Thread: Questions about the obvious

The lack of questioning dream reality seems to be because our memory typically gets blocked off and filtered from us during dreams. Nothing seems odd because we don't recall anything that would tell us it's odd, and if we happen to think about it, the dream will build a false memory that leads us to “remember” some reason or another as to why it's not really odd after all (even if that rationalization makes absolutely no sense in waking-life context, which without lucidity we won't realize either since we aren't able to remember waking life). Even just asking ourselves questions like you mention is tricky because the dream mechanism likes to produce false memories that fool us into thinking we remember the answers to those questions, only to wake up later and realize they were totally wrong.

I think the purpose of training self-awareness (lucidity) and memory during waking life is to build up an ability over time to more easily access our actual waking-life memories during sleep, which allows lucidity to occur readily (because whenever we can manage to remember enough of our waking lives during a dream, it quickly becomes pretty obvious that something's up). So I'd recommend searching around here and reading information about “the fundamentals” and exercises and techniques for building those things. Or perhaps certain people here will happen to pop in and explain it better than I can.