Thread: How Long Does It Take?

Originally Posted by Kamikaze

This may be a dumb question but, how do you increase your level of awareness?
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Don't worry, that's not a stupid question. There is a method that is spoken about quite frequently in the LD4ALL forum about increasing lucidity in dreams(I'm hoping that's what you mean by awareness). Anyway, what you do is in your LD is state loudly one of these things:
INCREASE LUCIDITY!
LUCIDITY TIMES 1000!
Usually saying one of those will help you gain awareness and lucidity in the dreaming world. Anyway, I hope this helps

Originally Posted by Chaos

Usually saying one of those will help you gain awareness and lucidity in the dreaming world. Anyway, I hope this helps
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Well, that's a way to increase awareness, once you're already aware you are dreaming. I think they're looking more for increase the awareness needed to have a LD in the first place.
There are a few methods for this. The one that works best for me is DILD, (dream-initiated lucid dream) where I'll notice something is just not right about what's going on, or the situation I'm in will be so intense, that I'll automatically come to the realization that I'm dreaming. A good way to train for this is by studying your surroundings, in waking life, and proving to yourself that what you are seeing is either real, or a dream. Try moving objects with your mind, things like that. Try remembering what you were doing a few hours ago. Do you remember waking up this morning? Things like that.
The object is to instill in your mind the habit of deciphering reality from the dreamworld so, often, when you are faced with an event in your dream that just doesn't seem right, you'll be able to realize it's not right, because you are dreaming.

Make sense?
This is only one method, though. Check out the tutorial sections for other techniques and there are some pretty good ideas in the Attaining Lucidity section, also.