Inception totem

I have had an idea. The idea of doing a RC is to test if something works with how you would expect it to, right?

Well, what if you carried around something (anything small really) that was broken? Then when you look at this broken object, you say a mantra where you state that if you was not dreaming, then this product should be working.

-It's hard to say what I'm thinking..

Normally, if you try to push your fingers through your other palm, nothing happens. Upon doing this, you would say "If I was dreaming, then my fingers would go through my palm"

So to translate this with the broken object..

You look at your broken item and in reality, it doesn't work. You would then think, "If I was dreaming, then this item should work"

If you did this enough, then when you come to do a RC in a dream, would the item work, where you then catch on to this as you know that in reality, it's broken?



It's a long shot, but I'm just trying to expand on your idea of using totems. Anyone go anything further to add (As I am yet to have a LD)

Inception totems are probably be far less useful than actual reality checks, and even so I doubt that idea in particular would even work. Objects already have a high likelihood of not working in dreams, so using the functionality of a device as a reality check would probably give you a very low chance of becoming lucid.


Inception was a good movie, but the fact is that the methods they use are far from being the best ones available.


Also if you haven't already had an LD then the last thing on your mind should be the methods used in Inception. Periodic reality checks + awareness are the way to go.

Well I thought the idea was to remind you to reality check. And they would work in a dream if you had the expectation that they would. I only do reality checks for fun in dreams because they trip me out, and to show other people they are dreaming.

If you want a totem, something to act as a reality check, the best option is something that your subconscious would know you had, but wouldn't be able to replicate realistically. Your best bet is simple: A scrap of paper with a phrase on it. Consider this: dreams are generated by the right hemisphere of the brain; the capacity to read and comprehend the written word is held within the left hemisphere. Therefore, whatever you write in reality should be incomprehensible gibberish in your dreams, because the right hemisphere does not possess the ability to understand text. Your subconscious will retain that you have the scrap of paper, but it won't be able to recreate what's written on it.