BB316's Awareness Theory

I have read countless tutorials here on DreamViews, and I have decided after attempting all methods, DILD is the one for me. I have read all the popular DILD tutorials by Naiya, ect. and most of them stress awareness. I tried the SAT and ADA awareness techniques, but had problems getting those habits to permeate my sleeping mentality. I had troubles with this, and after time I fell out of these habits. That occurred about two weeks ago, and over the last 14 days I maybe did about two RC's.

I had a lot of homework last night and I decided to try out a new sleep pattern. I slept for about 3-3.5 hours around 9:00. I woke up at 12:00 to do my homework. I ate a snack, drank a bottle of water and did my work at a relaxed pace. While doing my work I was very awake. So, I retired to my bed at around 3:00AM did a mantra (not with any correlation to LD) for as long as I could, focusing my attention on it until I fell asleep. The mantra was less of a mantra, but reasoning out some serious choices in my mind. I had told myself I was just going to lie awake in bed and think. I fell asleep and had an LD, a DILD in fact. I woke up from the dream at 3:35AM.

From this I have concluded that through my half DILD, half MILD, accidental LD last night that the awareness techniques you might be practicing are USELESS if you are not aware in your sleep. This would stress the importance of having your mind aware and working when you sleep. I think the way to apply this is to be very aware and exercising your brain before you go to bed. I was focusing on conditional outcomes and choices, working my frontal lobe. This could correlate to the awareness in a dream. I became aware by noticing a something strange in my dream. I think that by working your brain before sleep into a very aware state, you can more easily become aware in a dream. This could include doing somewhat complex math, weighing consequences of situations or just thinking in general could lead you into a more aware sleeping state.

I do not claim to know any of this for sure. Just saw a correlation between a new sleeping pattern, thinking and success. I am open to other ideas. Please comment and leave your opinion/thoughts.

Repeat this over a number of nights and see if the results carry through all of them.

I agree with what Avalanche said. Please check back after a few more nights to see whether or not your early WBTB + homework is what caused your lucid or if it was just a coincidence. Happy dreaming! :D

I have always had more LD's when I was dealing with stressful situations. Maybe an overactive mind helps! Nice post.