Thanks for the response. I am wondering, though, how did you personally increase your self-awareness to the point where you started becoming lucid from it? I just started reading the "Dream Yoga" course on this site (literally just started yesterday), that'll probably help. I'm also starting to do more reverse reality checks (at least, I think that's what they're called), where you just stop for a moment several times a day and just ponder all the ways you're affecting reality. Do you know of any other ways by any chance?
Practice, practice, and practice my man. Although I will say one thing that really speeds up the process of really getting self awareness down, is your drive; being how motivated you are, how strong your desire is to Lucid Dream and all of that stuff. I've heard across DV that dream yoga is extremely helpful with bringing about lucid dreams, and you can check out siviason's LD count for that. As for the reverse reality checks, those do work and are a good place to start but eventually you'll want to move onto a more constant awareness(its not as bad as it sounds) where you really just pay attention to what you're doing, feeling, thinking, and all that stuff all the time. Trust me its really easy once you get it down.
What critical question or questions do you ask yourself, OneUp??
It ranges from time to time. I usually never ask myself the same question twice because that'll get me used to the question which will lead me to answering the question in the future with little or no awareness at all.
Some of the questions are:
"Does this all make sense?"
"Why am I here?"
"What am I feeling right now?"
"Have I been here before?"
While these questions may seem really simple, when pondered on they really cultivate strong awareness of everything. And plus, it's not meant to be strenuous; these questions are just used to make one think and bring one out of that usual autopilot mode that the average person is always in. The autopilot mode refers to the state of consciousness where there really is no awareness and one does something without even thinking about it. To get an idea of that just think of the average person in the US who works at a job they hate. They get up at the same time every morning, eat the same food, go to the same place, work, and the only thought on their mind all day is "I can't wait to go home". Everything is the same. That's a real enemy with self awareness in my opinion.
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