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===Replications===

*'''Nonsensical literature''' - Some books, such as James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of leaves" do a remarkable job of emulating various components of how books tend to act in dreams. Such books and/or passages from them can serve both as examples of dream signs, and triggers to remember to reality check.

*'''Surrealist art''' - The surrealist movement was ~~actually~~ a direct attempt by artists to replicate the paradoxical experiences they had while dreaming, into various physical media. A major player in the early movement, André Breton, summarized its aim in the following quote: "I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak."<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=12TuC9IkxKIC&q=resolution+of+these+two+states#v=snippet&q=resolution%20of%20these%20two%20states&f=false | Manifestoes of Surrealism</ref> For this reason many works of surrealist art can serve both as examples of dream signs, and triggers to ~~remember~~ to do reality checks.

*'''Surrealist art''' - The surrealist movement was a direct attempt by artists to replicate the paradoxical experiences they had while dreaming into various physical media. A major player in the early movement, André Breton, summarized its aim in the following quote: "I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak."<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=12TuC9IkxKIC&q=resolution+of+these+two+states#v=snippet&q=resolution%20of%20these%20two%20states&f=false | Manifestoes of Surrealism</ref> For this reason many works of surrealist art can serve both as examples of dream signs, and triggers to remind one to perform reality checks.

*'''Optical illusions''' - Such objects and images will often act in a seemingly paradoxical way that is not easily explainable. Similar phenomena can occur in dreams due to the lack of external stimuli to stabilize complex patterns and thus can serve both as examples of dream signs and triggers to ~~remember~~ to do reality checks.

*'''Optical illusions''' - Such objects and images will often act in a seemingly paradoxical way that is not easily explainable. Similar phenomena can occur in dreams due to the lack of external stimuli to stabilize complex patterns and thus can serve both as examples of dream signs and triggers to remind one to perform reality checks.

===Memos===

*'''Notes to self''' - An excellent way to remind oneself to perform reality checks is to put notes containing messages such as "are you dreaming?" or "perform a reality check" in places which one frequently looks at throughout the day. For example, putting a visible note by a frequently used computer screen, writing a message on one's hand or changing one's desktop wallpaper to the image found on the right will greatly improve general lucidity.

*'''Phone/watch alarm'''* - By setting an alarm on your phone or watch to go off at regular times a day as a reminder to reality check ~~you~~ can greatly increase the ~~chance that you will imagine~~ the alarm going off in a dream and ~~remember~~ to reality check. Phones are good for this as ~~you~~ can sometimes get the alarm to ~~show~~ a message on the screen such as the ones seen in '''"Notes to self"'''. Either words from the phone alarm, or the numbers on a digital watch can both be useful for the method seen in '''"Double taking / rereading text and clocks"''' which makes this a very powerful method in combination.

*'''Phone/watch alarm'''* - By setting an alarm on your phone or watch to go off at regular times a day as a reminder to reality check one can greatly increase the chances of imagining the alarm going off in a dream and reminding one to perform a reality check. Phones are good for this as one can sometimes get the alarm to display a message on the screen such as the ones seen in '''"Notes to self"'''. Either words from the phone alarm or the numbers on a digital watch can both be useful for the method seen in '''"Double taking / rereading text and clocks"''' which makes this a very powerful method in combination.

===Dreams signs===

~~Check out~~ the [[dream signs]] page to find an extensive list of common signs that you may be dreaming, these can be adapted into your own surrealist art, or serve as triggers to remember to reality check, as dream signs are things that commonly occur in dreams and thus serve as an accurate indicator that might be the case.

Refer to the [[dream signs]] page to find an extensive list of common signs that you may be dreaming, these can be adapted into your own surrealist art, or serve as triggers to remember to reality check, as dream signs are things that commonly occur in dreams and thus serve as an accurate indicator that might be the case.

==Checks==

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 ===Replications===
 *'''Nonsensical literature''' - Some books, such as James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" and Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of leaves" do a remarkable job of emulating various components of how books tend to act in dreams. Such books and/or passages from them can serve both as examples of dream signs, and triggers to remember to reality check.
-*'''Surrealist art''' - The surrealist movement was actually a direct attempt by artists to replicate the paradoxical experiences they had while dreaming, into various physical media. A major player in the early movement, André Breton, summarized its aim in the following quote: "I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak."<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=12TuC9IkxKIC&q=resolution+of+these+two+states#v=snippet&q=resolution%20of%20these%20two%20states&f=false | Manifestoes of Surrealism</ref> For this reason many works of surrealist art can serve both as examples of dream signs, and triggers to remember to do reality checks.
+*'''Surrealist art''' - The surrealist movement was a direct attempt by artists to replicate the paradoxical experiences they had while dreaming into various physical media. A major player in the early movement, André Breton, summarized its aim in the following quote: "I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak."<ref>https://books.google.ca/books?id=12TuC9IkxKIC&q=resolution+of+these+two+states#v=snippet&q=resolution%20of%20these%20two%20states&f=false | Manifestoes of Surrealism</ref> For this reason many works of surrealist art can serve both as examples of dream signs, and triggers to remind one to perform reality checks.
-*'''Optical illusions''' - Such objects and images will often act in a seemingly paradoxical way that is not easily explainable. Similar phenomena can occur in dreams due to the lack of external stimuli to stabilize complex patterns and thus can serve both as examples of dream signs and triggers to remember to do reality checks.
+*'''Optical illusions''' - Such objects and images will often act in a seemingly paradoxical way that is not easily explainable. Similar phenomena can occur in dreams due to the lack of external stimuli to stabilize complex patterns and thus can serve both as examples of dream signs and triggers to remind one to perform reality checks.
 ===Memos===
 *'''Notes to self''' - An excellent way to remind oneself to perform reality checks is to put notes containing messages such as "are you dreaming?" or "perform a reality check" in places which one frequently looks at throughout the day. For example, putting a visible note by a frequently used computer screen, writing a message on one's hand or changing one's desktop wallpaper to the image found on the right will greatly improve general lucidity.
-*'''Phone/watch alarm'''* - By setting an alarm on your phone or watch to go off at regular times a day as a reminder to reality check you can greatly increase the chance that you will imagine the alarm going off in a dream and remember to reality check. Phones are good for this as you can sometimes get the alarm to show a message on the screen such as the ones seen in '''"Notes to self"'''. Either words from the phone alarm, or the numbers on a digital watch can both be useful for the method seen in '''"Double taking / rereading text and clocks"''' which makes this a very powerful method in combination.
+*'''Phone/watch alarm'''* - By setting an alarm on your phone or watch to go off at regular times a day as a reminder to reality check one can greatly increase the chances of imagining the alarm going off in a dream and reminding one to perform a reality check. Phones are good for this as one can sometimes get the alarm to display a message on the screen such as the ones seen in '''"Notes to self"'''. Either words from the phone alarm or the numbers on a digital watch can both be useful for the method seen in '''"Double taking / rereading text and clocks"''' which makes this a very powerful method in combination.
 ===Dreams signs===
-Check out the [[dream signs]] page to find an extensive list of common signs that you may be dreaming, these can be adapted into your own surrealist art, or serve as triggers to remember to reality check, as dream signs are things that commonly occur in dreams and thus serve as an accurate indicator that might be the case.
+Refer to the [[dream signs]] page to find an extensive list of common signs that you may be dreaming, these can be adapted into your own surrealist art, or serve as triggers to remember to reality check, as dream signs are things that commonly occur in dreams and thus serve as an accurate indicator that might be the case.
 ==Checks==