What is Reality Testing (RT)?
-Reality testing is merely what it sounds, it is testing the reality you are in, and in this case, it would be “Am I dreaming, or am I awake?” This provides a clear way of defining and distinguishing the dream world from the waking world. There are many ways of doing this, but it is good to ask yourself the question as many times as you can in a day. Or you can make a list of things each day to test your reality. For example, everytime you see yourself in the mirror, every time you hear a dog bark, every time you see an attractive person. Hopefully as this becomes a day-to-day task in the waking world, it will become one in the dreaming world. It has been noted that things in the dream world seem very ‘fuzzy’ or words and letters tend to re-arrange themselves in the dream world. If you wear a digital watch (regular ones don’t work as well), look at it once and note the time, look away, and look back at it: if the time has changed or the numbers re-arrange themselves, you are dreaming!
-Reality testing is merely what it sounds, it is testing the reality you are in, and in this case, it would be “Am I dreaming, or am I awake?” This provides a clear way of defining and distinguishing the dream world from the waking world. There are many ways of doing this, but it is good to ask yourself the question as many times as you can in a day. Or you can make a list of things each day to test your reality. For example, everytime you see yourself in the mirror, every time you hear a dog bark, every time you see an attractive person. Hopefully as this becomes a day-to-day task in the waking world, it will become one in the dreaming world. It has been noted that things in the dream world seem very ‘fuzzy’ or words and letters tend to re-arrange themselves in the dream world. If you wear a digital watch (regular ones don’t work as well), look at it once and note the time, look away, and look back at it: if the time has changed or the numbers re-arrange themselves, you are dreaming!
