Thread: Advice For Knowing That I'm Dreaming?

You should regularly do reality checks throughout the day. Check your hands, count the digits, look for strange patterns. Then plug your nose and try to breathe through it. Do this whenever you see one of your dreamsigns, something weird, or just when you feel like it. Also, keep asking to yourself if you are dreaming. Say it out loud and mean it. After a few weeks, this should sink in and become instinct. Thus it'll carry over to your dreams and you'll become lucid more likely. Remember to keep your dream journal too.

This method isn't foolproof and it doesn't guarantee lucid dreams all the time, but it sure as hell makes them ALOT more likely to happen. Check out some of the other methods, since this is just one of many.

Thanks for the advice!

Yeah, like Fonzythedog said: reality check, reality check, reality check. If you regularly reality check, your dreams will be much more easy to recognize. It's all about motivating yourself to reality check.

Yes, thanks!

Personally, I find that paying close attention to words extremely helpful. This RC requires you to simply look at any words you come across (such as on a sign), look away, then look at the words again. If the words change, your dreaming! If not, well... I think you get the point. Like Fonzy has already said, the more you do this RC, the more instinctual it will become in your dreams.

Whatever RC you decide to use, just do it religiously. Good luck with everything.

But I can't really control wat im going in my dreams..

The whole idea behind reality checks is that if you perform any of them in real life frequently enough, you will eventually start checking them in your dreams out of pure habit (even when you can't control anything in your dreams at all). When you perform reality checks in your dreams, your mind is going to click, and you will realize you are dreaming.

Ahh.. I'll just keep trying! xD

Yep! Good luck!

Thanks!! Have you gotten a lucid yet?

Other than RCs, the dream journal and trying to be more aware during the day, helps a lot, like questioning how you got to, well, where you are.

Ahh. Okay, thank you.

I'm surprised no ones mentioned this yet, but here at dreamviews we have an excellent tutorial section. You should check it out!