 All right, so welcome back to another video. We've got this question from our buddy mason and he's asking about dream totems And okay, so if you're not familiar with a dream totem if you still in the film inception Okay, if you haven't great film I'll put a link in the description because you need to watch that film It's like lucid dreaming in a nutshell, but if you haven't seen the film inception they use totems To tell when they're dreaming and essentially a totem is like a like a small object Which has specific properties. It does something. Okay, so for example this and if you can see this is a spinning top Okay, and this is the quite common one from inception Where the main character will spin the spin the spinning top in a dream it keeps spinning and it doesn't stop in reality Of course it topples and so he'll spin this and whether it topples or keeps spinning will tell him whether he's dreaming or not so it's almost like a reality check and the The check that he does with it is whether it topples or whether it keeps spinning and of course each totem has different properties so there is a Loaded dice for example and going an exception again where the owner of the dice knows the exact weight of the dice And he knows where it's likely to land So of course when he throws the dice in a dream it always lands on one number I assume and then in reality it's mixed numbers. Okay, so the idea of using a totem is something which I think was made popular by the film inception Particularly with this spinning top Okay, and I want to talk about totems today. They can work. Okay, you can use totems in your daily life to Become lucid and a dream because they work much the same way as reality checks do they they tie Question okay the question. Am I dreaming with an action which has different results in the dream? the problem with totems is That sometimes they have different results in the dream Then you would like them to have so for example you could spin the top and it could topple in the dream So the problem was with totems of course is that so they can work But if if you're not finding success with the totem, I would recommend just doing reality checks as normal because reality check Most of the time Will always work Like for example if you pinch your nose and try to breathe in real life You will never be able to breathe because you'll think you're restricting your airway in the dream You'll notice after a few seconds that you're still breathing and you're not struggling for breath or anything So you know that that reality check has worked whereas if you use the totem like spinning top for example There's a high chance that it won't work the way you'd like it to Because of course when you spin a spinning top you expect it to topple and going on what I said in earlier videos What you expect to happen in a lucid dream will normally happen You know if you expect that you won't be able to fly You're not gonna be able to fly so it's all down to expectation Okay, so they totems can work But I would suggest that you experiment for yourself. It's different for everyone for me They don't really work for for about four months or so. I tried to use a ring as a totem So I would have not this ring, but I used to have a ring with them little wing Cutouts there was a small indent of wings Okay, so in the dream I would look at this ring and then I would float I would start to fly The problem was that I overused it and after a while I would see the ring in my dream as I have seen it in real life so many times when I look at my hands and nothing would happen So it swings in roundabouts. I mean some totems can work For some people but sometimes they don't so I know this video seems like it's neither here nor there with regards to your question But I would say definitely try it definitely give it a go pick a totem that has Something specific that you can do in a dream and not in real life, but then remember that it's all about expectation So if you expect Something to happen It usually will in a dream So the best way I would approach this is for example, if you had a spinning top as your totem Every single time you use this totem in real life You need to expect it to keep spinning and this is really important if you just spin it, okay and Just observe it More often than not it's gonna happen in the dream and it's gonna topple over because you expect it to happen Okay, you need to make sure that every single time you spin the spinning top in real life You genuinely believe it will keep spinning And this is the only way that totems are gonna work really you need to believe with all of your mind You need to believe that it will keep spinning And then if you're in a dream it will keep spinning and then you'll know that you're dreaming Okay, this is quite important. 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