What should I do if the RC’s don’t work in my dreams?
I really believe it, and I don’t think they’ll work - I KNOW they’ll work. But still, no result. My hands are normal, my clock works, and so on…
Any advices?
First question: how exactly do you practice your RCs in real life? I ask this, because the way you do them during the day can make the difference between becoming lucid or not.
The key to make RCs work is to trick the subconscious in such a way that doing a RCs in a dream will make you lucid. How can you do this? The subconsciousness and dreams are highly influenced by thoughts, expectations and associations. The best way imo to use this to your advance goes like this: when you do a RC during the day, don’t do them without careful reasoning. Don’t just say “well I know this is not a dream… RC… see… I told you”. This is the wrong way, because you’re just going with the flow by testing something you already knew for sure. Instead, convince yourself that you ARE dreaming. Try to see the environment as a dream. At first don’t do anything, just observe. Let the idea that it’s all a dream enter your sub-c, and don’t think in the back of your head it isn’t a dream, but REALLY convince yourself the opposite is true. Think about what would it be like, what would you do in this dream? Once you’re kinda convinced of this, do multiple RCs. A great one is to try to put your finger through a wall. Steadily approach the wall with your finger, thereby ever more convincing yourself your finger WILL move through it. If it doesn’t work, just say to yourself you need to do it again, or perhaps switch to another RC. As more RCs fail to work, slowly say to yourself “perhaps I’m not dreaming after all… let’s test a little more”. Don’t give it up very quickly, but keep testing! Only at the end you can safely say you’re awake after all.
Why this method? Because in this way you can trick your subconsciousness by indirectly expecting the unexpected. If you believe a RC won’t work because “obviously you are awake”, that RC indeed won’t work as you expected. But this line of reasoning will also enter into the dream. In the dream, exactly the same thing will happen: in the back of your head you’ll expect the RC won’t work. At first glance, you might think otherwise in the dream, but if you did RCs this way irl, you can be sure your sub-c will also work this way round the dream RCs. So the dream RCs fail because directly or indirectly you expected this too happen, all due to the associations you had with expected results from waking life RCs. In short, you expected the expected to happen because this is the way you learned it from irl practice.
However, if you did the waking life RCs the other way round, you trick your sub-c in thinking you are dreaming. Irl you expected the RCs to work. In the end they failed, but that’s not important. What it’s truly about is the fact that you clearly had the expectation that the RCs irl would work. And this aspect will also enter your dreams if you practice long enough. However, if you them then, you expect them to work. What’s the result? There’s much chance they WILL work! And because the result is now the other way round from waking life, you have an increased chance of realizing “hey this is not what it did the other day (irl)”, so there’s a bigger chance of becoming lucid. So here the unexpected will manifest, which can be the trigger to lucidity.
Hope this helps a bit 
Hey, I think I’ll try that. I need to get into the habit of making more RCs though.
Mystic, I already do it like you described, but still, no results. Do you think I just need to keep practice?
Oh lol so I didn’t really have to make that long post 
Hm yes I’d say keep practicing. Sometimes it might take a while before the message gets incorporated in your subconsciousness. Perhaps intensify it (if that’s possible), or do it more often. If it still doesn’t work, you might want to quite with it for a week or more. Sometimes quitting all practice leads to a good fresh new start, and then suddenly it goes better. I say “sometimes”, because this doesn’t happen all the time. But it’s worth to try
Good luck! 
Just to add to mystics post(which I compleatly agree with): When you do reality testing, once you prove that you are not dreaming, remind yourself that you will remember when you are dreaming.
2 other very important things:
- keep a DJ
- practice another induction technique like MILD/WILD as well.
- practice WBTB. (This is not required but, people do get good results with it)
you just need to enter the reality cheack to your sub-c… 