 Alright, so in today's video, I want to talk about a device which I've I've used this as a reality check totem Or you know a way of testing my reality for a while, but it's something which I've Not really made a video about for some reason. I've never really spoken about this before So this is the lucid talisman now the talisman is basically like in this context. It's a totem, right? So a lucid dreaming let me just put this Down so you can see me properly So a lucid dreaming totem is something that you can use to sort of like a physical object that you can use as a reality check So if you've seen the film inception, right? You remember the spinning top, right? So Leo, Leo de Caprio uses the spinning top to test whether he's dreaming or not You know if it stops spinning that he knows he's dreaming if it carries on spinning. He's an illusive dream So what a talisman is is essentially like a like a coin I think the easiest way is if I just show you it so you can see how it works Okay, so the actual talisman itself. I'm just gonna put it on here so you can get a better look at it All right, so this is the talisman itself. There are two versions of this I can't actually remember which one is the one that's on the site now for sale, but this is one of them and This is the other one slightly smaller and less colorful. I think actually for memory I think this is the old one Which is I don't know if they're being made anymore Yeah, I'm not sure if they are being made anymore, but because this is so limited now I don't think you can get this this one Anywhere online if this video gets to 10,000 likes then I will Give this to a random commenter. Whoever randomly leaves a comment. I'll give this to Anyway, so this is I think the one that you can get now So it's like a bigger slightly more simple. There's some nice colors on here. Dormion's Vigila. Am I dreaming? Oh and Lucid Viva, am I awake? So there's a few interesting things going on here So firstly, you'll notice the snake around the edge here. This is actually an ancient symbol of immortality The snake biting its own tail. I'm not going to go into the history of this, but that's very interesting There's also the Sun here and then the moon on the other side again with the snake going around indicating immortality now there is some Interesting things you can do with this so So in terms of actually how to use this to to lose a dream There are a few things you can do so firstly if you do reality checks, which you should do right You should be doing I think 20 30 reality checks every day depends on you know how How difficult you find lucid dreaming? But what you can do is you can start using this as a reality check So what you can so with a typical reality check you might do something like trying push your finger through your palm Okay, so whereas with this what you would do is you would attach an expectation to the totem and Tell yourself that whatever you hold the totem. It will do a certain thing if you're awake and Another and another thing if you're dreaming so what you can do is you can hold it You can say right every time I hold this totem if I'm dreaming the Sun The Sun symbol on the front here will start glowing and pulsating Okay, and so what you do is you hold this totem and every time you hold this totem You tell yourself if I'm dreaming the Sun will be glowing and So then when the Sun doesn't glow you can conclude that you're awake But because you're attaching that expectation to it because you're telling yourself if I am dreaming Without a doubt this this Sun will start glowing if you do end up holding this in a lucid in a normal dream I should say The Sun will start glowing and you can conclude that you're lucid dreaming It's a very easy way of attaching expectation to a physical object And that's basically the whole idea behind totems really when you break it down. It's just about attaching an expectation to an object And so there are a number of things you can do you can either say when the Sun glows I know I'm lucid or you can say when the moon Starts to glow or you can say when the snake starts to you know slither around in a circle Basically anything that you can notice on this totem, you know or you might say If I hold the totem and it starts floating above my hand like this Starts floating above my hand, then I'll know I'm dreaming So lots of things you can do this. It's a really fun Almost magical kind of way of getting back into lucid dreaming if you've struggled with reality checks This totem or talisman I should say is a very good way of getting back into that getting back into that whole magical Sense of lucid dreaming where anything's possible. So yeah, I hope that makes sense There is actually another option that you can do So there is actually another thing you can do and that is you can get a necklace with the totem actually on The end is a smaller version of it So this is a lot easier to wear you can just you know where it is a necklace and look down and Basically do the same thing instead of having to carry this big disc around with you because this has actually got some kind of It's kind of heavy, you know, there's some sort of weight to this obviously a disc of metal So with this it's a lot easier to wear a necklace now I just want to make sure that you can get a good look at this It is pretty much the same the more that I look at this is pretty much the same design on the smaller version that you That you guess on bigger version the only difference is this one has a sort of a gold tint to it was this is just silver and blue So, you know, this is obviously the better version But this is much more practical and you can actually wear it and use it So plus it's kind of a cool necklace, you know, I can see myself wearing this I have been wearing this for a while Not now obviously I'm wearing my Mandala right now, but this is a really cool product really cool really cool idea I like this and I can tell you, you know from personal experience that it has helped me to Get reality checks to show up in my dreams in the times where you find yourself like in a sort of a rut You know where's nothing's working. You can't your techniques aren't showing up your reality checks aren't showing up It can be difficult to know what to do and I think this is a good way of breaking up that that rut Because it's something it's something new to try, you know, it's a different way of looking at reality checks And yeah, I think it's it's a really cool idea. Yeah. Anyway, so you can check this out links are in the description if you want to get one of these as I said, they are very fun very nice to hold and Yeah, you can get the necklace version if you want that is as Effective probably more effective because you're more likely to carry it around and actually use it So and also like I said if this video gets to 10,000 likes or I don't know a thousand comments I will pick one of you at random and you will win this one, which is the old version. This is really cool. Look at this Really cool. 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