How to increase self-awareness

[LouaiB]

hi, I do constant reality checks throughout the day, and I've been doing that for months. I have had 4 lucid dreams, but still have almost all my dreams with very low awareness ,like being a zombie as few put it. Any advice for increasing my self-awareness?

[Zoth]

Awareness isn't a certainty in every lucid dream just so you know. There are many factors that can influence your cognitive capability, regarding memory, self questioning, and logical reasoning, so until you reach a much bigger degree of skill, you won't have a crystal thought mind during many lucids. But there are things you can do to improve that: - Be aware of your goals. Choose 1 or 2 things you want to do in your next lucid and every night (and during WBTB) recall and visualize them. They will help you make sense of yourself and your purpose instead of randomly wandering around in the lucid; - Perform reality checks during the dream itself: they will help you maintain lucidity and realize that everything that you're experiencing is nothing but a product of your imagination. You can even go ahead and shout to the dream "This is just a dream, MY dream. I can do anything because right now I am asleep and inside my own world". - Practice de-attachment dream control (I just made the expression up): the ability to disengage from your usual schema regarding your senses. You need to convince yourself, bit by bit, dream by dream, that punching someone or stealing, kissing a random woman/man in the street, flying....nothing about it is motive to be nervous. You can slash your own head and you won't die. That beetle's sting can't hurt you, jumping from a 30 floors building won't harm you. This is something that many lucid dreamers forget and it's a hell of an important lesson, probably the most important lesson when you're trying to stabilize yourself in a dream. Dutchraptor has a topic on this (Lesson 1: Stabilization), and you should take a good look and practice the exercises he suggests you. This will take practice, so keep working on your reality checking and other lucid dreaming exercises so you get more opportunities to practice your stabilization and "awareness" inside the lucid dreams Good luck! PS: or maybe you could use with some awareness practice during the day, and that would be another story ^^

[LouaiB]

Maybe I got something wrong about lucid dreaming. If you practice being more self-aware during the day, would you have more awareness during non-lucid dreams so you can notice weird events and realize you are dreaming more? Thnx for your help, I really appreciate it, and if its any important, I use the MILD technique(best technique ever!!!! )

[Seltiez]

I have been wondering same thing how to increase the lucudity to the point that you can think clearly in every lucid dream. I posted thread about being excited theory and today i had really realistic lucid dream and in that lucid dream i was myself not zombie like in some low lucidity dreams. I have noticed that dreams where our emotions are strong the dreams are really vivid and clear so there came idea to have a intetion of being excited when you become lucid but not too much.

[AstralMango]

You could practice http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...kingyoshi.html. It's a great way to get more aware in your waking life. Mixing it in with your reality checks will make it a bit easier!