Reality Checks Failing...

Quest for Lucidity
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Well, I had perfomed WBTB with WILD + MILD techniques, and when I was finally ready for a LD…

I had a false awakening in my room, got up(was naked) and went straight to the wardrobe to get some underwear. I open the drawer that usually contains my underwear, and it is filled with new ones. They are all sealed, I take one an open, but it has a hole, and so on with 2/3 more…

Then I take another one, and it`s really small, like girl penties! I get REALLY mad, and when I feel this strong emotion, I question myself: Wierd underwear, new with holes plus looking female, plus this really strong hate… THAT MUST BE A DREAM!

Right next to my wardrobe its the light switch. The light was ON, I pressed it, it turned OFF… I pressed it again, it turned ON… And I was like, oh, ok… not a dream.

It`s important to point out that I had already performed this same RC in other dreams, and it worked… No lights turned on/off… And when I pressed it on this dream, I really questioned myself if it was a dream… so, wierd stuff, huh?

Has anyone had something like this? Failing RC DESTROYING your LD?

Hehe, I am really mad about losing this LD… I did lots of effort that night to have a LD, lol.

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No RC is perfect, but some RC’s are much more effective than others. Personally the ‘trying to breath through a pinched nose’ RC only failed me once in about 50 times, so that’s a pretty good score.

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Yeah that’s a funny thing I’ve discovered about RC’s. Most of them work because of what you expect. For example, some guys will tell you to look at your hands and they look weird in a dream. Absolute rubbish. I knew it was rubbish and so night before last I made it a point to examine my hands and sure enough they look just like they do in real life. That’s what I expected and that’s what I got. The whole hand thing only works for these guys because they either expect it to or their brains are wired different. And now no doubt it will quit working for a lot of people who read my post.

Text is more reliable. The part of your brain that handles text doesn’t work so good when your dreaming. At least there’s some science behind it.

I try to check a piece of text or a digital clock. The blockier the lettering I can find the better. Exit signs work well. Just look at the text, look away, look back, look away, look back. Usually the mind can’t reproduce the illusion three times consecutively. I’ve had exit signs turn into swastikas, letters melt on clocks, price tags turn into gibberish, etc.

I would never try a RC on a light switch. I know that wouldn’t work for me. No way.

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The only time i`ve checked my hands, they did look wierd! My brother also made this RC and it worked for him…

I just told him what happened and he gave me the ideia to put a paper right above my light switch and write “Am I dreaming?”, so it can be a nice RC and also I will keep looking at it sometimes and train my mind… Nice idea!

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LMFAO Jumping was the RC that worked for me, but after a while, the Floating started to get less and less noticable so it felt normal… my fool proof reality check is ALWAYS looking at my hands, it has NEVER failed me.
Looking at text failed when I was dreaming I was at the gym logging people in (my old job) and the text on the computer was super specific, name, address, everything. BUT their were some times where the text wasnt right in OTHER dreams… but It would be too small to notice…

Another fail proof is the mirror, ONLY when you look away and back again, i did that and my hands looked like they were 98% gone.