I’m not having much success with RC’s but it’s my own fault for not practising them enough during the day. I’m so anxious when I’m out anyway, too busy thinking of unimportant things that I just end up forgetting them.
My ND’s are often vivid and I remember them pretty well but theres not much chance of me having a DILD 
I read on www.lucidity.com that Dr. laberge (sp?) runs lucid dreaming convetions every now and then, and at these convetions they are required to do a reality check whenever they pass through a doorway.
Does anyone else do this, or am I the only one?
Sometimes I find it hard to remember to RC, so i put up post its on the doorways in my house to remind me, this method works great.
yeah
yes, but who will put up post its in your dreams 
no see the idea is that you will begin to RC whenever you go through a doorway, and you will no longer need the post its.
on my fifth or sixth lucid dream i had no idea i was dreaming until my dad and my bro both started saying wake up and at first i was only a little bit lucid imean im not even sure i was at this point so i was trying to wake up like they said when i realized hey wtf am i doing i want to keep dreaming then i was like hey im dreaming so i tried to fly to make sure and it worked i was flying through my house
I still have a big problem with RC’s. I’ve always had a terrible short term memory. I’ve tried a few different ones:
whenever I see a clock
open a door
see my hands
but none of them feel right, there’s always a distration which gets in the way e.g. opening a door and a person in the room immediately says something to you. Is there an alternative to RC’s which will help my chances of LD’s?
whispa
I usually just incorporate what ever I am doing into the RC and don’t let myself get distracted form them.
You could try an take time every to experience everything as if it were a dream. Really try to feel as if everything is a dream and imagine what you would do in the dream. At the end remind yourself that you will remember it is the next time you are dreaming. This way you can go someplace where you will not be interrupted or distracted. I don’t know if it will work better than doing RC ,s or not.
Thanks milod789.
I’m not sure if I’ve understood this bit right. Should I tell myself, ‘Next time I’m dreaming, I’ll remember what I’ve just done’ ?
Hi whispa 
Sorry I did not make that clear. I meant it in the same way you would give yourself a MILD suggestion. The next time you are dreaming you will realize you are dreaming (or words to that effect). After experiencing everything as if it was a dream you want to set your intention to recognize when you are dreaming (for real).
I hope that was a little better or at least more clear.
Good luck and happy dreaming
The only RC I do is the one where you plug your nose then see if you can still breathe through it. It works really well for me.
I had 3 reality checks last night that all resulted in me waking up. Here is one of them:
I was renacting the old west, kinda like that movie “city slickers” only instead of herding cattle we were smuggling mexicans into Nevada. One girl I don’t like from my school was laghing at me and I thought to myself,“When I go to sleep, you’re ass is dead.” (I’m quoting) then I threw my gum off the side of a nonexistant train and went to “sleep”. (Basically I jumped to the next morning) where we were gathering all the mexicans like squirrels gathering acorns and I thought,“Ok there is one under that bush, one over there and one on cemetary roa-hey, I’m dreaming”
and then I woke up
Kind-of frusterating
I wrote “lucid” on my hand to remember to do reality checks, but it doesn’t seem to help much 
I’m always like “wow! this is cool!” or “ok so this is what I gotta do” and do it. 
even if they make no sence
Usually for RC’s I check my watch(digital): In dreams, usually it shows real numbers, but impossible ones. (like 3:82:99) Even when it shows a realistic time, the seconds are counting backwards. For confirmation I attempt telekinesis.
I’ve used it successfully about twice now, once in a dream about going back to high school, and once in a false awakening.
For my habitual RC, whenever I check my watch, I check it long enough to make sure the seconds are counting correctly.
a reality check i used to do in my old house was to count the stairs. one time,while on the stairs in a dream i noticed the tv and a womans head on it balooning. i counted the stairs and there were only 12 instead of 14. i became mildly lucid before i counted the stairs. maybe just being on that spot in the dream made me go lucid. try doing rc’s everytime you go to a certain spot. shouldn’t be a spot where you hang often. make it like a stairway or hall, etc.
Omg omg omg, put sticky notes on things in your dreams!!! See what happens. Oooooooooo!
I have another idea. Sometimes you’ll think “It’d be funny if so and so happens…” and then it happens. Like you’ll think it’d be funny if I wore the same dress as so-and-so or something. And then it happens. That’s a bad example, but I hope you get the idea. Everytime that happens, do a RC.
I might try asking someone to randomly ask me if I’m dreaming so it’s unexpected.
A long time ago I wrote myself a note ‘Do an RC’ and put it in an envelope (I got the idea from another ld member). One day I picked it up, forgetting what it was. When I read it I knew that the memory would be much stronger in my mind because of the suprise.
i keep forgetting to do reality checks. i started out pretty strong with 5 every hour but that was 3 weeks ago. a week after i started doing RCs, i had a LD but now 2 wks later, theres none so im kinda discouraged this sucks
stop for one day let your mind sink it all in and start it all over againthis helped me and might help you 2 
thanks, i just had a LD
Although I am not currently practicing Reality Checks as a technique, I thought I’d add what I did when I was. I didn’t have many good LD’s but I realized I was dreaming plenty of times.
See the odd thing is that I have a ‘normal’ watch instead of a digital one. You wouldn’t believe the strange results. Maybe someone here already mentioned some things in this thread, but I usually either had the hands moving around randomly, just plain changing upon a second look, or even sometimes their would be more hands on the clock spinning around but not in the middle. Interesting stuff.
While in RL I usually just looked at my watch, then turned my hand over or shook it fast and then looked at it again. Sometimes I just turned my head around and then looked again. Then I ask, “Am I where I should be?” Sometimes I would actually answer myself and say exactly where I am and why, but that was just an extra.