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I think the idea is to form a habit or a tick that is so strong it carries over to your dream. So like, if you commit to wearing a watch everyday, and check it every 5 minutes, eventually you'll do it in your dreams too. Then, you don't have to intentionally check whether you're in a dream, hoprfully you'll just catch the time being wildly different and be like "holy crap this was a dream??"
Yes, that is correct. It's one of the strategies you learn when you start diving in to lucid dreaming. Another is to look at some writing (maybe even this sign) and look away and look back, it will say something else if it's a dream.
I got really into lucid dreaming when I was younger, but I couldn't fly because I guess I just have no imagination, so I gave up.
Whenever dreams take a turn for the fucky, I just close my eyes in the dream and just...imagine going back in time for a "redo". Often, the same thing will happen, so if it's more stubborn, I'll close my eyes and imagine something else happening. I don't know how else to describe it, but...I mean, it's really just that simple. And it's not like I'm always lucid dreaming when I do it, either.
I remember one time, I actually experienced sleep paralysis. My eyes were cracked open, I could see the chair I was sleeping in, and the person at the receptionist's desk (was waiting for some appointment), but I couldn't move. I didn't see any freaky demon shit or panic, I just went "Oh, shit, this is sleep paralysis, huh?"
I tried moving my limbs, but the best I could do was a weak finger twitch...until I "imagined" myself lifting my arm. I just thought of the action, the motion of my hand moving from it's resting place on my leg to a spot in the air, and it worked. But I was still asleep. Wack.