Hey everyone,
I've been thinking about this since my first lucids, and would like to open a discussion about the nature and effectiveness of reality checking.
Many of us perform reality checks during the day, to question our state: are we dreaming?
This seems to be a relatively simple and easy way to get ourselves to question our state, a habit we hope to carry into our dreams. However, I have two main discussion points about this:
- Many of us, especially beginners who 'need' RC's the most, struggle with dream control. One of the challenges there is losing our expectations based on waking life restrictions: we can walk through walls in a dream; we can fly. In reverse, these expectations may limit the success of our reality checks; we try to breathe while pinching our nose, but we can't because we don't expect it to be possible. We try to push our finger through our hand, but we can't, because we don't expect it to be possible. In these moments, we risk missing a lucid because our check fails.
My point is, reality checks are not perfectly effective. Could there be a way to bypass this? A way to make it foolproof?
- In my own experience, I have never actually become lucid from a reality check. I have performed them in a dream, but I never needed them to convince me. The moment I even thought about checking my state, I already knew it was a dream. I'm not sure how to describe it, but some of you probably have similar experiences.
How many of you have the same experience? And do some of you actually need the RC to know whether you are dreaming?
These points taken together, I would like to discuss the following: how could we 'bypass' reality checks and become better at recognizing this 'dream feeling' that actually makes us lucid?
I've been thinking about this since my first lucids, and would like to open a discussion about the nature and effectiveness of reality checking.
Many of us perform reality checks during the day, to question our state: are we dreaming?
This seems to be a relatively simple and easy way to get ourselves to question our state, a habit we hope to carry into our dreams. However, I have two main discussion points about this:
- Many of us, especially beginners who 'need' RC's the most, struggle with dream control. One of the challenges there is losing our expectations based on waking life restrictions: we can walk through walls in a dream; we can fly. In reverse, these expectations may limit the success of our reality checks; we try to breathe while pinching our nose, but we can't because we don't expect it to be possible. We try to push our finger through our hand, but we can't, because we don't expect it to be possible. In these moments, we risk missing a lucid because our check fails.
My point is, reality checks are not perfectly effective. Could there be a way to bypass this? A way to make it foolproof?
- In my own experience, I have never actually become lucid from a reality check. I have performed them in a dream, but I never needed them to convince me. The moment I even thought about checking my state, I already knew it was a dream. I'm not sure how to describe it, but some of you probably have similar experiences.
How many of you have the same experience? And do some of you actually need the RC to know whether you are dreaming?
These points taken together, I would like to discuss the following: how could we 'bypass' reality checks and become better at recognizing this 'dream feeling' that actually makes us lucid?
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