Checking your watch, looking at both hands, holding your breath.... if I wanted to do a reality check to test the reality of the situation I'm in, it would have to be glaringly obvious to test reality or have to be something that would benefit me in some way.

What better checks are there? I know I'm breathing so I don't check to hold my breathe. It's hard to do this on a continuous basis because when you're not in the dream world you're wasting your mind energy on things that you already know are present. Our body breathes for us so your mind doesn't have to consciously think about doing it. This is why things like this don't make sense to me, and if this whole dream/lucid thing doesn't end up working then I'll look like an idiot for having tried it.

There's got to be something else. I'm looking into dream yoga, but every book I find is huge on philosophy and it takes me ages to go through and find how-to instructions.

(I get dreams are awesome... I get the point!!! Show me how to do it).

does anyone recommend any sort of good reality check or book I can read to help me? I'm trying to understand everything around me but it's hard when you actually have important things going on in your life. I'm not about to give up on what I'm doing just so I can dream at night.

Does this make sense?