Thread: 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!!