ADA is one of those techniques that pops up every now and then, everyone jumps on the bandwagon, and because it is so vague everyone claims it works for them. In my opinion the entire concept sounds good, but in reality is completely unworkable for any amount of time by a normal person. What the technique is saying is that basically you have to achieve what Buddhist monks have been striving for since the dawn of Buddhism!!! It's probably not even possible for human beings to be aware constantly and it may even work against us! we may burn out our brains during the day and make our dreams even less aware while our minds try and recover!!

Of course being more aware is useful for lucid dreaming, but isn't that just the most basic principle of lucid dreaming anyway? isn't that what every single book and expert on the subject implies? it's kind of so obvious that the fact that we here on DV have made it into a technique in its own right is kind of embarrassing! It's like we're saying we're all too stupid to realise that lucid dreaming requires awareness and we need to be spoon fed such an obvious fact!

ADA is not a technique, it's just a basic fundamental principle of lucid dream training: being observant. I mean c'mon... the world "lucid" in lucid dreaming is used for its meaning as "aware".

If people need to be told this, if they need to have it spelt out to them as a technique, then something has really gone wrong in the basic education on lucid dreaming.

Sorry, I've been away from DV for a long time and i'm really shocked by how things have changed so sorry for my rant!