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A reality check is exactly what it sounds like: When you find yourself in a dream, you need to be certain you are dreaming. You must have some way of distinguishing between waking and dreaming. It's something that will not mislead you even when you are in a subtle state of consciousness in the dream world. If you have seen the movie Inception their reality check is the spinning top. If the top keeps on spinning, they know it is a dream. If it falls then they know they are in waking life.
Simply because you need to have the top with you all the time. You probably won't have it with you in the dream. In the movie Waking Life which is in my opinion the best lucid dreaming movie ever created, the main character has no reality check.
As a result he becomes very confused as to which reality he is in as he journeys through dream after dream. There are many different kinds of reality checks, which I will list below. I will then give you by far the most effective one I have come across. This is a crucial practice in lucid dreaming, and unfortunately one that many people do wrong.
They read about the technique, but the essence slips by and it becomes mechanical. I'll show you the right way to do a reality check in a section below. There aren't always mirrors around, or watches, or clocks, or light switches so those just aren't that great. You need something that will always be there, and ideally you don't need to carry around with you.
Take your right index and middle fingers, and attempt to push them through the palm of your left hand. If you are in a dream your two fingers will go through your palm. This happens every time if you really try to push them through. This engages your sense of sight in realizing it is a dream, as well as your sense of feeling in both hands.

These strong signals have the effect of waking your brain up. These signals engage the critical mindset that brings strong lucidity. There is no more doubt when you have just pushed your fingers through your hand. Though it is always good to perform the check twice. However, the best way to perform these reality checks is by combining them with your prospective memory test.
If your fingers go through your hand, then you are dreaming. If they don't then you are in waking life. Because anything you do consistently during the day will inevitably show up in your dreams. By doing many reality checks during the day we use this principle to send in a Trojan horse of consciousness into our dreams.
Reality checking is an easy lucid dreaming technique designed to increase your self awareness by day and penetrate your dreams by night. When combined with other lucid dream exercises, reality checks can supercharge your efforts. Or they can produce lucid dreams in their own right. Why don't you dream of doing reality checks every night? Are you sleepwalking through your days? Author Sean Kelly shares his secrets of reality checking.
When the horse gets through the gate and into our dreams, our awareness can sneak out and take action inside the dream world. With the thousands of people I've helped with lucid dreaming, one of the most common issues I see is how people perform reality checks. Imagine you are walking down the street, and see the item you've chosen for your prospective memory test.
You remember that when you see a dog you are supposed to do a reality check, so you take your two fingers and bang them against your palm. We always think we know what is going on in our lives all the time.
We become so accustomed to our reality we forget to question it. In this way, when physical processes are initiated by the dreamer, their results may be unusual. Retrieved from " http: We created this website as a guide for anyone who wishes to learn how to lucid dream. Perform your chosen reality check a dozen times a day you can leave notes and make memory cues to remind yourself and allow each check to take anything from a few seconds to few minutes. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used.
This is exactly what causes us to be zombies in our sleep. How many times in just the last week have you been in your car, bike, or on a walk, and found yourself at your destination, or at least had a stretch you don't quite remember? I'm here to tell you that you hardly ever really know whether you are awake or asleep.
I'm also here to help you change that! That means if we walk around all day with an air of "knowing" we are awake, we will do the same in dreams.
But if we actively question our experience consistently during the day, we will question our experience at night. Then when the person next to you turns into a dinosaur in your dream, you will say: Inside you'll learn the crucial aspect of reality checks, more in-depth explanations of why you're stuck in your lucid dreaming journey, and the secrets behind mastering lucid dreaming.
She is currently studying for a biology degree in Auckland and blogging at her site Science Me. A complete game changer has emerged in the realm of lucid dreaming technology. A device that integrates reality checks instead of replacing them and uses Pavolivan Conditioning to establish learned. Experts agree that everyone is capable of having lucid dreams.
Dreaming itself is a normal function of the mind.
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