Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
Not every 10 seconds, perhaps 10 minutes. And not deep long questioning, but fairly quick awareness boosts (of course holding the awareness is good if you can). Successful LDers go through very frequent RCs, sometimes hundreds if not more of them in a day on some days. The deep long questioning is probably OK at 5-6 per day on a maintenance schedule, but you need to make a break through so you need to turn up the intensity I think for a while.

From what you're saying, you're not doing traditional LaBerge, which includes PM exercises. I continue to recommend going full on LaBerge (and not doing ADA) to get your first LD.

What you're doing now clearly doesn't work for you, so try something different for a while.

For a change, I recommend reading The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep and following at least the 4 preparatory practices, including daily meditation. Also, read DV threads on mindfulness, and perhaps some books. Ultimately to be continually mindful is to be continually self-aware, lucid in life to be lucid in dreams. Being lucid in life is its own reward, as well.
So, can you give me an example how i should do ADA?
from what i understand a quick question and a quick look around is more effective
and also 1 reality check

Quote Originally Posted by Wolfdog View Post
Alright, I can see the outline of your practice is very good actually. Still, if you don't mind, I would like to offer some points that could make your practice a lot more efficient and effective. First things first, the questions you ask are great as they require you to think for the answer. When searching for ways to reality check, it's best if we choose questions that don't allow for yes or no answers. These questions: "What am I doing here?, What was I doing 15 minutes ago?, How did I get here?" are spot on. The problem I see with the overall design of your practice is that it appears to take a long time to do it. Think about it, you don't really need to think for long hours in order to effectively assess reality and get you lucid. Just one of these are enough to trigger lucidity. So, what you could do is throw out all the unnecessary stuff to make your practice much more concise and practical.

Say, choose one out of any of these three questions:
  • What am I doing here?
  • What was I doing 15 minutes ago?
  • How did I get here?

After answering your question, you could add in a reality check (whichever you prefer) to confirm whether you're dreaming or not. With this, you can cut off minutes of unnecessary hassle in your practice. With this outline, you could probably finish the thing within 30 seconds or less.

Now, I have to agree with FryingMan here in that 20 reality checks a day isn't a lot. Still, increasing the number of times you do the checks just for the sake of doing more isn't recommended either. Remember, the purpose with this is to get you more aware, to cultivate a state of mind in awareness. So, you should use the technique whenever you find yourself distracted, whenever awareness is lost. This practice will be your center point, your support for bringing back awareness to you whenever it is lost. Yes, at the beginning you may feel as if the practice is too much for you to handle. If you persist, in time you will see yourself remaining more aware of what's happening around you. Remember, the objective is to remain aware without the need of the technique. The technique is only there for use if you ever lose awareness.

This is really a variation of your own practice, refined, that could provide a more effective way to get you lucid. Should you choose to follow it, I want you to remember this valuable piece of advise:

  1. Patience is decisive for acquiring success with this method, or any other method you decide to follow.
  2. Action is the bedrock for reaching success, not motivation. Motivation comes in second, action is first.
wouldn't i have less chances if i do it on 30 seconds?
yeah maybe i could do more of that exercices but 30 seconds
isn't that a little time to carry to a dream?