Is this correct self awareness?

I've been trying to keep self awareness as simple as I possibly can. Anyways, here's what I came up with. Please let me know if you think it'll be effective in providing frequent lucids if I stay consistent with it and dream journaling.

Awareness practice: Constantly, throughout the day, non stop, I try and remain in the moment by just paying constant attention to everything I am doing and my surroundings as I go throughout my day. While doing this, I keep the idea in mind that I could be dreaming at any given moment. This keeps a part of me aware, and another part of me skeptical to my reality at the same time. If I find myself unaware, I gently bring my attention back to what I'm doing and to the fact that I could be dreaming, as well as my surroundings. I just try to make it my goal to stay off auto pilot and just pay attention to myself all day and my surroundings. Paying attention to myself eating, watching a TV show, brushing my teeth, and while doing all this I am aware of the fact that I very well may be dreaming. My idea is that if I practice this every day, this mindset will bleed over into my dreams and start to grant lucidity. I'm thinking that once this mindset bleeds over into my dreams, it'll be very obvious that I'm dreaming since dreaming feels different from being awake, things may not make sense, and weird shit just may be happening lol. The idea is that if I stay consistent with becoming lucid in waking life, I'll start to naturally become lucid more and more in dreams as this mindset starts to bleed over more and more.

Is this effective awareness? I'd like to keep it this simple and not have to add in other things lol. This works well for me but I just want to know if it'll be effective for dilds. I don't want to spend so much time on it every day if I'm not being aware correctly. Also I won't be doing any reality checks. I figure that since reality checks only work to increase awareness when you do them, I may as well just be aware all together. Only time I'll be reality checking is when I suspect I'm dreaming or already know I'm dreaming and just want to make sure lol. I'm trying to keep awareness as stress free as possible so I'd like to keep it to me just going throughout my day paying attention to what I'm doing and my surroundings, and being aware that I could be dreaming at any moment. Just staying off auto pilot as much as I can throughout the day.

That's definitely a great way to go about it. I've been re-reading through Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming lately, and there's a section near the beginning where LaBerge talks about something similar, being more consistently aware in your everyday waking life, learning to truly pay attention to your surroundings, that sort of thing. And in doing so, when something out of the ordinary does occur, you can train yourself to take better notice of such things. It's a good way to be, and not only does it help boost awareness in your dreams, but it also enhances waking life in various ways too. ^^ I've found that type of daily awareness to help a lot with DILDing, not just in awareness, but also in terms of dream recall. Good to see others doing the same. Happy dreaming. :dreaming:

I've been trying your 'method' too and it's amazing how much more you remember at the end of the day, just because you were more aware most of the time. But sometimes it's really hard to maintain complete awareness for me. And you only realise it when you just did that thing that made you snap out of your awareness :p The hardest things are conversations and getting lost in random thoughts which just come popping up out of nowhere or by seeing something.

Huh. I think, you nailed the theory fully. Im sitting now here for long minutes. I dont know what to write, because i really dont want to be demotivating. On the contrary, I want to motivate you with my failures. I am writing this for myself:

"Dear Ferenc! After some knowledge work, you was coming to some conclusions (very similar to yours Naruto). You have the feeling, that it is quite easy, and you can do it, just you need a "little" patience and persistence. You begin to do it. Then, after some time (a week) your endurance begins to fade. Your exercise becomes half made. After this, you are more "away" in your head, then not, and all your efforts become superficial struggle. Then the lazyness and zoned out life is steeling days and weeks from your life, before you become again more motivated. In your head, you are a hero. In the reality, you lose your motivation, and you dont have that plus what keeps the interes in LD above the fluktuations of motivation. Fruits? Some LD-s, here and there. Almost nothing. Very short ones. "Normal" self controll promlems in life. You must be more serious. It is so stupid to be big in the head, and after failing in reality. In this game is no future. You must do it every time, like you are doing it the first time. You wake up with the desire to be more aware, and you go to the bad with the question: how aware I was today? You dont think about it, how long I am doing it now? When will it have some effect on my dreams? Here and now. You are always doing it the first time. You try to give your best, and there are no questions and trips in the past and future. It must be essential, like eating, drinking, toilet, and brushing teeth. It is totally logical, that self-awareness deserves the first place, if it is about important things in your life. A self aware person, is a higher quality human (yes, I can say this). If your awareness is high, you are better in everything and your life becomes meaningful and more happy, even if there are darker times. With strong self awareness and intense intention, your chances for LD will skyrocket. Are you stupid? There is the ultimate and simple way to have a life, and not just at daytime. Come on! Stand up, and work on it! Have fun, because this work shoud not be a gray robot job. Theory...blablabla...this is the easy part. After it is the harder part. Doing it. Realization. It needs some effort? Yes. Is it worth? This is not a qestion. Absolutely...totally absolutely...super hyper totally absolutely...:D Dont be stupid Ferenc! There is one school and one exam and one subject. Be I AM in the here and now, as much you can. Every aware minute is treasure. Good luck and never give up!"

I hope, you understand the letter for me. I wish you the best!