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Okayyyy, so, I have come to ask you and give me ideas on something.
I had my first Lucid dream a week after I started, and I have had now 10 lucid dreams and I have only been doing this for a month.
I have never tried shortcuts, but I have always been super excited and happy. I set my intentions, and I was wondering why do you guys think Lucid Dreaming just clicked with me? :?
There is a mechanism to LDing. Here it is(a lot argue on some details in it, but in general it is true(IMO it is 100% true):
LDing is the issue of memory. Since you memory is off during dreams, you need to turn it on so you can remember that a dreamlike thing is unnatural. How? By increasing your self-awareness in dreams.When you are self-aware in dreams, your memory will be much more accessible.
RRCing is a great way to improve your self-awareness during the day. The nice thing about it is that , with practice, it becomes second nature.
What you want to do is to use that advantage to your benefit. Since dreams are partially made out of our daily experiences, we hope that the self-awareness increased by those RRC will be a part of those experiences that will be lucky enough to be a part of the dream, thus making you more self-aware in the dream. As mentioned above, self-awareness , with practice, will become second nature, so it will be more likely for it to be a part of the dream(that's why it is more effective than RCing). So, more self-awareness= bigger chance of it being a part of the dream(expectations). Also, intention is a more direct way to let those RRCs appear(or their effect(self-awareness)) in the dream. Even better, if you strengthen your prospective memory, the intention will be much more powerful. That's why MILD is a good technique that goes with these fundamentals(especially that it doesn't involve environmental awareness, which would hinder self-awareness).
long story short: More self-awareness in waking life= more self-awareness in dreams= access to memory in dreams= lucidity.
Plus, there is this something called "dream feeling". It's like an always occurring dream sign. With the heightened self-awareness, and access to memory in dreams, it will be very easy to become lucid due to this "feeling". Like some people put it:"I just became lucid out of the blue/spontaneously lucid.
Also, self-awareness in LDs will make the experience much better, and dream control much easier, since you are fully aware that this is YOUR dream world, and it plays by YOUR rules.