"strange room" technique

This is a rather simple technique, that I have been doing for about a month. What you need is a few different bedrooms you can use. You have your normal room you normally sleep in at least 4-5 days a week, then switch it up with another when you want to have a lucid dream. Before you sleep in the seldom used "strange room" remember that your in the not normal "strange room" what has happened is for me, when I have false awakenings I will be in my "normal room", and it can be jarring, my subconscious room recreation imagery must work separately from conscious thought. The other night I woke knowing that I was in the "strange room" if I was just in the same room I would've just thought I was dreaming, but since I saw the room I was not in, instant lucid. This isn't much of a technique more than it is just an idea of sorts. One thing I did was make sure the one room had mirrors the other does not, something obviously different. Anyone else do anything close to this? Any ideas to improve this?

Good idea...now I'll actually have a use for my second and third bedrooms. Wait, do normal people usually have more than one bedroom?

All kidding aside, sleeping in a strange room, along with doing anything else to help keep your mind at a lighter (less comfortable, more alert) level will be beneficial to lucid dreaming. This is why napping works so great for LDing, you're at a very light level of sleep. Falling asleep with a light or the TV on will also work similarly.

It's so nice to be back on the real site, everything went crazy as soon as I made this thread. The Russians have been defeated tho. I actually use a living room as my ld room. It's real strange to see a room you know your not in, it's freaky.

This is an interesting idea. Unfortunately I have a tendency to sleep walk so sometimes I WISHED I was dreaming whenever I wake up somewhere not in my bed. Maybe I can use the reverse of this and do reality checks when I wake up in my own bed. xD

I've actually experienced this before... albeit unintentionally. I went to visit my mother in Florida some time ago, which I used to live for a few years, but I slept in the "guest room" down the hall from my old room. I remember waking up completely confused and quite sure I was dreaming, it took me a few tries waking before I knew exactly where I was and that I wasn't dreaming.

I use this trick sometimes. I will WILD on the couch, or in a spare bedroom. I get wacky dreams whenever I travel, so this makes sense.

I've done this a lot before and it's a good way to Help get lucid :)