Comments on: Using Reality Checks to Achieve Lucid Dreams

By: Gabriel Ameen

Gabriel Ameen — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:19:35 +0000

I am an absolute starter as far as lucid dreaming is concerned. Reading all these articles, I have prepared two reality check texts printed on small cards. The first one says "Am I dreaming?" and my cell no. The second one says "Am I dreaming? and my birth year "1989"Please comment on it whether they are good enough or not, and which one to go with from these two? Am I dreaming? 03139911019 Am I dreaming? 1989 Looking forward to your comment!!! Thanks in advance!

By: Jade

Jade — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:47:22 +0000

I never hear my name in dreams, like, EVER, so that might not work for me. Unfortunately, I can't find a common link in all my dreams, except that twice I dreamt of black holes. -.- xD

By: realityshifter

realityshifter — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:32:37 +0000

That's actually not a bad idea at all, though using a word like "the" or "and" would get a little too crazy for me to keep a handle on. A common (but not painfully abundant) word like "day", "car", etc. might work well, or you could perform a reality check whenever you heard your own name.

The level of effectiveness also would depend on how much conversation occurs in your average dream. My dreams typically don't contain extensive dialogue. If I use spoken words as the trigger for a reality check, I probably would perform dozens of checks throughout the day but might not find myself performing as many checks while dreaming.

But for curiosity's sake, I may try the technique anyway just to experiment with whether or not it increases the amount of dialogue in my dreams. Devoting more awareness to a particular thing in my waking life usually increases the likelihood of it appearing in my dreams.

By: bill perry

bill perry — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:06:22 +0000

This may sound a bit extreme, but I once thought it might be cool to get into the habit of performing reality checks whenever a specific word is heard or spoken. Say the word is "Hot Dog". Each time I hear "Hot Dog", I could do a reality check. I don't know how long this would take to become an unconscious habit. Imagine if your trigger word was the word "THE". If the word was "The", then the result would be me doing reality checks 6 times just by reading comment!!! So, especially if my subconscious mind took over, I'd have it made, since there would be no more conscious work on my part to do my reality checks.