Thread: How do you keep ADA in certain situations?

Sometimes it's okay to not be aware.

Well, when I practice ADA I usually pretend that waking life is already a lucid dream - this gives me a very interesting foretaste of lucidity, and makes it much easier for me to be genuinely curious about my environments in general, which helps a lot with ADA.
In fact, when I have days at my university that are free from lectures I will often walk around and explore random places at the university, and think of everything as a lucid dream.
I find this really fun and meditative, and it keeps me highly aware with very little effort.

Also, you don't need to be aware all the time - the important thing is to simply be more aware than most people are in everyday life.
You could think of it like a form of continuous meditation, where you are present in the moment.

Originally Posted by Laurelindo

Well, when I practice ADA I usually pretend that waking life is already a lucid dream - this gives me a very interesting foretaste of lucidity, and makes it much easier for me to be genuinely curious about my environments in general, which helps a lot with ADA.
In fact, when I have days at my university that are free from lectures I will often walk around and explore random places at the university, and think of everything as a lucid dream.
I find this really fun and meditative, and it keeps me highly aware with very little effort.

Also, you don't need to be aware all the time - the important thing is to simply be more aware than most people are in everyday life.
You could think of it like a form of continuous meditation, where you are present in the moment.

So, from the time you wake up, to the time you fall asleep, you pretend life is a lucid dream and never accidentally accept things as reality and forget that you're trying to see life as a dream?

I thought it was just me. I also like to take a walk around the block or go to a grocery store just to experience different surroundings as if I'm in a dream.

And if I don't have to be awareall the time, how would it be a "continuous meditation"? Doesn't "continuous" mean "without cease". I find myself being super aware compared to what I used to be. (In fact, I'm actually wondering how on Earth I used to live my life without even being aware of it.) But, I still sometimes lose myself and accept things as reality and forget to be in a questioning mindset. Does ADA not stand for "All Day Awareness"? So far, I have only had one fully lucid dream (And that was three days ago after trying to lucid dream for about 2 1/2 months.) I want to know how I can increase that number. Some people have 5 lucid dreams/night and I would like to know how.

Do any of you know how to remain aware in activities like these? What exactly goes on in your head when you're doing these things? I'd really appreciate your reaponses. Please and thank you.

That's perfectly natural: we humans are very bad at multi-tasking! What you have to understand is that you're asking your brain to pay attention to two very specific tasks that require focus (aka resources)...naturally it's much harder to do when both tasks are demanding (like paying attention to a conversation/videogame). It's not something you should fight, but instead accept, and work around it. But how?

The best way is to understand what these distractions mean to you: that you're involved in a task. Just like when you're driving, you can't exactly pay attention to EVERYTHING around you, but you can remain in a vigilant state which allows you to quickly grasp any out of the ordinary events. How do you do this? You keep turning your eyes into the rearwindow, checking the street signs and quick scanning the street. Sometimes you even take a deep breath when stopping at a red light.

So apply this principle to your other demanding tasks: remain focused but not oblivious to everything else around you by remembering that something else might going on outside your "peripheral vision"; take a short breath during the task and scan the reality around you (aka, mini-pauses). And lastly, train yourself to improve it bit by bit (you're not meant to master this, just become competent at it, since we can't be aware at ALL times), since up to some point it is indeed a matter of time and practice. Good luck

I made the same question a while ago in Reddit, here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/LucidDreami...day_awareness/

Just keep recognizing these situations of slipped awareness. It takes time and practice to build awareness that lasts even during very involving activities. Notice the activities where you zone out, and try to remember to stay aware just before you enter such situations.