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*'''Phone/watch alarm'''* - By setting an 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.

===~~Surreal feelings~~===

===Dreams signs===

*'''Déjà vu''' - The surreal feeling that this has happened before without being able to ascribe the ~~exact circumstances~~ to ~~the imagined previous experiences is a common experience in dreams and if the sensation occurs at any point it is a very good time to reality check as this can also occur while awake.~~

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.

*'''Unfamiliar surroundings''' - The sense of ~~not recognizing where you are is extremely~~ common ~~in dreams as they do not often have the stability to perfectly replicate environments from ones memory. If~~ you ~~ever wake up in an unfamiliar setting~~, ~~find objects unexpectedly rearranged~~, ~~have traveled~~ to ~~a location you've never been, or find yourself lost, this can be a good time~~ to reality check as ~~these situations will~~ occur ~~consistently~~ in dreams.

==Checks==

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 *'''Phone/watch alarm'''* - By setting an 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.
-===Surreal feelings===
+===Dreams signs===
-*'''Déjà vu''' - The surreal feeling that this has happened before without being able to ascribe the exact circumstances to the imagined previous experiences is a common experience in dreams and if the sensation occurs at any point it is a very good time to reality check as this can also occur while awake.
+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.
-*'''Unfamiliar surroundings''' - The sense of not recognizing where you are is extremely common in dreams as they do not often have the stability to perfectly replicate environments from ones memory. If you ever wake up in an unfamiliar setting, find objects unexpectedly rearranged, have traveled to a location you've never been, or find yourself lost, this can be a good time to reality check as these situations will occur consistently in dreams.
 ==Checks==