RC system that should greatly increase LDs

I am working on DILDing with reality checks, and I've recently been trying the reality check every 5 minute method. "trying" being the key word. It just isn't practical, and it only MIGHT work. So I've been working on my own method. I agree that reality checks are necessary, and it's not the type of reality check that needs to be changed. It is the time you do them/ the trigger for them that is the problem. With the five minute reality check, you have to constantly be looking at a watch or clock, and it is very likely that you cannot stick to it. Also, if you do manage to make the 5 minute reality check a habit and it carries over to a dream, then there is only a chance that you will do the RC and become lucid. This chance becomes even smaller when you cannot RC every 5 minutes (which I know I can't). I'm not bashing this method, I'm just saying it is impractical.

My method is different. You can keep whatever specific reality check you do- whichever is easiest for you. However, do the reality checks whenever you finish something. Say you just finished eating dinner, do a reality check. You just finished typing a thread about reality checks, then do a reality check. (you don't really have to do a reality check when you finished doing something small like turning a lamp on.) This way, you have a specific trigger to RC by, and it is easier to remember than every five minutes (so you don't have to keep up with the last time you RCed). If this becomes a habit and carries into the dream, then you don't have to hope that you might randomly do a reality check. You would just automatically do it when you finished something. To help teach your mind this habit, I recommend saying, "I just finished *insert action here*, so I will do a reality check!" whenever it is time for an RC.
The key to this method is to have a solid trigger that appears in both waking and dream life, so that it can more easily become a habit, and it also doesn't leave the reality check up to chance.

It could help more to do an RC at the beginning of your action too. That way, if your action is taking a long time and you feel you need a reality check because you haven't done one in a while, you can just think back to the reality check you did at the beginning of your action(or your most recent reality check). This lets you continue what you're doing undisturbed. Doing this, if you were lucid dreaming but forgot and went back into the normal dream, then you would become lucid again. OR, if you hadn't RCed before in that dream and you had the habit down, you would recognize that in real life you would have RCed, and become lucid.

Now, I just recently came up with this method (unless something similar was on a thread or web site I don't know about), so I can only estimate the results. If other people could try this and send feedback, it would help a lot. I'll be on vacation all next week though, so I won't be able to reply, But please post anyway!!

Great idea! I started doing RC's by just doing it whenever i remembered, and i hae no problem remembering. But despite how much i do them, i have yet to randomly RC in my dream as you pointed out. Apparantly you should do it whenever something surreal or odd happens, but its surprisingly hard to find something like that constantly in waking life! This is JUST what i need, an easy trigger, which is in waking and dreaming life. Ill give it a try and post my results.

Sounds good enough. The only potential flaw I see in this theory is that, theoretically, you'd only realize your dreaming when things happen when your eating dinner in a dream (if of course thats the action you choose to use with a reality check before AND after). Reality Checks are meant for you to be aware as much as possible every day, not only at certain times.

I like the idea though, it'll be a good way for me to increase the amount of RC's I do everyday. I'll start at lunch everyday, before and after....then move on to dinner everyday before and after...then so on and so forth.

This is a good idea because I have the same problem. I can never remember to do reality in dreams. I'm gonna try it out and post the results.

This is a big problem for me too. I've been doing this for a month, and only done a RC in a dream once.
I goes for the hand RC, because i know that one works, and also, you always got you hans(hopefully) with you.

interesting...definitely going to try this...sounds like a good idea to me

thanks for the replies. I havent been able to keep up with this system because of a sailing trip(which was aweseome by the way), so I will have to depend on your results for now.

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Originally Posted by hisnameistyler

Sounds good enough. The only potential flaw I see in this theory is that, theoretically, you'd only realize your dreaming when things happen when your eating dinner in a dream (if of course thats the action you choose to use with a reality check before AND after). Reality Checks are meant for you to be aware as much as possible every day, not only at certain times.

I like the idea though, it'll be a good way for me to increase the amount of RC's I do everyday. I'll start at lunch everyday, before and after....then move on to dinner everyday before and after...then so on and so forth.

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I think he means everytime you finish an action. Not just eating. Like, if you are mowing the lawn. When you finish, RC. If you walk to the store, as soon as you get there, RC. It's the end of the action that's the trigger. In theory, if you make it a habit to RC at the conclusion of an action, in a dream you'll do the same thing. So if, in a dream, you ride your bike to the park, as soon as you complete the action of riding the bike, you should do a reality check, and become lucid. If you link the RC to the trigger of a terminating action, it should trigger an RC no matter what action is being terminated.

The only problem I see, and I'm not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, is that there are too many actions that we do throughout the course of a day. It's probably going to end up like the five minuet method. Instead, try linking them to common dream activities, like walking to a destination, or only major actions instead of trying to hit every single action.

I am interested to see how this works out for other people, also.

that pretty much sums it up, ItalioCane. I'm glad that it is understandable. And yes, the frequency you would have to do it would make it like the five minute method. you could fix this by

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Originally Posted by ItalianoCane

Instead, try linking them to common dream activities, like walking to a destination, or only major actions instead of trying to hit every single action.

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or just not doing the terminating action RC unless it is a pretty major action. Instead of doing it at the end of cleaning one dish, do it when finished with the whole kitchen, so on and so forth.

Mild induced lucid dreams just don't appeal to me as much as WILDs. I would rather master a wild technique and consistantly have LD's rather than going through the process of making 50 rc's a day just to occasionally have an LD.

wilds are scary voices! haha