I just thought of this and haven’t tried it yet and forgive me if it’s not a novel idea, but I’ve come to realize that instead of asking myself “am I dreaming?” throughout the day in the hopes I’ll ask myself that in my dreams and find that the answer is “yes”, perhaps a better question would be, “how did I get here?”. (Does anyone else do this?)
Example: I had a ND last night where I was at work and was going to drive home and then I was home but I never actually drove there, it’s like how a movie just changes from scene to scene, automatically I was home without even realizing it in the dream (I only thought about it after I awoke). If I can get myself to ask questions like that in my dreams…“wait a second, how did I get here? where was I before this? what’s the last thing I remember?” because when we’re in dreams they’re so “real”, so if I can’t remember how I got to where I was in a dream scene, that would be a great type of RC for me.
The problem is getting myself to ask any repetitive question in my dreams, be it “am I dreaming?” or “how did I get here?” because my own brain still tricks me with the illusion of dreams. In the dream where I “drove” home from work, there were so many signs of things that would in NO WAY happen IRL, it’s almost like my brain was trying to say, “hey dummy, notice that you’re dreaming!” and I still didn’t notice, like my very nice boyfriend being totally out of character and acting mean like my ex-husband and him preferring to hang out with my sister rather than me and we both hate my sister. If I had even just asked, “what the hell are you doing here?” to my sister the DC, I may have become lucid!
The only time I have become lucid so far was during a bad dream when it suddenly dawned on me that I was dreaming, that no such bad entity existed like the one in my nightmare…no RC at all, just a total “light bulb over the head” kind of thing to get lucid, so now I’m looking for more creative ways to achieve lucidity.