HOOF technique experiences

Had you trained yourself with the daytime practice? Just wearing a sock at night without the daytime training is unlikely to achieve much.

@The Lucid Guide imagine if just wearing a sock with no daytime training did and you'd just discovered the 'magic beans' of lucid dreaming! Haha

@L616 I don't think it's necessary unless that helps you remember to check regularly. It's better to check whenever something dreamlike occurs during the day. Essentially just consider it another test to add to your reality checks (and you should be performing at least 10 of those a day).

Hi Daniel, I thought the purpose of wearing the sock to bed on one foot was to trigger something in the dream? I was expecting to be going along non-lucid and maybe notice why is my left foot hot or something similar. Did I get it wrong?

@G Um The best way to approach this is in two stages: 1) Daytime practice - build the habit of checking if your feet are the same temperature. This is essentially identical to a reality check. 2) Nightime practice - Wear the sock on your left foot during the night. This should have a subtle influence your dream body, and then when you notice, or check as will become habit due to your waking hour practice, then during the dream this should cue you into lucidity.

@The Lucid Guide  Thank you for the video response today in the livestream (I missed that part live when work called me away). Sorry, I wasn't clear at all in my post here. Those RCs I mentioned in the forum here were while laying in bed (motionless RCs) hoping to catch a false awakening or even a dream of trying to get to sleep. I did do the foot check RC with my regular RC for about 3 hours (randomly) before bed and it really carried to my awake state in bed. I'm guessing waking up thinking about my hot foot is the reason for the recall boost.