I haven't posted a thread in a while so I thought I'd go for it and share my method of achieving lucidity last night

I am walking along in a pretty long and intricate dream, and as I am crossing a street I hear my mom's voice go "Dreaming.... REALITY check!" with a huge emphasis on reality check. Now, nothing since the beginning of the dream had been related to lucid dreaming and my mom wasn't even on my mind when it happened. In my non lucid state, I kept walking, annoyed that she was distracting me from the task I was focused on. But then I started to reason with myself, "Well, I really ought to do a reality check whenever I hear 'reality check'", so I looked at my hand and course if was complete deformed! Yay

So I am just curious, do you ever hear omnipresent voices in your dreams? When my mom and I are together I am always trying to catch her in REM and whisper into her ear for her to do a RC. I actually woke up from this dream expecting her to be leaning over me, and I was totally confused to find I was in my dorm room hundreds of miles away. Even while lucid I didn't realize that it was just her voice issuing from my crazy dream landscape, not someone actually whispering into my ear! She was in town visiting yesterday for the day, but left six hours before I even went to sleep, 10 hours before my lucid. I'm going to have to make her drive across the state more often