Thread: Mindfullness/awarness, Does it actually Work?

I think you should start reading a bit more about the subject lucid dreaming. You can be completely aware in a dream without an induction technique. And you also do not have to lose consciousness when you fall asleep.

How long have you been practicing mindfulness? Give us a bit more detail about your practices, so we're able to help you.

Yes, Mindfulness/self-awareness does "work," Obscure.

Practicing daytime selff-awareness is foundational to LD'ing, particularly because a lucid dream is literally the presence of your waking-life self-awareness in a dream. But there is more to do than just that because, as you noted, you must be asleep when having a LD, so you must learn to be awake while you are asleep... and that can indeed be tricky!

There are two forms of transition from wake to lucidity: Dream Initiated Lucid Dream (DILD), where you become lucid during the dream; and Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD), where you hold onto your waking-life self-awareness throughout the falling asleep and entering a dream process. There are many, many techniques for inducing these transitions, like The FILD you mentioned above, or MILD. I suggest you do a little research here at DV, and find what you think will work for you and add that to your mindfulness practice.

For a good baseline, I also humbly suggest that you look at my Lucid Dreaming Fundamentals thread; you might find it useful.

Good luck!

No trust me man it is not just a placebo. There's way too much effort put into awareness for it to be that. Sageous did a really good job in explaining it, and the that thread of his is pure gold- there is so much information on there.

I will add on though, that it does take time for you to start seeing effects. The quickest I've started seeing big changes in awareness in my dreams, was after practicing mindfulness for 2 weeks. I noticed even bigger changes after 1 month of practice. Specifically, after practicing Self Awareness for 1 month, I was becoming semi-lucid in at least half of my dreams every night, and I would usually become lucid twice every night. It's alot of mental work, but once you get it down it comes naturally.

Your dreams more often than not, reflect your daily life in alot of ways except for how you think really. Once you train yourself to maintain awareness, you'll think extremely clear in dreams which in turn causes you to become lucid. You do something alot in waking life, it is definitely going to cross over into your dreams.

As for your whole take on high expectations, I do believe that one could take control of that such as strongly believing/knowing that they will have a lucid dream whenever they wanted. This could be a game changer. I have been doing alot of experiments on the whole entirety of belief and exactly what it can do to aid in lucid dreaming. I feel that if you can do whatever you want in an LD just by believing in yourself, you should be able to induce LD's in the same way. I still have alot to look into though. There's alot of mind stuff involved with it.