Thread: Honestly, do you even do reality checks?

Originally Posted by pj

About half of my LDs are through Reality Checks.

The best for me is just checking whenever I wake up - I catch a lot of False Awakenings that way.

yea the only RC method that seems to me that could be effective would be that one. it's just when i wake up i probably won't remember to do one haha

Originally Posted by LucidMike14

yea the only RC method that seems to me that could be effective would be that one. it's just when i wake up i probably won't remember to do one haha

Hence the practice of doing RCs during the day.. so you train your brain to remember to do them when it's most important!

No, hahaha

I used to do them, a lot. I used them during dreams only AFTER I already had a suspicion that I was dreaming. Except for the first and maybe the second times I became lucid. Those times I was just dreaming about school, though it was normal and I thought to myself, better do a reality check.... OMG I BREATHED THROUGH MY NOSE!!!! I'M DREAMING!!!! Everyone looking at me like wtf?!!? lol.

However, now I just suddenly realise I am dreaming, can't remember why most of the time. But RC's are definitely good for keeping your lucidity while you are lucid. Too many times I have forgotten how to reality check because I hadn't been practicing IRL. One specific time I can recall right now is when I KNEW I was lucid and just had to RC before I tried to go and jump off the roof or some crazy shit, and I was like DAMMIT!!!! how the fk do I RC?
I couldn't remember any.... I lost all lucidity very soon after and didn't have much chance to remember.

So I say do RC's but don't get too pre-occupied with them. Focus more on the actually sleeping part

Tommo

I will do a reality check only when something out of the oridinary occurs, not an extreme oddity but little things i do it because anything to help me become lucid is a good thing in my opinion!

Every once in a while I will do an RC but I have never gotten an LD from one before. I tried lots of RCs for one day and then got bored.

I have never had a lucid dream induced by a reality check, but I still do them. Why? Because they keep my mind on LDing and they remind me that I'm serious about the whole thing. There's a bit of autosuggestion at play here.