Thread: I came to this conclusion(answer to all of our questions)

Congrats. You have come to an upshot almost every dreamer should have also come to during his development as LDer. Awareness in the wake world results in awareness in dreams, it should be logic and is the foundation of MILD. Your remarks are all correct, but what's the point? Everyone having spent more than a few minutes on thinking about that conscious-subconscious thing should have realized that there is this connection between wake and dream world.

I agree

Now the question becomes, "How can we remember to keep ourselves aware in both our waking life and our dreams?"

It's true that awareness is linked with the lucid dreams you have. I experienced it myself. However to be full aware in life takes a life time to learn. It's not that easy!
I don't think this is the only answer. I also experienced some lucid dreams in periods when my awareness was not so great.

I agree

Now the question becomes, "How can we remember to keep ourselves aware in both our waking life and our dreams?"

dream yoga is for that!

with practice, it will become natural for you....
I recommend reading the tutorial of billybob, someone named a book there.
the point is, we must be in the situation, in the present....
I never understood that, until I read about dream yoga...

I guess "true" dream yoga is best practiced with a guru.

sure, but it's fun and entertaining to walk the road alone, you can learn a lot.
having a guru is....like basing your life in that...
the "nirvana" tibetan's want...
but I'm not trying to go to the most deeply part of the dream yoga, just enough to understand that I become a better dreamer/person

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I agree

Now the question becomes, "How can we remember to keep ourselves aware in both our waking life and our dreams?"

Reality check often and slowly build up awareness?

What's the difference between just doing that (standard awareness for DILDs) and dream yoga?

Originally Posted by Shift

Reality check often and slowly build up awareness?

What's the difference between just doing that (standard awareness for DILDs) and dream yoga?

People assume for DILDs you just go through the motions, do RCs, keep a DJ, dream recall, MILD (sometimes), etc.

One of the reasons I had a lot of success with DILD is because I incorporated a constant awareness. Not like every second thinking "Am I dreaming? Am I dreaming?" but more like being more aware of my surroundings in general.

Also, the entire first post could be figured out simply by reading BillyBob's tut, so no offense but pretty pointless.

Yea, that's why when I wrote the RC tutorial I made sure to stress that awareness was most important. What kind of idiot doesn't just leap to that conclusion? "You want to notice you're dreaming? Well, start noticing things." haha

So there's no real difference between the two, then? Why the fancy name? What else does dream yoga incorporate?

Originally Posted by pojmaster17q

Also, the entire first post could be figured out simply by reading BillyBob's tut, so no offense but pretty pointless.

Yeah.

For 1, I only partly agree with it.
You brain will try to build a defense against this, since you are awake while sleeping, and it's not the point of sleeping. Taking a break will break down the barrier slowly, and then you can do it again.

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