Quote Originally Posted by CNGB View Post
I'm the oddball out in that your common reality checks have never worked for me.

I'm right with the crowd, though, when I say that you'll have better luck if you come up with your own reality checks--ones that aren't so attention-drawing.

Just for example, I always say to myself, "When you turn around, you will see a ____." (More often than not, it's one of those green Mario pipes--you know what I'm talking about? And I just jump through them. Either I let the dream take me to wherever or I visualize where I want to go and land there.) I picture the "whatever," quickly turn around, and if it's there then I'm dreaming and not, then I'm not.

It's easy to cover this up in front of people, too. "What? Oh, no. I just thought I heard something."

Nice, I may borrow that.