My last dream I was so close to have my expected LD! I’m furious now! (hehehe)
So I’m doing RCs during the day (Looking at the time (digital clock, reading something and the one that I hold my nose)…
but in this dream I’ve done the Looking to a text Reality Check and when I looked back, the text was different, but not so different (only some words were missing).
So in your opnion, what is the best RC??.. When I had my first LD I used the clock to attain lucidity… and now, the text one didn’t work!
Well my favorite one is plug your nose and breathe through our fingers. Thats the one I use everytime. Or you can try putting your finger through your hand. When i did this i had to concentrate on this to succeed.
I find the breathing through your nose one that BER discussed was the most effective. I have been finding that counting fingers has been effective lately. I found the text one to be very reliable as well - clocks might tell bad time (13:60) and text might be spelled wrong. Also, I usually have success when looking at text and looking back.
But sometimes reality checks fail. But just because it’s failed a few times doesn’t mean that it can’t be effective. The fingers one never used to work for me, but it does now…
If the words changed but you didn’t become lucid it means that you didn’t pay enough enough attention. Include in your RC habit to really pay attention. Remember, the RC itself cannot make you lucid. Only YOU can make yourself lucid.
With RC’s you always have two problems.
One, they don’t always work in dreams. ( Here the plug your nose one seems to work most offten. )
Two, they work, but in your dream you find some reason that explains why they did work but your awake anyway, or you just don’t really notice that they worked.
That is one of the things about ND’s, we are willing to accept imposable things as normal. That is why, as krakatoa said, it is very important to really pay attention when you do RC’s, even when you are doing them when you know that you are awake. You need to get into the habit of really questioning reality when you do an RC. Then the chances are better that in a dream you will really question if you are dreaming or not, and not just let the dream logic say that it is normal that the RC worked like that just now.
don
I’ve found it the most reliable and the most efficient, esp since I used to have lots of FAs, and it’s easier to do this one than opening my eyes to read the time etc…and it’s faster too.
Thats the one I use everytime. Or you can try putting your finger through your hand. When i did this i had to concentrate on this to succeed.