Tool to help lucidity: recognizing inconsistency.

[Presence]

Okay so, one day I was thinking of how if someone who was blind were able to continue to see while in their dreams, that would be a tremendous advantage to lucid dreaming because it is such a sharp and distinct difference between their waking reality and their dream reality, in such a basic way. I wondered if there was anything that could give a create a clear discrepancy in one's mind in a similar way, and what I've got so far is the phenomenon of "inconsistency" in dreams.

Inconsistency often triggers the recognition of dream reality, whether it's being in a room for one scene, and standing at the edge of a tunnel the next scene, or looking at some playing cards, knowing the hand you have, looking elsewhere for a second, and checking your hand to find it's completely different, it is a phenomenon which happens often in dreams (and thoughts) and because it can encompass many experiences, I believe it to be a reliable tool to help assist in lucidity.

However, I'm not quite satisfied with it. I feel like there's something more encompassing and fundamental buried in the heart of the nature of dreams and the perception of our waking reality. Anyone have any ideas?

[CFTraveler]

None that are helpful.

I find (in my case, I don't know about others) that when you engage in spiritual or occult practices your life gets a little less "normal" than someone who is completely focused on the material- and this makes me more accepting of weirdness, so to speak.
Possibly as a result of that (or, of my own peculiar psychology) I find that I have varying degrees of consciousness that are pretty much consistent:

1- Complete nonlucidity- that is, I have no idea I'm dreaming and accept anything on face value.
2-Dream lucidity- The knowledge that I'm in a realm which is consistent with itself and has 'different' rules- I can fly but have the usual fears that this ability affords; a sense of knowing what the rules are but not knowing that I'm dreaming- I believe in my case this happens because I have pretty consistent serial dreaming- I have dreams in stable scenarios that I keep going back to and developing more, places I have created and places that seem to be there. This gives this state a sense of continuity that keeps me from full lucidity when in a dream, but I do know that "when I'm there I can do this or that" but not full knowledge that I'm dreaming.
3-Full lucidity- I used to have better lucidity before I started consciously projecting than I do now, and I am pretty sure that the correlation is explained by what I said in #2.

See? Not helpful at all.
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[sono2]

I have the same problem - & often in dreams/projections I will think to myself, "Now, if this were a dream I'd. . . " & trick myself back into the loop.