Make reality checks a top priority. Make them really important. The more important something is to you, the easier it is to remember. |
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I've been doing lucid dreaming on and off for about 5 years now, and I always seem to lose interest when I don't get a lucid dream in a while. I've decided to try really hard this time. Since I find myself opening/walking through a lot of doors in my dreams, I decided to make this into a reality check trigger. Every time I move through a door I will do a RC. The problem I'm having is it's so hard to get into the habit of doing it. Unless I'm actively thinking about lucid dreaming I don't remember to do it. I know I can set up notes on the door to remind me, but I feel like that would ruin it. The doors in my dreams won't have notes, so I want the doors themselves to be the trigger. |
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Make reality checks a top priority. Make them really important. The more important something is to you, the easier it is to remember. |
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Set specific goals and constantly keep track of your progress in practice. Challenge yourself! Say to yourself that you're going to do a reality check every time I see a new door for one day. See if you can do it! Give yourself a treat when you achieve your goal for motivation. Refrain from your treat if you fail. Each time you achieve a goal, set harder goals. Go 2 days in a row without missing a reality check, then 3, then 4 and so forth. Do this until it becomes a natural habit. Your dreams will give you an idea of how natural a habit it is subconciously. |
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As dolphin said, it must be important. If it isn't important to you to lucid dream, it won't become something that happens a lot randomly. You need to make it important. I once spent 3 weeks with a 1 minute reality check timer. I wasn't supposed to be RCing every time it went off, but having it on my mind throughout the whole minute. 3 weeks later I had a huuuuuge head ache, but it seemed like it helped me progress to a higher level of thinking about the dream state. |
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Prospective memory . |
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I have an app on my phone that 20 times a day will give me a notification and ask me "Are you dreaming?", and I do a reality check |
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One strategy you could try is to create a little physical ritual that you perform every time you walk through a door, until it becomes a habit, like touching the doorframe or handle or the door itself, or taking care to step all the way over the still (or the floorspace divided by the door) rather than directly on it. Then mentally associate the RC with the physical gesture, so that every time you do the gesture it reminds you to RC, until the two things become an intertwined habit and both start manifesting together in your dreams. Naturally the gesture should be something easy and subtle enough that you can make a point of doing it every time in waking life without it becoming burdensome or drawing weird looks! |
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Some advice on setting goals and training prospective memory: |
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