I'd REALLY appreciate any comments, suggestions or advice anyone could give me on this idea. I'll try to be as brief, clear and thorough as possible.

Also, acronymns are stupid, and I'm not giving this method a stupid acronymn name. If anybody does, I'll shoot them. plus, I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up wioth this idea.

Since I usually don't do RCs and instead only make WILD attempts and practice recall, I instead thought it might be a good idea to start doing RCs on a regular basis and see if I can't have a few regular DILDs.

However, instead of identifying dream signs and reality checking whenever I see these signs in real life, I instead thought I might try out an alternative way of reality checking. So, here's what I'm doing, starting today:
  • Whenever, in real-life, I notice a "change" in scenery, I stop and reality check. What I'm DOING in reality checks I'll describe later in this post.
  • Also, I'm trying to be aware of my surroundings and what I'm doing... so, if I become confused, and thing "What the hell, why am I here?" I'm doing a reality check.
  • Also, if I pause and get a "mindblank", or have changed what I'm doing (for instance, if I find myself at the computer typing and then stop and turn around and go to get some lunch) I'll do a RC, and think to myself, "Why did I just change what I'm doing?
When I RC I'm doing the following:
  1. I look at my watch (a digital one, all shiny and new cos I got it as part of a birthday present) and check the time. I then look away and look back to see if the time has changed.
  2. I then look away from my watch again, and try to make the digits "shifty around"... like, if it sdays 6:30 I'll try to make it change to 3:60 or 6:03. When it doesn't, I think to myself, "damn, I'm awake".
  3. Then, I hold my nose and try to breather through it.
  4. Then, and more importantly, I try to "retrace" my steps, and figure out what I was doing before what I'm doing now... I try to retrace my steps and figure out if what I'm doing makes sense given what I'm doing before. When it figures out, I think to myself "yup, must be dreaming".
So, basically, I'm RCing whenever I find myself either confused or "mindblanked", OR whenever there's a change of scenery and I realise I'm somewhere new, OR whenever I'm doing something significantly different to what I was doing a few minutes ago. I'm NOT RCing to personal dreamsigns, but, I'm trying to RC so that I'm RCing to stuff that happens in dreams, like change in scenery or action, or confusion.


What suggestions or comments do you guys have? This is my first day of doing this, so I don't know how helpful it'll be...