R.C. (Reality Checks)
Reality Checks are used to establish if you are actually in a dream or awake.
The dream world can replicate reality with incredible precision, but somethings, some of the time, are not the same in dreams as they are in the real world. Lucid Dreamers use these inconsistencies to help them become awake while dreaming.
There are many reality checks in existence, but some might not work for you, or some might work better than others. Remember that you can discover your own dream signs and reality checks within your own dreams.
Try many or all of the below dream signs/reality checks.
Common Reality Checks (RC's):
- Lightswitch Reality Check: Light switches don't always turn on/off when you flick the switch in a dream.
- Your Hands Reality Check: Look at your hands, do they look normal? Are they yours? Right number of digits? Strange color? Do fingers disappear/appear as you count them? Can you put one hand through the other? Same cuts, scars and scratches?
- Nose RC: Can you close one eye and see your nose?
- Clock/Time Reality Check: Does your watch tell time correctly? Look away and back, did the time change unreasonably? Does your digital watch flicker?
- Breathing RC: Can you breath through your nose while your fingers are clasping it shut? Can you breath underwater?
- Visual RC: Is your vision blurry or clearer than normal? Do colors, objects, or physics look or behave oddly?
- Reading Reality Check: Try reading something: Do the words look strange? Do the words make sense? Do they change when you look away and back again?
- Jumping RC: Does jumping up and down feel normal? Do you go too high or low? Do you float back down or have resistance while jumping?
- Flying Reality Check: Can you fly/float? Just think you can and you might be able.
- Constancy RC: Do you remember how you got here? What were you doing an hour ago? Do you look the same and go to the same school or job?
- Same Place Reality Check: Have you been here before in a dream or real life? Is it likely that you would be back here? Examples: Always at an airport or mall etc., In high school again even though you graduated/dropped out? At an old job or friends house? An exotic location that you haven't been to like Jamaica or Mars?
- People Reality Check: Do you know the people around you, and are they the way you remember them? Are you talking with somebody who has died or lives very far away? Do people you know act the way your used to? Talk to a stranger, do they say strange things? Ask a stranger if your dreaming.
- Objects Reality Check: Do things look like you expect? Do you have your wristwatch, tattoo or ear piercing? Are you dressed normally?
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