Thread: Is it really the reality checks

Originally Posted by imj

The truth?....The truth is not the reality checks.... It is dream awareness before the reality check. Normal dreaming works on the basis of reality not dreaming so it's reality awareness by default and reality checks are not under reality because Y would you do a reality check if you know it's reality? The only time you do the reality checks is when you start to be dream aware. We can do reality checks when we are awake because we are both reality aware and dream aware when awake.

IMJ

That is very interesting!

But then whats the point of RCing? Too increase dream awareness? I'm kinda confused of what you mean.

The reality check is to confirm/'amplify' the occasional blip of dream awareness that would have been swept away by reality awareness in the dream. But occasionally this dream awareness is more than a blip maybe because of the wakefullness of the mind at that time of the dream and no reality check is needed and the dreamer gets spontaneous lucidity. So to reality check in the dream, the dreamer has to somehow convince the mind/himself that it is part of reality like switching on a light is a excellent disguise for a reality check but problem is that with such a disguise the dreaming self would fail to acknowledge it as a reality check most of the time. Another example is dreamsigns, it is also a type of reality check but it is presented to the dreaming self as part of the dream's 'reality' and it's again up to the dreaming self to acknowledge the dreamsign and be dream aware and do a formal reality check on his own accord to confirm/'amplify' dream awareness. The Tibetan monks were able to lucid dream at will because I think they were brought up to percieve reality as dream awareness so their default in the dream is dream awareness. For us city dwellers it's quite hard to achieve...

IMJ

Originally Posted by imj

The Tibetan monks were able to lucid dream at will because I think they were brought up to percieve reality as dream awareness so their default in the dream is dream awareness. For us city dwellers it's quite hard to achieve...

IMJ

Can you give me a source of where you read this? It sounds very interesting!

A site I found says......The Tibetan adepts mastered the lucid dream state and used them as a means to realising that all things perceived through the senses are illusory and that the only reality is Nirvana. "The Universal Creation, with its many mansions of existence, from the lowest to the highest Buddha paradise, and every phenomenal thing therein... are but the content of the Supreme Dream."

I think it's alot for a normal person to 'percieve'. I tried doing that but the mind went slightly schizo....

From this site...http://www.psychics.co.uk/dreams/luciddreams.html

IMJ