Quote Originally Posted by tofur View Post
What awareness training are you doing? It's a staple of dream yoga, and those buddhists have been at it for a very long time. Becoming more present, grounded, and self aware will lead to being more present in your dreams. My first lucid came after a few weeks of vipassana meditation and I didn't know anything about lucid dreaming at that point, and had never had one before.

Don't put much stock in reality checks done while awake. Just my opinion, but they are most useful when confirming that you are in fact dreaming, once you're aware in a dream. It can be really convincing and you can be not fully lucid, a reality check is what brings full lucidity in. The only use they have in waking life is to get you to be present/aware.
The only awareness training I am doing is meditation from the learn to meditate app, which I am not doing daily and know I should as I have a hard time finding time and mostly a peaceful place for it without distractions, and the daily RC. I started reading a book called conscious dreaming by Robert moss but didn't find it very informational and would love some suggestions on what books to read about dreaming or being more aware as that is also my goal is spiritual awareness.