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This is a DILD (Dream Induced Lucid Dreaming) technique, reality checking. These techniques are generally not as reliable as WILD, you can’t control the timing of your LDs and they tend to create pseudo-lucid dreams[1]. If you have a consistent sleep cycle (REM and non-REM), I recommend WILD techniques. If you are young it’s even easier, as sleep phases tend to get messed up as you get older.

1: These are just regular dreams in which you dream about that you are lucid dreaming. Your awake consciousness is not actually present, your memory is as suspended as it is in regular dreams, you don’t notice flaws in the dream reality and it feels distinctly like regular dreams (like a “bystander”) as opposed to the self awareness feeling in lucid dreams. See https://youtu.be/fqWikLRVby8?si=J0E2BpxO4ff4mam4