Including more self-awareness in reality checks?

**Eamo24** · 04-11-2014 11:07 PM

Hi,

I know that self-awareness and memory are essential for realizing you’re dreaming, so I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to how you could include an effective spark of self-awareness in your reality checks.

I was thinking you could ask some questions like: Who am I? What day is it? What was I doing earlier? Etc.

Would these questions really be enough to encompass all of your self-awareness, so that you can become lucid? I mean, are there other questions you could ask yourself, or anything else you could do to bring about a greater sense of your waking-life self in a dream?

Thanks for your suggestions.

**clearthoughter** · 04-12-2014 12:43 AM

Well for self awareness I just touch my face and look around lol. Words don't really help for me.

**AstralMango** · 04-12-2014 12:57 AM

That's a really good reality check! I myself also test my memory and ask myself what I'm doing at the current moment. It's great because you could be remembering what you just in a dream, and realise, "Hey, I just went to bed," and boom, lucid.

**kilham** · 04-12-2014 01:17 AM

I usually make RC's by remembering how I got there, what I was doing earlier. The day thing doesn't work that much... also you could try to look at what you're wearing and recall the moment you put those clothes on.

**Eamo24** · 04-12-2014 12:27 PM

Great idea!

Yes it think it’s good to test your memory as much as possible when doing a reality check. I once did a memory reality check (in a dream) of trying to remember what I did earlier in the day, but I was provided with a memory from something that happened earlier in the dream, and therefore thought it was reality! So yes, I’d imagine that applying your memory to specific things would also help.