I think that is pretty much what you're doing as you work on dream recall and frequent reality checks.

Do you have a different technique?[/b]
What I've done in the past is put myself into a self-suggestible state, envisioning the entering of my subconscious and changing an aspect of my subconscious--for example, I locked away a particular pain I wasn't ready to deal with, and then, years later, revisited that area of my subconscious and let the pain back out to to overcome it.

I'm wondering if I can change the default dreaming state from "passive" to lucid by manipulating a similar psychological lever. Instead of locking an emotion associated with a particular event inside a mental vault, it would be flipping the master dream lever from passive to lucid.

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JSmithPI