Originally Posted by ParanoidLlama
I agree with what you say, but it would be hard to default at dreaming. Unless you were to start lucid dreaming very early in your life, you get accustomed to automatically believe you're awake when you get up from bed. And yes, why should I default to waking?
Age may make it harder, but not impossible. How old are you, if you don't mind me asking? I don't think that age is gonna make anything impossible though. You might just have to try harder to override certain ideas. I started LDing at 21, so I have had 21 years to default waking, but only the past 3 to default dreaming.
The problem usually isn't that you automatically think that you are awake when you wake up, it is that you don't think about any states when you wake up. That is why I always categorize awareness in two categories. General Dream Awareness (GDA) and State Awareness (SA).
GDA is when your dreams are present and real and you are making the decisions. Let's say you are the Last Starfighter, you are the one making all the decisions on what to do!
SA is just what it says. Awareness of states. This is the 2 states of waking and dreaming. If you have GDA, you aren't automatically lucid, because you may never think of the fact that dreams exist. "Where did those fighter pilots come from?" Answer "Must have been cloaked" if your SA is high, your mind will always be looking at the two states, trying to decide which one it is. When I have any semblance of GDA, I have a Lucid dream, because most of the LDing techniques are techniques to raise SA, not GDA.
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