SMS Text Reality Check

Quest for Lucidity General Lucidness
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hi iamdarthvader :wave: IMO this works better if you have this text as background image, so you dont need to wait for an SMS :tongue: but that also that means you need to make a habit picking up the phone randomly :cool:

Either way, good luck with your RC’s