 Originally Posted by sivason
Stability of the visual field.
Basically if you are lucid and look at anything for more than a few seconds inconsistencies appear. This could be a slight rotation to what you are seeing that keeps self correcting, or slight moving patterns in things like wood grain. You will also notice that fine detail is missing in a dream, as in a lack of tiny dust flecks and things like that. I simply take 30 seconds many times a day and look directly at something and watch carefully for these instabilities.
Of the ones listed in yaya's post, I truly like and use the ambient noise one. In a dream there is never more than 2 sounds at one time, unless it is central to the plot. In real life the world is full of various small background noises. During my 30 seconds of visual examination I also pay attention to background noise. You can dream that you hear background noise, but they will present themselves one at a time. As you notice a new one, the old one will fade. In waking life you can easily track 3 noises before others will start to fade. With practice you can track 5 or more. You could never track 3 at the same time in dream, from my experience.
I do not know if you will think this fits, but Ability to effect matter. During your short reflection of sight and sound pick an object and push it with imaginary extensions of your body. This could be beams from your eyes or a phantom version of your hand. Even if you lack good dream control, the object should at least waver or shake a little in a dream. In my case, the object will do anything I wish, such as fly away from me or float. This never happens in waking life (not yet at least ! lol)
This is interesting, but I usually very detailed things when I am looking intently at things, it doesn't seem to shift until I look back at the world that I haven't been looking at (this differs if I am in a persistent realm). I think that a big part of the critical question is that it needs to be tailored to you. I think that too many people think "gravity is off in a dream! I can get lucid this way!!!" when they need to be thinking more along the lines of "in previous dreams, what was always wrong?" The reason that this isn't as popular is because it relies on experience, which as you have probably noticed, is the easiest way to lucid dream, but the only way you cannot start with.
noise in a dream is interesting, because when I am in a dream all the noise seems normal and if I think of the noise after I wake up, it was quite normal, but 5 minutes later if it is not written down, I will forget it and all my memories of my dreams are silent unless I write down the noises. I will remember that a DC spoke to me in a deep voice or that I could hear the wind through the trees, but I cannot pull it up for some reason. I am trying to correct this since it is a recall problem. I am gonna start listening more in dreams though, I want to know how many noises are going off in the background of my dreams to see if it is a quiet place, a place with few sounds, or a loud place.
I love the idea of "effecting matter" because TK always came easy to me (I incubated it when I was a lot younger), but as I said before, it is a good place to start, but people should be looking at this whole list of things, not as a list of things that might work for them, but as a list of examples for them to learn what works for them specifically.
on topic and to the OP
I have a bit of a backwards approach to LDing as I try to think "I am dreaming" as much as possible, and if that thought ever comes up, I must treat it as a dream until proven otherwise. Because of this I don't RC often in dreams, but I do usually do some minor dream control before jumping out of planes or challenging a dragon to a fight. It isn't a critical question, but it is a critical thought.
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