Originally Posted by
FryingMan
So happy to see you back and posting on the forums, Hukif!
I think #1 is the key. It's not (for everyone at least) so much the gravity, as it is the continuous focus and the activation of an "observer mode" that is always evaluating one particular aspect of your present experience. For about 3 months, 2 years ago, I tried ADA/RC - location: being aware of where I was, and whether or not it was a waking location. I did this because I noticed that I tended to be thinking about and noticing my surroundings a lot in dreams, and that with only a few exceptions all my dreams took place in non-waking locations. I had some success with it, but discontinued it in favor of general mindfulness. Location is pretty tricky because it is not a physical sensation, it requires some thinking to evaluate and so may not be ideal for ADA/RC. Interestingly enough, during that time I had several cases of becoming aware of gravity (feeling "too light" mostly) in a non-lucid dream. I did have several lucids where I noticed either that I wasn't currently where I had just been before, or that a particular pathway had suddenly become closed.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, Hukif, by the time you began your ADA/RC-gravity you had already been working very hard for many years to get lucid, and had dreams so vivid they were indistinguishable from waking life otherwise, is that right? I imagine your general awareness built up in those years of practice became extremely high.
So for those working on this technique, don't give up! The more you become tuned in to your experiences, paying attention to them, the more lucid you will become in both waking and dreaming life.