Consider this: Is it possible that you're actually dreaming right now?
Are you sure?
How would you know?
If you're trying to have lucid dreams you'd better make sure that you know how to answer that question!
You've just performed one of the more common techniques used to induce lucid dreams: The reality check.
Are you standing on a beach in the South Pacific drinking cocktails at sunset, but you don't recall actually boarding a plane? For that matter, you don't remember scheduling any vacation time, either...
The ability to have lucid dreams can be greatly helped if you learn to pay more attention to the world around you.
Once you start to look for signs that everything isn't quite as it should be the theory goes that you should soon be able to spot your dreams easily.
The obvious drawback of this method of triggering lucid dreams is that you have to make a habit of performing reality checks. This can be difficult if you're not used to taking much notice of the world around you.
Most people spend more time than they probably think inside their own heads: Either lost in thought, talking to themselves or preoccupied with a crisis or emergency. For example, the last time you drove your car do you remember every gear change, every song on the radio or even which way you drove?
Probably not. You let your unconscious mind take over dealing with the outside world, and you just went along for the ride.
This is precisely why lucid dreams can be hard to achieve using this method. Unless you make it a habit to take notice of what's going on around you, chances are it will be difficult to make reality checks work for you.
That's not to say you won't be successful. Like any skill everyone's results will be different.
If you're having difficulty using reality checks and you're looking for a better alternative fear not - there are many other ways to learn how to lucid dream.
I'll be discussing them in later posts.
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