Thread: physical reminder for LD?

Hey and welcome!
I'm not too sure it would work, because you don't always look as you should or do in dreams. I think if really payed attention to the fact that you have something written on your hand, and if you kept it a couple days, it might become part of what you look like in a couple dreams. You could also just ignore it when you see it in a dream, so you'd probably have to remember to do a reality check regularly when you see it. Either way, it's probably something worth trying out (and could probably help establish a habit of doing reality checks).

In dreams I am rarely exactly the same as I am in waking life. I find in dreams the scars on the back of my hand aren't there. However if I wrote some thing on the back of my hand and kept checking it was there it might work. Even if the writing doesn't appear in the dream at least if I remember I'l notice it's gone, so it should work weather or not you apear as you are. Good idea, I might try it .

Oh, and welcome to dream views

I'd say that writing something on your hand is useful only if you forget to do reality checks in waking life (in the time when you're trying to make it a habit) so it reminds you. It could probably trigger lucidity in a dream too, but doing it just for that would not be very effective IMO.

Well, with reality checks, they're usually not very effective unless they are done on a consistent basis so that they become a habit. Finding a current dream sign helps with that a lot, as you can train yourself to see things you usually see in your dreams. People who don't have a consistent dream sign can use writing on their hand or a piece of paper or a watch to try and create a dream sign so that they will perform that action in a dream and be able to become lucid.

It's all about making a habit of doing reality checks. If you create a habit, then chances are it will appear in your dream.

-Amé