RC’s make me angry as hell. ): I never succeed that way, especially the mirror-way doesn’t work.
I remember that last summer I was in a dream and I looked in a mirror to see if I still looked normal. Odd me would prove I was in a dream, I thought. First I did not see any reflection at all, so I went closer. Then I suddenly appeared, all bloody and gore like I’d been in some sort of accident. “Oh that’s me!” I though and I just dreamed on. Argh.
A few dreams later I looked into the mirror again. My body shapeshifted into someone else and still I decided the RC proved I was awake.
Even clocks don’t help! A few nights ago I was in a dream and looked at the clock. 3:00. I looked away and then looked again. 18:34. I looked away and looked again: --:–.
‘Oh hey my clock’s broke!’ Oh god, dream-me is so stupid!
@DR34M N0OB: you could try using a watch and setting it to go off every hour? or you could try to remember to do one everytime you go through a doorway. that works for me. or you could do one when you see a clock. or a tv. or your family/friends. or… ill stop now. but now that i think about it, the possibilities are close to endless
i had a LD this morning by reality checking. it was about time too. ive been RCing for the past month with continuously missed and failed DS’s, and it paid off! yay! the funny thing is that i didnt hear my phones alarm so i must have been in a really deep sleep.
I stared doing the nose RC…
I do irt a few times a day.
When i’m in bed,that phase of the slow waking up,in wich you’re half dreaming,half awake,i do it dozens of times.
I still can’t get lucid…
Really glad I found this site. I am a newbie, only been at this for 6 months, but it’s good to find a site to share my interests. I LD about once a week, and trying desperately to increase that number. The RC thing is great, as I first learned it in “the art of dreaming” by castaneda. I will continue to try the nose technique…if anyone has any tips I would love to hear them. Just being on this site helps my mind to condition itsself to dream more. I recall dreams every night now, as before maybe twice a week. Thanks to all for making this possible and sharing your experiences.
Josh
Please message me if you have any pointers that can help me become lucid at night…besides the ones I have already read. Everything helps!
Peace to all
ok so here is a RC that you only have to do once a day.
first. you know how when u were a kid, at least for me, whenever i had a LD i would first think wait! i was just in my bed. so then lalalalaa i would have a LD.
so whenever u get up in the morning aka out of your bed just be aware that u are getting up and if you want do a RC.
cause then when you are in a dream you will be like “wait i never got out of bed, im still sleeping!!”
on a side note. i do RC on a sheduled basis. and on a random basis. like whenever i look at a clock or what not. but i also do them, whenever i see the sun, the moon, my DS, and now whenever i wake up.
Actually, asking yourself about it isn’t really new. Even the movie Waking Life (2001) discussed things like this.
Also, these videos were posted in 2007, and include something very similar: Part One - Part Two - Part Three
I’ve been doing as many RC during the day as I can remember, but no avail in my dreams til last night. Last night I can recall about 10 different dream connections, weather or not I woke u between them I dont know. But during the night I felt I turned over in bed and briefly woke and the next thing I knew was in a car so did a RC, because wasn’t I in bed a second a go? I did the hand thing, tried to distort my finger by pulling it but nothing. So I thought, if I’m in a dream and keep pulling, it WILL distort so I pulled and my finger stretched. I then went on to do the breathe thing, which also worked but thats all I remember. So maybe setting your alarm earlier and just thinking ‘LD!’ and going back to sleep will help with a RC?
Was just wondering, how many RC’s do you need to do roughly to have the most chance of performing them in dreams? I’ve started wondering if its because I’m not doing enough RCs that I’m not getting lucid often
The best way to get the most out of reality checks isn’t just to do as many as possible. If you focus purely on quantity, then you may find it becomes something you expect to fail and get tired of doing. The best thing I believe to do, is to do as many RCs as you feel comfortable doing, trying to remember to do them when certain events (Dream signs) happen. When you do them, you want to try and really think, it might be a dream. Try to be in the mindset where it wouldn’t be a huge surprise if your reality check said you were dreaming.
Tying them to an event is a good idea, it has been successful for me. Try to spend some time, when you have nothing better to do, focusing on your intention to RC when [insert dreamsign] happens. You can use some generic dream signs if you don’t know any, two good ones are, things not working as expected, and things feeling dream-like. (Where the world seems so clear, like if it was an exceptionally sunny day for example) Placing a reminder of your intention to RC when [insert dreamsign] happens may help too. For example a quick note on you computer desk.
I normally pinch myself, to see if it hurts. Now may need to think of something else as I was able to hug and felt it with a person in my last LD (the person that hugged me died 3 years ago, not sure if it was because we made contact) I’m going to try other methids from now on…
There is some RC I thought of (I’m not sure if it’s already been done) that could be used by anyone who wears glasses. I’ve noticed that I never seem to be wearing glasses in dreams even though I have them on almost all day. It’s just a quick RC that can be done by looking in a mirror or looking out of the corner of my eyes.
even the nose RC is not that reliable. it failed once for me. itried to breathe air out but it did not come. but i was quite sure that i am dreaming, so i did another RC
A few general thoughts on RC’s:
I’m going to start trying the vision RC–I wear glasses, so if I have perfect vision without glasses, I’m certainly dreaming. Or if my vision is blurred with glasses, same thing.
I find that it’s useful to do the hand RC a lot, because I never actually look at my hands in dreams. Blurry hands would be a good sign.
I don’t know how well this would work, but here’s my idea: seeing as my dreams are always crazy illogical, I’ll start asking myself during the day “has anything really odd happened recently?” It’s kinda broad, but a sudden change of scenery is definitely something that I would find weird in waking life.
Ha I had a weird one! I was sitting in class, and the dream was on Thursday night, so I knew that it must be Friday, which I knew we were supposed to get off. I turned to the girl next to me and was like “Hey, why do we have school? We’re supposed to have today off.” Then the teacher looked at me and was like “It’s a dream.” and I was like “Really?” and she nodded. Then I was like, “So, I can leave?” and she nodded again, and I got up and awkwardly walked out of the room. Haha!! My reality check was trying to fly, it didn’t work but I figured it was dream because the teacher told me so. Weird.
