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The Fundamentals Checklist
Every fundamental this site covers, in one place. If progress has stalled, it’s almost always one of these — not a missing advanced technique.
It’s tempting to treat a plateau as a sign you need a new, more advanced technique. Usually it isn’t. It’s one of these fundamentals, quietly slipping, unnoticed because none of them feel dramatic on their own.
- Sleep itself. The physical foundation — hydration, food timing, movement — sets the ceiling everything else operates under.
- Dream recall. The two-step journal method, run daily without exception.
- Real intent. One focused idea, not a distracted wish.
- Reality checks, run properly. Twice, at genuine daily triggers — not once and forgotten.
- Reading the signs. Static, vibrations, sleep paralysis — treated as signals to act on, not things to fear.
- Chaining. Running a check the moment a lucid dream fades, instead of stopping at one.
- Routine. All of the above, run consistently enough to become how you live, not a checklist you remember occasionally.
None of these are individually advanced. Run all seven consistently, and the advanced techniques on this site start working far better than they do on a shaky foundation.
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