This is a little annoying, because it makes it kind of hard to fully trust that I really am in a dream.
I have had two dreams these last months where I pretty much have become lucid, since I’ve felt that something was odd and then started running around and perfoming reality checks and trying to make them work - however, they rarely do.
I’ve pushed my hands on walls and I always get exactly the result that I would get in real life.
What am I doing wrong here?
Sure, I have had some sort of results but they are always kind of vague;
the first time I tried to make windmills outside my apartment disappear but I could only make them look like they were shrouded in mist, and the second time I saw that my hands may have been thicker than usual, but that wasn’t really enough to make me absolutely sure about anything.
Pushing your hands through walls isn’t anywhere near the best idea for a reality check. Once I’m lucid, sometimes I have tried that just for fun and the dream environment is so stable, the walls won’t budge.
Instead, look at the time on a digital watch, look away, look back, look away, look back and just make SURE it doesn’t change. If you’re dreaming, the time will either be blurry, say a strange word or it will randomly change huge leaps of time every time you look away and look back.
Ah ok thanks, I’ll try that on my next lucid dream then.
For some reason I always focus on pushing through walls, but as you said it certainly doesn’t seem that reliable.
Belief plays a major role in the outcome of your reality checks in dreams…Throughout the day if u keep believing that your hands will go through the wall it dream it will happen so…
iv never seen my hands in any dream ever, or clocks. i need to start using a reality check but im not sure if it will help. i often dream i can jump 20 feet and i still dont realise im dreaming. i wake up and think oh yeah
The nose RC works every time for me. Last LD was two days ago. I was thinking, “hey I am dreaming”. I was just enjoying the dream when I realized I could take control, so I pinched my nose and tried to breath through it. Of course I could breath like my nose was not closed.
Every time I have become lucid, it was because I used the nose RC. I think I have had around 20 LDs since I started to realize I can LD this summer. It is the easiest check in my opinion, and it always works for me! As soon as I realize I can breath with my nose closed, I am fully in control.
Good luck and let me know how it goes.