Tools - Super power test (reality check)
I perform reality test regularly throughout my day every day. I use
small notes on my wall, in the car, my computer monitor and when I see
it I try to push my right index finger through an object and check my
watch (digital watches seldom show correct in dreams). With enough
practice,you will automatically remember it during your dreams and phase
into lucid dreams.
I like to call these my super power test because of my concept that
how can you know you don't have super powers if you have never even
tried to use them because of logic and physics. I imagine a grown man
being told he could fly or walk through walls by a doctor and being
asked why he had never done it, only to reply he never tried.
I do this regularly and quite often it is the initial trigger that
gives me control of dream when I do a check and push a pen through my
notebook or my finger through my phone. The small motions seem to work
best and can be done without anyone noticing. I started with my watch
chiming on the hour and I would perform a test. Now I test anytime I
have a fork, pen, or other object in my hand. I don't just lean or sit
on an object - I will try to bend push and lift objects that physically
can't be done. It can be as simple as dropping a piece of trash or my
favorite, a small random skip when no one is watching. The small random
skip has resulted in a flying dream more than once.
With
the combination of tools you can learn to do several reality checks any
time a dream sign or something out of the ordinary is seen or happens. I
seem to end up doing this a lot around Halloween and if shopping very
early in the morning. The reality check can confirm a that you are
dreaming and becomes a very strong tool for reinforcing and stabilizing
the dream world.
When in a dream a reality check is very important for stabilizing a
dream and keeping control of a lucid dream if it starts to slip or
become fuzzy.
I have the almost constant habit of doing noticeable reality checks
when around people after many years of practice and go from a vivid
dream to a lucid dream with complete control with a reality check being
my most common trigger. Many sources say to do them on a set time
schedule or when you notice something out of the ordinary but I have
triggered lucidity in a dream when I did a reality check out of habit
and everything around me seemed normal. The first time this happened
happened to be when sitting at my computer I went to put out a finished
cigarette. Over the years when I use a tool such as a fork or pen I will
try to slightly push it through an object without the notice of anyone
around me and this habit seems to have carried over into my smoking
habit. The first time I did this totally habit reality check and noticed
I was doing it was when it succeeded and I followed it up with other
reality checks that all succeeded. I did not actually expect it to work
because I was perceiving everything around me as normal and had not
heard my watch chime (the watch chime used to trigger a reality check
for me). The normal triggers for a reality test would have failed
because I had no reason to even conduct a test. After the success of
the almost constant test by habit I have increased it and had more
success. I still do a check when something seems strange but I no
longer worry about setting a timed test because I now test several times
an hour when awake and hopefully more than that when asleep. Many
habits carry over into sleep also.
I have a theory that over time your brain will become accustomed to
the response of a test and become slightly numb to the repeated
results. After so many repeated results it may project this into a dream
and give you a real result even in a dream much like most of my dream
characters will tell me i'm not dreaming if asked. This conclusion has
led my to slightly alter my strategy over time and incorporate new test
and alter old ones slightly. I often change up test and try new things
such as I recently started checking pens to see if they warp like rubber
with slight pressure, when I pick up a bottle or can I try to insert my
thumb into it or apply slight pressure to warp it. These test go
unnoticed by others and give me a few extra things to watch for.
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