Hi Silence11

Thanks for replying. I’m also trying to work on building my daytime awareness, it seems to be the key in mastering the art on a long term basis. It’s funny you should mention the sageous thread as I’m half way through reading it myself. I think his concept of the three legged stool makes a lot of sense and different techniques that promote awareness are what I’m trying to develop further.

I treat awareness like meditation. I turn off the auto pilot when I can remember and bring my full attention to the here and now. I try to feel my presence in reality, savour the present moment and soak it all in. I am struggling to incorporate better awareness into my day to day though. I work on a computer for most of my work day and rely heavily on my auto pilot to get stuff done fast and efficiently. So figuring out ways to be more alert and aware even for brief moments is a constant challenge. I know it can take years to master so I’m trying to remain patient and positive.

I find the ADA approach has also been beneficial to my dreams. Though I have no concrete proof it’s helping me get lucid I do feel like it’s helping me gain more awareness of the present moment and allows me to spot oddities and dream signs more easily. I have also found it’s good practice when you get lucid. Staying within the moment, focused and paying attention to your senses I believe keeps me lucid. I engage all my senses and usually go around the dream scene inspecting things with sight, sound and touch. My lucids are varying between 2 and 5 minutes currently (Though I once had one that felt like 10 minutes doing this very same practice) whilst doing this within the dream I feel it’s more stable and as soon as I try do anything more complex that’s when I usually wake up. It may be worth an experiment. As you mentioned, I’m not following any particular guide with this I’m just reading what’s out there trying things, experimenting and seeing if it has any benefit.