I love the connections being made between meditation and lucid dreaming. For me it wasn't the concept of ADA that inspired lucid dreaming, but rather after a spontaneous lucid dream, I became constantly critical of my surroundings. I couldn't agree more that this awareness and mindfulness (that are often hard to separate) are essential with regular lucid dreams, though I am not completely sold on which is causing which. I could go either way! And it is likely that they feed off each other in many successful cases.

It's very helpful to see the "object list." A few stand out to me, such as the 'feeling of clothing.' I agree that they are not present in dreams, but they are also not present in waking life. Obviously (and fortunately) our body disregards the regular contact, so it plays no relevance in waking life or in dream life. It seems to me that if I made myself more aware of the feeling and allowed myself to 'feel my clothing' through increased awareness awake, then my dreaming self might be one that feels clothing as well. So rather than trigger a lucidity cue, I might just be a dreaming guy that feels his clothes...

What I'm getting at is, do you find your increased awareness leave itself at the dream gate? Or does your dreaming self also become more mindful?