No, the idea isn't to spontainiously do reality checks, it's just to teach yourself to stop wandering with your mind and think about what you're doing for a second.

It's sort of hard to explain.

In dreams, don't you remember thinking something specific? Well I think that the trick is to catch those brief moments in dreams when we are actually thinking something and not going along with the dream.

Rather than setting it into your head that you must check reality everytime you see a flower or something, you just catch yourself sometime while you're spacing out or just not paying attention to anything in paticular.

Typically, unless you have a mental-intensive job, you don't watch your thoughts all the time. I'm a junior in high school so I have a good amount of time in class to not really pay attention to anything. Sometimes though, spontainiously, I sorta realize that I'm letting my mind go blank. After that, I blink a few times and think about what I was just thinking about and try to remember to catch myself doing that in the future.

The last 3 or 4 lucid dreams were due to myself catching my thinking.

I dunno if this makes sense or not, so keep up with the replies.

It's sorta like doing reality checks, but it doesn't get drilled into your head so the reality check actually becomes a regular thing. Also, I think it's easier to train.


Oh, and I've been coming to these forums for awhile - just been quiet since it went down for everyone, heh