why

Thinking "why" during a dream seems to often result in lucidity as it inspires greater understanding of what's going on.

How would one introduce the word "why" into their thoughts during a dream? Maybe a mantra?

"Why am I here" could be a good one.

Perhaps you can do this by always trying to try to find a reason/reasoning for everything? Why did someone/I say/do something, why did that happen, why is this the way it is? Though it is probably important to not get caught up in your reasoning, since in dreams, we have strange reasoning and we might still accept absurd things through twisted reasoning. But perhaps this could work if you already have good awareness in general, so that you are less likely to fool yourself with weird reasoning.

I'm trying to keep this simple. I'm just trying to think of the word "why" during a dream. Just that one word. And not necessarily in question form.

I'm thinking of "why" as like a seed to plant in the mind from which greater understanding will grow.

For example, say I'm dreaming I'm at a birthday party and I randomly think "why". What would I think after this?

Increasing the number of dreams with any type of reasoning would be progress towards lucidity.

Oh I see. Yeah, that's a good idea.

" Why am I here in this room/place?" Has worked for me if I ask it regularly enough in WL -

A recent thing ~ something I like doing when I slow things down for a RC is making a habit of using my mind to see if I can control/change things in my direct environment. This is coming into my dreams and bringing lucidity now- so that I become aware I can change things about my self of the DC's or anything with my mind and :wizard:in a second I am lucid ...

" why aren't I using my mind to control/changes things" am I dreaming ?

A long mantra but it's in progress :D

I realized that we already ask ourselves why constantly until we know in order to make sense of the world we live in. So, trying to ask why even more suddenly seems futile. Back to the drawing board I guess.

I think it's attaining an always-on critical reflection mindset more than the precise verbiage that's important. I personally like "how odd is this?" as something to keep in my mind throughout the day to evaluate my experiences.