My Varied Question?

Hey people, I have a few question I need to be clarified, Okay.

1) Long story short, I have a very sophisticated alarm that gives me sleep analysis, and I may be able to find when I wake up before the REM stage - Is this a good thing or doesn't it matter?

2) I think I have found a couple of significant dream signs but I'm not to sure on them. The fist one is a local park that a lot of my dreams are located - here unusual things happen, where the details seem to change like size and colors of swing sets and slides. Another is Running. From my knowledge most of the dreams, where I am running - I can't run properly. I always seem to be in slow motion, but everything around me is normal speed. However in previous dreams I ran extremely fast. Anyway are these dream signs ?

3) Lastly I cant seem to find anything on what to do once I have identified my dream signs, because in my last dream these two aspects were involved but I didn't realize I was dreaming. What do I do from here?

1). No, it doesn't matter that much when it comes to learning to LD. Machines tend to be secondary to the process. You alarm might help later, when you begin to refine your timing.

2) Yes, those are dream signs -- use them if you can!

3) If you identify a dream sign, then you are already well into the next step, which is questioning whether this is a dream or not. So, the next thing to do, I think, is a Reality Check. While doing the RC, it is also a good idea to calmly gather your awareness, and just settle into this new state. More will come later, but right now it's just a case of getting used to being awake in a dream...

I agree with what Sageous said. ^^

Since you now know some of your dream signs, you can do a reality check everytime you see them, or are in them, or even everytime you think about them or they cross your mind.

Sooner or later, you will reality check while you are dreaming, and you'll hopefully get lucid. Remember to really put thought into your reality checks though, and really think about it.

Good luck!