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ok, i'll add in the extra wording and also try to chnge the color of things.

Yesterday's dream there were a couple of time related incidents. In one of them I indeed looked at my watch. The watch face had analog hands though, as opposed to a digital face like i use to do the reality checks. I never looked back at the watch again though to try to perform a reality check.

Are there any good movies or visuals that help in lucid dreaming? Like many people I often dream about tv or movies that I watch before going to bed. Maybe there's some stuff that will help induce lucidity. I saw Airplane for the first time this weekend and was amused by a lot of the subconscious imagery and script that was used. But i don't think it helps lucidity; hypnosis, perhaps.

yes. I hear my hourly chime. I look at the time on my digital watch. I look away then I look back at my watch again. Then I check to see if the numbers are the same or not. If they are, I say to myself "Ok, I'm awake". Rinse and Repeat.

Before I started doing the reality check routine I sometimes would notice, while dreaming, that odd things would happen but I wouldn't make anything of it. Like for instance...one time...at band camp... Just kidding! No seriously, one time I remember falling to "certain death" in an elevator but then somehow I mysteriously managed to escape the falling elevator. I think I remember noting, while dreaming, that it was odd but I didn't really make anything out it.

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Ok I've been practicing the "look at your watch" repetition technique and I've now been able to recall time related activity, including looking at a watch in my dreams. However, in my dreams I don't perform a reality check. Only when I wake up and go through the dream from memory do I notice various "time" elements in the dream. I haven't questioned them in the dream. How do I get to the next step of performing a reality check while in the dream itself?

Unaware Dreamer