reality shifting logs

i think i’ve talked about this before, but i want to go more into depth about the reality checks i do. 

1. first i count my fingers/look at my hands to make sure they’re normal. for some reason, a lot of the time in a dream, your hands look weird or you have and extra/are missing a finger

2. then, i look at the ceiling/sky. if you’re in a dream, the sky will look fake or like a painting

3. after that, i look at an analog clock. i heard somewhere that if you’re in a dream, the clock either won’t have numbers on it or the hands will be moving continuously 

4. then, i pinch my nose and try to breathe through it. if i am able to breathe through my nose when it’s pinched, then i know i am dreaming

5. finally, i try to put my finger though my palm or my hand through the table. i heard somewhere (idk where) that if you can put your hands/fingers through a solid surface, then you’re dreaming.

i think i tried to lucid dream last night and i think i came really close but i cant quite remember. it was a bit overshadowed by the fact that i had a really vivid dream last night. i won’t go into details but i had a dream that i shifted to one of my drs and i was really excited. i haven’t had dreams about shifting in a while so im taking this as a sign that im really close! 

so recently i’ve been trying the Wake Back to Bed Method (if you don’t know what that is i have a separate post about it!) to lucid dream. i’ve been setting my alarm for 2 am but my problem is that i am so deep in sleep that i just don’t hear it or i turn it off in my sleep. my solution for this is that i get a louder alarm. 

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i’ve heard that this is one of the hardest ones to do, and it helps if you master the other techniques first. 

WILD is where you enter a dream straight from the waking world. You’re brain stays awake while your body sleeps. 

What you do is lay down and wait for a hypnagogic hallucination to happen. 

---note--- you know how sometimes when you’re on the verge of falling asleep you start to hear things going on before you enter a dream? it’s that. 

this is the best i can describe this next part, so i’m sorry if it doesn’t make any sense. 

this lucid dream technique is also very simple. 

all you have to do is: 

as you begin to fall asleep, think of a dream you had recently and think of something apart of that dream that made you realize it was a dream. Essentially, think of a dream sign.

--note-- a dream sign is something that was strange from  your past dreams. 

as you fall asleep, think about returning to this dream, and recognize that the dreamsign only occurs when you’re dreaming. 

This Technique is fairly simple. 

Set an alarm for 5 hours after you go to bed. 

Go to sleep normally

When you’re alarm goes off, do something quiet like reading for about 30 minutes, then go back to sleep.

You should fall back into a dream, but your brain is more awake, so it increases the chance of a lucid dream.

--What this does is wakes you up during the REM sleep cycle, which is when most dreams occur. By waking yourself up during that, you make it more easier on yourself to lucid dream.---

Let’s start with the basics: what are reality checks? 

Reality checks are something you do throughout the day that help you identify if you’re dreaming or not. 

examples: 

-these are the ones i use-

1. Counting your fingers 

if you look at your hands, and realize they look weird, or you’re missing a finger or you have an extra finger, then you’re dreaming

2.Looking at the sky

if you look at the sky in a dream, it will look painted or fake. 

3. Read a clock

you’re brain can’t read things for some reason while you’re in a dream, so if you can’t read or the clock looks weird, you’re in a dream

4. Try to put your fingers through the palm of your other hand-

if they go through, you’ve either got a serious problem or you’re in a dream

5. Hold your nose and try to breathe out of it

if you breath out of your nose, even if you’re holding it closed, then you’re dreaming

The point of doing reality checks throughout the day is that you develop the habit, and will start to do them in your dreams. Then, you realized you’re dreaming; leading to a lucid dream.  

In this post, i will be exploring how keeping a dream journal will help with lucid dreaming.

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i did some research and as far as i know, keeping a dream journal helps you remember your dreams better, develop more vivid dreams, and to help identify a “dreamsign.”

-note-

a dream sign is essentially something that helps you differentiate a dream from reality. its anything that defies our reality. an example of this could be you were flying, or you were in your house but it wasn’t your house, or whatever helps you identify a dream as a dream. 

6/27/21

as many of you know, i am going to take a break from shifting for about a month so i can master lucid dreaming so i can shift through the lucid dream method. 

my plan to master lucid dreaming-

i’ve been doing some research, and i am going to try to master multiple/all of the known/popular Lucid dreaming methods, starting with the easiest ones, and working my way up to the hardest ones.

--I’ll go more in depth about lucid dreaming methods in a separate post--

Starting with the wake back to bed method (WBTB). I’ll give myself a week or two to master this one, since it is one of the easiest ones. 

Then, moving on to the MILD technique, which is about the same level difficulty as the WBTB technique. I’ll give myself about a week or 2 to master this one as well. 

Then, the WILD technique, which is one of the hardest techniques (from what i’ve heard). I will use the rest of the month to master this one. 

After i’ve mastered all of these techniques and i learn to lucid dream whenever i want, then i will begin using the lucid dream method for reality shifting.