First when I became lucid was moslty because of doing RCs and wondering if I was dreaming when I was in real world. Well it worked.
But sometimes even if I did some of RCs I would still wonder if this is a dream or not. Eventualy I stopped with reality check cos I knew I’m gonna go crazy. Now I’m scared to do it too often. Am I weird? Does anybody have tis problem too? How to solve it?
Pretty strange… why would you doubt the reality check? If you do a RC and it does not work, and everything seems normal I don’t understand why you would still have doubt. Perhaps you are just worrying too much?
Yeah I know. I just don’t feel comfortable doing it anymore. I just don’t trust myself.
It’s your decision… I don’t understand why you would not trust yourself though.
but…it’s pretty simple to recognize if it’s a dream or not by the results of a RC, just think it’s a dream and try to pass a finger trough your hand, if you can’t do it it’s not, that simple
waterfall,
reality checks are designed to give you solid proof of the fact that you are either dreaming or awake. I wonder if you are using a conclusive reality check? I ask this because many people think that a reality check means just considering the fact that you may be dreaming. You need to do more than this though, and a reality check should be in two parts.
You should first consider the fact that you may be dreaming. Look around and check for things that may not be normal and can only happen in dreams. The second part of the test will give you conclusive proof of the fact that you are dreaming or awake and you must always use one of these conclusive checks as part of your daytime checks.
Here are some checks that give you proof:
- Check the time on your watch, then look away and check it again. If the time has changed dramatically then you are definately dreaming. If not, you are awake.
- pinch your nose shut with your thumb and forefinger. If you can still breathe through your closed nose you are definately dreaming. If not, you are awake.
When you use these checks you can have total faith in them as they cannot give you a false result, so always use one during your daytime checks, and it will restore your confidence.
so you are saying you always do reality checks loads of times a day and you remember to do them? wow i wish i could remember to do that many
when you are doing a reality check such as trying to pass your finger through your hand you need to actually beleive it will go through otherwise if you are dreaming and you don’t think it will go through it won’t