Thread: Is it really the reality checks

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