List of Reality Checks

**Muggler** · 06-12-2010 08:38 PM

Please post the successful reality checks that you use! Hopefully this may be used as an informative post to new members and new lucid dreamers! Thank you :3

**Hukif** · 06-12-2010 08:43 PM

Gravity - Check my own weight.
Air - Check how it feels.

**Burke** · 06-12-2010 08:54 PM

Number of fingers - more than 5 on each hand
Nose plug check - Can you breathe through your nose while it is plugged?
Digital clock - Are the numbers incoherent or off the grid? (10:94)
Epiphany - Sudden realization of dreaming (not really an RC but it happens to me a lot)

**Muggler** · 06-12-2010 08:57 PM

Great start. I already learned a couple new ones!

**XeL** · 06-12-2010 08:59 PM

Check the color of an object. Look away, look back. See if the color changed.

I've done this successfully on several occasions.

**Muggler** · 06-12-2010 09:02 PM

That's an interesting one. For sure, I am going to have to try and fit all of these into my daily routines.

**ld411** · 06-12-2010 09:46 PM

-Slow down, and take a look at your surroundings
-Try to remember what you have done throughout the day, if you can't remember, your dreaming.
-Pinch my nose
-Look at my hands

**jarrhead** · 06-12-2010 11:27 PM

• Air Pressure[/B]
• Gravity
• Hands
• Unnecessary Nudity
• Did Something You're Scared to Do (Such as yell "IM DREAMING!" in public or have premarital sex)
• Getting Laid When You're a Loser.

**XeL** · 06-12-2010 11:29 PM

Did Something You're Scared to Do

premarital sex

Lol.

**jarrhead** · 06-12-2010 11:34 PM

**ExoByte** · 06-13-2010 12:02 AM

Reading something and noticing the content being a Freudian Slip incarnate. (Like when you read one thing, but it means your mother)
Objects not in the mirror actually being closer than their even supposed to be. (Seriously, why do I have the moon on the picnic table in my back yard?)
Does that hot girl want to do the bejesus out of you? (I mean this one is pretty normal me so it doesn't help, but figured I'd suggest it for the rest of you folks.)
LOOK! A POODLE! (Why is it riding on the back of an elephant?)
Realizing these are becoming more and more specific and making less and less sense. (Seriously, acute observation is a vital key in reality checks.)

**cybereality** · 06-13-2010 02:05 AM

For me it is small text that warps or changes when you look away and then look back. This could be a book, a sign, an advertisement, graffiti, etc.

**Muggler** · 06-13-2010 04:09 AM

I appreciate the humor, but I feel like this is more of a joke now. Please stay on topic :3

**Queen Zukin** · 06-13-2010 04:50 AM

Originally Posted by Burke

Digital clock - Are the numbers incoherent or off the grid? (10:94)

You can take a digital clock, set it to beep every hour. Train yourself to do reality checks when the watch beeps in real life. If you sleep with the watch on, you'll find yourself doing reality checks when the watch beeps in the dream too.

**The Cusp** · 06-13-2010 04:55 AM

More important than a complete list of reality checks is what all those reality checks have in common. It's what the buddhists call mindfulness, having the presence of mind to look for things out of the ordinary. The specific things you look for are irrelevant, it's the remembering to look in the first place that is important.

**ExoByte** · 06-13-2010 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by Muggler

I appreciate the humor, but I feel like this is more of a joke now. Please stay on topic :3

While using humour to illustrate the point, each point was in regards to a real check.

Words tend to get jumbled and weird when you try to read them. They'll change, rearrange themselves, and make little sense.
Sense of scale, distance and regular constants going out the door.
Desires being fulfilled with ease and regular social contracts breaking down.
Situations being unreal, surreal, unlikely or impossible. Events being beyond the norm.
Acute observation is a vital key in reality checks.

If you want to successfully RC and Lucid Dream, you need to be able to read between the lines.

**Muggler** · 06-13-2010 09:04 PM

Yes, master.

**SupaCoopa** · 06-13-2010 10:51 PM

I put my phone on vibrate every 2 hours and when it does vibrate I do a reality check. And the reality check I do is try to stick your right thumb through the palm of your left hand. If your dreaming it should work.

**Puffin** · 06-13-2010 11:20 PM

I learned of this one a few weels back; it's handy if you're trying to DEILD but don't want to miss a false awakening. I've caught two this way.

When your eyes are closed, look up as far as you can. If your eyes get sore, then you're not dreaming. If you don't feel anything, you're probably in a dream.

But don't deliberately close your eyes, only do this if they're closed to begin with. You don't want to destabilize a dream if you are in one.

**jarrhead** · 06-13-2010 11:23 PM

Every time, if I see flashes of light (such as lightning) in my bedroom or I have serious trouble keeping my eyes open, it's a FA

**Muggler** · 06-14-2010 01:08 AM

Some of these are very creative!

**Mzzkc** · 06-14-2010 06:31 AM

I usually jump out a window.

**SupaCoopa** · 06-14-2010 03:03 PM

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

I usually jump out a window.

As a reality check? I hope you dont live in a high rise apartment lol.

**Kayso_Dias** · 06-17-2010 06:17 PM

I'll do the nose plugging and reading text.

Also try jumping in the air. To see if i float at all

**Folqueraine** · 06-17-2010 08:26 PM

I do the finger-counting, but I do it twice : first time, there are usually five fingers. (yeah, my dreams can be pretty boring) Then I close my eyes, try to change the number of fingers... If it works, well, lucid.