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Lucid Dreaming/Reality Checks/Finger Stretching
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Presentation
With the Finger Stretching check, you grip a finger firmly, and try to elongate it by pulling. If it stretches, you're dreaming.
See Talk:Lucid Dreaming: Reality Checks: Finger Stretching for a discussion of this reality check's effectiveness.
Examples of this reality check working
I thought to myself "If I am dreaming, then my finger will stretch if I tug on it hard.". I did, and I became lucid.
Examples of this reality check failing
This has yet to fail for the first editor of this article.