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Here is a new exercise!

Now I have a few exercises to start building my own oneironaut transformation program.

Here is a new one.

Oneironaut ability: Critical Thinking

Exercise name: The Reality Check

Feel free to use any reality check of your own choosing, but one that I have found works the best and is easiest to transfer to one's dreams, is the hand reality check. You simply check your hand to see if it looks normal, since hands are deformed in dreams (most of the time), but it will surely look weird.

To practise a reality check you can just do it during the day, but what I have found is more convenient is to do it before going to sleep. But here is the added feature to the exercise:

Since we are practising the reality check and attempting to make it ingrained in our subconscious mind and dreams, the best time is to do it before going to sleep while going to bed, but something even better is to do it right after waking up from a dream. This is because of two reasons.

1. It might be a false awakening and you are in fact still in the dream.
2. You create a habit of thinking about looking at your hands while being in a relaxed and dreamy state of mind.

So what can we do to wake up after a dream?

In my experience there are two simple ways.

For beginners, use a timer at different intervals (preferably with an autosnooze feature, so you don't have to move as much) and each time the alarm wakes you up, get up and look at your hands and go back to sleep.

For intermediate/ advanced practioners try this:

Go to sleep in a slightly uncomfortable posture (I use a sitting position against the wall) and this usually is enough to make you wake up after a dream. And each time you wake up you reality check and then go back to sleep in the same posture.

So to summarise:

1. Choose a reality check to practise.
2. Wake up after a dream either by using a timer or a special sleeping posture.
3. Practise reality checks and go back to sleep.

I'll make a video demonstrating how this is done in more detail soon.

But until then I wish you good luck with your practise!