In Stephan Laberge's book "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming", he writes that to become lucid you must arouse a part of the brain, I forget which part, but it is the part which recognises the difference between reality and unreality/dreams. I have found that MILD works best for this, especially when the last thing you do before sleep is a reality check (thoughts/questions on reality are left in mind).

I have had many dreams where questioning the dreamstate simply doesn't work, like I feel like I can't think about it, literally. It's like, imagine you decide to move your legs to walk, but you suddenly are paralyzed! I think if this part of the brain is aroused, we won't have to do ten reality checks, forget things, have no control or valid memory in dreams, or wake into a false awakening. This is why most lucids (for me anyway) are not brilliantly vivid and why you are not always completely aware/conscious. Even the 'flawless' nose-plug rc may fail - I say it's not foolproof, with this part of the brain asleep, you could easily make up a reason why you can breath through your nose, and then continue unaware of your dream. "Well there must be holes in my fingers" - could be a problem.

If this part of the brain was working 100% through the entire dream, we could have the best experiences ever, every night of our lives. This is hard to achieve, but thats the point some of us are missing.

This idea will be already known for Buddhists, who are all trying to achieve higher awareness anyway - Dali Lama says total Enlightenment is when one has full and complete awareness of their existance, hence lucid dreaming is learned.



Have you ever became lucid:

-and then bored yourself?
-and then you were stupid in your dream?
-and forget everything you planned to do, including perhaps to increase vividness etc?
-and can't see clearly?
-and lost lucidity very shortly afterward?

^^ I think these problems are all related to awareness, so it is a good idea to use this part of the brain often. Be aware, think more and so do more reality checks for sure. I'm no fully sure, but checking how vivid the situation is might be a reality check too.

What do you think of this concept? Does anyone have a reality check method that is very powerful? Something new?