whenever i enter any altered state of consciousness, i tell myself i am in a dream

"Today, a young man on acid realized all matter is energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness sharing in itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is but a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves"

this increases my awareness dramatically, imagine it like this, the brain picks out only the fraction of information it needs to see reality and function therein, if its a dream, your consciousness can observer and record it (hell if i know why) and for me at least i become almost super aware, i can feel all the objects around me, like my mind took a back seat to my conscoiusness

i dont care what you think, but i will say it does increase your awareness when one does that, i just have not had the time recently to do it often enough to increase my awareness daily to become lucid (i think it will help if i can do it on an almost daily basis, but who knows)