I won't rant on and on here now so bear with me.

I recently watched inception (Groans and moans ensue.) however I was trying to Lucid Dream beforehand. However the Totem idea intrigued me, so I did some research and realized it's a shitty, useless technique because objects would follow the same path in a dream as it would in waking life.

However what if you used a totem as a kind of reminder. Such as every time you spin it, you ask yourself: Am I dreaming? And then you do whatever RC you prefer to do.

Also! What if one of the reality checks was that if I am dreaming, and I'm in a dream and my totem let's say for example is the one like Inception. If my RC would be to make the totem continually spin -which should work in my dream as I can control everything- would that not make the totem an effective tool?