Did anyone's digital watch RC fail b4?

Quest for Lucidity
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In my LD last night, I looked at my watch as an RC, and became Lucid. I was in the corridor of a hotel, and I thought I was sorta invisible like a spirit or smthin. Anyway, I went in search of my friend and then when I met him I asked if he could see me. He said he could and I thought that maybe I wasn’t dreaming after all, so I checked my watch again. The digits read exactly 9:10 and 01 secs, 02 secs, 03secs…etc

How could that have been true? Dreams have no consistancy.
The failed RC threw me off totally! And I lost my LD.

However, after analysing a bit, I realised that I should have noticed that my watch was blue which was the colour of my old watch which spoilt and I threw it away. IRL, my watch is now black, although it’s the same brand and model like my old one.

Also, I did not look back at my watch again after that.

Anyone failed a similar check?

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It may have been because you were ALREADY concious when you checked it. Did you expect it to jumble, or expect it to work correctly?

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Archdreamer’s right, if you were already lucid, doing a RC wouldn’t have as much of an effect. In your case, none.

However, there have been a few times where I did a RC with my digital watch and the time looked normal. I guess your brain adapts after a while. :smile:

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I looked at my watch when I was lucid and it was all weird it didn’t even show a time, although it is an analog watch.

In one dream I was lucid and looked at some text, when I looked back it was still the same, I did this a couple of times.

I think it is what you expect and how long you look away for.

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For instance, computers work fine in my LDs, but only if i expect them (or will them) to…

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It’s not enough to look at the watch, if the time is okay, you have to look away and then back at it, and see if the time changed…

I had sometimes, that the time remained consistent after the first look-away… Then I tried again, looked away and then back at the clock, and then it changed.

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Digital watches’ not a RC for me…They always work with me, but never computers. The screen’s liquid! I got a high-level LD by sticking my finger into it :content:

One time, I will jump in and make it the computer of my mind! And I can make it do everything :grin:

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Good idea on the computer part! The problem was that I suspected that I had “woken up” although the scene was not probable, so I did an RC to make sure I was still dreaming…
And everything was so real as it normally is in a LD, that I “tricked myself” back into a ND. :sad:

I was thinking if anyone could suggest more reliable RC, or I’ll just have to trust myself on whether I’m dreaming or not. :confused:
I suppose if you suspect that you had woken up, then you probably would not have woken up since there’s a very distinct barrier on the waking up part, compared to the falling asleep part… :bored:

Hope I’m correct! :grin:

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Yeah and normally you won’t wake up somewhere on the street or at work or at the cinema ore … or … or :wink:

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happens with me IWL :razz: i sometimes look at my watch
12:00, 0 seconds

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Better use another Reality Check. I use Breathing method, which ALWAYS work. Try to hold your nose and breath. If you can, you are dreaming. It always works for me.

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Well, almost always. Once I used it in a dream, and a DC almost convinced me that it was because of the bad quality air in the country I was in!

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true true… Thanx for helping, guys!

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No problemo, that what this place is for! :grin:

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happened to me 2, there was this digital watch on the floor and the time was quite reliable, i only became lucid cuz i noticed i was floating