So I've been doing the whole 'reality check' thing while being awake, mostly looking at text, looking away, and back again to see if the text is the same.

Last night I had a dream where I was playing video games with my cousin, who was killed 9 years ago. During the dream I actually came to a point where I remembered my cousin was dead and thought 'this must be a dream.' I did my reality check and looked at my bookshelf, noted the titles, looked away, then looked back, and the text was the same. Then I tried to make something happen telekinetically/change something in the dream, but nothing happened. And the dream was extremely vivid.

I basically came to the conclusion it wasn't a dream. And my cousin said it wasn't. My cousin started to explain how he really didn't die and then I woke up really suddenly. I think I rubbed my eyes in the dream or something and when I opened them I was in my bed. I was literally shocked. I think I got caught up in the emotion of my cousin possibly being alive.

It was so vivid, though, that I didn't even bother to write it down before I went back to sleep. I still remember it well.

Long story short, good news is that reality checks are making it into my dreams, bad news is maybe I need better news