After reading an ebook[german] by Paul Tholey about dream characters and if they have an own consciousness, i had an idea how i could become lucid in a more efficient way. In this book Tholey says that some people have successfully told their dream characters to make them lucid in another dream. They used them as little helpers to gain lucidity.
Now, there are two problems for me with reality checks. I’m very bad in remembering things i have to doin the future, so i often forget to do them on several occasions during the day, though i manage to do them from time to time. They quite often gave me lucid dreams, but those moments were very rare. So first you have to make yourself check reality while being awake and the other step is to transfer that behaviour into your dream life. For me this is quite hard and not very reliable.
So i thought about a more failsafe way to gain lucidity. Coming back to helping dream characters, i thought that those actually are visual representations of our subconsciousness. They represent inner conflicts, conflicts with other persons or something else. In order to tell them to make you lucid in other dreams you first have to become lucid in that very moment, which is a huge barrier to that great technique as you must be able to master lucid dreaming quite good.
Wouldn’t it be possible to create such an entity in our subconsciousness, that operates in the background and tells us when we are lucid. I’m no psychologist or something, but aren’t there many subconscious programs idling in the background of our psyche in our daily lives, telling where to look, what not to hear and where to go, without us being aware of it in that moment? I thought we could maybe create our own little program and integrate into our mind using auto suggestions, (self) hypnosis or whatever technique is most efficient for this kind of operation. The program would be like “tell me i am dreaming, when this and that happens”. Wouldn’t this be some kind of dream character without a visual presence?
