#luciddream

"the problem that i found is when i was doing these reality checks, it was almost kind of training my brain to like, look for not dreaming, like training my brain... it felt like i was training my brain not to dream. like... it was weird... ...so when i'm in the day and i'm saying, am i dreaming? like my brain kind of automatically goes to, i'm not dreaming. i know i'm not dreaming. and i even remember one time i was in a dream and i went to do a reality check, and as i did the reality check, like i told myself, this is not a dream because i was doingthat all the day or like every single day. i told myself, this is not a dream, and the reality check failed. like i used to try and push my hand, my finger through my hand, it didn't work. and then i woke up in this reality. i was like, whoa, but that was a dream..."

these words really shook me up. admit it, you did reality checks too, didn't you? If you answered yes, here's how to do it right:

"then obviously as time went on, i learned that, yeah, you meant every time you do a reality check, you're meant to actually like really test it. but what i found helped even more was this technique that i actually got from a lucid dreaming book. and i'll share this book in a moment in this book, it speaks about whatever you are doing in your day to day, actually look at it, like, right now i'm recording this video. i'm going to tell myself ,this is a dream. i tell myself this is a dream. i look around and i actually feel like, i imagine that this is a dream. like i look at the things more clearly. i feel the reality as if it's a dream. what i want you to do to increase this presence is throughout your day, tell yourself in whatever situation you're in, this is a dream. try it even now, as you're watching this video, i'm going to pause for a second, look around and say, this is a dream. as you're looking around, feel as if it is a dream. feel that, like imagine you are in actually in a dream and feel that feeling do this throughout the day. i'm going tell you, aim to do this at least 20 times in the day. like just random moments to tell yourself, this is a dream and feel that feeling as if it's a dream. this will start to build your presence in the day because you're looking for these moments to tell yourself it's a dream. but not only that, the cool thing about this is you're training your mind to actually feel as if you're in a dream. now, when you're next in a dream and you actually do it, you will actually see the dream. you will actually feel the dream. you will actually do these reality checks when you do them and it will actually not fail. it will actually pass because you will feel the dream more than you normally do"

that's not all. the author says that after checking reality, you should do what you wanted or planned to do in your lucid dream

"...and at least one time in the day, you're going to take a random situation and you're going to imagine that you're in a dream now. so you're going to tell yourself, this is a dream, but the only difference now you're going to take it one step further is if this actually was a dream. what would you do to achieve that one thing that you wanted to achieve..."

personally, i would advise you, after checking reality, to imagine how you shift or enter the void. that's how I would do it:

— i would choose three colors. and throughout the day, when i saw those colors, i would start doing reality checks — i tell myself it's a dream. i look around with complete calm. i am not surprised, i am not happy, i am not panicking. it's as if it's normal for me to wake up every night in my sleep. i know that i have mastered lucid dreaming, so why should i rush anywhere? — "to enter the void state: (in your dream) take a deep breath, close your eyes, and affirm that [you are "now" in your void state] until you feel yourself there" — "to shift realities from ld: take a deep breath, close your eyes. focus on your dr and affirm that [you are waking up in your dr]. try to wake up with the certainty that you will do so in your dr, imagining yourself there"

It's not bad at all to wake up from lucid dreams and it won't affect your health! You said sometimes you can't help it, do you usually lucid dream often?

No actually. This is like, my second one. And thanks for the clarification. Because I haven’t had that many, I didn’t know if it’d affect me or not

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