I’ve just started doing RC and up to now I regularly look at my clock, mobile phone, my computer or my alarm clock to control the time. I wonder if this will work and manifest in my dreams. Up to now I have never looked at these item in my dreams as well as I haven’t done any of the other RC.
Do you think it is good to have several different items to do a RC or do you prefer one single?
Furthermore, do you think the one with the time is reliable? (I think, that I actually have to answer this question by myself using it over a certain time. But maybe you have own experiences there.)
And one important question: If you do RC in real life, do you always answer with something like: “Hmm, I’ve done a RC and it failed. Well I’m not dreaming”.? Would be logical. I just worry the “I’m-not-dreaming” could repeat in my dream!
well, say in your mind , with conviction , and after doing the RC with concentration NO ; IM NNOT DREAMING… than veryfie it a second time , this should keep what you fear here from happening in 99,99% percent of the cases ( but what happens to some here is , that they know they are dreaming , but “dont care” so to say , which leads to many smacked heads upon weaking )
I have a very similar problem. My hands used to have extra fingers and be all blurry and stuff, but now they’re pretty darn realistic. Also, reading and writing in dreams isn’t much of a problem for me, (normal dreams sometimes, yeah,) but in LD’s I can almost always read something just fine. It’s not jumbled and if I keep turning my head and looking back at it it takes a while to change. The ones that work the best for me now are plugging my nose, (and even then it’s confusing because I can blow air out of my eyes in RL, LOL ) and trying to use powers.
I did something really cool the other day though. I was playing around with a dry-erase marker and I kept drawing on myself, then I erased it all and tried to think of just one thing to keep on there, so I decided to write the letters “RC” on my leg, right above my knee. My plan was that every time I saw the “RC” on my leg I would do a reality check of some kind. So I did, and that night in my ND I was trying on a dress for some reason and I spotted something on my leg. At first I was like, “What the heck is that on my leg?” Then I remembered, “Oh! That’s that “RC” thing I drew on it yesterday, better do a reality check.” So I did one and became lucid. I was so friggin’ shocked to find out it was a dream. I told my siblings and they took the marker to try it, but they left the cap off and now it’s dried out, darn them.
I just had my first LD today (i had some a few times in my life, but accidentaly) and acheived it through reality checks, it was amazing
I started to get used to RCs in real life (looking at the hands and the digital clock) for 3 days and eventually did one on a dream.
I looked at my hands, one of them started to melt an the other only had 3 fingers i almost freaked out but then i realized “of course, it’s happening because i must be dreaming!!!” then i became lucid, like magic!!! I decided also to do the digital watch RC. I looked at it seemed to be fine, but i looked away an then looked back, and the time had changed. I did it 3-4 times, was actually kind of funny.
Then i started to do some of that LD stuff like flying, jumping high, telekinesis and so on. Hope it happens more times /o/
Waving in front of one’s eyes is really not mentioned anywhere, even though that it is in my opininion the most reliable RC imaginable. Since eyes can’t really see your hands if you wave too fast IRL, in a lucid dream you actually see over your entire “screen” with a trail of the hand.
Yes, it’s something like that. In real life i just look at them for a few seconds an realize how pretty solid they are and only move when i want to (yeah, of course ¬¬) but in the dream they were melting, distorted, missing fingers, and were somewhat blurry too, like they were made partially of smoke. etc. At least for me, the hands RC worked VERY well.
I also do the digital watch RC, maybe more than with the hands, but that’s because i’m used to having the watch with me all the time for years. Actually in the dream the numbers were fine, but they changed drastically when i looked back.
The RCs I always use are either holding my nose shut and seeing if I can still breath, or sticking my finger through my hand. The nose one is the easiest and best one in my opinion. They both feel REALLY weird when you do em in a dream.
The nose one never works for me, either i cant breath or i cant and just dont notice what i am doing. the hand one used to work when i first started ld many years ago and now it just melts . very cool tho.
I used to ues The clock and watch it spin wonderful to see.
Lol, you all probably know about the lightswitch technique. But doing reality checks in a normal dream is somewhat impossible for me, I either enter the dream lucid, or something makes me lucid that’s beyond my control. But even in a lucid dream, I could not shut off lights in a room. I tried switches, I tried telekinesis, using my mind to break the bulbs, I tried telling it to shut off, and I tried to rip the light fixture from the ceiling…but…at that point a voice came from the lights and was very angry with me, and I ended up fleeing in fear.
Make it habit to hold your nose shut and try to breathe through it. Works the best for me and feels really weird in a dream. Without using RCs you won’t be confident enough that you are dreaming.
I’m having a slight problem with RC’s. Most of my dreams involve people trying to kill me, so I don’t have the mental capacity to do an RC. All of my energies are focused solely on surviving. Anyone have any ideas on how to combat this? I plan to try to program myself to gain lucidity when I dream of danger, but I’m concerned that that may create issues with my waking life.
the pluggging nose RC works perfectly. i started remembering to do RC’s 2 days ago and i had a dream last night and i remembered to plug my nose and i could still breathe, IT FELT SOOOOOOO WEIRD!
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I was playing around with a dry-erase marker and I kept drawing on myself, 
then I erased it all and tried to think of just one thing to keep on there, so I decided to write the letters “RC” on my leg, right above my knee. My plan was that every time I saw the “RC” on my leg I would do a reality check of some kind. So I did, and that night in my ND I was trying on a dress for some reason and I spotted something on my leg. At first I was like, “What the heck is that on my leg?” Then I remembered, “Oh! That’s that “RC” thing I drew on it yesterday, better do a reality check.” So I did one and became lucid. 
I was so friggin’ shocked to find out it was a dream. 
I told my siblings and they took the marker to try it, but they left the cap off and now it’s dried out, 
darn them. 
i almost freaked out but then i realized “