Thread: I wonder if awareness helps you become lucid

However, while you are practising the visual awareness, you always have lucid dreaming in the back of your mind so maybe it's that that causes a change, rather than the visual awareness itself? I would love to try an experiment where someone who knows nothing of lucid dreaming is asked to practise awareness all day to see if it results in a change in their dream clarity and recall.

I did not do the awareness for lucidity reasons, I just wanted to practice my awareness, and I noticed that my lucid dreams increased with dream recall as well.

Originally Posted by elucid

I did not do the awareness for lucidity reasons, I just wanted to practice my awareness, and I noticed that my lucid dreams increased with dream recall as well.

Yes, but you knew about the existence of lucid dreaming. It would be cool if someone did a scientific study with one group of people who know of LD and practice awareness, second group have not heard of LD and practice awareness, third group believe that LD is impossible but are somehow convinced by researcher to practice awareness without being told why, and another group who know of LDs and believe they will succeed but are asked to as part of this study pay less attention to stuff while awake. Did I leave out any group? Anyway, I bet those who practice awareness and know of and believe in LDs would have the most, but it would be interesting to find out how the other groups did.