One thing I've noticed about my dreams is that certain people often appear in them. People such as friends from music camp or school, or TV/movie characters, family members and such.

Here's my proposed idea: Along with a dream journal, keep a list of the people you meet in your dream. Put a tally mark next to their name for every time you encounter them while in a dream. Then, if someone on your list has a certain amount of tallies (say 3 or five or so), do a reality check every time you encounter that person in real life, or see their picture, connect with them on Facebook, things like that.

Hopefully, with enough diligence, whenever you encounter one of these reoccurring projections in a dream, you will habitually do a reality check and become aware that you are dreaming.

A note: I don't believe it to be necessary to add projections to your hit list that aren't actually people you know. Since they are randomly generated by the mind, the likelihood of encountering them again is probably quite small.

So.

What do you think?