This is the 4th day I have experimented with this method which I thought up to force myself to do more reality checks and to become more aware of things going on around me during the day.

The purpose of the method is to force yourself to do at least 100 reality or awareness checks during each day, and it is not as hard as it might sound thanks to some cheats that I use with this method, which cheats also serve their own purpose.

I call it the reality awareness check count 100 method because I not only do reality checks with this method, but also do awareness checks, in which I look for things that are unusual or seem out of place, or just become totally aware of what is going on around me by noticing something I have not noticed before.

For each reality check or awareness check done I give myself a point with the goal being to have accumulated 100 points by the end of the day. I then record the number of checks I accumulated at the end of the day.

So far I have had 1 lucid dream since using this method, but hopefully many more will follow.

The cheats I mentioned earlier are that with this method you are allowed to do several reality checks or awareness checks in a row by doing them within a short period of time with the only restriction being that no reality check or awareness check can be repeated immediately after itself. The value of this cheat is that if you get really busy with your work and forget to do a reality check for an hour or so, you can catch up at the end of that hour by doing 5 or 6 different reality or awareness checks in a row. Although this is considered a cheat it can be beneficial in reminding you in a dream to try several different reality checks since sometimes the first one or two may fail.

With this system I begin counting the night before after I go to sleep by doing a reality check each time when I wake up from a dream to check to see if I am actually awake or having a false awakening. After starting my day I then try to pace myself by trying to do 10 reality or awareness checks an hour, most of which are done in sets of at least 3 or 4 reality checks in a row, although occasionally I have to do 5 or 6 in a row to catch up as I tend to get behind a lot when I get busy doing something.

The reality checks can vary from reading billboards 3 or 4 different times while you are driving to see if anything changes on them, to holding your nose and trying to breath, trying to float in the air, trying to stick your finger through the palm of your hand, pulling on one of your fingers to see if it stretches, to looking at your hands to see if they fade, to just about anything else you can think of that will assure you that you are not dreaming, while the awareness checks can be noticing anything you have not noticed before.

Let me know what you think, and if you have any other suggestions I might be able to use with this method. If you're like me you should not only find yourself doing more reality checks than you usually do, but should also find yourself much more aware of what is going on around you during the day, which is just as important, if not more important in helping to become aware or lucid while you are dreaming.