I’d like to start a little challenge that should help with your motivation to recognise dream signs and hopefully will improve your chances of DILDing. Basically the idea is based on LaBerge’s memory exercise:
Everyone involved picks three triggers. The aim is to pick triggers that you are at least moderately likely to see during the day (but ideally they should also be dream signs). Each day look out for those triggers and RC every time you see them - this counts as a hit. But also try and remember if you saw the trigger but forgot to RC - this counts as a miss. If you miss the trigger, even by a minute that’s too bad. Keep a record of how many hits you have versus misses for the day and we will keep a tally.
The triggers shouldn’t be too rare, e.g. lions (unless you work at a zoo), or too common e.g. earth (unless you are an astronaut). For example, my three triggers are:
Going to the bathroom
Schools (includes, school students)
Using transportation (cars, buses and trains)
It is important to be able to post your results ideally every day, but if you miss a day you can probably post two days together. This way we can keep a running tally of everyone’s scores (based on percentages is probably the fairest way) and the current leader can brag about holding the yellow jersey. At the end of five weeks we can announce the overall winner! (No prize, just bragging rights)
Remember the competition relies on your honesty and you’ll get the most out of it if you’re really striving to remember those triggers!
You can leave an expression of interest in this thread, but PM me your preferred triggers and I’ll let you know if I think they’re appropriate. I’m aiming for five to ten people, but I’ll announce when entries are closed, depending on how much interest this gets.
Edit: We could also have a separate record for how many LD’s you’ve had during the challenge, although this would probably be more for people who haven’t had many LD’s yet or for those who are going through a long dry spell.
Well, I RC all uncommon and rare things that happen, and it begins to come in the dreams I see your point and hope other dreamers are gonna snap on your idea. Its great and as a complement try to RC all ODD stuff at the day
I remember reading this in the book and hopefully I will get back into it, but I did find it difficult to remember the specific things like seeing a bird or similar. I think you need to build yourself up. There is a vid on youtube (the lucidipedia channel) that talks about prospective memory, and an excersise to build this up to make it more likely that you will do reality checks in lucid dreams, using his mobile phone alarm.
I didn’t have too much trouble with the exercise myself, but I did find once I had finished his lot I had trouble staying motivated to remember my own dream signs. So I thought a challenge might be the perfect answer to lack of motivation.
About video games, how often do you play? And what is the trigger? Thinking about video games? or playing them? do you do it when you start playing a video game or what? Because I mean if you’re anything like me you could spend three hours playing video games and it gets a bit unclear…
I was trying to see if anyone had had the idea to combine reality checks and dream signs. That seems way more efficient than to choose something random like doing a reality check everyone you walk though a door (which would be way too often for me in any case IRL, and less often in dreams). I would rather do a reality check anytime I come across something I often see in my dreams, and not too often in real life: aka dream signs. Right?
So it seems Stephen LaBerge already thought of this? And so did the author of this thread.
Anyway, I just like to write down my new reality check triggers that are also my dream signs. I have not done reality checks for a while because I didn’t have clear enough triggers. So I’ll try again:
My phone or computer is really not working at all like expected and I can’t seem to figure it out.
I see an old aquintance from school times
I step into a transport vehicle like a car, train, tram or bus
I’m also thinking I should start double checking. Because sometimes I have counted fingers in my dreams and was like: okay 8, that’s normal. So I’ll choose trying to levitate/fly and checking if my eye sight is blurry/sharp/normal.
I would love to hear other people’s check triggers. And also what your favorite ways of checking are.
I see your point and hope other dreamers are gonna snap on your idea. Its great and as a complement try to RC all ODD stuff at the day 
So I’ll choose trying to levitate/fly and checking if my eye sight is blurry/sharp/normal.