Since I first became interested in lucid dreaming, I've used small text as a mainstay of my reality checks. I've read several places that small text will either be impossible to read, appear as hieroglyphics, or change every time you look at it in a dream. Last night, however, I had a dream wherein I could very clearly read the text of an email I had received from my school's writing competition judges, telling me that one of my submissions had won an honorable mention and also including several comments on the submission itself. I looked away from it and looked back, and both times I comprehended the text saying "your writing style has a very distinct voice!"
I am an avid reader and writer, so is it possible that constantly viewing text could allow my dreaming self to comprehend small text as well? Also, if I can no longer use small text as a dream indicator, what other methods would my fellow oneironauts suggest?