I am fairly new to lucid dreaming and it difficult to find a type of reality check that works frequently. I have noticed that in the dream world I almost always have my cell phone in my pocket, as I do in the physical world. Thus, I believe receiving a random SMS text messages to my phone may help with reality checks.
The format I have in mind is the following:
You’re dreaming! Notice how this message changes each time you read it? Know that you realize you are dreaming, you will have complete control. Have fun!
My question is: How can I randomly receive text messages to my phone throughout the week? So far, the best solution I know of is to compose an email to be sent to my phone as a SMS at a future date. This method is not random and is kind of a pain.
What do you guys think? I believe receiving random text messages can greatly improve my quest for lucidity.
I’m not so sure that would be a good technique, unless you actually already get a lot of text messages in your dreams.
Here’s the reason why. If you only do a RC when a watch beeps at an interval or an text is received, then you will also only do a RC when that event happens in your dreams. So it’s best to pick an event that happens both in your dreams and waking life regularly and do a RC every time that happens in WL, so you will also start doing that in your dreams eventually when the event happens.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for your reply. Text messages and my cell phone in general often appear in my dreams. I think that receiving a message being told I am dreaming and can become lucid, in the physical world, may encourage a subconscious response making it easier to become lucid while dreaming.
Hi iamdarthvader IMO this works better if you have this text as background image, so you dont need to wait for an SMS but that also that means you need to make a habit picking up the phone randomly