Critical State Testing (Reality Checks)

 (Critical State Testing)

Lucid Dream Techniques

How to Lucid Dream For Beginners

Now obviously we don't want to use lucid dream techniques to induce lucid dreams everyday. Stephen labedge mentioned this in his book exploring the world of lucid dreaming it is called Critical State Testing.

With correct discipline and through this technique we make a habit of ourselves.
that several times in a day we ask ourselves "Am i dreaming"  and by doing reality checks several times in a day, we build our habbit. 

So when after some time in our dreams our mind usually repeat the habbit and we ask ourselves "Am i dreaming" and we became aware in our dreams.
This is very effective technique.after some time the count of lucid dreams increase.

People don't use it correctly so this technique take time to them. And in dream sometimes don't work, because of incorrect guidedance.
I,am sharing with every single detail of this technique and plus some tips.

How to do Critical State Testing (Reality testing).

Pick five to ten different occasions in a day to test your state. These situations should be that are similar to your dreams in some ways.Any time you see something strange like dreams come something that resembles a dream sign, do the reality test.

Whenever anything surprising or unlikely occurs or anytime you experience unusually as powerful emotions, or anything dream like, do the reality test.

 Any time you see something strange like dreams, something that resembles a dream sign, do the reality test. 

If you experience recurrent dreams, then any situation related to recurring content is your goal. For example, if you experience recurrent dreams featuring your fear of heights, you should do a reality check when you cross a bridge or a room at the top of a tall building.

Get the idea from my experience

I used to see the iron round stairs of my house more in my dreams.
And i see that everytime, when i used to climb the stairs, I noticed that some steps were always missing.So when i climbed the stairs i used to check my reality.

And I also have recurring dreams of seeing myself with my cousin, so whenever i  see my cousin i used to check my reality.You can find recurrent dreams in your dream journel.

Don't just ask yourself am i dreaming or not but also prove that you are dreaming or not dreaming by doing reality checks.

What is Reality Check Lucid dream

Reality check is action to prove that we are dreaming, when you ask yourself "am i dreaming"  do a reality check to see if you are dreaming or not.
Do these reality checks several times in a day. I suggest ( breath through nose reality check) because it always worked for me and for the people's .

How to do a reality check in a Lucid Dream ?

Do the reality check in lucid dreams to see you are dreaming or not Such as count you fingers in the dream, the number of your fingers will be more or less than 5 in the dream.

Here are some best reality check for lucid dreaming

• 1:- Breath through Nose: this is best reality check. Several times in a day, ask yourself "am i dreaming" and pinch or hold your nose with you two fingers to see can breathing with closed nose if so you are dreaming.

(Now in physical reality when you pinch you nose, close your nose and you can't breath, but if you do this in your dream, you can breath, because you are breathing with physical body not dream body and you pinched your dream nose ).

• 2:- Jumping Check : Try to jump and see when you jumped, do you fall back down?  When you jump in the dream, you will float in the air.

• 3: Read : Read a sentence twice and check it. If you Read the sentense in the dream, Sentence will change everytime when you look it.

• 4: Finger through Hand: Try to push your finger through your palm. In the dream, finger will passes through your palm without any problem.

• 5: Time Check : Look at clock or digital watch, does it seems correct. In the dream clock or digital watch time changes. Time not work in the dream.

• 6: Hand Analyze Check : Look at your palms of your hands, or count the fingers. Does hands looks normal. The palms look weird in the dream and sometimes you see you have three sometimes 5 fingers some times more fingers in the dream .

Lucid Dreaming Tips 

Some people do reality checks in the dreams and they fail. do the two to three reality checks . Such as when become lucid in dream do hand realtiy check and then nose pinch reality check. Nose pinch always works for everyone but sometimes finger through hand check fails . When dreamers try to push their fingers through palms, finger not go through their hands like reality.  And they starts to believe that this is a reality, not a dream etc..

And Some people when they become lucid, they now no longer consider necessary to do reality test. They think "i am lucid now" i don't need to check my reality. Whatever it is, you should always check your reality by doing reality checks.

Reality checks helps to boost your awareness in the lucid dream, which is the biggest problem of novices lucid dreamers. beginners lucid dreamers should do reality checks after 1 min. through this you can increase your awareness and maintain vividness of the dream.

Some peoples wonder whether or not they’re dreaming, they sometimes mistakenly decide that they are awake. This will also happen to you if you try to test reality in the wrong way. For example, you might conclude in a dream that you are not dreaming because everything seems so vivid and real.