 All right guys this is part two of my reality checks video. Now what you'll notice about this video firstly is that the quality has improved I'm using a different camera. But secondly if you actually go back to the first video look at my hair it's insane how much it's grown just in since March right just was that six months ago? I don't know a few months ago but now look absolutely insane. Anyway right so reality checks in the first video I mentioned about how it's important to vary your reality checks and I mentioned about how they work how they're going to how they're going to enter your dreams and actually give you a lucid dream. In this video I want to talk a bit more advanced okay I want to talk a bit more about your mindfulness when you do reality tests and I just want to reiterate how they are going to work and how you know some tips that you can use that will help them show up in your dreams okay because one of the most common problems with reality checks is people know how to do them. People know that you're supposed to do these things like for example the finger palm push every day but they just can't seem to get them to show up in their dreams and there's a few reasons for that there are really several reasons why that might happen the most common ones I'm going to talk about in this video. There's some things you can do to get your reality checks I'm going to take this one by one so firstly I'm going to talk about how to get them to show up in your dreams secondly I'm going to talk about some tips to get them to be more effective and then thirdly I'm going to give you the best tip of all regarding when you should do them so if you're watching this video and you have no idea who I am you have no idea about reality checks please go back and watch the first video which I'll link to in the description below it will be called something like I think this one's called yeah how to use reality checks to lucid dream naturally I might change that title to like part one or something but watch the first video it's going to be in the description then come back here so now now that you've watched that you're back here we're going to talk about how to get them to show up in your dreams this is so this is such a common problem it's unbelievable how many people write to me about this stuff so whenever when you do a reality check okay what you're really doing is you're priming your subconscious mind to be able to do something in a dream you're telling yourself when I see this thing whether it's a dream sign or a trigger or something I will ask myself if I'm dreaming that's how you should be doing it at least and there's you know there's different ways of doing it so you're priming your subconscious mind to be able to become lucid in the future by asking yourself if you're dreaming while you're dreaming that's how they're supposed to work right so the reason that they might not be showing up in your dreams is if whenever you do them in waking life you aren't mindful at all and you're just doing them to add to your score right so to speak so you're just doing it so that you can reach that number of 20 reality checks a day you're doing it wrong and to do it right all you need to do is just to spend a lot more time on the reality check when you actually do it so don't just so for example this is a reality check that most people do they'd get a reminder whether it's you know on their phone or as a trigger they get a reminder to do a reality check and they look around and think oh I need to do a reality check now and so they'll do their favorite test you know mine happens to be the finger palm push so I'll do this and I'd look at my finger I'll try and push it through my hand and I'll think am I dreaming I'd look around and think is anything strange here and that's it that's it I'm done now that that you just saw there is 10 times better than what most people do and that wasn't even the best one that was just a basic reality check most people just literally do this done they don't even take the time to really focus on the sensation of pushing their finger against their palm of really expecting the finger to go through they don't focus on what's around them how they feel what sounds they can hear whether whether it might be a dream they assume that it's not and so what happens the only thing that you achieve when you do that when you do reality checks that way you just end up doing a reality check in your dream and it not making you lucid or even better you don't see the reality check at all and you just have a normal dream that is what happens with nine out of 10 potential lucid dreamers they don't understand how to do reality checks so the way you do it right is this okay to get the reality check to show up in your dream and actually make you lucid you need to take more time doing it so take at least 30 seconds probably more like 45 to a minute at least 30 seconds time from start to finish where you so you get your reminder you know usually it's on your phone or it could be a wristband or it could be any any sort of reminder it could be a trigger and you think okay it's time to do a reality check now so you stop what you're doing you put everything down you drop all of your thoughts about anything else and you focus on only one thing and that is to try and determine if you're in a dream that's all you focus on you don't think about what people are saying to you you don't think about how you look to other people you just focus on determining for for a fact whether this is a dream or not and the way you do that is you look around you look at the details you really analyse the details of the world around you things that you never normally would notice like for example the way that this softbox light is angled just slightly off being being in a straight line it's angled just slightly off centre is it normally like that if I look away does it come back to that angle or does it change and so take in the details of the world around you really focus on the details at the same time do your chosen reality check now mine happens to be the finger palm as I've said but you could also do the one where you pinch your nose you try and breathe you could look at some you could look at some text look away and then look back at it and if it's changed that would be your reality check you know there's loads of different things you could do but when you do them it's important that you expect whatever the outcome is you expect it to happen even if you think you know you're awake and you know this isn't a dream you need to pretend for a second or for 30 seconds I should say you need to pretend that you don't know you need to really convince yourself that this could be a dream and that you could be asleep right now and this could be all fake because it's that convincing that will actually show up in your dreams it's that thought process you need to really make yourself strongly believe that this could be a dream and that you could be asleep in a dream and the way you do that is by looking at the details and thinking is this real like looking around and really questioning things you know the question like if I use my imagination will that glass on a table will it move and really believe that you can make it move and so while you're doing these things while you're thinking those thoughts do the reality check try and push your finger through your palm expect that your finger will go through your palm and if it does you know for a fact you're dreaming that's you that's how the reality check has worked and how and it will give you a little dream if it doesn't don't end the reality check there okay so say if you push your finger through your palm and it doesn't go through look at it in detail look at the look at the tiny lines on your palm in detail and really think really believe that this could be a dream and ask yourself am I fooling myself here is my brain playing tricks on me is this definitely my hand and and then try again try the reality check again don't just do it once right you need to do it one two or three times and really believe that your finger will go through and pay attention to how you feel as well really pay attention to how your your hand feels when you press it against your finger does it feel like it normally does or is something slightly different if anything is different okay if anything is different at all you might be in a dream and that's that's how you're going to catch yourself out that's how you're going to win the game right because if you focus on the tiny details and you happen to catch one of these details out in a dream you're lucid and you've won right the reality check has worked it's shown up and it's made you lucid but if you aren't mindful and if you don't focus on the details and if you just go through it going through the motions just to say you've done a reality check and you've done 20 a day nothing will happen and you'll end up wasting your time and not only that but you'll come back in your comment on things like reddit you'll be you'll say things like lucid dreaming doesn't work reality checks don't work it's all fake another potential lucid dreamer hits the dust so really pay attention to the details and think of it like a game right you're trying to discover whether you're in a game and how to escape this room okay you do that by looking at the details really focusing on what you want to happen in this case you want your finger to go through your palm so you can become lucid and just believe in yourself right so anyway that is how you get your reality checks to show up in your dreams that's how you get them to work and actually give you a lucid dream so i touched on it slightly before in my last video but i didn't really cover the details of it so there's that that is a mindful reality check okay combine that with doing it 10 times a day but you want to do it at random times now the best times to do it are whenever you see something strange or whenever you experience something new okay let's say you're walking through town and there's a there's a giant mascot dressed up as a horse to promote some shop now obviously you don't see that every day right you don't see a horse walking down the street every day so as soon as you see that thing identify it as something unusual and think and think to yourself that's unusual that doesn't happen every day am i dreaming and really and again go back to the mindfulness do exactly what i just mentioned really question whether you're in a reality or whether you're in a dream so so that's one of the ways do every time you see something strange you do a reality test another way is to set an alarm on your phone or find an app or some sort of smart device that can give you a random reminder something that will happen at a random time you don't know when it's going to happen it could be every hour it could be in the next 58 minutes or it could be in the next four minutes you don't know when the alarm is going to go off when it goes off do a reality check straight away without questioning it without delaying it so that's that that's how you get the reality checks to show up in your dreams now i did promise you at the start of this video i'll tell you the best time to do them and i have a feeling i mentioned it already in my first video but just in case i didn't or in case you're new to this or in case you haven't seen my first video the best time to do a reality check is first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up the reason why is because lots of people experience what are called false awakenings this is when you dream about waking up and you go through your morning routine you get ready for work and then you're snapped back to being in the bed and you wake up again now that could happen three times four times even up to seven times or more and you wouldn't be able to tell when you're awake and when you're dreaming it can be quite scary it's known as being stuck in a false awakening loop okay it can be a quite a scary experience but you can avoid all of that by just doing a reality check as soon as you wake up because then every time you wake up in the future you will know that you're either awake or dreaming based on the outcome of your reality test that means that every time in the future when you would have had a false awakening instead you'll have a lucid dream that is one of the reasons another reason is that it's a great time to do it because you're just starting to wake up you're just about to go into your day and it sets your mind set up right from the start it sets your mindset to one of critical thinking to one of thinking rationally and thinking am i dreaming is this all fake is this real so that's it guys that is my part two reality checks video i might make a part three depending on if you like this one i've got a lot more to talk about but again i don't want to bore you and people's attention span tends to be much less than the 10 minutes or whatever this video is this video is going to be so leave a comment leave a like and i'll see you next time