Thread: Missing the most obvious signs ever?

I regularly do reality checks. But I don't use them to become lucid, at least not directly. What I DO use them for is to maintain my sense of awareness of whether I am dreaming or not. When I reality check I stop and really ponder whether I could be dreaming right now. I look at my surroundings. Do they make sense outside the context of what is happening right now? I look at the world around me. Is it clear? Do my hands look... like normal hands do?

Doing these are more like exercises for me rather than something that directly makes me realize I'm dreaming. It makes it so that the "Am I dreaming?" thought kicks in when something odd happens, or just randomly.