 Alright guys so in the video I want to talk about prospective memory and the way you can trigger reality checks in a lucid dream. This is something which I teach in my lucid dream bootcamp course which you can find on my website in the description but essentially what this is, it's not a new idea, this is a very common way of remembering to do reality checks and it just involves tying the idea of reality check to something that can trigger you to have that check in waking life and therefore in dreams. So let me just give you an example. Let's say if you told yourself every time I see a dog I will do a reality check. Before we get into this video guys just make sure to click the subscribe button and turn on notification. This really does help my videos actually get to you as opposed to just being lost in the YouTube wilderness that they otherwise might have drifted into. Now what that's going to mean is that if you go through your waking life and your waking day looking out for dogs when you see a dog you'll do a reality check. What that means is that in a dream when you see a dog you'll also do a reality check because you've sort of conditioned your brain to remember to do a reality check when you see a particular stimuli in this case a dog. This works very effectively but it works even better when you combine it with something that you're already dreaming about and what I mean by that is your dream science. We all have recurring themes in our dreams, things that we always find enter our dreams spontaneously right. So like for example you might always dream about dogs for example or you might also always dream about a particular type of car. You could also dream about a particular person or anything like that or replace and these these are what's known as your dream signs. The things that recur in your dreams that you can identify with then you understand. Now a really effective thing you could do is to tell yourself I will do a reality check whenever I see my dream sign, whatever your dream sign happens to be. If it's a person then every time you see a that person do a reality check in waking life and therefore when you dream about that dream sign you'll do a reality check ask yourself if you're dreaming and become lucid. This is like one of the fundamental techniques and ideas behind testing your reality because you want it to actually show up in your dreams. There's no sense just doing pointless random reality checks although they are good and you know they'll increase your chances it's far more effective to tie it to a dream sign because you're already going to be dreaming about the thing and the chances are if it's a dream sign then you're going to see it in waking life as well and so you can sort of train yourself to attach reality checks to something you're already going to dream about. This is also how you can apply this to things like false awakenings and nightmares. If you always have the same nightmare you can in waking life tell yourself whenever I see this thing whatever the nightmare is and pull up a google images of what the nightmare is about by the way and look at the image really study the image say let me give you an example say if you're scared of tight spaces pull up a google image search and type in like claustrophobic caves or tiny rooms or something like this whatever the whatever makes you visualize the nightmare better and really study the images and tell yourself as you're looking at the images I will do a reality check when I see this or when this happens and even as you're looking at the images on the screen do reality checks there and then do this several times a day and eventually what will happen is that when you have that recurring nightmare about those claustrophobic rooms or caves or whatever it is you'll automatically do a reality check and become lucid and escape the nightmare. This is a really powerful technique and it does work you know I've used this myself I've heard of others using this and it's not new really this is not news but a lot of us tend to forget the real meaning and point of doing reality checks it's not to just tick them off your to-do list every day it's actually to build your critical awareness and make sure that you're aware of yourself what you're doing what's going on around you and questioning whether you're actually awake or not. So there's that you can use it to escape nightmares now false awakenings are a very similar thing okay so most of us have these experiences where we dream about waking up and then after a few minutes of you know going through our morning routine we are snapped back into the bed and we wake up again and sometimes this can happen up to 10 or even 20 times in a row and it gets to the point where you don't know whether you've actually woken up or whether you're just having another dream or a false awakening it can be annoying it can even be scary because you can lose touch with what's real and what's not especially if you're half lucid in these experiences for example you might lucidly be aware of the false awakening and you might genuinely think you've woken up because lucidity is often similar to waking life you know you have that conscious awareness that you are there right now and that what you're seeing is real you're also aware of the fact that you're in control of what you're doing when you're lucid and when you're awake so this the two states are sort of similar and so that way in that way false awakenings can be confusing because you can't often tell the difference especially if you're lucid between a false awakening and an actual awakening or can you if you do reality checks every single time you wake up first thing then after a while you will never have false awakenings you'll have actual awakenings or lucid dreams because you will have trained yourself there'll be exceptions obviously it won't be every time but more often than not instead of having a false awakening you'll do a reality check become lucid and have a normal dream a normal lucid dream that is so hopefully this has been helpful you know there's been there's been a few emails coming into me about reality checks and how to get them to show up so that was just a few snippets from my lucid dreaming bootcamp course which is actually on sale right now it's on sale for a couple of days only I think till about Thursday or Friday this week but if you're watching this after that date that's absolutely fine too it's still a great deal for you guys it's a very good way of having your first lucid dream if nothing else seems to be working and you just want to have something that can hold you accountable and make you do you know the actions every day that will lead to a lucid dream so that's it for now guys make sure to subscribe live a like leave a comment and let me know what you think have you tried this