Quote Originally Posted by sivason View Post
Awareness is so key to LDing that it is almost not up for debate. The idea of a spontaneous DILD involves two factors (IMHO), first the moment when you noticed an anomily may have been leading up to the lucid moment, and not be remembered because it occured pre-lucidity. Second, the development of the new neural connections that allow 'seemingly spontanious' DILD, are built during waking life by new levels of attention/ awareness in one thing or another.
I believe one can become lucid without sudden awareness of something "out-of-place" and that sometimes "it just happens."

That being said...this thread could easily be summed up with three simple phrases:

- Awareness of your surroundings and environment is a good thing to practice while awake.
- ADA can help you achieve lucidity.
- Awareness can be achieved without ADA.

How you get to a lucid dream isn't important. What matters, in every instance, is that you get there.