Recording my Lucidity Habits, specifically Reality Checks

Hello, everyone! It has been one month since I'd joined Dreamviews. For both December and January, I am working on creating habits for lucidity as many community members and lucidity veterans know that habits are the pathway to lucidity. Since I am a student of psychology and statistics (more emphasis on the former for now), I know how hard it is to form habits. What I have done so far is the following:

(1) Record how much reality checks I've done in the day by hour

(2) Record how much short-term meditations I've done in the day by hour

For both (1) and (2), I have a dream workbook I carry around with me. I keep a note of how much reality check and short-term meditations I have done so that later I can see whether or not I have done reality checks. I also keep in mind but not write down of when and where I have done reality checks.

Example: On January 21, I have done 40 reality checks but I have done them more around 4 to 11 PM. I know that I work around 4 to 11 PM on that day; before 4 PM, I am at home. I also know that I don't do a lot of reality check at home compared to work. Therefore, I need to do more reality checks at home.

Because of this, I can ensure that I can work on doing reality checks every hour. I also record other habits such as short-term meditation, meditation before sleeping, WrILD (Writing Induced Lucid Dream), reality checking when waking up to prevent false awakening, and etc. I can provide more details if requested.

This is a really methodical approach to recording your reality checks and habits and is far more organised then anything I've attempted in the past. I think that with such a constant and intricate approach you'll start seeing some great results. Just thinking about being lucid as often as you are can only be a good thing.

I'll be interested to see how you go.

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Originally Posted by Phased

This is a really methodical approach to recording your reality checks and habits and is far more organised then anything I've attempted in the past. I think that with such a constant and intricate approach you'll start seeing some great results. Just thinking about being lucid as often as you are can only be a good thing.

I'll be interested to see how you go.

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I'm planning to expand this approach by including prospective memory practice and dream yoga meditation exercises (though I'm still trying to figure this one out); in fact, it was because of the difficultity of prospective memory practice that started this approach. I knew that I needed a way to record when I do a reality check through the prospective memory practice, so I created an approach to recording reality checks as an entry way to slip into the prospective memory practice.