I was wondering if anybody has thought of doing awareness checks instead of/along with reality checks. For example just checking and seeing how vivid things are. And if you're in a bit of a daze then try to highten your level of clarity by just focusing more. If things are really in a deep daze then you would do a reality check and then from there if you're dreaming raise your vividity and clarity with verbal techniques. I think that this is a bit easier than reality checks and would remind you to raise your level of vividity and clarity in your lucid dreams before you start to do anything and risk your lucidity all together.