First of all, congratulations with Obama!! i'm excited!!

My name is Martijn, i'm from Amsterdam and trying to learn lucid dreaming since a couple of months. I am keeping a dreamjournal and I'm reality checking all the time. Only had a couple of dreams where I was lucid but that fact alone awoke me right away. I also have more and more false awakenings..
my main problem right now is reality checking in dreams, I just never think of it even while the weirdest things are happening.

so some questions:

-I'm doing the reality checking every hour, I have my phone bleeping every hour to remind me, is this bad? I mean am I to dependent on my phone and should I try to do it randomly when I think about it?

-is it ok to vary the style of RC during the day or week? or should you stick to one method only? (holding your nose, rereading text etc)

and although it's going very slowly for me, I do stay positive and motivated. Before I started the DJ I rarely could remember my dreams so my intent already has proven that I can learn..

ok that's it for now!

cheers..