Quote Originally Posted by Forrest View Post
The lulz. I have experienced something very close to this. It went something like this. From context you can gather what my dream was about.

"This flying is great practice for when I lucid dream!
Hey wait a minute, this is a dream! I'll not make the same mistake last time. I'll go land and then gather my marbles and make sure my logic is still working."
I then proceed to fail at landing and awake.

OK, on to the actual method discussed in this thread. This seems like a good way to do things. I have a possible improvement.

POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENT
Make a 5-minute long mp3 that says "you are dreaming" and then silence for the rest of the time. Or, have it say some subconscious signal, like some people above mentioned. Put it on a playlist on your iPod to play 30 times or so, I don't know. I believe it's possible to have the iPod play a playlist as an alarm. I mean, my iPod mini can do it, and it's a few years old. Unfortunately, I have terrible luck with those earbuds and they never stay in my ears all night. I must find a way of fixing that. That was a tangent. The point is, you don't have to have your computer running all night and wasting power if you use an iPod.
Once I had a dream that I was reading a test question on a final regarding lucid dreaming. I thought it was neat because I was actually studying lucid dreaming out of school, but it didn't occur to me that I was dreaming! Hah, I slapped myself after I realized this the next morning.