Quote Originally Posted by lenscaper View Post
I hope it is ok for me to post like this.
If by "post like this", you mean double/multiple posting, I'm pretty sure it's fine as long as it's not excessive and the following posts are complete and/or separate ideas/topics that aren't better tacked on as simple edits. I'm no mod, so don't take my word for it on that, but I've noticed others following these guidelines and making multiple successive posts and somewhat regularly do it myself and have never been given a warning or reprimanded for it.

Dream signs and reality checks are good practices to be in, but definitely keep in mind the method behind the madness. The primary motivation behind and ultimate goal of reality checks and dream signs are to increase your general awareness of yourself. That's a rather loaded statement though--by general awareness of yourself, I mean of virtually everything in your life and that you experience. A lot of the time, even though specific dream signs may be good for prompting reality checks for example, the dream signs themselves are more a symptom of what you ought to becoming more aware of than the cause or an end in themselves. What I mean is, it generates genuine inquisitiveness and interest in what might make these dream signs show up so often and why, leading to some real insight.

All in all, it's a never ending process of trying to achieve a greater knowledge of yourself and life. Ultimately it's all part of a broader process of spiritual/psychological enlightenment and transcendence... put in other terms, part of a journey of self-actualization and individuation. I think pursuit of self-improvement, understanding, and self-actualization/individuation is perhaps the greatest way of indirectly improving one's ability to lucid dream. Honestly, I think making progress on this front has greater potential to improve lucidity than directly practicing lucid dreaming can and often does.