ok so i was dreaming last night, then suddenly i’m in my house and i think “hey this might be a dream!” so i do a RC and pinch my cheek ( i know i know, not the best one to do)
To my surprise, it hurts me (which i think made me start to think it wasn’t a dream). Anyway i go downstairs and i ask my mother “is this a dream?” and i got no answer. I guess in my dream this was just a signal to tell me it wasn’t a dream, and i just carried on the dream as usual.
But argh as you can see i was so close! Why would my mind just let this oppourtunity to slip away from me so easily!?
Was the pinching cheek a bad RC to do? Are DC’s not the best people to ask if it is a dream lol?
I’ve been trying to have LD’s for about a month now, with no luck, can anyone tell me if this is a sign of progress? thanks in advance.
Pinching, though commonly used/popularized in cartoons/cliche movies/tv series, does not work because you ARE able to feel pain in dreams, (not physical pain, but your brain can recreate it quite accurately). Also Dream Characters aren’t always reliable, the best way to get lucid by an RC is to really question if you are dreaming after preforming the RC. Question your surroundings, memories, why you are at spot x, what you did yesterday etc. You are likely not to know answers to these questions.
oh i forgot to mention one thing. That night i was watching the film “Vanilla Sky” in which Tom Cruise pays a company to live a lucid dream. Now i am thinking since i had gone to sleep just after wtaching this, i was actually having a normal dream about LD’s!
maybe watching this film could be a new method to LD’s XD
wow, if it is, tell us! watch it again and go to bed and see lol! i’d try it out if it is, the movies somewhere in my room, but i don’t have time to watch it now (I am a big Cruise fan tho, one of these days. btw earl from my name is earl is in that movie).
and yes pinching your cheeck is a terrible RC, no offense. too bad you were so close!
try breatheing through your nose with it pinched, and seeing how many fingers you have. those are the best. the nose RC is the best in the book, as it’s pretty much a hundred percent effective, though you may want to do a few others before you jump out of a window lol.