Awareness Checks

[Gothlark]

I was wondering if anybody has thought of doing awareness checks instead of/along with reality checks. For example just checking and seeing how vivid things are. And if you're in a bit of a daze then try to highten your level of clarity by just focusing more. If things are really in a deep daze then you would do a reality check and then from there if you're dreaming raise your vividity and clarity with verbal techniques. I think that this is a bit easier than reality checks and would remind you to raise your level of vividity and clarity in your lucid dreams before you start to do anything and risk your lucidity all together.

[wasup]

I think it's a bad idea. For one, it's like checking for dreamsigns in real life. I don't think I would ever see cars falling on people so I can't practice looking for dreamsigns (that's not one of my dreamsigns by the way...). So basically, I don't think that would work. That wasn't of much help... but ok... And I know I didn't put a "for two"...

[Gothlark]

I don't think you understand me wasup. You see many people go about their daily life not realizing that they are in fact not as "awake" or aware as they could be. They go about their life in a bit of a daze. My thought is that eventually you'll get in the habit of staying aware. As you know the part of the brain that controls habits is still functioning so that would mean that at the very least you'll have more vivid dreams. This of course will help on its own. However I think that the level of awareness in a dream being raised would also make you more aware of the weird things that are happening. I for one do reality checks whenever their's something odd going on but the problem is that the logical part of your brain shuts down while sleeping, unless you're sleeping lightly. This leads me to believe that a hightened level of awareness in your dreams would lead you to realize more easily that whats happening is in fact not realistic.

[wasup]

Oh I think I know what you mean now... In a previous post someone talked about (serinant maybe?) how instead of just thinking all day, be aware of your surroundings (as in don't "space out"). Like meditating where you don't think about anything so clear mind = clear dreams. Ok I think I understand now but that would be hard for me to do because of how much I have to think and space out...

[Gothlark]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I mean. I know what you mean with the spacing out too. I find that I get much to involved with some thoughts and senarios I'm going through in my head and start up a day dream. However I don't really think you have to be aware all the time like that. Just whenever you get to a low point like a day dream, once you snap out of it raise your awareness to a higher level then what it was before you went into the day dream. Eventually you'll start to do this automatically in the dream world because you realize the level of awareness is down and from there become lucid and have a more vivid lucid dream at that or just have a vivid regular dream. However from my point of view it seems that at a higher level of awareness in your dreams you'd become aware of the fact that you're dreaming.

[YULAW]

Yah thats a pretty good Idea LD Guy

[Lynx]

Sounds like a good idea, i question where I am,what im doing, how i got here, and where im going now and again with RCs. hey I was trying to think of that Henry Ford quote the other day.

[CT]

When I do an RC I ask myself the question, "Could I be dreaming" and then I check everything, including my awareness.