How do you find and use dreamsigns?

1. So I get your supposed to find something common in your dreams, but how specific does this have to be to be useful.

For example:
General- Being a powerful figure
Specific- Being a powerful emperor leading a medieval army into a war

Because for me it usually more general.

Edit- I actually did find top 3 specific dream signs (besides mind thinking weird):
1. Hot Girls/ Sexual anything
2. Feeling of nervousness/inconfidence/failure
3. College

2. How do you use dreamsigns?

So how do I get my subconcious to realize dreamsign= RC. I mean I can't just say if I see this dreamsign I will do a RC (that has low probablility of working since it is a rather abstract concept for the subconcious).

I have read a few random tutorials on dreamsigns (usually they are a rather small section), they have not been much help.

And don't say when you experience a dreamsign in real life do a RC, I rarely get the chance to do an RC while being the emperor of a medieval army.

As for being general or specific with your dream sign classification, I would suggest making it more of a general idea that you want to get across (being powerful) because there's not many times when your dreams play out the exact same way or with you as the exact same role.

For things that you can't check during the day (like being an emperor) maybe just try doing reality checks when something seems abnormal. Since you haven't gotten to the point where you can recognize that somethings out of place in the dream you have to tell your mind to focus on those things while you're awake. Also for now you may want to pick dream signs that you can relate to during the day, so that when you see something that shows up commonly in your dream you will remember to RC and then you'll remember to do that during your dream too.

One way to connect specific things may be to think about what you saw in your dream, and imagine yourself becoming lucid from it. Visualize (daydream) as best you can the situation you were in, and replay it where instead of just ignoring it, you become lucid, do RCs that fail, and begin doing whatever it is that you want to do. Also while going through the daydream you could remind yourself that you will RC when any situation seems dream-like.

I don't really think about using dream signs as a way to become lucid unless something shows up VERY often.

Edit: I also wanted to give an example of a possible dream sign (this is one of mine). Since I smoke weed I've noticed that it tends to show up pretty commonly in my dreams, so whenever I see anything related to weed (pipes, lighters, joints, etc) during the day, I ask myself if I'm dreaming. I've quit recently to help with my recall, so I don't do checks that often and I haven't become lucid from seeing weed in my dreams, so I need to start looking for other common themes that I can start using.

Thanks Fuzzman, that helps a lot.

I actually tryed a visualization a few minutes ago using the technique you mentioned, it worked really well, I actually felt like my nose plug RC failed (being high probably is why the visualization was so vivid, lol). Anyway, I will also be sure to do RCs if I see hot girls, feel nervous or on campus. Maybe I'll add weed too .