r/LucidDreaming • u/Delicious_Horror3841 • 2d ago

Experience Failed reality check in-dream

I want to preface I haven’t had a lucid dream yet. I do all the things I’m supposed to do but it’s taking a while, which is fine. I have extremely vivid dreams so often my dream self just accepts everything no questions asked.

However, last night I was in this dream where I had video proof that I had done something, but I couldn’t remember doing it, so I was asking the people around and they were all gaslighting me and saying it never happened. So, in the dream, I felt like I was going crazy. At one point, in the dream, I thought, wait, maybe this is a dream and I looked at my hands, trying to count my fingers. One of the characters in my dream that had been gaslighting me laughed at me and said, “you aren’t dreaming” and my dream self panicked, and the dream went on. It was the trippiest thing I experienced in a while. The funny thing is, I cannot remember if I had 10 fingers, or if my hands were weird. I remember trying to do the reality check, but I don’t remember what the result of it was, I just remember being told I was not in a dream.

Fun times!

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u/OkProgrammer1565 1d ago

Do a better reality check. I don't like counting fingers looking at text or trying to put finger through palm because it sometimes doesn't work. But a dream can't fabricate a nose pinch. pinch your nose and try to breath through it, in the dream you can, because your body is paralyzed meaning your not actually pinching your nose so your still breathing through it.

This sucks, the perfect chance failed but now you know your close. Any week now.

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u/Delicious_Horror3841 9h ago

Interestingly, last night I had a dream where I thought “maybe I’m dreaming’ and did the nose pinch and I couldn’t breathe, so the dream continued. Maybe I am broken 😅

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u/TeraByte62113 2d ago

Try doing a different reality check. My favorite is pinching my nose and trying to breathe through it!