Thread: A question about experience

I’m just wondering…if you relied mostly on “techniques” to become lucid (like dream signs, triggers etc. as a way of becoming self-aware in the dream state), would you ever get to the stage that you don’t need them anymore, but become lucid easily based on sheer experience of having LD’s?

For example, if someone had become lucid a lot from consistently occurring dream signs, and didn’t resort to any other “technique” - could they ever abandon the technique and find it easy to continue to LD simply from the experienced they’ve amassed of being lucid in dreams so much? Or would they still always need their technique?

As an aside: I understand that LD'ing is about mindset (not technique), but often techniques can and do contribute to the mindset, which was another reason I was curious if you could eventually leave them behind, in light of general experience and skill.