Reality checks

Hello!

Now I’m struggeling with my reality checks. Everytime I do them I’m always aware of the fact that I’m a not dreaming and thus making the checks somewhat annoying. Is there any way I could learn or practice how to actually put reality in question so my reality checks do make a difference?

Ty for answer :smile:

This is your mistake. When you do reality checks, make sure you mentally allow them to work. Simply assume, that you’re dreaming. Otherwise, when you are in a dream, you will automatically dissmis the fact that you are dreaming, making the RC fail even in a dream, preventing you from becoming lucid.

It helps to do reality checks when you see something really weird or out of the ordinary. Like today, I found some blue ink on my hand, and automatically did a reality check. Good luck! :smile:

The key is to just do them, over and over again. Or try a different method.

my tip is when doing a RC think that you can be dreaming, not just glance and think you are awake because that will ruin the purpose of the RC

The main point of Reality Checks is to become aware of your surroundings.
You don’t necessarily have to question reality, but you should make sure you are at least paying attention to things around you and asking yourself “why exactly is all this realistic?”.

my reality check is i draw a small black star on the palm of one hand with a pen and look at it randomly throughout the day. That way if I dream of doing my reality check, I am already looking at my hand, which supposedly helps you become lucid anyway. It has worked a couple of times. In one dream I looked at it and made it go very dark and sharp, and then kind of change color

Exactly!
I try to do RC’s everyday, but I seem to forget about them while dreaming. I thought they didn’t work at all because the 3 times that I went lucid it was because something wasn’t right or logical about the situation I was in and RC’s were not directly involved in that realization.
So you’re probably right, doing them frequently helps you to stop and think about where you are and what you’re doing and then you will do that in your dreams too, with or without proper RC’s-