Thread: Reality check failed

Originally Posted by Drone

I had a long vivid dream last night (actually, a couple minutes ago) where I was driving through a town I've never been to. I notice the town and its surroundings are different than I'm used to, so I do an in-dream reality check by checking my fingers. I do still have five on each hand, but they kept changing heights and sizes...which my dream logic made me think was normal.

Then I come to a toll booth and where the toll amount should be there is a sign that says "check your watch". I check my watch twice and the time didn't change. >_<

Eh, maybe next time. That just pisses me off. Two times I remember to reality check in a dream and they both fail.

Hi, sounds like a real bummer... Is Ur watch analog or digital...so far the digital one never failed me but the analog one never changes... One good way to check I found from Youtube is to look at the time then look away and then expect to see it at another time and look back...it should change to Ur desired time in mind.

IMJ

Yah that does suck

I was going to try to wear one of those colored plastic wrist-bands to see if it would change color on me in the dream...too uncomfortable for me to where so I took it off

Originally Posted by TheOneAxiom

Yah that does suck

I was going to try to wear one of those colored plastic wrist-bands to see if it would change color on me in the dream...too uncomfortable for me to where so I took it off

Hi, I tried what U did...and nope the colour din't change...

IMJ

Originally Posted by Drone

I had a long vivid dream last night (actually, a couple minutes ago) where I was driving through a town I've never been to. I notice the town and its surroundings are different than I'm used to, so I do an in-dream reality check by checking my fingers. I do still have five on each hand, but they kept changing heights and sizes...which my dream logic made me think was normal.

Then I come to a toll booth and where the toll amount should be there is a sign that says "check your watch". I check my watch twice and the time didn't change. >_<

Eh, maybe next time. That just pisses me off. Two times I remember to reality check in a dream and they both fail.

Shame... my only advice is to get into the habbit of the nose plug RC....never fails me

Originally Posted by Drone

I had a long vivid dream last night (actually, a couple minutes ago) where I was driving through a town I've never been to. I notice the town and its surroundings are different than I'm used to, so I do an in-dream reality check by checking my fingers. I do still have five on each hand, but they kept changing heights and sizes...which my dream logic made me think was normal.

Then I come to a toll booth and where the toll amount should be there is a sign that says "check your watch". I check my watch twice and the time didn't change. >_<

Eh, maybe next time. That just pisses me off. Two times I remember to reality check in a dream and they both fail.

I've had RCs fail quite a bit, my dream logic will figure out why it's normal that my finger has passed through my other hand. Last night I had a somewhat similar experience where I had a vivid dream, riding a bus with a girl I haven't seen since I was about 7 years old. Something seemed off and I started considering the possibility of being in a dream, and was going to do a RC... but first I looked out the window at the landscape and was struck by how vivid everything seemed. I thought to myself, "if this is a dream, then it's incredibly detailed."

Eventually I fell into focusing on how cool the detail was and stopped thinking about whether I was actually dreaming or not...and never got around to that reality check.

Originally Posted by warock

Shame... my only advice is to get into the habbit of the nose plug RC....never fails me

I've heard of the nose plug failing before.

I've had RCs fail quite a bit, my dream logic will figure out why it's normal that my finger has passed through my other hand

Ouch. That was the RC I am currently trialing. Hmmn.

I wonder what the most reliable RC is.