So I've been thinking about a way to increase becoming lucid by creating abnormalities to respond to. What I was thinking is that in dreams there are many times where something crazy is happening or the layout of a familiar room is different but you just don't really think about it being odd or think to ask yourself if it's a dream. It's hard to get used to this because there isn't that much during the day that happens out of the ordinary. What I was hoping to do is make my own strange setup in waking life so that I can get myself used to picking them out from the norm.


So what I had in mind was something like this:

In the morning before school or some time when I'm leaving the house for a while I would move something out of place such as furniture or items that are normally in regular spots that I'm used to. Then after being away for a while, come back and realize that something is off and asking if it's a dream and RCing. It would be a faked reaction because obviously I would know that I did it, but I feel like if I really question it, it may help get me used to responding to strange occurrences in dreams as well.


So far all I've been able come up with for this is:
Rearranging furniture
Moving pictures/posters around
Writing illegible text or sentences that don't make sense
Switching items in cabinet around
Wearing something that I don't usually wear

I can probably think of some more but those are the main ones for right now.



I was wondering if you guys think this would work at all or be in any way effective. Would my mind just ignore it because it knows that I set it up? Has anyone tried anything like this? If you have what other things did you try to do to trick yourself?


I tried to search around but I wasn't really sure what to search for or how to find it so sorry if someone has a thread like this, just wanted to get some straightforward answers directly for this.