Thread: Reality checks didn't work (still became lucid though) + some other questions

So last night I had my first MILD after a week since I began trying. I had 9 dreams collected in my dream journal and I had already begun noticing some dream signs so last night, after waking up in the middle of the night, I visualized myself doing some reality checks in one of the places where I often find myself in my dreams.

I fell asleep and I found myself in that place and I did my reality check (finger through palm, I forgot the breathing through my plugged nose one) but I actually COULDN'T get my finger pass through my palm and it felt very realistic! Eventually I still felt like something was wrong, I asked myself how I had gotten there and since I couldn't answer I tried to fly, I succeded and I became lucid.

Has anyone ever experienced that?

Anyway, as soon as I became lucid, I stabilized my dream by rubbing my hands and repeating myself I was dreaming. I was in a park, close to my GF's house, so I decided to pay her a visit and I got there, but windows and doors were closed. So I decided to do a body spin wishing her to appear, but I didn't succeed. I tried a couple of more times, but with no results I kept walking, I found some of my friends and I complained about not being able to "evoke" dream characters, without mentioning I was dreaming, but they didn't answer. Eventually, even though I was still trying to stabilize the dream by rubbing my hands I woke up.

Any tips?