Quote Originally Posted by VagalTone View Post
I was aiming for a reply from OP, but thanks anyway

No, i don't have anything against gravity reality check, or any other contrived LD approach.
They clearly have a role, although a very limited, and more often than not, an unsatisfying one.
I am also not supporting those anymore, because while still wanting to lucid dream i just realized how lucid dreaming was to become a secondary effect of something more important. I take lucid dreaming as a hard lesson to change my waking life perspective and not just to fix my sleeping mind.
I think we are trapped in techniques, and it's to so obvious that nonlucid dreaming is a call to wake up, to alleviate even if for a short moment this pain of labelling an always ineffable and interdependet reality.
Amen @ both of your posts mate, very well said. I thought about this for quite a while. Most of us are so obsessed with various techniques and tricks up to our necks, that we forget the simple key to lucid dreaming: 'mere' awareness. Don't stay on auto-pilot, just pay attention to what you're doing and what is happening. Zombie in waking life = zombie in dreams, to me that's very obvious. Of course, that is much easier said than done, especially 12 hours a day, but some of the best things in life don't come easy and quick.