Jogah,
By state checks, I presume you mean Reality Checks.
Here are your answers:
What kinds of things have people done here to strengthen effectiveness of state checks?
To use reality checks more effectively is to do them often. Developing them into a habit will increase the chance of you doing a reality check in your dream, therefore inducing the realization that you are dreaming- resulting in a Lucid state. You can implement different reality checks such as the common "Hold your nose" reality check, where you pinch your nose, and try to breathe through your nose. Obviously if you can breathe through your nose while it is closed, you are dreaming.
Another common reality check is looking at your hand and counting your fingers. In a dream you will usually have more or less than five fingers, or you may not even have fingers at all. There are countless reality checks, and many people have posted very effective ones, but you just gotta look through the forum.
What kinds of things have you done to keep yourself from mindlessly assessing your reality?
Again, basically you do reality checks. However, you can also ask yourself during different times of the day if you are dreaming. Doing so, you are implementing a routine working as a reality check as well, but it is also a way to have your mind question it's reality on a daily basis. The main goal is to accomplish a habit of doing these methods so that you may have more frequent LD's, by realizing you are dreaming.
However, there are different methods that go straight into a Lucid state. Just look around in the tutorial section. Also, if you are interested in the WILDing method as well, please take a look at this thread. It is my personal favorite due to its effectiveness, and that it gets right down to the point. http://dreamviews.com/community/showthread.php?t=30783
Sorry for the quite long post, and I hope it helped. If you have any more questions, I would be more than happy and try to answer them.
Thanks a bunch, and good luck!
-CV
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