaming when I dream"
or something like that..

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

Before I went to bed last night, I tried really hard to make it a habit to question my reality often, by looking at the clock, looking away, looking again, watching my hands, pinching my nose, etc, to induce one... in fact I was so one-track minded and desperate about it that I did RCs almost every other minute. I really hoped that it would succeed somehow when I fell asleep.

In my dream last night, I did nothing BUT RCs... but I STILL didn't become lucid. In fact, my dream recall this morning is so poor that I only have a fleeting memory of going through the RC motions and thinking critically......about something else. I dreamed about questioning dreams but only in a detached, half-conscious perspective. I honestly don't think my tired brain last night was capable of turning on, no matter how many RCs I did. Nothing about it was vivid or clear.

I can't stand not being able to have lucid dreams anymore... a few months ago I listened to a binaural beat track that was successful on two nights, but since then I've tried to replicate the results and I get nothing.

Maybe I'm thinking way too much about it, I don't know... it just makes me mad.

Yeah i know what you mean, just try to remember that the last thing that you did before dreaming is that you fell asleep. In your dream try to look for something that isn't supposed to be there. Try to do a gravity rc, it might just work for example, jump up and down, you never know you might be able to fly. I did the same thing that you did, yesterday i did some rcs in real life and i almost became lucid in my dream last night. The only thing that stopped me from becoming lucid was a dc, because of the way the dc acted towards me. Otherwise i would have became lucid.

You can't force it that way and doing a lot of RCs for one evening is not enough anyway. Doing it frequently for a few weeks is the far more successful option.

I think your mind may not be too preoccupied with things or it won't realize you're dreaming even when doing RCs all the time, or especially then it won't.

If you don't expect the reality check to work, then it won't. That's how it is for me anyways. You have to truly believe in it.

I had this same problem once. What you have to do is to not let the RC's become like a robotic repetitive motion. Whenever you RC you have to really ask yourself if you are dreaming, if not you will RC in a dream and not notice that it succeeded.

Hope this helps

Well I forgot how I was going to phrase what I was going to say. But it went something like, RC's are meant to give you reasons to question your reality, this transfers to dreams in that. While in a dream you may decide to do a RC, and it may check out causing you to go lucid.

However if you are so used to doing RC's then in a dream perhaps it becomes just a part of daily life like waking up, walking, talking to people, etc. So when you do actually do them they do not carry the same impact as someone who does them occassionaly or something like that.

Sorry I really forgot how I was going to phrase this >_>

Bringing reality checks to work means finding the right balance between doing too much and not doing anything.

Its becouse you have one internal reservoir of energy, which you use for daytime practices and nightime adventures. If you deplete the energy over the day, it is more than logical, that you wont have any lucid that night. If reality checking is tiring you mentally you have to take time to rest your brain . Thats also the reason, why effectivity of techniques fail when done over a long timespan. Becouse you are energetically depleted and thus cannot have a lucid dream which needs clean fresh brain. I would say. Its now time for you to relax and let lucid dreaming be for a little while.

What if I make my RC spinning around a few times? From what I've read, I don't think it's possible to spin around a few times in a dream and still be in the same place. Maybe that could work...