Thread: awarness in the real world

"I think one of the reasons why i have lucid dreams is because i am very aware of my surroundings where most people just walk through life in a daze."

I do fundamentally agree: here is a post of mine from yonks ago referring to the method I employ to spontaneously induce lucidity.

Conscious Awake; Conscious Asleep - a simple method.

A tight rope walker, with seeming ease, walks from one end of the rope to another. He has been doing this for years, and rarely if ever falls. One day, a curious girl saw the tight-rope walker put his first foot on the rope. She shouted up: ‘Why are you going to walk across the rope like that?’ He looked down as if he ignored the girl. However, when he began his act, he fell down from above some way across. And so, for the first time in years, he had become conscious of his walking. Indeed, automaticity – the unconscious control of an action had dissolved into the darkness, and was replaced by a wavering consciousness. Ultimately, that girl below asking ‘Why....’woke up the man above from his dream of tight-rope walking.


The method I am going to present will be seemingly impractical because it requires you to be conscious whilst you’re awake. You may believe you already are, but the annoyance that you’ll experience from this method will highlight that you really aren’t. Nonetheless, the method is simple in itself.

Throughout the day, ask yourself: ‘Why am I doing this (activity) in this way?’ And mean it; the words must not be empty. This should result in the sudden realisation that you are now completing this task consciously, or have become conscious of your position. This is by no means an easy feat to do throughout the whole day without a lapse in consciousness; however, if successful, you will experience what it is like to be awake, conscious, and in control of life.

This process focuses purely on action-orientated activities under the assumption that non-lucid dreams are typically action-laden. Furthermore, it is also probable that people tend to have dreams where they are acting out these automatic activities. Usually, during the dream you are not conscious of these activities, but then neither are you in waking life. The formula to success is simple: become conscious in the real world; become conscious in the dream world.

Here are some suggestions:

* Why am I washing myself like this?
* Why am I driving my car like this?
* Why am I holding my cup like this as I drink?
* Why am I going to sit in the chair like this?
* Why am I brushing my teeth in this way?
* Why am I typing on the computer like this?
* Why am I sitting in front of the TV like this?
* Why am I eating my dinner like this?

That is exactly right. RL awareness is the key to every single DILD method. Here is a good thread about it