Here's an idea

My Problem With Reality Checks: You know how a good method for MILDing is to do reality checks? Well that's great method! I use it all the time! But it never works in actually initiating my lucidity . Oddly, every time I've had a lucid dream through MILD, it's been from me randomly just realizing that it's a dream. Even though it's at random, it has happened quite frequently. Where do these random realizations come from? Well my theory is that the reality checks ARE working, but in a subliminal way. (Later in the thread I'll explain an alternate use for reality checks) Every time I do a reality check in waking life, it is provoking me to question reality. I don't really focus on the actual act of checking reality (like plugging my nose and trying to breath, or double checking the time), instead I focus on the questioning part: "Am I dreaming?". After reassuring myself that I'm not dreaming, I go straight back to my real-life business. At that point I totally forget about if I'm dreaming or not, because I'm focused on my normal everyday life things. Until I do my next reality check. My point is that the amount of attention I put into checking reality is minimal. Therefore it never ends up getting any attention in dreams. So I never end up lucid dreaming through reality checks. So obviously this minimal attention towards reality checking doesn't work to well.

My Idea: Now some people would say that instead you should do ADA (All Day Awareness), which brings a whole lot of your attention towards the question "Am I Dreaming?". Way more attention than reality checks offer. BUT I have an alternative to ADA. It's more of a variation of ADA. To me it's a more fun and interesting way to do ADA. May add that it is also WAY easier, for me at least. And it breaks down the question of "Am I Dreaming?" and builds upon the affirmation of "I Am Dreaming." Telling yourself "I Am Dreaming." is way more straight forward right? The moment you realize your lucid dreaming, that's the statement that crosses your mind. If you had this statement crossing your mind constantly, the chances of becoming lucid would increase. That is my theory. Because when your in a lucid dream, your awareness shoots up and your way more focused (Focused on staying in the dream and being aware that you can literally do anything you want). So through out the day, tell yourself "I Am Dreaming.". Look around and envision what you'd be doing if you were in a dream. (This is after the fact that you subliminally know for a fact that you are awake.) Continue through out the day telling yourself that you are dreaming and feel the rush of excitement that washes over you. The same excitement that usually happens to someone who is exposed to the fact that they are in a dream and can do whatever the hell they want. Even in waking life, when I tell myself I am dreaming, I become way more interested in what's in front of me and I get a minimal feeling of that "Dream Euphoria". Im theorizing (and I really hope) that constantly being familiar with the experience of "Holy shit I'm dreaming!!" will cause someone to do it in their dreams.

Skepticism: Yeah I know. Multiple things could go wrong with this. The main thing I feel like someone could address is the fear, that constantly telling yourself through out the day "I Am Dreaming!" can really make a person actually believe that they are in fact dreaming (When in reality they are awake). Well this is why I said reality checks are a great method. Use reality checks to make sure your awake. THEN you can pretend that your in a dream. Another problem someone might bring up is that the excitement you feel when becoming lucid may numb over time when doing this (Like a drug.) therefore the excitement of becoming lucid may never happen in your dreams. Well to me I feel like this could be a good thing. Losing this extreme excitement can help someone stay calm once lucid, making it easier to stabilize your lucidity.

I will indeed test my theory and post my findings on this thread. I'll keep you updated