My compass technique to realize I am dreaming...

[Chronos]

Hi to everyone... I have few weeks trying to get a LD, it has not been easy for me although I have gotten a low grade of consciousness sometimes. I started to apply a technique to make a reality check in my dreams and it include the use of a compass. I have a wristwatch with a compass and didn´t use this everyday, but now I started to use it in any moment and following a pattern that show me a dreaming sign with it is present. Eveybody knows how a compass work with the natural magnetic attraction of the north pole, how would it work in a dream? Well, here is my awake pattern: Everyday and almost every moment I active my compass and the clockwise whom indicates the north moving and stopping pointed to the north, I make a rhythm move with my arm and look how the clockwise follow the north, in the same time pay attention to any details around me and look different clue that indicates it is real or not. Almost 3 week since started with this pattern I could repeat it in 3 different times in my dream. The first time I didn´t realize the compass was wrong and I didn´t check the reality. I did active my compass and it never work, to any direction, I didn´t pay carefully attention to it. In my second time was very evident, the clockwise moved to up, it was pointed to the sky, I checked the reality and I realize I was dreaming, but it was very confuse and my lucidness level was too low. My third time was last night, I was paying attention to the Koreas situation and I dreamed I was there in a very cloudy island, I saw my compass and it was just spinning continuously around. I realize I was dreaming but my lucidness level was too low also. I think my main problem is get more reality awareness, I have been trying with WILD technique because work easy for me. The compass needs be connected with a "true" north pole to work, you need be awake and in the reality to this work properly. In a dream there is not a north pole and the clockwise will move erratically or irrationally.

[elucid]

Hmm, I like this compass method as a form of reality checking. Though it needs a bit more evidence that it will work consistently.