Originally Posted by
Bobblehat
Yes, I was reading about that. Very interesting. It has me thinking about the interaction between ourselves and the environment. There's something about ADA and awareness techniques I just don't get though. I practise mindfulness at points in the day because I enjoy it and find it relaxing. Sometimes this behaviour carries over to dreams but it doesn't make me realise it's a dream. For example, the other night in a non-lucid I was in a friend's house and I stopped to look around the room. I looked at the furnishings, the texture of the wood, the wallpaper and the way the patterns in the wallpaper "danced". Didn't make me lucid though. So what's missing?
Another type of mindfulness/awareness technique I don't get is the one where you ask, "What was I just doing?" or "Do I remember how I got here?" or "Do I remember getting out of bed this morning?" (Just to make it clear - I'm talking about when they're used to make you realise you're dreaming, rather than as an RC after you've started suspecting you're dreaming). Surely if you're going to remember to ask yourself those questions in dreams you'd be better off remembering to ask "Am I dreaming" instead, which cuts straight to the chase.