Awareness Training question?

I don't do awareness training very often but when I do, I'd like to do it right. So when you're doing an "awareness check", (Hereon referred to as an AC.) do you try to observe AS MUCH information as possible or just smaller and important things that would be most likely relevant in a dream. For example, the details of important items or items usually involved in your RC's. (a clock, a book, something with text, your hands) Also, would it be a good idea to type or write the things you observe and keep an *ahem* "awareness journal"? I thought that maybe with an "awareness journal" you could possibly observe different things over time and then also try to notice the changes and differences in these different things and objects. Just a curious little thought/idea/question...

Awareness means to know. "I am aware that I am dreaming" means "I know that I am dreaming".

To be aware of your reality is the same as knowing your reality. For lucid dreaming the awareness or knowledge you want is the informaion about your current experience, usually an answer to the question am I awake or am I dreaming? The problem with the reality checks procedure is that you always expect that you already are awake, so if you want to perform a reality check properly, you really have to try to not know if you are awake or not, getting paranoid at will in a sense.

To be aware of things you see, means to know and understand what you see, you might example want to remember more things from your dreams and if you are aware of the information provided by the dream, you will also remember it easier.

With my spiritual belief of all being one and one being all I can easier try to understand that the awareness of the external world isn't much different from the awareness of a dream.
Every dream is experienced in the mind, but so is our waking mind, and in my opinion awareness of something is awareness of the self.

Do not try to be aware of the physical reality that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.

- What truth?

There is no physical reality.

- There is no physical reality?

Then you'll see that it's not the physical reality you are aware of, only yourself.

There Is No Spoon - The Matrix (5/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD - YouTube

To be aware of the now is to be aware of the mind, the subconscious, memories and emotions and the consciousness of all.

To dream is to be aware of your mind, the subconscious, memories and emotions and the consciousness of you.

But in short.. :) Yes an awareness journal sounds like a great idea! Because you are then practising the art of being aware of yourself.

My usual awareness technique involved painting a picture of nothing in my mind and slowly adding details as I said them to myself. For example I would say that there is an orange lying on the floor, in the picture I'd place it somewhere random unless I told my self the orange was to the far left of me. Also, I would make that orange black and white unless I stated the color. That way I would have to state everything in gruesome detail until the picture just about matched up with my current field of vision. Still wonder if that's overdoing it lol... I might have to analyze your post a bit more MasterMind. It's pretty deep and complicated. Any way to dumb it down for me? I'm no deep psychological philosopher in search of the answers to our existence and the truth of reality. :p

I often turn my attention inward when I do an awareness check. I check to see how I feel, how my body feels seated in the world. I sort of expand my attention outward from myself to include my surroundings, even things I can't see. I try to picture myself in my environment, and sense if it all feels like a dream.

Wow, that's a very interesting way of doing things. I've always thought performing awareness checks was based on viewing your surroundings to see if anything seemed awry. I'll definitely have to try that. Thanks for the help Robot! :D

Ehm the best ways to understand that post is to watch The Matrix and imagine that the world you are in is in fact a computer program, and really think about the philosophy of the matrix movie and then look at the ways digital physicists and some theoretical physicists look at our reality. ;)

If you want to take the red pill that is... :)

^ I must look into that.

Here is another way of doing awareness training. It's in WILD guide, but it works for all types of LDs.