Seltiez:
Yes, I think this could be seen as basically what I meant...still, I found a couple of spots to comment upon:
Don't forget about memory and expectation/intention, the other fundamentals. Though self-awareness is the driver of lucidity, those other two bits definitely ought to be along for the ride, as they each provide vital support for becoming lucid and then maximizing your lucid dream experience. But you probably already know that, and won't forget, so back to attention:
Be careful of being too neutral, especially in the context dream work. Self-awareness is almost a realization that you are not neutral, ever, and cannot truly separate yourself from the events of your local reality. In waking life it is somewhat possible to take a step back and simply observe the effects of, say, something you just said or did to another person, and that is certainly valuable. But in a dream you can never forget that everything in the dream is you, or attempt to "step back" and assume that there is a force greater than you driving the dream (unless of course you lean in mystical directions, but even then you are starting in your own dream, so some attachment is important).Quote:
Since you learn to attention whats happening to you and learning looking at it the experience from neutral vie.
Absolutely! But there is more, I think, especially when practicing self-awareness in waking-life:Quote:
If someone with low self awareness does something that they normally wouldnt like get angry or sad they never question what would be causing it but if someone who has high self awareness and something sees themselfs become angry or if something new happens they imdientally notice it that it isnt normal and starts observe themself more.
Not only can a person with strong self-awareness observe their actions, they can anticipate their upcoming actions, emotions, even thoughts. This anticipation allows them to do something about unwanted or painful events before they ever happen, should there be a need*. For instance, let's say that you are in a conversation with a particular person that is heading to a place where you have been with her many times; a bad place, one of useless disagreement or anger, negative emotions, and one that to date has always arrived at an emotional explosion with clockwork inevitability. Now let's say you've got your self-awareness with you when that conversation begins: now you can anticipate the upcoming emotional train-wreck and do something about it before it happens. Pretty cool, I think!
* Such ability does come with responsibility, though, as sometimes these difficult conversations (for instance) need to happen in order to move a relationship or series of events positively forward, and you have to be careful not to fully avoid it, just because it might be difficult for you... of course, a self-aware person would likely be okay with that, because he would know that self-awareness is a potentially powerful social tool, and would know to wield it responsibly!
I'm not sure what you meant here, but I'm going to say yes, anyway.Quote:
So if you easily recall memories in new events to see if it new to you instead of you except it to be not worth thinking over or you dont notice them it in dream then you are more likely to know the situation is weird and making you look at the situation you are in and realize you are dreaming. Is this what you meant?
Why? because if you are self-aware in a dream, with access to memory, then you will indeed have no problem recognizing (rather than summarily accepting or dismissing) weird stuff in dreams. But it's more than that, I think. If you are self-aware in a dream, you are already past the point of needing to recognize the weirdness, like remembering that your house does not sit at the edge of a thousand-foot cliff.
A strong sense of self-awareness, especially one that is accessed with ease, pretty much negates the need to do anything to realize you are dreaming (like RC's), because you will just know you are dreaming. The trick, of course, is coaxing that self-awareness into the dream. WILD is a good way to do it, of course, but making things like RRC's a regular exercise, building strong expectations so your dreams themselves trigger your memory (and thus "wake up" your self-awareness), or doing RC's often and sincerely in waking life all offer tools for elevating self-awareness with a thought.
Okay, I'm rambling. I could have stopped after the 12th word of this post, but I guess that wouldn't have been me at all. ;) Also, it's late and my brain is mildly addled, so if I misunderstood anything you said, or if anything I said made no sense at all, let me know.